The independent-reporter., 1910-04-28

Once more Harry Lord, a Portland
boy, will captain the Boston team of
the American League.
A Rockland poultry raiser believes
that hens pay for he averaged 20 eggs
day from "a hens during the last
seven days of March and the fat tly
of April.
The Aroostook Pioneer reports a
hens egg nine and seven inches in its
circumference and weighing five
ounces. 1t was found by w. j. Hen
derson of Littleton.
The U. S. revenue cutter Woodbury.
which has been a stanch friend off
the Maine coast is to be equipped with
wireless telegraph outfit.
Miss Rae Caldwell, of Biddeford a
l4-year-old girl is the proud possessor
of chicken hatched last June which
now tips the scales at II pounds. 1t
is believed to be the banner bird of
the State.
Fort Fairfield Review: Eugene NJ.
Curtis and Ezra Curtis were hunting
recently and found a fox hole and dug
it out about 13 feet long and two feet
wide and worked for a day and half,
and when they got their animal driven
out of his hole it proved to be a nice
ground hog instead of fox.
Bath Times: Constable E. L. En-
mons intends to see that the song
birds about Bath are protected and
started out recently after boys who
have been shooting them on the out
skirts of the city. There is a heavy
fine for killing song birds and the
first boy Constable Emmons catches
will have to face Judge Dunton.
J. ]. Grant, a South Windsor man,
has planted in his lily pond various
shades of yellow, pink and blue wa
ter lilies. These roots were obtained
from the aquatic gardens of w. B.
Shaw, Kenilworth, D. c. This pond is
situated by the roadside and if
these plants do as we'll as the white
and pink tinted lilies which it now
contains it will be thing of beauty.
The Lawry correspondent of the
Rockland CourierGazette adds this
optimistic note to the prosperity
chorus: Some people believe the clans
are failing but there are four fac
tories in a Emile circuit and they are
all rushed with work. The reason for
this is the diggers, not the CLANS, are
growing plentier. Every farmer and
his boys from No. Waldoboro to Mon
hegan are in the business.
A Portland dispatch to the Boston
Globe speaks of Hon, John F. Hill as
"Lieutenant-Goyern of Maine. Not
long ago the Herald accorded the
same honor to Hon. Harold NJ. Sewall
of Bath. For the benefit of our Bos-
ton contemporaries, we will say that
Maine has no Lieutenant Governor. In
the event of the death of an executive
in office his place is filled by the
president of the Senate. Hon. John F.
Hill was for two terms Governor of
Maine, and it is generally conceded
that he was one of the best the State
ever had.-Kennebec Journal.
Major Henry Augustus Shorey, the
veteran newspaper man, the senior
editor and publisher OF the Bridgton
News has just scored his SEVENTEEN
birthday anniversary He is still hale
and hearty, and may be seen every
week day at his newspaper office, still
active in the harness and showing no
signs of going on the retired list. He
is man of many parts, military and
civil, and to give the story Of his
notable career would require much
typographical space. He has the con-
gratulations of the community over
his long prolongation of life and con-
tinued unimpaired physical and men
tai powers.
Charles Newbegin of Lewiston has
the key to the cell in which John
Brown was confined at Charleston.
Mr.. Newbegin was a member of the
First New Hampshire regiment and
when the entry was made into the
city-his company was in the lead, At
ter they had gone into camp he and a
companion named Daniel Sawyer
started out to see the sights The old
jail where Brown was kept was the
leading object of attraction and to
that place they first went. The jailer
showed them the cell of Brown and
the old key was In the lock. This they
tried to get but the jailer objected
Then Sawyer pushed the man into the
cell and locked the door after which
the two soldiers walked off with the
key This would all seem a bit ro-
mantle If 1t was not wellknown fact
that in those days the soldiers did
pretty much as they had a mind to
and high-handed proceedings were by
no means uncommon. The gallows
where Brown was executed was en-
closed with strong stockade and Mr..
Newbegin has piece of its wooden
gate.