Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-05

Then a naughty butcher came,
Wise in the art of Snam,
| And next day on his counter
The sheep again was lamb. ~
| Chicago News.
| Bar Harbor is using the new post
| office and finds il very noticeable
public Improvement
| Belfast is another Maine city that
| has a Paul Revere bell. 1t was sold
to Belfast parties in 1920 and was
cast at Canton, Mass, by Paul Re-
vere's son, Joseph. According TO the
| records in Belfast the bell was Tor
years the only one in town ana was
| used for all purposes. 1t now hangs
in the First Parish church.
Stephen Purinton of Harpswell' VINO
| is Sc years old, is the oldest citizen IN
his town On his place is the Oldest
building in town. a cooper shop punt
| $50 years ago. 1t is constructed Oh
| hewn lumber and wrought nails The
original shingles are still in use and
still good. Each shingle measures
about 5Hx1S inches. The part eX-
pOseG shows that nearly half the orig
| inal thickness has been wasted away,
| but some of the shingles are still per-
| fectly sound. The nails, too, are well
preserved, and each nail shows the
roughness and irregularity that IS
common to the old hand made article.
Fiber and Fabric. a textile trades
paper says: Few of the present gen.
Grafton of mill men recall the time
| when Friend Lane. the good old
quaker wooden goods manufacturer at
North VassalborO, Me, was making
a prize winning broadcloth. Yet the
Vassalboro mills in 1853 or there
abouts, sent American-made broad
cloth for mems wear to the first Lon
don exhibition and it took first prize
Recently a piece of the identical cloth
that was sent to London for exhibition
was shown us and the trend OF RASH
| ion in mems wear has so changed
| that there is nothing like it in demand
| today. Back in the early fifties the
| exclusive dresser required broadcloth
and doeskin fabrics, and for some
| time it was not considered fashionable
to use any but the imported goods.
| hut when the VassalbOrO mills took
| first nrZe in London the fancy
changed, and for some years Ameri-
made hroadcloth was a very pop
ular fabric. Later the fancy Woolens
and the beautiful wOrsteds supplant
| it. and the trade in mems wear broad
cloth at the present time is of very
small Importance. Possibly some of
our readers may have worked in this
very mill on the cloth that received
the medal in London, and if such is
the case, they would contribute to tex
tile history by telling us their recol-
| lections of the production of broad
cloth and doeskin for mems wear.
| One of the most interesting men of
| Kennebunkport is Charles E. Miller,
veteran newsdealer and formerly en-
gagged in business as a druggist lie
| has been active in political life. He
| is a deacon in the congregational
church and has never used tobacco
or liquor. Mr.. Miller was born of poor
parents, being one of II children. AL
! the age of 10 years his father gave
him a quart of molasses, with which
| he made candy and peddled IN the
shipyard He continued at this, add
| ing apples and corn. Later he be-
| came a clerk for Andrew Luques. He
| had worked as chore boy for James
Smith at Cape Porpoise for 1512 cents
a day. In 1874 he was working for
| 371a cents a day, doing odd jobs IN
connection with his little store. In
1851 he owned a store where the post
office is now located. and in 1860 he
bought the drug business of Seth b.
| Bryant. He was sexton of the Congre-
| gational church for 20 years AS a
newsdealer Mr.. Miller has handled
the Boston, Portland and Biddeford
papers for many years. Speaking OF
food prices. Mr.. Miller has a diary
commenced in 1898. Flour was then
$5.25 a barrel, pork 61s cents pound,
tea so cents, lard cents, cotton cloth
9 cents, molasses % cents gallon,
coffee cents a pound, tobacco 20
cents a pound, beans $1.84 a bushel,
beef 612 cents pound, corn Is cents
| a bushel, sugar 10 cents a pound, fish