Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-27
Maine Gossip
The Doctors Dauahter.


/ And first" said he, las I udorse
ii Prevention of diphtheria.
II This anti-toXin from horse
II VIII Kill some bad bacteria.
against consumption, you'H allow,
! No means should be neglected,
And so this serum from a cow
> | Would better bC injected
, ! And once again we pierce the skin,
! | Lest other evils threaten us,
| To save the child from tetanus.
"A meningitis toxin, too
Should be inocuated
A guinea-pig we strain it through
To get it circulated
Some recent serums of my own
| I'm rather sure will answer;
| make them from all troubles known,
| From freClles up TO cancer"
| Alas, alas for all his pains,
| The end was scarce DESTROYS:
She soon had nothing in her veins
But various kinds of virus.
/ Part, snake, part sheep. part cow, part
Her laugh was half a whinny
| Dear me- cried he, 'she's partly shoat
And badly mixed with guinea.
| win never make Il woman;
Ia better get some good clean blood
And make her partly human"
Edmund Vance Cooke in Life.
A movement inaugurated by the \.
Y, N. II. x II. r, r. Co. will undoabt-
edly find fun appreciation from the
farmers of Maine. Closer relations are
sought in the establishment of a large
| warehouse for storage purposes, and
i'll the securing of an option on 36.0a0
| acres of farm and cumberland near
| Cherryfeld in Washington county.
| This will be given over to agricultural
| experiment under bureau supervision.
| Colonization is probable at a later date.
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Miss Eva Storer of Norridgewoek,
from 30 pHllets in years time made
$3.50. Her plan was her own and it
| proved practical. She had a Plymouth
| Rock hen and White Indian Came
rooster. She crossed these and the eggs
| from the hen We're set. Thirty pullets
We're raised. These puilets in S1ptem-
| Der began 70 lay. The Game Alone rs
a pullet, had. prior To this. not COM
menced u lay until January and about
| the sam time the Plymouth Rock pull
| let's would begin 70 lay. BY the cross
| sh" WAS able 10 get eggs three months
| earlier than ordinarily. She kept these
| nullets laying through the winter with
| not much letup and in all they pro-
| duced about 300 eggs quite a number
| of these eggs were sold for Matching
| purposes at 80 cents per dozen and
| the rest were put into neubaters to
| hatch She was able TO get on an aver
| age a hatch of IS per cent When the
| chicks came ont of the shells she sold
| them To various neighbors at 10 cents
| apiece. She raised some of the pullets
| for future purposes ana the cockerels
| she sold in the fab. At Christmas time
! she sold the year-old pullcts and conf
| menced with the new pullets. Her feed
| for the poultry consisted for the most
| part Of corn, mashes and green stun
| In the winter. she followed out the
same system where it was possible.
The mueh-maligned country news
| papers Of Maine will heartily subscribe
TO the following earnest sentiment
from the Camden Herald: al the
| daily papers devoted a quarter column
To the startling and blood eurdling fact
that j Pierpont Morgan tripped and
fell. unhurt while passing a contribu-
ton box in a New York Church, Sun
day. Yet these city dailies poke fur
at the country weeklies that devote {
couple Of lines TO the item that johr
Jones has whitewashed his back fence
The country paper publishes an item
| about John Jones because he IS vel
known in the territory where that pa
per circulates In the same way Nor
gan is we'll known man over thS
world and hence items about him are
considered of interest. But really II
making much of pretty small item
we feel that the city daily certainly
far out does the country paper.
1
1t is rumored in trustworthy circles
that Searsport will be made the water
outlet of the Canadian Pacific rail
road. in a deal which involves the tax.
ing over of the Bangor & >Aroostool
r. r.. Jan. /, 1872. Inspection trip
by officials OF the two railroads hav'
been frequent over the wharYes
bridges end other property controlled
by the b. & \. The saving of time Il
. | the road was the final and determln
ing consideration-2i hours ON mai
| and passenger transportation iron
| foreign ports, thus being placed upol
| the right side of the book. Searspert
| Of course, has rosy-hued visions o
greatness floating in on ware house
| and grain elevators. This move IA
| been long forecasted by large out
| lay of money in lining UP trackage
> | cutting grades and replacing wori
, | rails. Sears island. containing 100
acrec, IS owned by the Il. & \.
The Fryeburg man, who beeam
somewhat embarrassed in explaining
c why he had shot a perfectly scum
y horse. has come out with more com
a plete details. 1t seems that he is al
enthusiastic hunter and rode thu
n horse into the woods in search
Y veniscn. Fortune--or rather misfof
tune-shone upon him and he sighte'
o his game shortly after hitching III
= horse New whether this sportsman
Travelled in a circle and came upol
his horse unawaroS. whether lie De
came absent minded, or what the trou
Bile was. he does not state clearly
Probably he would not confess TO poo
g Workmanship. Anyway there's