Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03

| ana JOINED MN 10 the weaker part,
Fanatic named, and fool, yet well con
So he could be nearer TO Gods heart,
And feel its solemn pulses blood
| Through all the widespread veins o
| james Russell Lowell,
The Livingston Manufacturing Co
OF Roclland is about to make extern
sive additions and improvements &c
its already large plant located or
| Crockett's point in that city. Add
tons will be made to the main fac
tory and the forge room and new
boiler house will be built, The num-
Der of operatives will also be in
| creased.
Henry G. Boyer. Jr., of Portland
representative in the 7ith Legislature
who conducts two large dairy farms.
one in Scarboro and the other at Pond
| Cove, Cape Elizabeth. is the proud
recipient of a prize from the Hol-
stein Friesian Association of Ameri-
ca. taken by one of his Holstein cows
This association is recognized by the
| United States government as an au-
| thority on pure bred stock.
The boy and girl campers have
| struck Maine in full force and the
| camps at Kent's Hill, Monmouth, Pc
land. Sebago Lake and elsewhere have
already received large delegations OF
| the young people. The Maine Inter
Camp athletic meet is to be held IN
Augusta during the first three days
in August.
Portland boy favored with an ap-
pointment to the Annapolis Naval
academy is John Henry Keefe. son
of John d. Keefe Mr.. Keefe received
his appointment from Senator Charles
F. johnson He plans to leave Port
land about the middle of September
and will Immediately enter the pre-
paratory school connected with The
Naval Academy. The examinations Tor
entrance to Annapolis Will begin IN
April, 1912, and upon passing these
tests Mr.. Keefe will be eligible TO
enter the academy
The revenue cutter Woodbury. mas
made good record during the past
three years in which Capt. F. S. Van
Boseerk has been commander. In
that time "a cases of assistance rem
dered. all except three of when We're
for vessels in distress, can be cred
tied TO the cutter. Three times the
men on the cutter did creditable duty
at fires. sometimes it has been only
sloop that has been in distress and
once there was schoolmaster anu
one of his pupils caught out In a cory
and unable to take care OF themselves.
| The value of the vessels ana othsr
property assisted in this work along
| the Maine coast has been s5i2ts2, the
| number of persons assisted 22s and the
| actual number of lives saved Two.
The value of the cargfs of vessels
assisted was $3.50. 4sl.
Rev Wylie II. Smith of Norridge-
wock is the keeper of 300 chicks, @hlch
consist Of all breeds of poultry. he
| has built little city of coops in the
rear of his residence, with all modern
| improvements for raising chicks
Each coop is protected from any KIND
of animals doing harm to the ilttit
ones and in case of storms sepaf-
ate room is connected so that the
| chicks viii keep dry and comfortable
Mrs. M. A Butterfeld. aged 80. oil
| DeSoto, Mimi, has just come th'
| 1900 miles that stretches between tha'
place and Portland for the purpose
| of visiting her brother, n. X. Dascomf
| of South Harpswell. 1t is not 81
much the fact that Mrs. Butterneie
| travelled that distance, as that sii'
| was unaceompanied. that makes th'
| story of the trip of unusual interest
/ She has come to Maine six times
| previous to this, but this Is the mrs
| time she has had no companion MIS-
| Butterfeld was born in the town o.
lCarthage but has lived in the West fol
several years.
The sunken garden at Wiscasset /:
a novel idea which attracts the at
tention of many automobile partie
passing through the village. 1t ha
been made in what was the cellar o
the old Hilton house, which was de
stroyed by fire number of years ago
The cellar has been completely cleared
out, a brick flooring laid over mucl
OF the floor and little flower beds st
out there An awning has been place
in one corner and seats and tapl
arranged, making very attractiV
nook, which will be even more pleas
ing when the walls are covered Wit
ivy.
An exchange suggests as the metr
DDS of taking the burn from the brown
tail moth rash, either the covering
the part afflicted with dry -four, o
, the application of salt and water pit
on with a little piece of absorbei
cotton The Gossiper is able to sta
from personal experience that sou
| ton of cooking soda and water !
the proportion of about a Tablespoon
| full of soda to pint of water as war;
as the hands can be borne in 1t
, more efficacious than either OF III
other methods mentioned,
The once generous supply OF ciani'
which existed in the fats at Park'
Head, Phippsburg. has grown graz
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