Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-03
Maine Gossip
Sprina Is WAITING.

ZarU-DIOWin' ram,
And yonder, to the roses, Wen take the
picnic train.
Hasten, happy season OF blessedness and
light.
JOY will meet the morning with beautious
face and bright:
After all the shadows of night of signs
Life will send a chorus a-ringin' to the
skies,
F. L. s.. In the Atlanta Constitution.
Candlcmas Day. Half the grain and
half the hay-and we hope half III"
Legislature
There is nothing in the Candlcmas
Day rhymes about half the coal
1t is presumable that Cumberland
county scallawags are rejoicing be-
cause the Jail is quarantined.
With all its claims of being highly
oitifed. Bangor man the other day
cut, within the town limits, pine
measuring three feet on the stump,
from which he took three 16-foot logs
b1fore he reached a limb. and then
three 12-foot logs leaving a top of IL
inches across its top.
Colby College shows gain of 20
per cent in the number of students
over last year. A strong recommen-
dation OF this institution, to the coun
try boy OF limited means, is the fact
that the college furnishes employment
to its students to the amount of $4,000
n year
Dennysville lays claim to being the
richest Maine town." Yet it has been
| incorporated only l. years. The orig
| inal purchase comprised a tract oil
| l5,0OJ acres of timberland lying with
| in the towns of Dennysville. Charlotte,
Plantation No. Il, and Meddybemps-
Neddybemps, Where have We heard
| that name before? 1t seems to us 1t
must have been meant for Pattangall.
On February IS, the town of Rob-
| binstor. Maine, will celebrate its Tooth
| anniversary. The town is situated 50
miles northeast of Machias. on the Cal
ais and PASSPORT mail route. 1t was
| bS To Tie
brothers E. II. and " J. Robbins, of
| Milton, Mass, Oct 2l 1856, for whom it
| was named. 1t was settled about
1859. and incorporated Feb. IS, 1911.
Kern. bunk claims the palm as the
| original cold storage proposition. Re-
Gently while carpenters were tearing
| away a partition in the summer home
| there, of Lawyer John G. Smith of
Saco they came upon the skeleton of
a rooster. AS the house was built
early in 1900. and had never been re-
modelled before, there is no other eX-
PLANTATION than that this house had
contained poultry for III years. How
| it came there, OF course will never be
| known. No one remembers the roos-
| ter, and no one is now anxious to
| claim him, or claims to have lost a
rooster III years ago. 1t is presumed
that when the house was being built
the hird crawled in there to escape
use in the Portland Argus,
a Bangor dealer received a hog
which weighed 63S pounds dressed,
from a Levant farmer the other day.
Bangor farmers and dealers declare
that they have seen but one hog which
approached this porker in size. That
was raised by Eben Wheelden. a few
years ago, and weighed alive 200
pounds and little rising 600 when
dressed.
Either Bingham's census was greatly
padde5 ton yaars 900 or &c plv
incomplete in the enumeration just
taken. In 1900 the population was
given as SAL. Since that time but two
farms have been abandoned and one
small farm house burned. The rural
population has decreased but little.
In the village three large woodwork
ing mills have been built, employing
80 hands. At the time of the census
enumeration, these mills We're rum
ming on full time and at full capacity.
The village has had a. steady growth.
During the past five years so houses
have been built, Yet, withal. the CEN
sus gives the population as 775. Bing-
hamites are downright mad, and they
have written TO Congressman Bur
leigh asking him to look into the mat.
ter
a burglar that would steal pair
of yellow sleds attached 10 blue box
must he hard pushed. 1t takes the
real Biddeford cheek to do a thing like
that. We should not be surprised to
hear, some day. that the Biddeford
police station had been stolen and car
rieo away, or the fire station burned
BY an incendiary. If all the stories in
the Biddeford newspapers are true, the
city's sidewalks should be taken in
nights
| Captain George F.. Barlow who has
just retired from the command of the
| Bath five-master Governor Brooks
has purchased farm at Grand River,
| n. B. He declares that he intends
to live a quiet and comfortable life,
far from the dangers of the sea, the
| rest Of his days. The captains ex-
periences may be something like those
| of the other sailor who found bce U n ~,