Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-22

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| Advocate SAYS that when the walks
are completed it will be one OF the
| prettiest pieces of bridge work to be
| found IL the town of Sanford
Are YOU going blueberrying?
Madam Lillian Nordica, Names ia
NOUS songbird. is passing her Naea-
ton at Pennington, at the farmhouse
where she was born. She is gathering
| a store of surplus strength for the
coming season of concert and operate
work. and denies herself to all but her
immediate family. The house where
| Nordica is stopping was built by her
father. Edwin Norton. nearly 20 years
Iago. Ii has never been remodeled, and
the interior arrangement of the rooms
is the same as when Edwin and his
wife, Amanda Norton, occupied them
before and after NordicaS birth. Yet
the home is in perfect repair, and un-
Idoubtedly holds for the great song
tress tender associationS-is the store
house of memories for one of the
wcrlds most famous women. Madam
NOrdica is said to take great pleasure
in the large collection of Nordica air.
looms which have been gathered in
the old home.
At Buckfield, Me. Friday, the old
23rd Maine Regiment association held
tits annual reunion. The occasion was
one Of the pleasantest in the associa
tons history. Chief among the guests
and speaker was Hon. John D. Long,
hall which has just been finished, and
governor of Massachusetts. The
meeting was held in the new grange
hall which has just been finished, and.
being the first meeting in this building,
it was a sort of dedication.
Norway. Me. numbers among its
summer guests Rev. Marcus II Car
roll, of Hanover. Mass. Mr.. Carroll
has been not only successful in his
career as priest, but has been
brought TO public notice on account of
his wonderful ability as a musician.
Music has been his pastime, yet his
compositions have been of such eX-
cellent worth that many of them have
been published.
Governor Plaisted may wish lie could
settle the senatorial question in the
same manner in which he settled the
| Secretary of State Davis Waterville
Sentinel printing eontract-leave it to
| the supreme court.
A Portland woman has won re-
| nown for settling a mighty problem.
She has not ended the great temper
ance disagreement, nor has she solved
| the question as to whether Patt or
| Pencil. or some of the other Yes"
| boys will go to the United States Sen
ate. But she has done the next thing
| TO it; she has invented a corn fork. by
| means of which people with artificial
| teeth or people with no teeth at ali
| may avoid some of the Inconvenience
| Of removing the corn from the cob at
public dinners and other social. fune-
| tions. This Portland womans statue
should be placed in the Hall of Fame.
| The trustees of Hebron Academy
| have made an arrangement with Miss
| Adelaide L. Lakin of Waterville, to
4 iColbu llCl pOoltlOi III lilt hl6li oCilbGi
at Norwood Mass, and become pre- :
| ceptress at Hebron. Miss Lakin is 4
graduate of Colby college and was an
| assistant to Professor Hawthorne dur
| ing the time he was principal of Rum
ford high school. This arrangement
will be particularly pleasing to par
ents who have daughters to educate
away from home and to whom Hebron
| is most convenient as a schooling
place.
| There is a warning in the experience
| of a Hermon man, who was fined in
the supreme court, the other day, for
failure to report at court as a member
of the grand jury. His excuse was
that his multiple duties as a member
lof Company c.. y. G. S. NJ, had
caused him to forget, and the judge
| replied: When members of a grand
| jury remains away without adequate
excuse, they imperil our entire legal
fabric, and | feel that you should re-
ceiye some punishment as lesson to
yourself and a warning to others" He
was fined ten dollars.
| For polite policemen, recommend US
to the little old town of Bath. 1t is told
of one of these uniformed gentry that.
the other day, when horse went to
sleep and fell down in the street, the
officer thumped the animal on the
head in the most courteous manner TO
awaken her. and then offered his hand
| to help her to her feet In doing SO.
the clumsy animal planked one of her
hoofs upon the officers foot, tearing
| his stocking and bruising the flesh.
yet it is recorded that this Chester
fieldian knight of the night stick made
no stronger remark than "pickles!" or
.prunes."
IT was cured of diarrhoea by one dose
of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
frho yurifes M Cphhardt.