Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-25

No more creature OF Tue Ntous
He knows himself child of God.
james Martineau.
George W. Spaulding OF North An
son, has an unique way of raising po-
tatoes. which does away with having
to spray them for bugs or to dig them.
At the same time. he claims to get a
bigger yield than by the usual method.
In the spring, even before the snow is
off. he places several boxes, each about
two feet high and foot vide, in his
cellar In the bottom Of these, he puts
straw, with the seed potato in the
straw. There the little murphie5
sprout and grow to fun potatohood.
SkoWhegan reports more building
going on than in any other town in
Central Maine. In the last four weeks
three houses have been started on one
street, besides several lots bought for
the purpose of building. this fall. The
building boom is principally on the
north side of the river and the most
significant part of it is that these
houses are being built By individuals
for homes, instead of by corporations.
Business men claim that 1t is an IN
dication of the prosperous condition oil
the people of the whole town. Anoth-
er indication is the fact that many
people who were not building houses
have bought residences, where hithef-
to they have been paying rent.
Bangor people are beginning 70
sheer: Put rock on it; it may 20
up" as they did at Hanks Fair. The
Bangor News, of Thursday, sets forth
the topic of discomfort. as follows;
The flying machine didn't fly Wednes-
day. and it was fine day for lying,
too. The day before, the excuse tor
not flying vas that the wind was too
strong. Yesterday, everything was aii
right except that the centrifugal
three-w way, reciprocatng valve when
controls the thing which lets the gas
into the hello duflicker, under the 9TH
er thing made of brass, which sticks
out BY the whippletree or something
like that. with a wire Oh 1t on the
starboard side, amidshps got crossed
with the secondary gimmiek and then
of course the jib doWn-haul came afoui
the jacks saddle and that threw the
knuckle Joint out at second base-and
she busted. This explanation may not
be perfectly clear to those who do not
know much about fying-maehines but
1t was something like that. And OF
course there could be no flying. When
all of these slight deficiencies are re-
paired perhaps she'll tly-if something
else doesn't happen"
Under the caption, Little Fishes
Billed in lie" the Belfast Republican
Journal has the following The whis-
tie at the Belfast sardine plant of Pike
Bros. was sounded for the first time
last Saturday, and Monday the work
of packing was begun, although It
will be some time before the plant is
in full operation. Local help is en-
ployed, and the factory started with
about half crew TO handle about f50
bushels of sardines. When the fac.
tory is running at it's full capacity
from 200o to about 25o8 cases will be
canned daily, requiring about 100
hogsheads of fish,
Now a Portland girl. Miss Alfredo
Rowse, of Cape Cottage. has gone al
ter a swimming record. On Wednes-
day, she swan from Fort Gorges to
Cape Cottage Casino beach, a distance
of about three miles in one hour and
fifteen minutes Miss Rowse is 20
years old, and may yet go after some
of the honors which are being SHOW
cred on Miss Pitonof.
Miss Marshall Taylor house i'll
Freeman, Me- which was the scene OF
the notorious murder, last spring. has
been removed from the face of the
earth by the elements. Taylor, WHO
was accused Of the murder of his wife,
Is now in the county Jail at Farming
ton, awaiting trial. III a thunder
storm, Tuesday evening, lightning
struck the former home of Taylor, ana
the resulting fire did the rest.
The Northland Steamship Co, Of
Seattle, has purchased the former
Lynn tdildi STEAMER, an, "'N Nm
operate it between Seattle and Prince
of Wales Island ports and Sitka. The
Al-Ki was built in Bath. and is a
craft of 1858 tons, but has long been
out of commission.
The lives of two MASSACHUSETTS
boys were saved at Popham beach
Tuesday, by the fact that they We're
excellent swimmers. George Percy 81
Arlington. and Joseph Whalen OF Sa-
lem, were overturned in a canoe, and
after several attempts to right the
craft, were obliged to swim ashore
The average canoe has many OF the
attributes which have been credited to
women: when she will, she viii, you
may depend ont; and when she won't
she won't, and that's the end ont.
A Saco expressman, Robert u Me-
serve, claims the tallest potato vines
in York county. and would ike &c
hear from anyone in any other county
who may have taller ones. oiiicia
measurements give the vines as llFt
feet, six inches tall, and stili growing
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