Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-16

| So we Keep the feast today
| With heart-joy and full delight;
| Here his beams of mercy play,
| Christ has risen upon our night.
| He his grace doth sweetly send
| While our hearts before him bend
~ Martin Luther.
The bluets and the violets We're never
| more laxative.
| When the sun comes out. in these
spring days, one forgets and forgives
the euarre!ing politicians.
We hope Portland's new penny-wise
daily viii not prove one Of the pound
foolish sort.
Franklin county tramps who banker
for raw onions must feel the need Of
strength,
The Boston Herald advocates a Ma
tional Park around Mt. Katahdin, so
miles square. We vote for it-Lewiston
journal.
Second the motion.
The Bath Times has the following;
One day this week well known Bath
merchant who had gone in quest of
trout. came near meeting a horrible
DEATH He was trying tie tempt the
trout from a brook near Head Tide.
and was walking along TO select
place where they might be thickest
when he suddenly sank in quicksand.
He is heavy and went down rapidly
Fish rod was thrown aside, and he
was up to his waist in the reaoherous
sand. when his hand came in contact
with the limb OF an overhanging viii
low Il was only after much exertion
that he succeeded in pulling himself
ont OF the mire and to solid ground,
covered with quicksand from head to
foot. He is contemplating taking snow
shoes or his next trip.
Another collection of ancient English
silver coins mostly melted together
and worthless for trading in the stores.
was found by some boys within the
past few DAYS at tine Battery field,
Eastport and were offered for old sill
Yer 10 several merchants. Last month
two u three similar finds of silver
coins were seen along the business
front and since other punches of partly
melted English silver pieces, ranging
from 5zcent pieces to half-dollars
have beefi discovered near the same To-
cation. There is more than the usual
amount of speculation as to where
they came from, as no English coins
are ever seen in this city by the store
keepers, In one of the collections seen
Monday was Il silver coin of 1915 and all
were well preserved. with the exception
of having been somewhat burned or
partly melted in slow fire. City Mar
shall William j. Wilson is making an
investigation in hopes of learning who
formerly owned the silver souvenirs
TO he the oldest American citizen,
the oldest Civil War veteran. the Oldest
voter and the smartest man for his adj
vanced age of 90 years in the city of
Calais Me.,-such is the record held by
Ephriam w. Howe of Pleasant street,
who has just passed his goth birthday.
He enlisted and served as a private
in the 22nd Maine and re-enhsted in
the 9Th Maine Infantry receiving hon.
orable discharges from both regiments.
Mr. Howe was united in marriage to
Barbara A. Seyerings and II children
six boys and six girls, were born to
them, six of whom are living. They
are as follows: Samuel G.. Howe of Cal
ais: Mrs. Maria r. Purinton, of Min
neapolis. Mimi; William Howe of Du
luth, Mimi; Mrs. Emma Drake. Duluth.
Mimi; Ephriam Howe of California;;
Mrs. Nellie Maxfield of New Hamp-
shire. Mr.. Howe can read without
glasses and in politics is a staunch Re-
publican.
IT :, vuvUv
Mrs Carl X. Crosby of Brooklyn,
formerly Miss Phoebe Ellen Pendleton,
youngest daughter of Capt. and Mrs.
Fields S. Pendelton of Isleboro, Me,
and Brooklyn, is singing in the Acade-
my of Music in Brooklyn this week, in
the operas Ia Tosca and La Boheme.
Following this weeks engagement she
viii go to Boston with the same COM
pany appearing in that city for a week.
She began her musical education at
Kent's Hill, afterwards attending the
| New England Conservatory of Music.
| For several years she has had the best
| teaching to be found in New York and
her talents have ripened wonderfully.
While at Kent's Hill she met Carl X.
Crosby, son of Ewell S. Crosby, collect
or of the port of Bath, and the ro-
nance thus began eliminated in their
marriage two years ago. Since then
| they have lived in BROOKLYN and are
annual visitors in Islesboro, the girl
hood home of Mrs. Crosby.