Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-21

To WOO and tempt and court a hliss-and
not attain itT
lightly
Lest it become necessity and cling too
tightly
To watch the sun sink in the West
| without regrettng.
To hail its advent in the East-the night
| forgetting.
in laughter.
To hold the present close--not question
ing hereafter.
To have enough to share-to know the
| JOY of giving
To thrill with all the sweets of life-is
| living
The iron steamer Carolyn, which
was towed to Rockland a fortnight
since after being ashore for nearly
eight months on MetiHie Island, has
| not yet got rid of some of the paper
| she had on board at the time of the
! disaster. Owing to the paper in the
| hold having swelled considerably on
| account of its long immersion in
| water it is wedged in SO tightly that
| it cannot be started with picks. and
dynamite is now being used in order
| to dislodge it.
Bowdoin College is soon to receive
! two gifts of historic interest, which
viii make valuable addition to its
already fine museum. one of the
gifts is a Spanish cannon of the date
of 1880, taken from the Spaniards in
the Philippines during the Spanish
American War by the late Rear Adj
miral Wilde, and brought to America
~. moi hp
other is an exquisitelV carved library
chair from the Adams house in
Quincy, Mass, and formerly the prop-
erty of President John Quincy Adams.
The two articles are the gift of DIR.
Carleton Sawyer of FoXboro, Mass.
a graduate of Bowdoin College, class
of 1881, and a leading member of
Foxboro Historical Society.
Portland Argus: Pullman car
went through Portland the other eve
ming from Mt Desert Ferry having on
board a party of %. of these four
We're the people of the house while p
We're servants of one kind and anoth-
er. 1t seems this particular family
has a well organized household and
when they go to their summer home
and back they take their entire out
fit with them. And still they say
rich people have no cares and
troubles.
The bids for the new Federal build
ing in Old Town, the plans of which
came some time ago, will close on
Oct. a. The appropriation calls for
100000 building, The lot was
bought some little time ago, but this
summer all the buildings on it have
been removed and the people are
naturally anxious to see some move
towards the erection of the postotfice. /
The Forest Mill Co. plant at Bird
ton, including the mill and water
power, also several blocks, buildings
and wood lots in and near Bridgton,
were sold, Wednesday afternoon, 1T
public auction. The mill and the
water power, also several blocks and
buildings, were bought by the Ameri-
can Wooden Co, and the rest of the
property was sold to different in
6ividuals. The Bridgton people in
general are pleased with the purchase
of the mill by the American Wooden
Co, as the plant has been idle for a
long time, and it is believed that the
sale will insure a starting up of the
plant in the near future.
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The agricultural fair season always
brings with it stories of vegetables
and other garden products of abnor-
nal size and the Brunswick Record
offers the following: Three extra
large cucumbers exhibited in one or
the Record office windows this week
We're grown by Peter Boizzard at
Fred Toothaker's farm in South
Harpswell. The longest cucumber
measures Is inches, the other two are
IA and II inches respectively. In
Adiameter one measures four inches.
Anent the disappearance of the po-
alto ball, which used to be so common.
the Damariscotta Herald prints the
following by way of explanation:
Years ago potato vines always bore
fruit We used to call them potato
balls" They We're not unlike a small
tomato and were full of seeds In
fact the potato and the tomato are
first cousins. Potato bugs occasion
ally mistake one for the other. or
late years, the scientific propagation
of potatoes has eliminated the balls
Sometimes however the plants throw
back. Lewis Titles potatoes TINS
season are covered with the fruit
1t would seem, from the following
paragraph by the North Waldoboro
correspondent of the Rockland Opln-
ion that someone down in Lincoln
county should be given a lesson OF
two on the careless use OF f1rearms'
Saturday afternoon, as Mrs. Cora
b. Walter was hanging some clolheS
on a line, she heard quite a cofhno-
| ton among the hens in the yara'
few feet from where she was stand
| ing and, upon investigation, 1ouha
large chicken had been killed by
stray bullet which past directly
| through the chicken with such force
| as to drive the feathers before II.
/ Where it came from, no one knows
| How's This?
| We offer One Hundred Dollars Re