Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
Exhibition at Antique Shop.

veritable chamber of wonders was
the OLD Antique Shop on Main street
With lite exhibition of the things that
Lave gone before-memcries returning
with glimpse of the cards which
dec grated the comprehensive array of
relics and souvenirs picked up in
two centuries. Many eyes were dim
med with tears as the older residents
made theif way slowly reverently
past the laden counters and shelves
But this generation was not the only
one. Their children and grandchil-
dren, and even great grandchildren,
walked about to read and listen and
learn.
The exhibition was in charge of Mrs.
W. l.. Bonney, Mrs. Charles Ran
dale, Miss Viola Coombs and Mrs. w.
b. Kendall, assisted by Miss Emily
Rideout, Miss katherine Graves, Miss
Bessie Ames, Miss Marjorie Gone
Miss Jessie Ames. Miss Gladys Ray
mond, Miss Marie Ackley and Miss
Mildred Reeve.
Three long counters two good sized
show cases, two show windows and a
goodly shelf space furnished ample
room
Following is partial list of the ex-
hibits:
A Company order for the Militia OF
Maine ito Mr.. Nathan Varnum, Sir:
You are hereby ordered to warn and
give Four days notice to all the non
| commissioned officers and Privates en-
rolled in the Company under my COM
mand, list thereof being hereuntC
annexed"
The list is as follows: Edwin Mer-
rill, Stephen NJ. Woodland, James II
Waterheuse, Samuel Sparks. Jr.
Thomas Sampson, Jr,. William ii
Lunt, Grin IIendisen, Luther Curtis
u. n. Addition. Joel Curtis, Isaac Leon
ard, Jr., George Beale. John A. Plum
mer, Wm. ii. Wood. VIM. c. Woodland
l.. NJ. Warehouse. Enoch Sampson
Elbridge Lincoln, James \Purinton
VIM. Macomber, Henry Wilson
Charles II. Robinson, Albion II. Stin.
son, Dan Fulton, Samuel W. Sweat
Ori,l r. North, George +. Fulton, Alex
| ander Patten. James ]. Lancaster, Sol
ONION Small, Valentine Buker, limo.
thy Morse TIE order Is signed by
c. Coombs and dated July 4, 1910. \
Worn and brown geography used by
William Starbird in 1906. an arithme.
tic owned by James Wilson, Sr., il
1900; a flag presented to the artillery
company 20 years ago by Martha
Barnes; dress Worn by Eliza Eator
Leonard 1870 years ago; n speaking
trumpet used by Capt. Fulton SO years
ago; ledger used by James Haines ir
1851; ledger used by Josiah Merrows
in 1890; strands from rope with which
John Brown was hung; lace and gloves
from so to $50 years old: instrument
used by James NJ. Kendall for ex-
tracing teeth 20 years ago piece oil
cloth spun and sent to be printed by
Dorothy Hancock, wife of Gov. Han,
cock of Massachusetts,
Ancient furniture. much hama mad,
embroidery over 50 years old, done by
Margaret Jefferson by candle light
lace worn by Elizabeth Adams (now
Mrs. Elizabeth RandaH) at the wed
ding of Robert and Theresa Carr ir
1888; old dauguerreotypes; candle
sticks hundred years old; a coat in
state of perfect preservation worn in
1870; silhouettes nicely framed in the
style of 100 years ago; 2 piece of wal
paper from the room where tht
witches We're tried in the old Roger
Williams house at Salem, Mass: {
pitcher with picture of a monument
carrying the Inscription washington
IN Glory-Born Feb. IL, 1732-Died Dec
Ia, 1t99-America in tears": othe,
pitchers, plates and urns of man,
metals and other materials; huge
copper coffee pot taken from the GOV
eminent ship "Laedon" which was
sunk off Black Island; mammoth
bunch of grapes, the sign of the
Bunch of Grapes Tavern" a hosiery
famous on State street 0hen King
street, over three centuries ago; a
heavily black lined sheet from the
Ulster County Gazette, published al
Kingston by Samuel Freer and son
January 4. 1900; warped and worn
"tailor's table; chair over 100 years
old, spinning wheels foot warmers
platters. lamps used en- two whee
shay in Revolutionary times, hat with
letters and figures "A II A 1888" worn
at laying of the corner stone of Bun
ker Hill monument-'La Lafayette was
there; shoes made by Pa Blake, proc
lamation signed by John Hancock
snowshoes over a century old, pepper
box revolver, wooden shoes, pieces
of flint, arro0 heads, copies of the
New England Courant" of Feb. H.
1923: The Boston Gazette and Country
Journal of March u, 117o; THE Bos-
ton News Letter" OF April II, 1704; an
"Almanack'' of 1894; scales, bellows, a
horn used in the battle of Sebastapol
muskets used in. the War. of 1912,
sword and epaulets worn by James
Wilson in Artillery company: a cop
per tank from the old Phoenix fire en-
CINE, $50 years old, platter $50 years,
bell Of the Simpson House, swung
for many years by George Rideout; q
gilt covered wooden eagle presented to
j. c. Coonbs by Captain Sparks 100
years ago: leather medicine bag
used during the revolution, English
walking shoes 20 years old, skillets,