Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-25
Maine Gossip
Rash Economy.

Inc StICatfS where ll1Sk tNt trout
He said: THE cost of living fails
Past any sort of doubt
Wen have cheap fish, for who can beat
This real economy
When with my own fair hands | catch
y meal-or maybe three?'
And Jobson fished with much success;
Long sang his smoking reel
He pulled three Founders from the
stream.
And filled his goodly creel,
And home he Jared with beaming face,
And. with a smile elate.,
He sat him down with writing pad
And east HIS figures straight.
Twelve dollars for my railroad fare:
The sleeper cost me five;
The hotel bill was thirty straight;
Tips seven-man alivei-
Meals ON the diner cost me six
Here JObson struck the ground
For his "chfap fish had figured up
Three siNty-two n pound,
Denver Republican.
While no fatalities have thus far
been reported since the hunting sea-
son began, there have been several
minor accidents. due to the careless
handling of firearms, of which the
following, from the Biddeford Journal
is a sample: While hunting in the
woods at South Sanford, saturday
afternoon, Will Jacobs received a full
charge of shot from the gun of a
companion who aimed a, rabbit, but
in his excitement did not consider
Jacobs, who was about 30 yards away
About 20 shot lodged in Jacobs legs
and body and We're removed by DR..
Burnham. Clothing and distance pre-
vented the wounds from serious depth
and no bad effects are feared.
The situation as regards scarcity of
help in Aroostook county potato fields
is reported to be getting serious The
Caribou correspondent of the Bangor
Daily News of Sept. %, says: What
this section of Maine needs just at the
present time is whole lot of men TO
work in to potato fields. Fears have
been expressed by some of our leading
farmers that unless several hundred
men are imported, and that very soon.
all CT Aroostook's potato crop will not
be unearthed. The usual number of
men who annually come from the Pro-
vince of New Brunswick at this time
of year are conspicuous by their alb
sence and help is very scarce. The re-
cent rains have hindered farming ope-
rations considerably and hundreds Of
acres of grain are still embarrassed. If
the army of tramps which have fiocked
to this section could only be put to
work, compelled to work it would be
a blessing to the community and to
themselves as well.
oxford Democrat: From his farm on
the Buckffeld side of Streaked Noun
tain, Arthur Sturtevant has picked
this season and delivered to the n.
Dayton Bolster Co. an even hundred
bushels of blueberries, besides a small
amount sold elsewhere, The hundred
bushels brought him 1922. Another
item showing the extent of the blue
berry business is the fact that in one
day of the season piekers in the blue
berry fields of C. W. Shaw en- the
slopes of Singepole ipai6 a total OF
$500 for the privilege OF picking.
Portland Express: Musical people in
this vicinity will be interested to learn
that the noted singer, Madame Olive
Fremstad, dramatic soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera Company of New
York, mas purchased bungalow on
Highland Lake, Bridgton, which she
will occupy as her summer home.
adame Fremstad has. been spending
the past season at Harrison, as a
member of the, musical colony Of
Prof. E. e. Bristol of New York, and
was interested in coming to Bridgton,
both on account of it's superior scenic
beauties and also because she is a
friend of Mrs. Ruth Thayer Burnhanl
of syracuse, n. Y. who also possesses
great musical ability. Rev. Mr.. Burn
ham and family have for several years
occupied their cottage in the vicinity
of Ingalls, Grove, and the bungalow
purchased by Madame Fremstad is
neal by. The presence of Madame
Fremstad and also the musical colony
at Harrison. Will make this section a
musical center. which will doubtless
attract others of the musical world.
l.. l.. Sanford of Skowhegan has one
of the most interesting pieces of fossil
rock ever found in the town of SHOW
hogan. 1t is a shaly nature, greenish
in color, and contains the perfect I'M
pressions of a large number of ma
rine shells. These latter are OF the
familiar scallop type about tho size 81
a common cent. This indicates that
the rock in question was once nud at
the bottom of the sea, subsequently
cvhanging to rock during some geo
logical transformation. Mr.. Sanford
found the rock in one of his fields near
the house. He does not know whether
it is a part of the family ledge outcrop
of that vicinity, or was contained III
some fragment brought there by the
glaciers. The conditions of the speci-
men suggest that the actual exposure
of the shell prints is comparatively re-
cent. All of them are sharp ana DIS
tinct, lacking any indications oil
weathering.
Recently a Jersey cow belonging to
Stephen Deane, a prosperous young
farmer who lives in the southern part
of Temple, gave birth to q dainty little
animal that in many ways more close
ly resembles a fawn than a calf. Bob
inette," as the. creature is named, When
first born would leap in fear at me