Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-24

What if? 1t wouldn't be an hour, a
minute,
Before the women would do something
Poke in the derby, give the shirt a ruffle,
Discover new alignments. for the collai,
Invert the trousers and create them
graceful.
Because, you know, it's not with clothes
we're dealing,
Not fashion plates nor fabrics nor cos
But, back of all, and just the same with
out them
Mysterious, adorable perplexing,
Absurd, divine, Kaleidoscope Woman!
Judge Library.
C. II, Heath & Son of Readfield.
are displaying potato balls raised this
year on their farm. Last spring
they planted an eighth acre of Della,
ware potatoes in an isolated section
where they would not be likely to
mix" with the kinds planted else
where. The result was potato balls,
the first seen in this part of the State
in many years.
few tribes of American Indians
are not dying, though their numbers
are small in comparison with their
probable one time strength. Two of
these tribes live in Maine. In 1920, by
the census, there were $40 Passama-
quoddy Indians, and last year there
We're $50 Penobscots; now, more than
ninety years later there are 397. Both
maintain their tribal conditions, and
the Penobscots, at least. still dwell on
the same village site that their fore
fathers occupied.--The Argonaut
The law forbidding the sale of
snelts came off. Sept. Is. and those
people who have been waiting to graf
ify their .appetites with feast on
these delicious fish can now do so. pro-
Vided that they can get the smelts.
The Portland Press says that the Cas-
co bay fishermen land large quantities
Of the fish with their seines. and they
are all taken to Portland. Sometimes
the receipts of day will be several
thousands pounds. The season on an
average lasts about six weeks.
Says the New Sweden correspondent
of the Presque Isle Start Herald: a
freak doctor who claimed to be the
seventh son of the seventh son and
possessing the power to heal all dis
eases by his powerful magnetic influ-
ence, mare his appearance q week ago,
driven around in a large auto. togeth
er with his interpreter, angling for
suckers and we are sorry to say was
able to land one or two. One peeul-
iarity of the doctors magnetic powers
was that they had to be stimulated
with a large bottle of Jamaica ginger,
extract of wintergreen or peppermint
at every country store.
From midnight. Sunday until the first
day of December is open time on
partridge and woodeock in Maine, and
as to the number of birds one may kill
in day Chapter 10 of the Public
Laws of 1911 recites the following law:
NO person shall. in any one day, take,
catch. Kill OF have in possession more
than five ruffed grouse Commonly
called PARTRIDGE nor more than ten
woodcock during open season on said
Birds
Rockland Courier Gazette: Mr.. and
Mrs. William D. Hall of Presque Isle
have lately returned from a wonderful
canoe trip through the northeastern
Aroostook county which took them to
Upper Madawaska, the extreme north
ern border of the State. They skirted
an immense tract of virgin forest.
abounding in wonderful scenery and
wild annals. They carried a small tent
and camped by night at various stages
n THAR Tn, Il
the circle they came to Mr.. Halls camp
at Squa Pan. The trip occupied a
month, and it is safe To say that no
couple in Maine enjoyed a vacation So
full of delights and surprises. Mr. Hall,
who is former Roekland boy, is as
sistant principal of the State Normal
school at Presque Isle.
Calais Times: Some mighty mean
happenings are reported by officials
during the fair. One lady taking adj
vantage of a rush at the box office
passed the ticket-seller couple of
iozenges, and he promptly handed out
ticket. And she had the face to
salute him on leaving the grounds
with "Oh! you candy mani" A man
is said to have crawled under the
fence, mingled with the crowd, and
then passed out the gate, receiving
check, which he sold for % cents,
and repeated the game until he was
richer by about So.
The death of Martin Jones of
Brighton last week, marks the first
break in one of the most remarkable
families in Somerset county. Mr.
Jones was born in Athens in 1888, and
with his parents, Daniel and Polly
(Corson) Jones, moved to Brighton
While yet a small boy. The remain
der of his long and honorable life was
spent on the farm which his father
bought at the time. In 1869 he mar
ried Elizabeth Cooley of Brighton and
during the next II years, four sons
| and six daughters were born to them
Every one of these children lived,
tnrove and to-day fill the places
| of substantial citizens in their sever
al communities. By some rare coinci-
denee Martin Jones was one of IL
children himself, was the father of
he