Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-24

Sters from crawling about and fight
ing. and they have grown better than
in any winter record
Al oxford county correspondent
mingles with his country news a Sc
ries of teeth-pulling stories that set 10
the staff of his paper-and it wasn't
much OF day for tooth pulling stories
at that.
Lightning struck barn at Phipps
burg the other day. causing a loss of
500. The owner Of the barn WAS ren-
dered unconscious by the shock
We are glad to notice that Otis Hunt
of sherman, has built a smoke house
and is keeping it busy. We can almost
smell those burning cohs.
The busiest woman in Mt Chase,
Maine, is said To Mrs Frank Lords.
Who besides doing all her homework.
drives a milk cart night and morning
while her husband is busy with lum-
heFlnS opeTalloH
No, son. that is not the odor of may
flowers, nor is it the breaking of balm
OF gilead buds but the moving home of
the supply of phosphate for the sum
mer's potato patch.
Aroostookers are letting Out the fact
that they are little touchy on the
question of being the land of potatoes
and politics. Right. there they want
the ALTERATION to cease. They wish To
have added to potatoes and politics
their claims to fame in the line of hen
fruit. A correspondent from Houlton
tells little hen story, not one of the
three day kind, nor yet of the
college bred hen sort, but a plain I'M
Vanished tale of 81 biddies in the
eoops of Charlie Berry and the 1900
eggs they gave him in the last three
months.
An old Town correspondent writes
to the Bangor Commercial as follows
Andrew Socalexis. the Old Town In
dian runner, who won second place i'll
the great Marathon races a few days
ago against runners who had far SUI
perior advantages of training and en-
vironment, arrived home Saturday aft
ernoon. proudly bringing with him the
beautiful cup that ne won as second
honors. There was no brass band at
the station to meet him, in fact nobody
hn hn
word having gone around that he
would not be back before Monday, no.
body looked for him on Saturday. He
was accompanied by three girls OF his
tribe, who attended the great race ana
encouraged him in his endeavor to do
his best, two of them walking up with
him from the station and swinging the
handsome cup by two of its handles as
they walked, that it's beauties might
be manifested 20 all on the street at
the time. The cup is very handsome
object, silver and with gold lining
The following is from letter from
A. A. Head of Watervilie, at the con-
vention of the Men and Religion For
ward Movement at Carnegie Hall, New
York, this week This is a great con-
vention and | do wish you might have
been here Maine has 10 delegates and
every state in the Union is represented
by strong men. Milliken tSenator Carl
Ed got a great ovation the other night
in his short twenty minute speech IN
response to Mr. Cannon's greeting.
They had on Mcdonald, the great Ca
madam editor and publicist, and Bry-
an. While these men both made Won
derful speeches, they did not get the
applause that Milliken did. He just
hit out and hit hard and the $500 men
rose to the challenge. Both of the other
speakers also paid nice tributes to
Maine Delegates are at the conven-
ton from Bar Harbor, Watervilie,
Lewiston and Auburn. Wilton Rum
ford and Portland.
A pumpkin pine that in its early
years marked the boundary line be-
tween lots of land belonging to early
settlers of Pittston and since then 10
their descendants, was cut down dur
ing The past winter. BY its rings OF
annual growth it's age is found TO be
l52 years old, could the whispering
pine have voiced the history of those
passing years what stories 1t might
have unfoldedi Here in it's vicinity
there were built of it's companion pines
Of larger growth, the batteaux LOT
transporting the 1000 soldiers whe
came up the Kennebec in vessels as lar
as Gardiner on Arnolds expedition 70
Canada. Here some halted Tor untin-
isned boats Benedict Arnold was the
guest over night of the owner OF ms
pine and builder Of the batteaux. Ihe
shipyards in time gave places 10 the
ice industry. This pine was but sap
ling when settler came from Duns-
table with his seven children 10 settle
on the east-side of the Kenebec Here
at one time he owned SEQ acres. His
son, Major Reuben Colbun bought z9o
acres of these, and the Majors grand
sony Captain Reuben iGolburn, IN TIME
became owner OF portion on the south
line OF which stood the pine OF our
story. This lot with the old homestead