Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-06

The newborn prince. our hope and joy,
| Who comes to take his place:
/ And with a bound the handsome boy
| Starts on his giddy race.
What will he bring to you and me?
| What has this year in store?
| Shall with clearer vision see
l Or stumble more and more?
II. A. r.
| (The above verses appeared as printed
in the Detroit Free Press. The author
| seH. A. r." is Henry A. Rand, who will
be remembered by many as a former res
ident of Augusta)
Maine hens may not be laying many
eggs. this winter, but that they are
laying some big ones is shown by a
paragraph in the Lincoln Chronicle,
which states that Mrs. w. G. Glidden
of VIM has a Barred Plymouth Rock
hen which dropped her owner an egg
| measuring 6 "a by s SIS inches.
j. w. Nash, on a fishing trip at
Wayne Pond the first of the week,
says the Livermore Falls Advertiser,
caught five fine pickerel, and on
Christmas day, he made another trip
and secured 10 pickerel and two cusk.
one of the latter weighing 6 ga pounds.
He gave away two pickerel and a cusk
and the combined weight of those he
brought home was SO pounds.
4 double birthday celebration was
held in Fryeburg. Dec. 31st. when VIM
Durein, aged 30 years. and Mrs. Mar
tina Brickett Charles, IS years years of
age, received their friends. Tobias
Eastman, whose birthday was one day
earlier, assisted Uncle Bill" during
the reception. Many people came to
do honor to these neighbors bringing
gifts and congratulations. Among the
guests We're Mrs. Mary Hastings and
Mrs. Emily Osgood, both over so years
a movement has been launched by
the Maine State Society of San Diego
county to secure from the Legislature
of Maine an appropriation for a Maine
building at the Panama California
Exposition to be held in San Diego
during all of the year 1915, and for
which elaborate preparations are be-
ing made.
Bernard Monahan of Bath celebrated
the passing of the old year, Tuesday,
by catching, on the New Meadows
river a mink which measured so inch
es. 1t was one of the largest and best
catches of the season. 49,
An unusual case was heard in Lin
coin county. recently. which the Dem
ariseotta Herald reports as follows:
Howard A. Benner was arraigned be-
fore Trial Justice Geo. W. Singer of
namariscotta. Saturday afternoon for
refusal to pay dog license of Sis to
Constable Isaac H. Genthner. The job
cost Howard S17O9. Death and taxes
are hard to evade. This is a good ex-
ample to other dog owners Mr. Cen
timer is good collector and does not
mean to take dog taxes from some and
let others 60"
LLOYD Dolliver of SeawalI recently
shot an Arctic owl measuring from
tip to Zip five feet four inches, and
Weighing four and one-fourth pounds,
says the Ellsworth American. 1t was
a handsome bird. white on inside of
wings. with black-tipped feathers on
back and outside of wings Mr.. Dolli-
Yer will have the bird mounted.
Damariscotta Herald; VIM. Burnes'
spring pig. March 18th, butchered
few days before Christmas, kicked the
beam at 4S9 pounds. This job was
largely the work of Mrs. Burnes who
boiled all the meal to a porridge that
the pig ate. She deserves a gold medal
for her efficiency in pork raising.
The Brunswick correspondent of the
Portland Express Advertiser says: 1T
is understood here that the State offic-
ials are this year to urge upon town
officials the desirability of stricter
enforcement Of the law regarding the
registration of automobiles and their
drivers. A State official was in town
Monday evening and met several
Brunswick automobiists and talked
the matter over with them. 1t is q
well known fact that in Brunswick the
past year there were a number of au
tomooiles that We're not licensed at all
and a goodly number of drivers who
had no licenses This was especially
true of minors. The State official in
the course of his conversation stated
that Maine was losing thousands of
dollars every year owing to the lax
enforcement of these laws and that it
is for the interests of the automobile
owners to see that these laws are bet
ter enforced as the money thus obtain
ed is to be expended on good roads"
The Flag and the Law.
A petition has been filed at the Mas
sachusetts State House by local Of