Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-11
With Peggy at the Wheel.

Across the radiator
The buggy hung aloft;
The preacher i'm miry spot
Had found a cushion soft.
The big umbrella still spread wide
The sermon on his lap.
While the mule was slowly Weakening
From his after-dner nap.
Oh Peggy you are dear to me,
More dear than can tell!
MachinistS bills are also dear,
And damage suits as we'll
But when at night beside my couch
In gratitude l kneel
/ thank the Power that spared my life
With Peggy az the Wheel p,r,a,a,
Southern Pines, N. C.
The Journal Gossiper. Sunday at
New Meadows Inn, dropped into the
cook house to see Jack Conant, father
of the shore dinner business in Maine,
or leastwise on the New Meadows.
Jake refused to grow old. He gets
over TO this cook house at A. M.
daily, in summer, and washes potatoes
for the chips which he is frying all
day up to s p. NJ. Jake takes the rec
ord fer working longer hours than any
other man in Maine He said that
huSuotL bSto liiotC Nv" H'~N~
chips than any other community in
Maine.
The last survivor of the Revolutionary
war was a York man, William Hntehilis
by name, who died, May 2, 1866. at the
age of 19l years, says Moodys HANDBOOK
History of York. William Hutchins was
the son of Chas. and Mary Perkins
Hutchins, and was born in York, Oct. D.
1764 He married and became a resident
of Plantation No. 3, in sight OF Baga-
duce, now Castine. Living as he did near
events connected with the siege of that
locality in the summer of 1873; In Isl. at
1as age army pf the ne eose Of the
independence having been achieved, he
returned to his home. his time being oc-
eupied in farming, numbering and sail
ter mariner He was member of the
Methodist church in later years. In 1865;
when over century old, he accepted
an invitation from the city of Bangor TO
join in the celebration of the 4th of July.
A United States revenue cutter was or
dered for his conveyance, and as he
passed up the PenobScot river the guns
of Fort Knox fired salute of welcome.
great ovation was given him in the
city as he passed through the streets
surrounded by a guard of honor. He
tanned his mental faculties up to and
during his final sickness. which was of
few DAYS duration. He died Nav 2, 1866,
aged 1o1 years. 6 months and 26 days.
His father lived 81 wears. In his passing.
the last soldier of the Revolution was no
more.-York Transcript.
The foregoing is correct except for
the spelling of the name, which should
be Hutchings. Mr.. Hutchings had
sons in the war of 1872, and grandsons
and great-grandsons in the Civil war
One of his great-grandsons, who serv-
ed three years in the Civil war is now
living in Augusta at % Gannett street
Hanson Hutchings.
Flies OF peculiar nature struck
Houlton in swarms. late Saturday
night, says the Aroostook Times, and
many merchants who did not have
screens were obliged to close their
stores. The arc lights attracted them
and piles We're found underneath each
lamp, and then they seemed to disap-
pear and have not been seen since.
Bar Harbor correspondence tells us
that the action of the town of Mt.
Desert just now is a bit problemati-
cal. This is the only town on the is
land which keeps its roads closed to
motors and it is the key to the rest of
the island, with the exception of the
narrow and hilly Pretty Marshroad,
there is strong pressure being brought
to bear fer Mt. Desert to discard the
restrictions and join the rest Of the
towns in opening up its roads. The SEN
time1t is divided and the village OF
Northeast Harbor, where President
Eliot makes his summer home, is rath-
er in favor of continuing the restric-
tons, while the rest of the town, it
is understood, would be inclined to re-
move the prohibition. l.. f.. Kimball,
proprietor of the Kimball house, is
working hard to induce Northeast Har-
Dor to remove the restrictions, and 1t is
only a question Of time when Mt. De-
sert will join the other towns. 1t is
hardly possible to keep automobiles out
permanently any mere than electric
lights telephones, and other modern
inventions.
Because Aroostook county lies SO
far north of the Experiment Station
at Orono and still farther north of the
experimental farm at Monmouth it is
true that much of the experimental