Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-26
Maine Gossip
The VINTAGE.

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His goblet fill, with pity SO intense
That each drop sparkled, dcathless, meath
William strnthers. in Boston Tran
script
The latest Maine institution to he
remembered by the estate Of the laie
Levi NJ. Stewart is North Yarmouth
Academy which gets $1,000 as q PER
tnanent fund.
Tho East Maine conference will he
held ut Pncksport the week Of April %
To as, under the management Of Rev.
Ambrose iicAlister. pastor of the
Methodist church. The Fast Maine
conference Was organized IN ISIS.
Peter T. Chase. who died in Monroe.
Wis, On !tch. E, of n general breaking
down, was the son of Roy. Sibley
Chase. and was born in Paris, March IS
1893 In 1854 lie went to Wisconsin, and
was FOR 4 time in ShebQYGan county
and later in Oshkosh, and in 1879 began
farming in Grant county. There h"
married Curinna e. Stowfl. lie en-
listed IN the Thirty Third Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry in 1862, and was
in a number of the big battles Of the
war He was discharged in May, lS65.
The year following he settled in Mon
roe, which has ever since been his home
For some years he worked al his trade
Of carpenter, hut was obliged to quit
on account of failing health. lie leaves
a widow bat no children. He was bur
led with the service of the Grand Army
performed by @ i. Pinney Post Of
which ne vas n member. and with an
! escort Of The Wisconsin National Guard.
oxford Democrat: "One of the most
interesting cases ! ever had" said n
gentleman who has for some time been
doing no end of good IN Maine in the
direction 9f prevention Of cruelty 10
dumb animals, happened in 4 small
town down the state. An aged and es-
teemed citizen had an old horse that
| had long outliVed his usefulness and
was decrepit and misshapen. / sus-
gested to the owner that il would be
! we'll TO relieve the faithful old animal
of its burden of age and aches. blit
| ing that he had a feeling for old Dob
! bin that made him seem much like one
Of the farnily. Now see here. doctor,
. said Dobbin's venerable owner. "I,ll tell
you what I'll do. I'll lead the old horse
down the road. and il he walks any
lanef than | DO you may kill us both.
The horse still lives" concluded the
doctor. What could man do under
slch circumstances but lei them both
iivc?"
The Auburn Board Of Trade and
Fruit Growers Association are to hold a
fruit growers convention in that city,
March IL and II. The commissioner Of
agriculture, John A. Roberts, has ac-
cepted an invitation To be present and
will furnish a corps Of speakers. two or
more Of national reputation.
According TO the Hebron correspon-
dent OF the Oxford Democrat one of the
citizens of that town has discovered a
clue Ia possible existence of a gold
mine, and in a. manner that Is to say
the least, unusual. lie says: Monday
Alton Hsbbs killed Gucll and a roos-
ter Eleven year-old Doris and 10 year
old George wanted TO dress them, so
he showed them how and the youngs-
tiers, went to work. George taking the
duck. When he came to the gizZard
he called his father saying he had
found gold. Mr.. Hibbs laughed at the
boy. but on examination found parti-
c!cs that had every appearance Of
crude gold and looking over the con-
tents of the gi2zard found II particles
shaped like apple seeds, some of them
nearly as large as fax seed. Mr. Hibbs
is not unacquainted with gold, as his
uncle, the late Capt. Horatio LeBaron
was among the first to go to California
mining after gold>was discovered there.
and brought home specimens which are
still IN the family. Mir. Hibbs says he
knows whore the sand came from
which the duck had access TO. He
showed rs the particles found
which are certainly a great curiosity
and we wish Mr.. Hibbs might be fort
innate enough to find gold mine on his
farm"