Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-16

and the second May :, 1880. Sixty
one years of his life were spent in
active church work, and no other
bishop of the church reached so ad-
vanced an age. He was bishop "A
years, being retired in 1898. He was
ordained in 1889.
The growth of Aroostook county
and the increased demands for quick
er and better service in all directions
is noticed in the organization of
corporation to own and conduct a
wholesale grocery house at Pressure
Isle. It is to be known as The Aroos-
took Wholesale Grocery Co. and its
officers are: Pres, sydney Graves;
Treas. and Gen. Man, J. H. O'Don-
NELL Sec, r. II. Mcdonald; direct
ors, Sydney Graves, r. II. Mcdonald,
Henry S. Milton, Max X. Beaulier and
J. H. O'Connell. The capital stock is
$4,000, with par value of shares Sl0o.
The presence of one past grand and
four past masters in the officers IN
stalled Thursday evening by Sabattus
Lodge, No. 1874, F. and A. NJ, is
worthy of notice as an unusual event
for any lodge, large or small
An unusual activity in enliStments
in the Coast Artillery Reserve is re-
ported by the officers. Men are more
and more becoming aware not only
of the fun and pleasure but of the
value of the training gained from SER
vice in the Reserve.
The apology of the Disguised one
which appeared in the current issue
of The Sanford News reminds us of
the story of the man who told another
man to go to the Devil. He was asked
to apologize and he did so by telling
the man that he need not go.-Spring-
vale Advocate.
Something like the lad at Kent's
| Hill some 300 odd years ago, who when
| obliged to make a public apology be-
fore the school at chapel for some
| infraction of the rules, marched to
the platform, nodded his head IN
| 'sPrexeys'' direction and ratified on
! as fast as he could: Mr.. President
and Students: If I've done anything
I'm sorry for I'm glad of it, ana
hustled for his seat. The sheer audacl-
ty of the thing paralyzed "Prexey,'
the faculty and students and nothing
was ever heard of it.
Old Orchard is pleased over the pros
pect of a busy building season this
year Numerous cottages are already
planned or arranged for and several
business blocks are to be built.
The abolition of sea shad is advo-
Gated by a Bath fisherman. His claim
is that sea shad are no more nor less
than second year shad. If these shad
were not seined, he claims that they
| would return, as three year olds, ana
spawn, with the result in short time
people would be purchasing shad for
10 cents apiece, as in the good olo
times. Now the sea shad are captured
and put in cold storage Tor the early
spring demand.
Hon. Cyrus w. Davis told the Port
land Express Advertiser Friday that
| he was not a candidate for the col
| lectorship Of that port. He spoke In
| denial of Thursdays report, on what
| purported to be the best authority,
| that the former secretary of state
| would seek the place. He says that
| he is not a candidate for any office
and does not think that he would take
the place as surveyor if it were offer
| cd to him. Instead of being a seeker
he says that he does not care for such
a position, and is at loss to under
stand why his name should be used
| in that connection. Mr.. Davis under
stands that it is so arranged that the
surveyor must refrain from politlcai
activities, and he is unwilling to take
any such step.
| Some fishing over in Lake Megun-
ticook, according to the Camden Her
aid. as follows; '.Linneus Young
caught in Megunticook Lake March 8,
one land locked salmon % inches long,
girth 10 1-2 inches, weight 3-4 POUNDS
one brook trout IA IL inches long,
| girth Z inches, weight L. pound, one
pickerel 20 inches long, weight 2l-z
pounds. 1t required 20 minutes 10 get
| the salmon out through 12-inch mole
| in % inches of ice"
| ADrODOS OIL tic SoibNii V>NeNNo
MIR. and Mrs Eben J. Pulsifer OF Au-
burn. celebrated last Wednesday, a
| niece writes the Journal as follows
Fifty years ago when Eben Pulsifer
welded Lucretia Richards there was
a union of two pioneer families OF
Maine. The Pulsifers of Androscoggin
county were sturdy folks of integrity
and financial standing. Eben being
the direct descendants of Davis Pulsi-
fer, one of the original settlers of
Barkerstown, now Poland. AS for the
Richards, old Kennebec had no bet
ter blood than flowed through the
veins of Isaac Richards of Monmouth,
one OF five brothers who settled the
town of Lincolnville, Waldo county.
These FIVE brothers were the sons of
Rev Joseph ana Elizabeth Young
Richards, Rev. Joseph being an It'll
nerent Circuit Rider" one of those
hardy pioneer followers Of Wesley
and early Methodism."
Hundreds of railroad and hundreds
Of travelling men will miss the genial