Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-16


name of the company formed is the
Kennebec Ice Co., and will comprise
in it's membership some well known
nm river men as we'll as residents
~ portland. The Times is informed
that a party of men interested, visited
Path this morning regarding the prop
osition.
In the early days of TIE Bradley
Band they were called to- Eddington
to play for a dance, recalls the Brad
ley correspondent of the Old Town
Enterprise. On their return home IN
the wee small hours of the morning
member was blowing his horn. As
they passed the cemetery. woe be-
gone traveller who had sought the
ouietude of the place for sleep, was
suddenly aroused with a somewhat
scared expression and attitude. Tho
story goes that "Si' Burrill was one of
the party and said, Don't be scared
stranger. this is not Gabriefs horn,
only the Bradley Band"
Houlton benefits by the will of the
late Mrs. Hudson T. Ffisbie of that
place as follows: Town of Houlton for
improvements at Monument park
$1,000; same, for care of Cemetery lot
$500: Houlton Lodge, No. 1886, b. +.
o. E., $500; Unitarian Society, home
stead and lot and all household furn-
ishings not otherwise disposed of.
Speaking of fishing, Maine WOODS
thinks that VIM. E. Farrar and w. z.
Eaton did fairly we'll during their six
weeks stay at the Farrar cottage at
Tufts pond. Thirteen of the trout
and one salmon caught with the ny
aggregated 33k pounds in weight. the
average being 2 11-2S pounds. They
were taken between July and Sep.
II. Many " and %-pound trou
were taken One thousand trout in
all were taken, of which 3S5 were
killed. Ninety per cent. of all fish
taken were caught on the fly and those
put back were uninjured
A New Brunswick railroad mileage
book issued in 1890 was presented by
a passenger on the branch line of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, between
recently, says the Star-Herald. The
10 miles remaining in the book were
purchased by Station Agent Irvine of
Presque Isle as a souvenir of early
railroading in Aroostook.
Under the heading "A Kentucky
Fake" The Times Journal of Bowl
ing Green, Kentucky, says: Miss
Leitha Hanna, who has just come
from Caribou, Maine, to attend the
Bowling Green Business University.
expresses herself as delighted with
the city and school, but declares that
Kentucky has the biggest fake in
the nation. She says that all her
life she has heard Of the famous blue
grass Of Kentucky. but on her arrival
here, she discovered that it is as green
as any in Maine. "-Aroostook Repub-
lican.
A buzzing from the Richmond Bee:
Baths new shoe factory is turning
out three hundred pairs of shoes daily.
Gardiner shoe factories hustling a
large order for fifty thousand pairs
of shoes to be completed before the
first of the year. Hallowelfs new shoe
factory booming and Richmond's shoe
factories making 'em sit up and take
notice Kennepec Valley could be
made the bee hive Of the shoe indus
try.
Maurice SYRINGE Of Lewiston has just
received letter from his sister, Mrs.
Joseph Lew now in Paris, France.
Mrs. Lew writing under date of Oct.
16 states that conditions in Paris are
now very nearly normal, business is
being resumed. and many seem to have
forgotten that q great war is in pro-
gress. When the war was begun.