Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-08

from a Bath market. Then Al Ridley,
the Well-knoWn Bath fisherman,
Wednesday night went after sturgeon
and returned home with four, two OF
which weighed 100 pounds each, the
other two smaller. They were netted
on the ebb tide drift and on a stormy
night, but they also netted him
fancy sum.
A flock of wild geese flying north
ward Wednesday night seemed to
carry out their part of the cold spring
program in their late flight. The flock
contained about 25 or so and appeared
very tired.
The water was drawn off last week
from Nequasset lake in Woolwich, ac-
cerding to the requirements of the law
which says it shall be done yearly. 1t
is said to greatly benefit the supply.
The water was unusually high and the
operation attracted many visitors.
From general orders received from
the war department by Col. George T.
Bartlett calling for the discontinuing
of infantry work and resumption OF
coast artillery work at the forts in
Portland harbor, it is thought that the
war department at Washington con-
siders the possibility of troops being
needed for service in Mexico at least
remote. says the Portland Press.
These orders are being put into I'M
mediate effect, and the 1900 officers ana
enlisted men in the coast artillery ser
vice are laying aside the infantry helo
service uniform, and are taking up the
customary coast defence work.
Mrs. Lottie Muchmore is Sanford's
Oldest woman. She celebrated her
cath birthday Sunday, and peculiar
feature of the event was the cele-
bration also of the birth of her first
great-great grandchildren, pair OF
twin boys born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Hartford, the day before. Mrs.
Hartford (Georgiana Philpot is
great granddaughter of Mrs. Much
more. Mrs. Lottie Muchmore is the
widow of William Muchmore, ana
lives with her son, Joseph, on upper
Main street, Springvale. She was
born at Emery Mills, just across the
Sanford line in Shapleigh, and mas
passed most of her life in these two
towns. Four of her nine children are
living: Jennie, wife of Edwin Bick-
ford of Rochester, N. H, aged ga;
George w. of Acton, aged so; JOS
eph S. of Springvale, aged 30, and
Fred A. of Shapleigh, aged 40. There
are IS grandchildren living. There
are also 80 great grandchildren living
and two. the Hartford twins. born last
Saturday, in the fifth generation.
The Lewiston patrolmen of the
police force are to ask for an increase
of pay of so cents per day. which will
make the daily stipend SO. This is
said to be the pay of patrolmen in
Bangor, Portland and some other
Maine cities.
Michael J. Costello of Portland has
or had an appetite for pie, as ndl-
Gated by surreptitiously entering
store in that city and finally disap-
pearing with Ia pies in his possession,
taken without the knowledge or con-
arrested and confessed in court He
was sentenced to 80 days in jail, out
Judge Connolly suspended sentence on
condition that Costello take reef IN
his appetite or confine its workings TO
pie legitimately obtained.
Levi Richardson of Norway last sea-
son found a cluster Of white black
berries in the Millett Neighborhood. He
marked the bush and this spring he
took il up, roots and all, and stephen
B. Cummings sent it to Luther Bur
bank Of Santa Rosa, California and
has received a personal letter from
Mr.. Burbank acknowledging its arrival
and expressing his thanks for 1t. Mr..
Burbank has already succeeded In
raising white blackberries and is ex-
perimenting with them from freak
ones all over the country.
A muskrat trap set by Herbert NJ.
Adams of North Lowell caught a duck,
of unknown specie and so handsome
that Mr.. Adams kept it and carried it
to Capt. j. w. Nash of Norway to be
mounted. It was then discovered that
1t was a male wood duck, the having
of which in your possession the law
| prohibits. Mr.. Adams, with Commits
sioner Wilson and Capt. Nash, ap-
peared before Judge VIM. f. Jones of
the Norway municipal court, told his
story and pleaded guilty, and by re-
| commentator of the commissioner
sentence was suspended
The grave of the late Ethan Mill
ken in the old burying ground near
the Unitarian church In Saco is to be
| marked by a suitable memorial. Mr..
MilMken served in the old 10th Maine
during the Civil War, was killed in ac-
tlop and the remains brought home
and buried. Quincy Post and Sher-
man Command have taken hold of the
matter and authorized Geo. S. Aver
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