Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-27
Maine Gossip

At a recent meeting of the Lewiston
and Auburn Gardeners Union. 2s5
children entered the garden contest
/ All have been supplied with seeds and
the 126 Lewiston little folks and 10s
from Auburn, are competing for the
most thrifty garden.
Ed. Stafford, who for about 40 years
has been employed by the Maine Gen.
trail r. r. Co., and now one of its old
est engineers, is running the passen-
| ger train between Bangor and Malta
wamkeag He looks good for 25 years
| more of service. He went down into
the river with the late Geo. Mcclellan
and his engine in that well remember
ed gale that blew down the Milford
bridge in the early 'I0s 1t was SO
dark they did not see the bridge had
been blown off the piers so the en-
! CINE was precipitated into the river
with Geo. Mcclellan, Eugene and
James Elder, Ed. Stafford and josiah
Mishou. Mr.. Mcclellan was killed, all
| the others were rescued seriously In
| jured, but recovered. The engine was
/ going to Milford to wood-up for the
next day as was the custom then.
! James Elder is now the well-known
conductor on the B. & A, between
| Old Town and South LAGRANGE. The
remainder of the party is now dead.
Mrs Wallace Reed Tarbox of Frye
burg, past department president of
Maine Ladies' G. A. r., also a MEM
Der of the National body, received a
most f1attering reception last week in
Laconia, N. H, where she went to
assist in organizing a circle of that
order. Mrs. Tarbox delighted all
! present with her remarks relative to
| the work the ladies of the Grand Ar
my are doing and proved eonclusively
that there were Give wires" in the
order. A fine Circle with "a charter
members was organized. The state
now has a department
| The Bath Times reports that Five
Islands has been celebrating over the
arrival of a sweet toned bell for the
church and then shamelessly goes on:
I'm a few more weeks there will ar
rive so many more sweet voiced
-
interest
| How delicacies will differ as you
visit various parts of the country. A
| Bath man in the South during the
winter found the drug stores, instead
of selling ice cream as they do here all
winter, passing out hot waff1es and
maple or corn syrup and he remarked
| that it was the best article of food
he found in the South.
We should think Bath, instead of
| trying to dispose of the old piano
that has done duty for so many years
in the High school, would be finding
a place where lit would be forever
preserved. It would in time be far
more valuable than any modern in
strument tits historic from its con-
nection with the famous old Phi Rho
DAYS and is said to be the piano on
which Emma Games. when a girl,
! jumped because she did not like Its
tone and walked up and down on
the keyboard. At least this is the
legend. On her visit to Harold Sew
| airs last winter, Nine. de Gogorza
was asked If it was true that she did
this trick and she replied that she
might have as she was up to all kinds
/ of similar performances during her
school girl days and gerry likely this
| story was true.
| Herbert A. Hackett of Caribou is
receiving congratulations on the sue
! cessful outcome of a surgical opera
| ton recently undergone In a Portland
| hospital One of the joints of his
| spinal column had become diseased
| and the operation consisted of taking
/ two pieces of bone. one from each
| leg, and grating them on to the
| spine, rather a delicate undertaking.
The Thursday Club of Brewer is
said to be facing a special assessment
or bankruptcy, owing to the increas-
| ing number of babies being born In
that city. 1t has made it a rule to
present to each addition to the popu-
lation silver spoon, but so many
have arrived since the first of the
year that the treasury has been sadly
depleted. Why not touch Colonel
| Roosevelt for a contribution!
A Bradley young man has apparent
ly reached the limit in hen culture
according to an item now making the
rounds. 1t claims that he has her
that is laying hard boiled eggs, but
wants little said about it, because he
fears that he will not be able to sup
ply the demand and also wants tc
make further experiments in breeding
/ for this one object. Next!
Ellsworth is facing chance Of los
ing for bar or so the free mai
delivery promised by the postal au-
thorities, to be installed as soon as
| the city attends to numbering the
houses, providing. mail boxes, etc
Postmaster Neatly must soon report
on this matter and it appears as Il
the people are taking very little In
| terest, as the requirements have not
been fully met. 1t will be the peo-
pies own fault If the free delivery
| is again delayed.