Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-03

years ago next 4hotuas oN
departure of Gov. Cony, accompanied
bv one of his aides. for a visit TO the
Army of the Potomac?
The following was printed in the
Bath Times 40 years ago and Is just
as true now as then: An exchange
saws that when you buy a new lamp
chimney, put 1t in vessel OF eola
water. set 1t on the stove ana DOH.
You can never break that chimney.
unless YOU throwea fiatiron at 1t ana
YOU won't break :ttTeven then-if you
miss it," -
The following from the Portland
Advertiser of April /. 1864. fits the
conditions of the outgoing of March,
1914. to ct" and will doubtless fit
lust as we'll so years from now:
March left >us in a huff Yesterday
was about as disagreeable day as
we have had during the season. Sleet
fell continually and everyone seemed
tn be uncomfortable. But there is no
use grumbling, the weather Will nave
it's own way. and we must take II as
il comes Only these compelled TO De
abroad. reporters and the like, need
find fault, and they, especially the
former. generally take things easy.
The first Mayf1ower of the season
was received Thursday, April 2, at the
Journal office. from ]. H. Black OF MI
Vernon, who says they were picked
March % on the south side of Mt.
McGaffey on his property. The
flowers have been kept in the house
since picked, but still retain their fra
GRANGE to an astonishing degree. DR..
Black also says he had salad made
from a cabbage that had been out OF
| doors under the snow all winter and
that it was as fresh and nice as
| though in the last of october.
The honor of being the oldest mem
her of the order of Pythian Sisters in
the world belongs to Mrs. Maria Dyer
of Ocean street, South Portland. and
although she is rapidly nearing her
| 18th birthday she is as keenly alive 10
everything of interest as one half her
! years. Mrs. Dyer is in feeble health
| physically but her faculties are not IN
! the least impaired and she is deriving
much pleasure from many letters
which she is receiving from states all
over the Union, members of the
| Pythian Sisters sending her greetings
and good wishes. Myrtle Temple OF
South Portland claims her as mem
| Der and she is the pride OF all Its
members who frequently visit her and
! remember her with flowers and other
| gifts
William C. Pert Of North Brooklin
a veteran of the Civil war, observed
go-to-church Sunday by attending
the Sedgwick Baptist church, g.
mile walk for him. He Is SO years OF
age. He has cut in the woods over
a thousand feet of logs the past win
ter, and eight cords of wood. and
fitted the wood at the door. He has
busted himself in the past year or two
in starting a young orchard. and is
| looking forward to the growth OF the
streets and the fruit he will pluck
from them.
A recent number of the lewiston
Journal contains an illustrated article
concerning old shipbuilding days along
the Kennebec and mentions Andrew
and Robert Merryman. who worked fol
awhile at the shipyard then located on
the present site Of the Smithtown ice
houses in Pittston. Their pictures
are given in the article and it tells OF
their going to WISCONSIN and becoming
wealthy by the lumber business In
which they both engaged there. This
is the extent OF the information given
in this story about them but interests
Pittston people who remember the two
brothers, unassuming workers, loved
and respected. In 1854 they were
working on the brig Andrew c. Merry.
| man at Pittston In 1856 they wen,
to Fond du Lac, Wis, where they were