Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-23

producer of Methuen. In the spring
of 1912 Mr.. Spohr, wishing to expert
ment the grating of fruit, cut
healthy branch from prize Baldwin
tree and grated it to one of the many
crab apple trees about his farm. This
season the tree bore heavily, and near
ly score of giant Baldwins the size
Of this one have been picked from the
lone branch of this freak tree.
Two right off the bat from the Fort
Fairfield Review:
The coroners and medical examiners
of Arcostook county are not feeling
the hard times. Business with them
is Of the liveliest description.
The sermon on scandal back-biting.
Islander and libel delivered by Rev. S.
M. BowleS of the Methodist church
last Sunday morning was most pow
erful and useful one. 1t was just about
the kind of sermon that made each
hearer go out afterwards and tell what
a fine thing 1t was for all the rest of
the folks.
The Woman's Board of Foreign Mis-
sions at Boston and the American
Missionary Society each are to receive
$4,000 from the estate of Mrs. James
p. Baxter. wife of former mayor of
Portland, by her will filed Friday at
that city for probate. Ten thousand
dollars was set aside for the Portland
Female Orphan Asylum. under certain
conditions. If not accepted the amount
is to be used to establish a home for
friendless children. The estimated
value of the estate was $250,000.
1t is reported that in order that the
Shiloh schooners Coronet and Barra-
couta be equipped and placed in readi-
ness for contemplated trip to the
nearest port to Atlanta Ga, a woman
whose name could not be learned,
recently presented the followers of
Rev Frank w. Sanford, who is now
serving sentence of 15 years in the
Federal Penitentiary, with $4,000
1t looks as if there was some truth in
the report as the Coronet has been
put on the ways at South Portland and
completely overhauled. According
to an ex-Shilohite the persons on the
hilltop are confident that their leader
will soon be released and plans to re-
ceive him are being made.
'Bijoun drug store at Rockland was
led by belated cali for fly paper, the
other day, to remark that he supposed
that he was one of the first manu-
facturers of sticky fly paper in the
country. He does not claim to have
invented or discovered the idea. But
when ne was a boy--no matter to be
exact as to the date-and lived in
Lewiston, he found out in some way
that if some sticky substance was
spread on paper, lots of flies would
light on it and stay there. Putting
the idea into practice, he made up a
lot of fly paper and went around TO
the houses of the neighborhood and
introduced the system. 1t was found
to work, and he soon built up -four
fishing business, which he followed for
three or four years, when he became
interested in other things and other
forms of fly paper were put on the
market. His, he confesses, was pretty
crude and not, easy to handle. He had
1.-The best families of Lewiston on
his list of patrons and made quite a
financial success of the business. In
the first sticky fly paper made, molaSses
was used as a surface covering, and
later, when varnish was substituted,
1t was thought necessary that molasses
or sugar should be MKT with it to at
tract the flies; later, it was found that
flies would light on the varnish just as
readily without any bait, and the fly
paper now in general use was evolved
The different forms of poisoned paper
in use were at first thought to be an
improvement, but the plain "tangie-
foot" such as Mr.. Moor made and sod
when a boy, is now the most popular
kind as well as the most effective.