Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-12
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip
1t was reported on Oct. s. 1864, that
JEFF Davis and family had left Rich
mond for a few days, though their
| destination was not reported. Lieut.
Col. James w. Hyde, late of the 7th
! Me-, had been appointed colonel of the
LIST Maine Volunteers. consolidation
| of the old 5th. 9Th and 7th Maine
Regiments. Secretary Fessenden was
expected to make trip to the North
within the next fortnight.
Had this Presque Isle boy been
properly instructed when he was CIV
en- his gun he might not have been
caught carelessly firing it at random
from his house the other night. One
of the bullets made its way through
window of Henry Tweedy's house and
broke looking glass. Fortunately
Mrs. Tweedy and family. who we're in
the room were all sitting and thus out
of range. 1t is safe to say that the
boy will do no more promiscuous
shooting.
Farm wages have not been quite so
high this fall as for some falls past.
but they seem to have been about
| high enough, says the Fort Fairfield
Review. About $3.50 has been the
regulation high pay, although a few
farmers have recently been paying
$500 and 1925. About five cents a
were hired early in the season for
$500 and s225. About five cents
barrel for picking has been the rule
where men have not been engaged by
the day.
Autoists over East Thursday, says
the Bath Times, were delighted to
find the new State road between WOOL
witch toward Wiscasset open. A small
section just this side of the dyke is
not quite completed, but the contract
ors will no doubt have it done by to-
morrow night With this exception,
and the installation of one or two cul-
verts now being put in, the road is
completed on the Woolwich end to
| within two miles of Wiscasset. Here
contractors are at work on the stretch
through to Wiscasset village, but this
will not be completed until December.
A good detour however, can be made
around this by taking a road down to
the south to Birch Point. 1t, certainly
| is very refreshing for autoists to go
through Woolwich on a nice wide road
with easy grades and minus those aw-
full rocks, lodges and hills of old.
The members of the famous Will
liam Tell Club will leave Lewiston
by special train on the morning OF
the 23d for their fine camps at Spen-
Ger Lake, Moosehead. 1t is expected
that there will be about 40 in the
party. This is one OF the most prom
inent hunting parties that enters
the Maine woods every fall and they
always meet with great success.
Here is a plant with a somewhat
familiar sound, found in last week S
issue of the Mars Hill View:
One of our Oldest subscribers in
Robinson came into the View office
this week, paid up for his View and
ordered it discontinued. He tir. d
! OF having his neighbors run in and
carry it off before he had chance
to read it. Now they will he obliged
to borrow 1t elsewhere. What shame
that people cannot afford the little
sum of $3.50 year for their home
paper. but instead go and bother their
neighbor."
Just notice the kind of vegeta bic 8
they raise over in Kingheld:
L. F. Hutchins has dug two pota-
toes that weighed IL and IA
pounds respectively. He completely
filled a half bushel basket with %
potatoes from his crop. The weight
was 80 pounds. Edwin Ellis has a
yield of 10 bushels of potatoes on
1892 of an acre of land. o. c. Dol
bier has a table beet that weighs
1-2 pounds which is as smooth and
apparently as fine-g grained as the
small ones
The modern method of shooting
game Is from an automobile while it
is in motion says the Rockland Cour-
Ter Gazette. Coming down from Mir
ror Lake the other day Ernest C.
Davis shot two cartridges, holding the
gun in one hand, while he guided his
big automobile with the other. 1t
shows what a busy man can do when
driven to it.
A. B. Young. New York sports
man who is frequent visitor to this
section, says the Calais Times. estab-
lished a record at Great Lake stream
on Tuesday by landing four and a
half pound salmon with a one ounce
rod Of which there are said to be only
| two in existence. This feat Is said
! to equal the best worlds record in
| fly fishing.
The old adage that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place was
disproved in the village of South
Paris in the shower of August 18th,
when a pine tree was struck near the
house Of Benjamin SWEET on Western
| avenue and was struck again in the