Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-29

eral Burleson.
Workmen at the mine of the Maine
Feldspar Co. on Mount Apatite, Au-
burn, opened a large pocket of mag
nificent rock crystals Saturday. A
| large number of cabinet specimens
We're taken out and the indications are
that other pockets are near by.
/ Frank A. Meserve, who for the
past five years has been master me-
chanic for the Bates Mfg. Co., Lew
iston, has resigned his position to ac-
cept a better one in the West. When
Mr.. Meserve was about to leave for
home Saturday noon his employees
came to his office in a body, and Eu-
gene Blaisdell, his second hand,
stepped forward, and in behalf of the
others, presented Mr.. Meserve with a
large quilt box After much unwrap-
ping paper he found very handsome
diamond ring. This came as sur
prise to Mr.. Meserve, as his apprecia-
tive acceptance showed. Mr.. Me-
serve will stay in Maine this summer,
for vacation, before taking UP his
new position.
Few people who stop at the King
Tavern in Bath know how the house
gets it's name. For years it was
known as the Shannon House, but
Proprietor Jackson. who believes
in perpetuating historical names,
changed it to its present title, in
honor of William King, Names first
governor, whose mansion the house
formerly was, and which occupied a
location where the Bath postoffice
stands.
York hall, the beautiful home of Mr..
and Mrs. William D. Sewall of Wash
ington street, Bath. was the scene of a
large reception Saturday night follow
ing the marriage of their eldest daugh-
ter, Miss Margaret, to Fred Martin
Hector of Fargo, n. D. All day long
wedding guests from other cities were
arriving Those who were not enter
tanned within the bride elects home,
were guests at the homes of Hon.
Harold NJ. Sewall, at the Mark Sewalls
and at Mrs. Arthur SewalPs. Indeed,
the latter went to Small Point, in or
der to give up her residence to the
out of-town people, Nearly so came
from away to witness the ceremony.
While removing the sill from an
old house owned by the Cabot Co, at
Brunswick, one day this week. car
penter found a copper coffin plate
foiI
rah w. Adams. Died Feb. %, 1880.
Aged 80 years" The house formerly
occupied a site on the lane which led
to the old bridge, and was removed
to make room for the extension of
the mill. Years ago it was the Gus
tom to remove the coffin plates be-
fore burial, and in some instances
they were set in frames and kept as
parlor ornaments. This plate was evil
IDENTIFY lost by falling into the space in
the wall and thus was found on the
SILL
Senator Burleigh has had personal
interview with Secretary Of the Navy
Daniels and endeavored to secure the
promise of a cruiser, torpedo boat or
some snip OF interest 10 ne dnCHOiSN
in the river at Winterport during the
Fourth of July celebration. The
secretary promised to consider the
matter but expressed fear that the
Mexican situation might prevent the
granting of the request
The sea has been giving up large
catches of everything this spring
Among other things, a sea mouse,
measuring nearly so inches in length,
the largest of the species ever caught
off Portland was taken into that port
from the fishing grounds of Half Way
Rock by Bernard Johnson and Harvey
Doughty. two Bailey Island fishermen.
The length of the average sea mouse
is not more than three inches and they
are seldom caught in waters along the
coast. The sea mouse is a free moving
marine annelid of the family Aphro-
dite. the most highly organized of the
world of worms" The body is oval
the head is provided with tentacles and
two eyes, and the back Is covered with
scales which by their expansion and
contraction provide for the admission
and expulsion of water from the gills.