Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-25

day to receive "a ietter from their old
est son, James e. Woods of Butte,
Montana, from whom they had not
heard for q period of 90 years
and whom theysbhve mourned as dead.
He left Calais when he was 20 years
of ago 10 seek his fortune. He enlist
ed in the army from which he received
an honorable discharge and later
roamcd through the West. finally set
ting down in Bate, Montana, where
he married and raised a family of four
children. the oldest son being employ
ed as an engineer with the Butte, An
aconda and Northern Pacific railroad
Mr.. Woods is also an employe of the
same railroad in the capacity of car
| inspector.
n. 3. Tracy OF Auburn has in his
possession one OF the old Free Win
Baptist hymn books bearing the title,
Sacred Melodies for Conference and
Prayer Meetings" 1t was printed in
Dover. n. H., in 1889 and was owned
by Capt. Nathaniel Bracket, the ma
| ternal grandfather of Mr.. Tracy The
book is now very rare.
The Frisbee Family Associations of
America has been formed, with Hon.
| Oliver L. Frisbee. Portsmouth, n. H,
| president and Ernistine L. Frisbee
Merrill of South Paris, Me-. secretary
and trea surer. The object is to hold
reunions of the descendants of Rich
ard Frisbee, who settled in Virginia in
! 1919. and a grand celebration IN 1919,
the SQ0th anniversary, is planned,
| s. f. Mcneil, the well-known motor
man Of Auburn. made valuable an
| tique find at his home in Pleasant
street in Auburn the other day.
While rumaging through some old
/ boxes in his attic he came upon an
old-fashioned pair of brass andirons of
beautiful pattern and make. He had
| long known family tradition that
these andirons were somewhere about
but had been unable. to locate them
until Saturday of last week They once
belonged to his great grandfat Their,
! John Mcneil, who was killed in the
battle of Machias harbor when the
English sloop Marguerite was captured
| by OBrion and his little hand of pat
riots. These andirons are fully l25
years old and It goes without saying
that they are highly priced by Mr.. Nc
Neil.
Prof Carl NJ. Anderson sends the
( Bangor News his weather forecast for
the balance of the summer and fall
and it is very cheerful reading, as
| follows: 1T is quite safe to say that
the weather for the rest of June will
be very warm. Great storms at the
end OF the month. Much thunder and
/ lightning at many points. The first
week of July will be cold. cloudy and
rainy but the reEt of the month will
| be very hot record breaking display
/ of lightning WITH very heavy thunder
and cloudbursts eter'the New England
states and eastern Canada, August
will be a record breaking hot month
With phenomenal storms with thun-
der. lightning and cloudbursts in many
quarters. Great drouth in September
and fall. September will be very
| hot and dry month. The winter Will
! be very mild" y
In order to make necessary repairs
the huge plant of TIE S. D. Warren Co
at westbrook will suspend operations
at o'clock, on the morning of July 4
and remain closedtAuntil midnight OF
Sunday. July H. aiperiod OF nine days.
including one Holiday and two sun
DAYS. While the majority of the en-
ployes of the company will have the
weeks vacation there will be a large
crew on repairs that will be working
daily during the nine days the mills
are shut down. This is the longest
neriod of time the big mills have
been still since the big freshet of 1896
and probably the annual output Will
be curtailed many thousands pounds
of paper. TfrtssF
A novel point was argued Tuesday
in the United States bankruptcy court
at Portland before Referee in Bank
ruptcv George E. Wheeler, involving
an assignment of wages, made by
petittoner In voluntary bankruptcy.
G. l.. Foster for, the plaintiff, argueo
that under the law the consideration
for which the assignment was gwen
was a provable debt that would De
relieved by a discharge from pahN .
ruptcy and that. the assignment Oh
wages was not valid under the law.
IA r. Nixon for the defendant, heia
that under the law the assignment Oh
wages was valid and was in the ma
ture of a mortgage Or secured claim,
and constituted q lien on the presen-
and future earnings of the bankrupt
Referee Wheeler reserved MS aecis'on'
Steamer Cannot Of the Z. >. f'sp
Commission arrived at Portland Tues-
day from the westward, she having
been engaged the, past two days IN
liberating lobster fry in the waters
around Wells Beach, Kcnncpunhpof.
and Biddeford Pool. In the past 10
DAYS she has liberated over 1bo'ooo'ooo
~ the little wrigglers between East
mort and Hannptona Beach, leaving
Something like 4e;o0o,ooo yet In the
lars at the Boothpay hatchery await
ing distribution, the output OF FRY TINS
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