Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-02
The Portland Express thus defines a
near honest piekpocket:

near hOneSt plckpocket.
Because a pickpocket was partially
honest, local bushes man has had his
pocket book returned to him through
the agency of Uncle Sam. A few even
ings ago q man of the light fingered gen
try succeeded in separating the business
man from his pocket book which con-
tanned a goodly sum of money ana
number of valuable papers shortly after
the incident, one of the letter carriers
found pocket book in one of the pack
age mail boxes on the street. There was
no address on the pocket book and II
was turned over to the inquiry clerk
There We're sufficient papers on the in
side of the book to show it's ownership
The man was communicated with and
short time later the book was returned
to him. When the pocket book was
found it contained no money.
This following item furnished the In
spiration for the foregoing ballad,
written more than so years ago: "a
surgeon in the United States army
says that on inquiring of the captains
of his company he found that nine
tenths Of the men had enlisted on ac-
count of some female difficulty Morn
ing paper" In connection with this
the government announcement of the
increase in the number of young men
offering themselves for military serv-
ice Is significant. Last month there
were 5000 applications, 1000 more than
ever recorded in time Of peace.
A sleigh with "fore-d doors" Is the
latest product of the Maine State pris-
on. 1t is an adoption of the idea in
automobile and is of great help toward
warmth. This is an innovation that
ought to appeal to the winter traveller.
From recent agitation it would seem
that Lewiston may become one of the
eight New England points supporting
teams in the league representing that
section of the country. Bill Carri-
gan, captain of the Boston Red Sox',
with Mike" McDonough, a prominent
sporting man of Lewiston, have inter-
ested themselves in the matter and 1t
is said that Joe Burns, the owner of
the Broekton club, is ready to go to
Lewiston and discuss the question
with Androscoggin enthusiasts. 1t is
certain that baseball is dead in
Brockton and that to continue there
would be absurd. Lewiston fans be-
lieve the game can be made to pay
we'll in Maine. The only thing against
such a change is the fact that the
sport never has proved profitable
| there.
The Biddeford Journal picks up the
Lewiston Journals story relating to
Ossippee river and furnishes the fol-
| lowing amendment: 1.-THE island which
evidently inspired the Lewiston Jour
nails paragraph is located in the Great
Ossipee river on the boundary between
Maine and New Hampshire, and so
the county of Cumberland and the
towns of Baldwin, Hiram and Cornish
must be left out of the reckoning. AS
matter Of fact. the truth is here
stranger than fiction, for upon that
| little island is the meeting-pla of
| two states, Maine and New Hamp-
shire; three counties, Carroll in New
Hampshire and Oxford and York In
Maine, and four towns, Freedom and
Eftingham in New Hampshire and
| Parsonfield and Porter in Maine"
Fraulein Rose, No. 29441, a Jersey
cow owned by David E. Moulton Of
Portland is certainly a good one. Mr..
Moulton is a breeder of pure bred Jer-
seys and is doing some testing for
advanced registry in his herd. Recent
| ly, December H. Fraulein Rose made
a record of SS.8 pounds of milk testing
| 6002 per cent. fat and containing 5.33
pounds of fat. Under the rules of the
American Jersey Cattle Club, cows
j making a record of five or more