Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-28

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will ever clear UP the mystery.
One of the cheering things given to
the Northern people in. October. 1864
was the statement of a Substitute
broker" OF Concord, N. H., who said
that up to that time he had put 10000
men in the service and did not believe
that one of them was an honest man.
The Concord Monitor remarked that
IF he has it was unintentional."
1t pays to observe the automobile
law wherever you may be. Fred B.
Ring, who claimed to belong in Cam
bridge, Me-, was before the court at
Fitchburg, Mass, Friday for running
an auto without his registration GER
tificate In his possession and for not
slowing the machine on approaching
corner. He pleaded guilty to the
former and not guilty to the latter,
but was fined on both. $40 and s15 re-
spectively.
A Houlton woman paid $3.50 to
miiliner for hat. One of her friends.
who is handy with a needle, bought
frame for % cents and other things
that go to make not, to the amount
of 75 cents, used up some old velvet
and produced a hat superior to the
$3.50 hat. according to the story the
woman tells who paid out the $3.50.
That is where a woman has 1t on a
man. She can make her clothes and
hats If she takes notion.
Potatoes are selling around $1.00
with a poor demand, said the Aroos-
took Pioneer of Oct. %. Farmers are
holding back for higher prices. The
starch factories report a thriving
business with the price averaging
from 40 to so cents a barrel. Farmers
have practically completed digging
their potatoes and are now engaged in
fall blowing. The Bangor & Aroos-
took delivered 322,022 bushels of pota-
toes to the Northern Maine Junction,
during the week of Oct. 11-17 inclusive.
A lone shark, separated from his
shark companions probably during
his pursuit of schools of smeits in
the New Meadows Saturday morning,
was found alive on the shore of Fred
Browns summer home on the upper
New Meadows, and killed with
clam hoe in the hands of Mr.. Brown.
The shark measured four feet in
length and had a mouth large enough
to swallow child. In the sharks
mouth was double set or rather
two sets of teeth and the teeth were
very sharp. He was wicked looking
creature. ~
Mrs. M. A. Patch of North Bucks
port has since 1907 been doing some
great work for the Riverside cemetery
of that place, having in that time
raised $1,000 for a trust fund, the in
terest only to be applied to the care of
the cemetery. She aims to have every
lot represented in the fund.
Mrs. May Will of Bremen, aged 81
years, has the distinction of being the
oldest Sunday School teacher in Maine.
She has been for the past 10 years
member of the Bremen Methodist
church and for the greater part of that
time has had abSunday School class.
She is also much interested in the
temperance work. and is president of
the local w. c. I. T., being the oldest
president in the State. Mrs Will is
the second oldest person in Bremen.
She was born Aug. IS. 1923 in Bristol.
She married July Is, 1863 Saul w.
Will of Strong and for some years
they lived in Foxboro, Mass She
returned after his death to Bremen
and now divides Nher time between
that place and Peaks Island. She
possesses good health and is much