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

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| Might be bust ter flinders!
| When the spooks Is OWLS,
| Playin' naughty tricks
| The old Buchanan house, built in the
18th century on Todd's head, East
port. the most easterly point of land
in the most easteriy city Of the United
States, is one Of the show places of
| the city. 1t is yet in an excellent
| state of preservation. Eastport
Lodge, F. and A. NJ, was instituted
| there on Aug. II. 1901. The records
| of the lodge are very interesting. The
! building originally bore the name of
| Mantuan hail.
| 1t had just become known so years
| ago that some 40 or so Maine soldiers
| in a hospital at York, Pa, had petit
| toned the government to be removed
to the hospital at Augusta, Me. Ad-
miral Porter had selected the side
wheel steamer Little Ada as his flag
| ship of the North Atlantic blockading
| squadron. Lieut.. w. A. Willis of the
revenue service had been ordered to
the Tiger at Washington.
The Eastport sardine Gamers are
| fearing that with only about three
weeks more of the season the pack
| will be short over 100000 cases. unless
| the fish take sudden run.
| The 60th anniversary of the initia-
ton into Odd Fellowship of Charles
| Trip of Kennebunk was observed
Monday night by Mousam Lodge. l. o.
| o. F., the affair taking the form of
| reception. over 300 being present. The
oldest members stood in the receiving
line. A program was rendered and
the lodge orchestra played during
| banquet. Mr.. Trip joined the lodge
when but 21 years old. He was born
in 1888 in Kennebunk. He has been
| married 81 years and has one daugh-
ter, two grandsons and two great
grandsons. His health is fairly good.
A new cattle shed is being built at
the South Paris fair grounds about
| 1855 feet In length. This stands where
| there has been a row of open tie-ups,
extending northward from the hay
| barn, on the outer edge of the
grounds. 1t Is an open-front shed,
and the cattle will stand facing the
roadway. The shed extends over tae
edge Of the bank and the back side is
| supported on posts, SO as to widen
considerably the passageway for spec
| tators between that and the next row
| of sheds. 1t is sufficiently wide so
there will be a passageway of good
| width behind the stock. An extern
| sion Of the bull pens will also be
| made.
Henry E. Palmer and son of White
| field think they have busted the old
theory of planting large potatoes
whole. Having raised one last year
that took their eye, they made a hill
suitable for the tuber. Gave it no
further care. as the top was SO bushy
1t was impossible to hoe the hill
Their curiosity got the better Of them
about a month ago, they dissected the
hill were surprised to find A pota-
toes, SO Of which were large and
smooth. One acre has turned out
over 400 bushels Of Green Mountains.
Fifty years ago (Oct. 49, 1860 a
proclamation had just been issued by
Pres. Lincoln setting aside the fol-
lowing Thursday as a day of thanks
| giving for victory; the LIST Maine
Heavy Artillery had received its pay
up to Sept. l. 1t was reported thar
Gen. Custer had captured several
\ more pieces of rebel artillery.
! The GOODNESS and presence of mind
with which Mrs. Emily Cote of Bid
| deford met the occasion one day last
week at her home in that city, when
she had to face fire, Is worthy of es-
pecial mention. She was UP about
$50 and was frying potatoes for the
family breakfast when the fat in the
spider took fire. the blaze quickly
catching on some of the children's
clothes hanging near the stove, making
what looked like the start of bad fire.
Mrs. Cote calmly went into another
room, seized two pieces of carpet,
went back to the kitchen, laid one on
the floor in front of the stove, threw
the other over the spider and carried
1t to the yard. where the fat burned
merrily away, then back to the kitch-
en- again where she fought the blaze
until 1t was subdued, without any
other member OF the household know
ing anything about it. Mrs Cote
sustained several painful but not seri-
Gus burns about her hands and wrists.
| The Mildred Sullivan mystery re-
mains unsolved and interest is de-
creasing. A newly dug grave dis
covered near Fort Fairfield is said to
have been dug for dead horse. All
apparent clues have been run down
and found to be worthless. Most
people are Of the opinion that the Sui
liyan girl Is dead and that it will only