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

Maine Gossip
The three prisoners who succeeded
in making their escape while at work
in a field planting on the property of
Mr.. Oliver Mathews Thursday after
noon, are still at large, says the ROCK
land Opinion. They have been re-
ported as having been at several places
singly within a radius of several miles,
but all attempts to locate them thus
far have been unsuccessful. 1t is learn
ed that two other prisoners had very
cleverly planned their escape the sat
urday preceding, but were discovered
in the nick Of time.
A Bangor dispatch in last Sundays
Boston Post, in paying a glowing and
doubtless we'll deserved tribute to Ad-
jutant A. E. Armstrong, commander of
the Salvation Army at that port, says
that he will represent the Army of
the state of Maine and is the sole
member to be present from this state"
at the International Congress in Lon
don to attend which he is now on the
way and brings a correction from the
Rockland Opinion, which says: This
is by no means true. Our own esteem
ed Rockland Adjutant, Miss Nellie
Corbett, is a passenger on steamship
Olympia, the same as Adjutant Arm
strong, bound for the Congress to
which she Is a duly accredited dele
gate-and she has in her purse roll
of $500 contributed by the people of
this city to pay her expenses, given in
appreciation of the splendid work she
has done here the past two years. staff
Captains and Mrs. Gerard of Portland
and Ensign Rose Reynolds of Fairfield
are also Maine officers who are at
tending the Congress. o, no; Brother
Armstrong is not the only pebble.
The construction crew of the Lew
iston, Augusta & Waterville Street
Railway under the direction of F. w.
Hullett, electrical engineer, performed
q quick job Monday forenoon at Bath
in changing over the track at the Mill
Pond bridge, from the old location
in the highway to the new concrete
bridge. They did the work in about
three hours. The distance between
the two hills is about 1000 feet and
it was case of active hustling.
The rumored contest over the will
of the famous sculptor, Franklin Sim
mons, who left his statuary and the
residue of his estate to the, City of
Portland, seems likely to develop
when the will comes up to be allowed
in the term of the probate court at
Portland beginning the third Tues
day of June. The truth of the rumor
was supported Monday when Mrs
Martha ]. Libby of Salem, Mass,
cousin of the sculptor and one of the
heirs at law and next of kin, who was
also one of the numerous heirs cut
off without a dollar or mention in the
will, appeared at the registry of pro-
bate with her attorney, Augustus F.
Moulton, and Mr. Moulton entered his
appearance for Mrs. Libby in the mat
ter of the allowance of the will and
appointment of administrators.
Stanley T. Milliken of Biddeford and
a newspaper writer in Washington,
d. c., is reported by the Washington
Star to have eloped with Miss Emily
Sharpe of that city to Baltimore,
where they were married. They are
now in the North with the Washing
ton baseball club on it's trip. MILL
ken has recently been divorced.
Fifty years ago we had just heard
that Major Breckenridge, son of the
late Gen. breckenridge, had been kill
ed at Fort Powhatan; that the State
treasurer will on June 10 send out
checks to reimburse towns for money
paid out by them last year for State
aid; the 18th Maine was paid off June
2 at Portland and left June for the
department of the Gulf.
Norman Cannon of 1872 West street,
Gardiner, Me-, has been watching the
accounts of the various curiosities
and freaks of nature mentioned from
time to time in the Journal and writes
concerning something that has hap
pened in his own experience. He
says: "A potato of the Green Noun
tain variety was cut in halves and
planted on the 18th of May, 1913, but
did not sprout. 1t laid on the ground
all winter and yesterday-June 2,
1914-in planting, / came across it
just coming through the ground.
dug it out and found it just as sound
as the day it was planted, SO l care
fully replaced it, to see what the re-
suit will be. If any one can explain
why this seed potato acted so I would
be pleased to see the explanation
printed"
The Portland custom house vacancy,
although now three months old, shows
no sign of being filled in the near
future. Candidates John D. Ander-
son and John J. Lynch remain in the
lists and rumor has not eliminated the
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