Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-05
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Maine Gossip
Belgium.
Dana Burnet in the New York Evening
SUM-
A Beggar Man came hungry to my door,
gave him bread, and would have given
more.
But Charity. astounded. babe me wait
Until her minions should investigate.
who knows?" said she This man may
be a sinner.
His soul may not be worthy Of dinner.
Say, then, until We try the ThirdDegree,
He may not be quite right" said Charity.
So all that day the twin of gentle Hope
Put my pale beggar meath the micro
At night Fair Charity emerged aslo~-
He was all right" she said. He died,
You know
The United States steamboat in
spectors, after investigating the re-
cent collision between the ferry boats
Hockomock and Ferdinando Gorges
at Bath, in which considerable dam
age was done to each. have decided
that it was accidental and due to the
dense fog. both masters having exer-
cised due caution, the inspectors dis
missed the case. They recommend
that the men in charge Of these
steamers meet and agree upon a plan
whereby one boat wait in her slip for
a few minutes during heavy weather,
to give the other boat a chance to get
out Of the way.
The Kelley, Spear Co. of Bath on
Tuesday signed a contract for anoth-
er big barge. a 2sO0-ton craft for a
Philadelphia firm. This makes three
barges this firm has on hand, aggre-
eating about $500 tons. The las.
contract calls for barge 235 fees
long. Il feet in breadth and 1872 feet
depth.
Bath had a nasty stabbing ARRAY
Tuesday, when Augusta Hart afte.
being in quarrel with VIM. Saunders
and saying "Nuff"- after one good
punch in the eye, rushed up behind
Saunders and stabbed him from be-
hind on the shoulder, infiicting a deep
wound which required the services of
a surgeon and confined him to his bed.
Hart was arraigned and the case con-
tinued until Monday to permit the
appearance Of Saunders.
a letter from man in Los Angeles,
Cal, to a former doctor Of Richmond,
now deceased, has been forwarded TO
the Journal in order to make public
the request for information contained
therein. The aged wife of the late
Henry NJ. Goliath Of Richmond, and
later Of Utah and California, desires
information regarding her husbands
service in the Union army during the
Civil War, all his papers having been
destroyed in a fire which burned his
mill properly in the early COS in
Utah. he dying later, in 1895, in Los
Angeles. 1t is known that he was a
friend Of the late Gen. Geo. B. Nc
Clellan, doing valuable service for his
country as a spy in the rebel ter
ritory He was a cousin of the late
Vice Pres. Henry Wilson, and some
surviving relative may be abba to
give some fact that will help in the
investigation. Mrs. Goliath is now
in years. without means and with
ailing eyesight, able only to do the
more mental duties of housework,
and any Information that will assist
her will be promptly forwarded to her
if sent to the Journal
\ correspondent from Readheld writes
as follows:
Having noticed an item in the Journal
Of March / regarding the go eggs pro-
Guced during January by II Rhode Island
Red pullets owned by Mrs. Rufus Town
send Of Skuwhegan and that they prob
ably had no equal; l would say that
Mrs. F. A. Hunton OF Readheld has Il
Single Comb Rhode Island Red pullets
which laid during the month OF January
e9f eggs, which she considers is pretty
fair for cold month.
Every apparent clue has been run to
earth in the missing deputy sheriff Hill
man case at Island Falls and about the
only thing left to do is to wait for the
disappearance of the Ice in the spring,
hen it is hoped that the remains will
be recovered. it being almost unani.
mously believed that the missing man
is dead.
The Maine manager of the cumberland
interests OF the American Thread Co.,
L. N. Hamlin Of Milo, a visitor to Ban
gor. Tuesday. stated that the war has
been help to the American Thread Co,
by increasing the demand for home
made thread and lessening foreign COM
petition. This has directly aided the
numbering industry of the company at
ISaKeview and an average or slightly
larger cut OF birch has been made dur
ing the present season, whereas it Is
possible that the cut might not have
been SO large Were not business on the
increase.
A young Rath couple saw couple OF
foxes in a field back Of the Thompson's
Brook Power House OF the Water Co.,
near the old barn and close up to the
sawdust piles there, jumping up in the
air one after another, springing often
seven or eight feet from the ground, or,
to be exact, from the ice with which the
field has been covered since the last
rains and freeze. The young folks were
amazed at the antics of the foxes, two