Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-16

today. Tomorrow morning, day will
break at 4.35 and twilight will end at
7.43 in the evening.
1t seems as though man with
motor boat could make pretty good
days work by trip down river and
gathering in few thousand Of eggs.
1t was reported Saturday that Dres-
den farmer visited Bath with big load
Of eggs and hauled them back home
because he was unable to get 20 cents
dozen for them
The great decrease in the price Of
furs this year is shown by the remark
of one Rangeley buyer. who said he
had bought only about $1,000 worth
this winter, against over $4,000 worth
last winter and for which last winter
he would have had to pay $4,000.
One Rangeley taxidermist has had
during the winter 142 deer heads to
mount. He admits that with the other
specimens to set up it has been busy
season.
You have Of course heard Of cases
where hen would insist on laying
two eggs daily, but perhaps you will
want to make a trip to Edgecomb to
see the flock of hens which the owner
claims one and all do that same trick.
The above. being told to a friend,
also a hen fancier, reminded him (why
we know not of the man who once in
his town was bothered by hens digging
up his garden. He did not keep hens
but his neighbors did. One day he
found a nest in his shed and the hens
were very kind in keeping it nearly
filled with the choicest eggs. One day,
while on his way to market with a
big basket of the eggs to sell, he was
accosted by neighbor who had denied
all guilt of his hens in digging up the
garden. who asked where he was 60
ing and for what purpose. 'To mar
ket, with eggs" was the reply. Eggs?
Why you have no hens" NO, but l
find the eggs in my shed and you say
your hens never bother my garden, so
| don't know to whom the eggs can be-
long and shall continue selling them"
The hens very quickly discontinued
their visits to the garden and the own
er Of the garden again had to buy all
his eggs.
y well known Water street clerk
was standing beside & friend in his
store as a young boy went up the
street on the other side propeiling one
of the latest and finest foot-power au-
tomobiles. Said the friend: Look at
that. There's some style. eh?" Yes"
said the clerk, and the style remark
reminds me Of when L was small
boy. very envlous of a few other small
boys who owned bicycles. Finally
father bought me a wheel, but it was
new and entirely different from the
antiquated specimens my friends had.
They claimed theirs were of the latest
style and so, to be in style. 1 got up
early the. next morning to try out my
machine. but before l went out with it
cut off the tires. so as to be in style
with the other boys. l then rode
around with theln, on the wheel rims
Of course. When got home and father
discovered what 1 had done. l lost all
interest in style. because the way he
wound those tires around my legs and
back would cause the average boy to
lose interest in almost everything for
a considerable time
And the answers to the Ancient
Riddle" continue to flow into the Jour-
nal office, by phone and by mail. Most
of them unite on whale for the So
luton, though one or two think ser
pent" will fill the bill. One lady feels
certain that her previous answer of
fish is correct, because the book Of
Jonah lii says Now the Lord had
prepared a great fish to swallow up
Jonah but she apparently overlooked
other references to Jonah'S eXper-
fence, such as Matthew xii: 40, which
says: For as Jonas was three days
ana three nights in the whales belly
- And it must be remembered
that it was not then known that a
whale was not fish, and the whale
was then called a fish through it's re-
semblance in shape.
Bowdoin College is said to have lost
one Of it's oldest alumni in the death
Of Guilford S. Newcomb. the Oldest
resident of Westboro, Mass, who
passed away at the age Of 81 years.
Mr.. Newcomb was born in Maine and
after graduation from Bowdoin was
for many years Il teacher He re-
moved to Westboro about 80 years
ago. He was the Westboro govern
ment representative on the weather
and had all the modern apparatus at
his home. He was deeply interested
in the public schools and before his
illness made frequent visits to the
schools. The school children always
remembered him with flowers on his
birthday, as did the teachers. Mr..
Newcomb had a record for attending
church hard to equal. From the time
he was 10 years old until he was 80 he
missed church on only 50 Sundays and
during a period of go years missed on
ly 10 Sundays. He was a member of
.the Westboro Evangelical Congrega-
tional church. He leaves eight chill
dren, Edward of Westboro, Charles,
Fred and George Newcomb of Boston,
Frank of California, Misses Annie and
Emily Newcomb Of Westboro and Mrs.
Mary E. Waldo Of Maine.