Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-24

DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL
cents and sold at 40 cents per dozen.
Packed eggs are going at IS cents. The
price OF butter is 30 and IS cents per
pound. Sugar to now $3.50 to 500 per
cwt., and the sugar situation is becom-
ing so serious orders will be accepted in
the Boston markets only at the price
prevailing the day the order is received.
All-round -four is going at from 5000
to 1850; bread flour, $3.50 to SLIGO, and
getting higher: lard, 2o-lb. pals $500.
An insurance ad;uster who was in
Bangor last week on business told some
interesting stories in connection with
his experiences in adjusting losses. In
one case he stated that he was advised
that a certain fire at a farm had been
of incendiary origin. He made a trip
into the country where the farm was
located and learned that the house, sheds
and barn had been burned and on inves-
tigation found that a yoke Of oxen. sew
eral horses, some fine cows, other ami
mails and valuable farming implements
We're destroyed. This satisfied the insur-
ance man that the fire was accidental.
1t TRANSFERRED that the charge Of incen-
lliarism was made by a bitter enemy OF
the owner and that he was attempting
to inflict a still further injury upon the
man who had already been sufficiently
unfortunate. This was sample, the
insurance man remarked. Of the cases
that come before adjusters. Some have
lot IN, hs1t
work of some contemplate creatures
seeking revenge on an enemy.
The first caucus ever held in Wool
witch took place Saturday night in
the Days Ferry schoolhouse. About
forty were present. George w. Mars
ton presided as chairman, and A. b.
Thwing as secretary. They nominal
ed for selectmen, George M. Stinsor,
Edgar Bailey and J. Sumner Bailey;
for school board, Samuel Hathorne;
for ferry director, E. r. Mains; for
collector and treasurer, Albert
Hathorne; for town clerk, Henry
Cunningham. An informal vote for
road commissioners was taken favor
ing Alfred r. Ames. Addison Rice
and William Leeman. The second
caucus will be held at Nequasset
Thursday night.
The famous Carrabasset baseball
team Of North Arson. which played
with Bowdoin and Bates and other
college teams Of a quarter Of CEN
fury ago, was for several seasons one
Of the leading teams Of Maine. Below
are given their names and present
residences: George Quinn, blacksmith,
North Arson; Ed Sawyer, blacksmith,
Vests Mills; Leon S. Merrill, director
Of agricultural extension, University o.
Maine, Orono; Mark Pullen, travelling
salesman Of druggist supplies North
Arson; Roscoe Eames, farmer Emb-
den; Clarence Penny, conductor on
street railway, Lewiston; James Stew
ems. tailor and gents furnishings
store, Oakland: Daniel Mclaughlin,
deceased, 1895: Chauncey Adams. NJ.
D.. Concord. N. H. The scorer and
manager were Arthur Foster of El
Paso, Texas, and w. Emery, Supt. Of
corn factory, North Arson.
The class parts in the Buckfield
High school had been assigned as
follows: Valedictory, Helen Murch:
salutatory. Lena RUSSELL history,
Hattie Russell; prophecy. Mildred
Sampson; class will, Erland Water
man; presentation of gifts, Marion
Thurlow; Grafton, Leone Damon; es-
say, Arthur Cobb; essay, Angie Rowe;
honor parts are valedictory and
salutatory: class poet, Arthur Cobb.
School closes for the winter March 5
and the spring term opens March q.
John w. Coombs has been notified
by Chairman Harry Austin of the Fish
and Game Commission at Augusta that
complaint has been received in that Of
flee, alleging illegal killing of deer by
the Kennebunk baseball pitcher during
the trip through the Allegash valley,
made by him and companions last Oc-
tober and November says the Eastern
Star. Mr.. Coombs is in Palestine. Tex
as, enjoying the winter on the ranch of
his wife's parents, and this complaint
was great surprise to him. He has
written Chairman Austin that he is not
guilty Of any infraction of the game
laws, that he has never in all his ex-
perience as hunter in the Maine
woods violated the laws pertaining to
the sport and that he will come to
Maine on his first trip to Boston with
the Brooklyn Nationals and face his
accusers.
Mrs. Madison Kendall of Bowdoin-
ham, who celebrated her oath birth
day Feb. 10, in honor of which "a burn
ing candles shone brightly down on the
birthday cake, entertained her guests
with stories of the olden times. AS a
young girl, Mrs. Kendall, then Emily
Written. wove the cloth for the family
clothes, and sheep then counted far
more in a household than they do to-
day. The women did all the weaving
and spinning and fashions We're not so
unsettled as at the present time. Stock
ings were much too precious for COM
mon wear and Emily Written often
went to meeting barefooted, carrying
her shoes and stockings in her hands
and putting them on just before she
entered the church. Mr.. Madison Ken
dali who died some years ago was the
inventor Of the famous tide wheel and
came Of a family of inventors whose