Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-21
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL. THURSDAY JANUARY 21, 1915


of fine farms, village residences and
scenes of potato harvesting and mar
keting that will be Of much interest
to the buyers in the south, showing
them just how the thing 10 done Some
Of the farms shown are D. w. Corey's,
]. F. Higgins, Hoyt & Wheelers, w.
r. Christie's, J. F. Guiou's and the
State Farm. Some beautiful scenery
along the rivers are shown.
That misfortunes never come singly
will be testified to by the Nelson
Bushley family Of Rumford. who can
prove it by the following: Catherine.
the 12-year-old daughter, was hauling
little sister on sled. She had on
skates and when trying to run from
boy who was chasing her, her foot
caught in the crust and one bone of
her left leg was broken about half
way between the ankle and knee. Then
Lillian, a two-year-old daughter. while
playing in the house with two sisters
| had a bone in her right foot broken
by a bookcase being upset and fall
! ing on her. Little Donald, six years
| old. fell down stairs, being picked up
| unconscious, but escaping serious in
juries.
Gentleman Frank Clark the genus
| hobo who has passed most Of the past
eight winters in Franklin county Jail,
| arrived last week for his annual So
| journ, reports the Franklin Journal Of
Jan. Is. Previous to being sentenced
by a Franklin county trial justice,
| Clark paid visit to the Jail to see If
| conditions were up to the customary
standard and apparently found them
to his liking for he reappeared few
| days later to begin sentence. He is
giving the court house its annual
house-cleaning.
Ono Maine man will directly benefit
by the European war, as Arthur B..
Richardson Of Rockland has been call
ed to to Moscow to fill position from
which German had been ousted. Mr..
Richardson left Rockland late in De-
cember and expected to reach Moscow
by Jan. IS, and will be joined by his
wife in the spring. The position is
manager Of the office Of an American
firm. whose German manager was ar
rested by the Russians Immediately
after the breaking out Of hostilities.
The Bangor firemen during the past
year, answered S0s alarms. Two of
them were disastrous, the Opera house
fire costing two lives and property
loss Of about $4,000 and the Bangor
News fire costing about $4,000.
Some wag reported that John
Trafford of Robinson was dead in
the woods. The telephones got busy
and the hungry news gatherer feastea
for time, but John was not dead
The Mars Hill View says it could have
told them so. for John came in this
Office only few days ago and said he
was tired of paying for the Mars Hill
View and have some Of his neighbors
come in and borrow it the blessed
minute it arrived, and 80 he had it
discontinued for a time. Where these
people in Robinson are now borrowing
the View is a mystery. IN the mean
time John still lives and bids fair to
continue to live forty more years"
Up to the present time conditions in
the woods for numbering have been
practically ideal says the News Pres
que Isle correspondent. The lack of snow
has been the cause of the swamps freez-
ing over, thus saving much time of the
teamsters usually consumed in con-
structing roads, as none are now need
ed Teams can move with perfect free
dom and also to cut much lower on the
stump than possible when there are two
or three feet Of snow But the time has
now come when snow is needed. as
yarding and hauling must be done.
People here are beginning to lose faith
in the weather predictions. Five days
last week the indications as published
in the dailies was for snow or rain, but
Aroostook had neither. Snow will come
| sometime, however, for it is a crop never
| missed in this section.
Around Bangor the traditional Oldest
inhabitant fails to recall like conditions,
of a prolonged and pronounced January
thaw without any snow worth mention-
ing on the ground. In the river the
water is at drought pitch, while all
around in the country and even in Ban
gor reports come In of dry wells which
never lacked water before and farmers
hauling water for their cattle in some