Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-31

At the battle Of Sailors creek, the
! rebel general Cose surrendered to
Burton as the regiment charged the
rear guard Of the rebel army. At APP
| pomattox, he had the double JOY OF
participating in the last battle of the
regiment and celebrating on the ninth
day Of April 1866. his SSth birthday.
At his death he was in his 9Oth year.
He was the oldest officer in the regi-
ment. The Burton family of Thomas
ton rendered distinguished military
service in all the earlier Indian wars
and the war Of the Revolution and
that Of 1912.
| Nearly an inch of rain was added to
the record precipitation mark of 1910
| inches for Portland this morning, as
during the night IA Of an inch of rain
fell in this city. The heaviest fall
was between the hours Of and this
morning when "a Of an inch of rain
fell This makes the total rain fall
for. the month 1854 inches which is
the greatest known in the past "A
years or since the establishment of the
local weather bureau.-Portland Ex-
press July 20.
In his luxurious 10e-foot private car
Killarney. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy,
president of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way, with Lady Shaughnessy, and at
tendants arrived at Union Station A.
| M. Thursday from the provinces, by
the way of Vanceboro. Leaving the
car at the station end Of track at 10
Sir Thomas and Lady Shaughnessy
motored directly to Prouts Neck, where
the day was spent with their son, the
train.
Nelson c. Proulx of Biddeford. driv-
er Of a delivery truck for A. c. De-
Jorge. the Bacon street baker, and
| Clayton Murphy. also of Biddeford,
had an exciting experience Wednesday
night while returning from Ocean
Park. AS they were passing through
the woods leading to Ocean Park and
about mile from the Old Orchard
road. two men emerged from the
woods and held them up. They looked
like Italians and represented them
selves as being smugglers. They urged
the young men to buy quantity Of
goods which they claimed had been
smuggled and hidden in the woods
nearby. Finally Proulx turned on the
power of his machine and sped away
leaving the men still shouting at him.
1t is the belief of the officers who have
been made acquainted with the at
tempted holdup. that the men intended
to lure the driver Of the truck into the
woods and rob him. Search was made
Thursday in that part of the woods
but no traces found.
Caswell & Chapman grocery and
hardware store at Harrison was brok-
en- into Wednesday night and about
one hundred dollars worth of goods
| stolen, such as guns, revolvers, jack
knives. canvas and postage stamps.
No clue has been found as to who the
robbers were, but it is thought to
look like boys work. They got in
through a back window which was
| found to be unfastened.
| Hon. and Mrs. James S. Wright, Mr.
and Mrs. F. n. Wright and Carrie Hall
Of Norway escaped a serious accident
Sunday afternoon, while returning
from an automobile ride. At Shows
Falls, directly in front of the house
| "a XShA .. ooiiAA w Oou tilC StCCIluS 6Sdl
broke, swerving the car to the right
towards the river. being stopped with
the wheel close to tree without in
jury to any one. At that place there
is level space of some width between
the road and river, but If the accident
happened a little further south, Moth
ing could have prevented the car from
| going into the stream.
| Supt. Mcintyre Of the Houlton Wa
ter Co. has been in Washburn during
the past week looking over the town
for the possibility of establishing a
water system there. The town recent
ly suffered a bad fire loss and now
this busting up country town plans
to install a modern water system. Mr..
Mcintyre made plans for the install
lations and has forwarded them to
the town authorities at Washburn.-
| ArOostook Pioneer.
|, The grinding of potatoes for starch
is practically done. There has been
no market for eating potatoes for sew
| eral weeks. Some fields are showing
very well indeed, while others are med
ium only, and still others are poor. the
Quduty dilu prospective yleiu vary l1S
greatly. perhaps in some cases on ac-
count Of lack of fertilizer and in 9TH
ers because Of driedup seed.
The starch grinding season is about
over. Goodwin Starch Company fin
ishing up Tuesday, 1t had been run
ming since March I. H. G. Richards
shut down last Saturday from his OPP
erations on the Middle Limestone
road. Osborne & Lundy stopped TAX
ing in on Tuesday. aud will finish work
at their factory on Thursday. There
are good many moreepotatoes yet
to grind. but the starch doesn't seem
to be in them at, this time Of year to
sufficient degree to make, further
grinding proftable.-Fort Fairfield
Review.
THURSDAY AND friday
AT FERRY BEACH PARK