Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-15

Preparedness.
But here is where
The pinch comes ms
Ny plan CONSISTS .s
OF getting thin
"The farmers scheme
Opposes that;
His method Is
To make ME rat
One Rath woman has recently prov
ed that she is we'll qualified for posi-
ton as nurse or even surgeon shouio
she decide to go 10 Europe. her nus
band has flock of hens IN "hlch ne
takes great pride and in when she IS
naturally some interested. The rooster
is a fine one. not afraid of anything
and able to hold his own with most
ANYTHING in the fighting line, even
though he does not always WIN the
hattie He came out of a fight the oth-
er day slightly disabled, but still IN the
game with his breast torn open and
the crop so injured that the contents
we're exposed. The lady discovering
the ROSTERS condition, saw that
prompt action was necessary. she
seized the big fellow, tied together ms
legs, sewed up the tear in the crop with
silk, then sewed up the wound IN the
breast and turned him loose. When
her husband came home and she toid
him of the incident he could hardly De-
lieye ii. so like himself was the rooster
strutting around the yard, Growing
louder than man who has been
through an operation for appendicitis.
The first time the new. self-baillns
life boat at the Popham Beach Coast
Guard station was used the craft paid
for itself. for Capt. Berry says that II
the crew had been equipped only with
the old -style boat, they would never
have been able to save the three men
from the disabled Portland fisherman
Vigilant last Wednesday. The wealth
er was so rough that after taking the
men off the Vigilant Capt. Berry was
obliged to abandon the fisherman ana
let the big cutter Ossipee pick her up
The Popham crew has been congratu-
lated by wire by District Supt. Sands
for their gallant rescue.
PASSPORT is watching with no little
interest the injunction proceedings IN
stituted against the owners of bMld-
ings in which liquor seizures were re :
Gently made by Sheriff Woodman and
his deputies.
Judge Joseph Z. F. Connolly of the
Cumberland superior court has been
presented with what is believed is the
finest criminal law library in the Unit
ed States. This was formerly the prop
erty of the late Hon. Charles F. Libby
whose legal books were declared to be
among the finest obtainable. The heirs
of Mr. Libby have decided to make
present Of the criminal portion of the
great library to Judge Connolly and
the gift has been accepted.
Two prominent and highly respected
citizens of Bristol took a large amount
of valuable property, the accumulation
Of ten years of patient labor from the
Harrington Church last Monday, in
broad daylight, reports the Damaris-
Gotta H1STdlu. oHc WOuIu IdldIS
it of j. Wilbur Hunter and Charles
Weeks but here are the facts. 1t be-
came necessary to reshingle the
church. but q large and belligerent
swan Of bees had used the roof as a
hive for ten years and resented any
attempts to evict them. Messrs. Hunt
err and Weeks who are wizards on
handling bees, were offered the honey
if they would squelch the bees. They
| took about 200 pounds of choice honey
from the building.
Mrs. Jane Hutchinson of this town,
who is in her DIST year, enjoyed her
first automobile ride one day last week
| with Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Young, records
the Linneus correspondent of the
Aroostook Pioneer. A call was made
upon Mrs. Maria Bither, who is IS
years of age, and was much enjoyed by
both Mrs. Bither and Mrs Hutchinson.
Afterward they went for a little long
er ride and passed over the new road
around the Coyle Hill, the first time
Mrs. Hutchinson had been on this part
Of the road in IA years. 1t was day
of novel experience to the old lady and
much enjoyed by her.
Mrs. Azel Wilson Of Wilson's Mills
shot q fine buck directly through the
heart and also took 1t out OF the woods.
She has a record of one each year for
the past three seasons. The Wilson's
Mills correspondent Of the Norway Ad-
vertiser records that fact and then
adds-we know not why-"and is not a
suffragette."
The horrible fate years ago of
Maine man in the West is thus told
in an article in the Rockland Courier
Gazette written by L. E. Fogg of
South Thomaston regarding the late
Capt. Joshua A. Patten Of Rockland,
the unfortunate man being a brother
Of the captain:
Another son, George Patten, left
Rockland sometime in the early or
middle fifties, overland for California.
He remarked when he left home that
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