Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-25

-Fedor Ivanovitch Tyutcher (Translated
by Z. H. Dole)
A short letter received from DR.. S. P.
Merrill (Gray SquirreD from the Ange-
Ius Hospital, Washington and Trinity
Streets. Los Angeles. Cal, tells some
ent condition, over which all are 80
anxious, reports the Boothbay Regis
ter. DR.. Merrill cannot walk. He is
able to sit up in a wheel-chair two or
three hours a day. He still has to take
sleeping potions. He coughs an hour
or so every night, is short of breath
and has a pulse slowed down to 80
and sometimes to 80. The appetite is
coming around well and he reports he
is gaining at all points, so he is hope
full that he will get up soon and enjoy
the lovely country and get to Squirrel
once again. He sends love to all, the
Squirrels especially, and he promises
they will hear from him as soon as he
is able.
Easter will be late this year. The
date is April %, which is within two
days of the latest date possible for
the observance Of the festival under
the system Of reckoning fixed by the
council of Nice. This council decreed
that Easter should be observed on
the first Sunday after the full moon
that occurs after the vernal equinox
March 81. In 1915 the date of Easter
was April 4. The Lenten season in
1915 began February II and this year.
it will begin March 8. The last time
that Easter was as late as April 20,
was in 1905.
It Is said that the record for the
number Of marriages in single day
by a Portland clergyman was broken
by Rev. George E. Stair. pastor of the
First Baptist church, on Saturday eve
ming last. when he married three
couples at the parsonage. They were
William Thomas Lea and Miss Louise
Hope Wallace. George l.. Queen and
Miss Bessie NJ. Clark and Oscar F.
Dodd and Miss Helen NJ. Harrington.
BY far the most peculiar will ever
allowed in the probate court of Cum
berland county. from a documentary
point Of view, was admitted to pro-
bate Thursday by Judge Donahue. 1t
was the testament of Allan A. Hen
derson, and the whole document
wasn't six inches square. The will
was written on one side of piece Of
ordinary writing paper, and was pre-
sumably drawn by the testator him
self. 1t bequeathed all Of the prop
erty to Rachel D. Henderson, the
widow. with the request that she pay
IS to Carrie B. Chapman, daughter,
Of Springfield, VT, and the same sum
to Ralph E. Henderson of Holyoke,
Mass. The will was dated at Long
Island, Sept. Is, 1915" Mr.. Hender-
son died on Nov. 80 and left real es-
tate estimated to be worth $1,000 and
personal estate valued at $50.
Machias is to have a fine new block
in the spring on the site of the old AL
len block, recently destroyed by fire.
H. M. Wiswell and c. A. Mckinney
have purchased the lot and will erect
a two-story, three-stores building, one
for each of the owners and one to rent.
The second floor may be devoted to Of
fees and may have both a hall and Of
fees.
A Bath policeman tried the other morn
ing to get rid Of NANCY cat, an I'M
desirable citizen. and after placing bait
of fish near the stoop under which the
cat was hidden and securing his boys
small ,16-calibre shot gun, blazed away
when the cat came for the fish. When
the echoes died away he saw no cat
but he did find that he had blown a large
hole in his wife's galvanized water pail
Hon. Albert A. Burleigh "Aroostook's
Grand Old Man," who has been confined
to his home with broken rib. was
around the streets Tuesday, as frisky as
a 1s-year old boy, says the Aroostook
Pioneer. ''How about the story that you
have changed your residence from Houl-
ton to Eagle Lake," was asked Mr.. Bur-
leigh. This inquiry brought a denial
from Mr.. Burleigh, who said. II know
nothing about It," Mr.. Burleigh will
again be a candidate for Senator from
Aroo~<ool on the Republican ticket, and