Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-27

70 puzzle daughters, sons and nieces:
Yet with 1t all the trouble ceases.
After other letters a."
T W4ate: siie sstss to 81: s'ffls sss.
Or an army holds It's field,
And will never deign to yield
| While a warrior holds q shield.
Or has strength his arm to WELD. a
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Leisure IL the first of these;
For the second we have seize
already at hotels and sporting camps
Awaiting the opening of Maine lakes to
fishing.
Scarboro business men last week or
ganized a Board Of Trade. It already
has about IS members and over $3.50 in
the treasury, with more members and
more money in sight.
Captain Charles w. Howard, who
recently died at his home on Peaks
Island, Portland Harbor. was the
ley lakes. He went to Portland about
20 years ago and was prominent in
steamboat lines. He built during his
career about 80 steamers.
One young Foxcroft business man
has decided to make a change in bust
ness. He was reaping harvest in
junk, which a gang Of village boys
was stealing and selling to him and he
in turn dealing with the regular junk
men. The gang was rounded up be-
fore the judge and sharply lectured.
The enterprising young business man
settled with the parties interested
Rockland claims among her young
old people Capt. and Mrs. George Rob-
erts, who at the ages Of 80 and 81,
|started Monday for New York City to
visit their son, r. l.. Roberts. They
will stop en- route in Boston and the
captain is making the trip partly for
business reasons. 1t is Mrs. Roberts
first visit to the metropolis, but we will
venture to say that she will see all that
is worth seeing, so far as time will per
nit.
j. Putnam Stevens, imperial poten-
tate Of the Ancient Arabic Order
Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine, has just
returned home to Portland after trip
through the United States lasting since
last fall and covering about 1900
miles. he having visited every state in
the Union and making the trip to
Honolulu. He visited IS Shriners Tenn
pies, made As addresses and met thou :
sands of Shriners. And he still as
serts that there is no place like Maine
Hugh Muldoon. who died Tuesday al
the age Of So years in PASSPORT, was
active in the Fenian raid preparations
and was arrested by the Canadian
militia. He was born in Ireland and
came to Boston in 1S49 as a seaman ir
the ship Rose Standish. He went to
PASSPORT in 1856 and had since resided
there. He and his wife last fall cele-
brated their 56th wedding anniversary
Mr.. Muldoon never used tobacco and
gave up the use of liquors years ago
Putting 22-calibre cartridge in a
mans pipe and haw. having when it
explodes as the owner Of the pipe is
quietly putting away, seems to be the
very acme of joke up in the Range
ley region. The correspondent from
that place reports such a trick played
en- Aaron Soule while at George Wings
store and chatting about the war. If
correctly reported, we have no doubt
that Aaron gave someone realistic
exhibition Of what he could do in the
fighting line, at home or at the front
If he didn't-well. he should have.
Mrs. Ada B. Russ Of 96 Union street
Bath, has chatting dish buffet made
from the gallows used in the execution
Of the last men hanged in the State of
Maine. From the time Maine was in
corporated as State until 1885 it was
the law that all men convicted of
murder should be hanged. With the
aboRshing of capital punishment the
State had no further use for the gall
lows and the timber was used in
building shed. This shed became so
decayed that in 1915 it was torn down
and new one built. 1t was from one
Of these discarded timbers that the
buffet was made. There is one ex-
sheriff living who personally executed
~ persons on this gallows.
A young woman standing on the
Franklin street pier. Bangor. Saturday
night attracted the attention Of some
young men passing along the street
who vaulting the iron rail surrounded
the young woman and perhaps pre-
vented suicide. The young men no
ticed the woman there and dispatching
one Of their number after the police
prevented any rash act that might
have been undertaken. Officer Ma
honey took the woman to the police
station where she stated that she had
lost her position and had become des-
pondent. The police say she was in
toxicated. After being detained by the
police over night she was allowed to
return home Sunday.
It Is not to be wondered at that
Charles w. Morse, now president Of the
United States Steamship Co., has little
} difficulty in inducing his old friends tc
assist him in purchasing vessels fol
the foreign trade, some Of the crafts
paying fabulous dividends. The four