Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-05

His love for q friend or brother.
Business Is business" but life is life;.
Though we're all in the game to win 1t,
Let's rest sometimes from the neat anu
And try to be friends minute.
Let's seek to be comrades now and
then,
.sus d Is business" but men are men,
And we're all good pals together!
The April showers seem to have done
their work as advertised, the Mayf1ow-
ers coming in quite plentifully.
Two new moons this month-one
having arrived on May and another
being due on May 81.
A Goldfish weighing 81 pounds was
caught Monday near Popham and when
placed on exhibition at Bath was pro-
nounced the Father of all Cod"
Bangor is growing little fussy over
the street lunch cart matter-some OF
the people even limiting that their ban
ishment from all the streets would be
pleasing to most of the citizens.
The first buttercup Of the season was
sent to the Journal Office Thursday after
noon by Mrs. w. S. Bracket of North
Sidney. The flower was picked in the
field and is as large as any ordinary but
tercup and perfect in shape.
A checkraiser has been at work at
Patten, getting in his work on checks
issued by Luther Hall to his men.
Quincy & Rowe cashed one for $40 and
A. Smith one for $685. and then it was
found that they were really good for
81 and $685.. One was presented call
ing for 5000 and it was plainly seen to
have been raised from $40.
Rigger Murphy Of Bath did a shin
ming Job the other day at Brunswick
that attracted an admiring audience
and incidentally brought him a crisp
SO bill. The shining was for the pur-
pose Of reeving the ballard ropes for
the 124-foot Liberty pole on the Mall
creepers.
The recent statement to the effect
that one living ex-warden had ex-
ecuted - persons at the State prison
on the famous Wilkinson gallows ap-
pears to have been ar error, as Wilder
s. Irish of Camden, the only living ex-
warden who was called upon to ex-
ecute a criminal, says that he ex-
ecuted but three.
"Sam," who records the news of East
New Sharon for the Pennington
Chronicle, evidently thinks that some
one has an eye on a desirable piece
Of property In that town, judging by
the way the following item reads:
The new family Of Swedes on the
P. w. Saunders farm got little blue
Some of their near neighbors told
them their farm was all run out and
tramps and burglars are plenty down
there, and one woman said she carried
a revolver in her dress pocket. We felt
sorry for that new family. Their farm
is a good farm and we never heard OF
burglars but once. That was when
Ross and someone else tried to rob
Mel Blaisdell. (By the way we have
got that old gun that shot off Ross
thumb). It's all moonshine about
tramps and burglars troubling this
part of the town. We have been here
so years and never had a revolver
Should hardly know one if we saw 1t
These folks who carry around deadly
weapons are looking for trouble
We have more troubles with Sam thar
anybody else. We hope the new Swede
family will stick to their farm. It's q
good farm and on good road.
| e. f. Berry's summer cottage at
Affords Lake was resurrected from
the depths last week, and now sits
serenely on the Holmes lot, which was
| it's destination when the treacherous
! ice opened up, and let it through. says
the Rockland Courier Gazette. by
removing the chimney the workmen
induced the cottage to float, and 1T
tow of rowboat manned by Orpheus
Smith and Joseph Garth, was laborl-
ously hauled up the lake to the desired
spot. The work occupied three hours
and the oarsmen say that the house
pulled almost as hard as some of those
record salmon which the city chaps
get hold of-and lose. Mr.. Berry says
that when the cottage was finally
hauled onto the shore he inspected the
interior, and in one of the rooms
found an American flag affixed to the
walls in the same position that 1t was
before the cottage did its submarine
stunt.
The ice in Moosehead lake went &c
pieces on Wednesday and the steamer
made her first trip on Thursday, May
4.
Among the choice collections OF arti-
cles at the Maine Historical society
rooms at Portland, might be men
toned in particular the large ma
hogany fat top desk used by the la'e
Hon. Thomas B. Reed when his omces
were located at IS Exchange street
and also the gavel used by him wnlle
speaker Of the House of Representa-
tives. The Reed desk is an extremei!
large affair. measuring about seven
| and three