Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-12
Arbor day.
Plant a tree or shrub.
And then afishing you may go.

And then afishing you may go.
Henry Greenwood of Lewiston, who
brought some 10 days ago a gripful Of
longneckers containing whiskey to
Bath and was captured in transit,
Monday paid his fine Of $16O.57 and was
released from his $500 bonds.
The only explanation we can think
of for the following item from the
Franklin Journal is that Aunt Abby"
possibly has not seen all that has been
going on along the Mexican border-at
least, the news reports from the bor-
der and from Washington lead us to
that:
Mrs. Abby Burke Of Albuquerque,
N. M, and a native of Pennington,
who is young and progressive at 80
years, wrote recently to Maine rel
ative: Zone has no cause to complain
of anything in this country, the poor
women Of Europe suffering such hard
ship, and the flower Of her manhood
dead; that seems hardest of all. her
young men gone. And here we are on
the border Of Mexico, but we don't
mind it any more than a street fight.
One would have to live in it and be
of it to know what 1t Isl
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Cornish of Dor
chester and Bath, Me, observed their
50th wedding anniversary Wednesday
evening at 3 Hamlet street, Dorches
ter, with IS present, including their
three children and Mrs. ]. c. Porter of
Bath, Everett E. Cornish, a brother Of
Bath. and Mrs Charles Moseley of
Freeport, Me-, a sister Of the host. Mr.
and Mrs. Cornish have lived in their
Dorchester home since last December.
They have a large country home at
Bath. Mr.. Cornish was active in the
shipbuilding business there in his
younger days. In Dorchester they make
their home with their daughter, Mrs.
May Stoehr. The other children are
Edwin 1 Of Bath and Frank H. Cor
nish Of Columbus avenue. Boston. Mr..
Cornish is a native of Bowdoin, Me-,
and Mrs Cornish was born in North
Bath, Me. The couple were married in
Bath. Both are in good health. The
couple plan to leave for their Maine
home in July, accompanied by their
daughter, Mrs. Stoehr.
Merritt mountain, SO called in the
government charts, on the Sebasco es-
tates. is the highest land nearest the
ship channel along the entire coast
from Atlantic City to Bar Harbor.
From the mountain top may be seen
tha White Mountains, Portland, the
New Meadows and Kennebec rivers
and Monhegan on clear days.
A specimen Of the rare maidenhair
spleenwort (Casplenium Trichomanes)
has been found in Union by collector,
who is enthusiastic over her find.
The ghost fire." so called by the fire
department at Saco, which has been
endeavoring to locate the source of the
smoke which filled for 70 hours the big
three-story brick block on Main street
owned by the York Manufacturing Co.,
has at last ceased to bother the occu-
pants Of the building. They were rout-
ed out of their beds Saturday at mid
night by smoke which filled their
rooms All day Sunday, Monday, and
until Tuesday in one end of the block,
the smoke, which came from an I'M
known source, continued to float
through the corridors and pour from
the windows. The firemen have search
ed every part of the building, endeav-
oring to locate the fire. They bored
holes in the floors and walls and exam
ined every part of the basement. 1t
was thought Tuesday that faulty cleo
trio wiring might have caused the
ghost smoke" which penetrated the
building for so many hours, but cleo
tricians who have gone over the wiz
ing say that such is not the fact. me
tenants Of the block have unpacked
their belongings and settled down to
the routine of life, as before the "phan-
tom fire.
Richard Harmon, one Of the Fort Fair
field veterans of the Civil War. has three
chairs that were made in 1916 in New
Brunswick, chronicles the Fort Fairfield
Review. The bottoms of these chairs are
of pine. nearly three inches thick The
chairs are we'll preserved indeed. and
are mighty interesting things. Mr. Har-
mon thinks that, if one Of these chairs
are of pine, nearly three inches thick
The chairs are we'll preserved indeed,
tiro
Harmon thinks that, If ono of these
chairs should be put on exhibition during
the centennial, to be occupied by the old
est person in town, it might prove an in
teresting relic. The oldest person in town
is doubtless Aunt Mary" Everett. who
by the recollections and figures given by
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