Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-03
Maine Gossip
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them,
And strong enough to reach them.
though the road be rough.
Mrs Browning.
The Woman's Club of Guilford has
made formal complaint to the select
men Of that place as to the moral tone
Of the moving pictures shown there
and asked that action be taken for the
betterment Of the situation.
James Fulton, a prominent Bowdoin-
ham farmer had a narrow escape from
drowning Wednesday evening while re-
turning home from Bath. He was
crossing the ice on Merrymeeting Bay
and struck a thin place in the eastern
channel west Of the island. and had
to make a lively move to reach solid
ice. The horse was drowned and the
pung went under the ice.
They were discussing hens Thursday
evening at a session Of the Tall Stove
Club when one of the members as
serted that the capacity Of a hen to
lay eggs, did not depend so much on
whether the bird was Plymouth Rock
or Rhode Island Red as it did upon the
feed, records the Bath Times. With
this proposition most of the hen fan
ciers agreed. The member continued
saying that a friend of his had lot of
just common, ordinary hens on which
/ he had experimental with all kinds
Of grain and patent feed and found
that plain canary seed was what they
liked best After feeding them with
canary seed for less than a week, his
friend noticed a great difference in the
number of eggs they laid and also, he
said, in their voices, for they began
to sing just like SO many big canary
birds. Instead Of cackling, they now
MARBLE and trill great songs after their
days work Is done.
Some more good news for the people
of Rumford. In the spring the Maine
Coated Paper Co. will begin $780,,
900 addition to its plant. When this
number of additional men employed.
The addition to the Oxford mill, which
is being completed, will give quite
number of men employment, it being
estimated that the two additions will
mean the employment of at least 400
men.
The Rockland Courier-Gazette hurls
this one right at us:
A Belfast despatch in the kennebec
Journal says:
"This vicinity will soon be represented
by another family in Sac Paula, Brazil,
as Harold Karl of Rockland and his
bride, formerly Winnifred c. Leighton of
Rockland, sailed Saturday for that place
for a stay of three years. This, it will be
remembered. is where Mr. and Mrs. Z.
Chapman Pineo and Miss Katherine Z.
Quimby of Belfast are living. the former
as manager of the branch of the New
York City bank"
This vicinity So that's how we stand
| in the eyes of Belfast's feminine news
paper correspondents, is it? One Of Bel
fast's suburbs so to speak. Well! we'll.
Edward Brown OF Bath has in
formed the Times that he is con-
f1dent that the eagle with the bell
around his neck recently seen with
some ducks, on an ice foe along
| the river front, is one of the birds
upon which w. w. Dole, former ath-
letic instructor at Bowdoin College
had attached the bell upwards OF 20
years ago. Prof, Dole was an expert
athlete and became intimate with MI
Brown through their club swinging
contests and at one. time held the
worlds record for swinging clubs four
hours without stopping. He was later
defeated by Mr.. Brown who won the
worlds record with six hours. MI
Dole after leaving Bowdoin was LOT
many wears a summer resident At
Harpswell, and near his summer
home was a spring where many
vounp eagles used to drink. He cap
tured several of them, and tied pells
around their neck and then reieaseN
them. That was over % years aso'
Since then the birds have peen Ire
ouently reported in the South anu
again way up north.
Cant. Daniel D. Willard OF sou'h
Portland whose remarkable resem-
r.rc. to Abraham Lincoln has mace
him for years a special guest at the
annual meetings Of the Lincoln Cup
On saturday celebrated his S2d olrth-
day. He was Weli-Known mas.
mariner for 40 years. He was able to
~. about his house, but is slowly re-
covering from repeated attacks OF the
grip.
The third annual Conference u
Washington county farmers and OF the
~. Generators in Agricultural Exten-
sion Work will be held at the Grange
hal. Machias, Wednesday. April 5tn'
1916. There will be morning, after
noon and evening sessions me