Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-20


cal Seminary who are in active service
in New England alone number .31. located
by states as follows: Maine, IS; New
Hampshire, 81 Vermont, y; Massachu-
sets, II; ERODE Island, A. Connecticut Is.
The seminary was chartered by Massa
! chusetts on Feb >, 1871 and began it's
school work in October, 1916.
/ A dressmakcr living in the Deerng
district probably has as novel an cX
perence as anybody else in tho storm
and attendant food on Wednesday.
/ Wishing to take Il car for some point
I in town she found that the water was
50 deep between her home and tho car
/ track that she could not possibly wade
through it. There was no boat to be
/ had. but the man Of the house hit
upon a happy plan. Downing some
hip-lcneth rubber boots, he brought
out q Wheclbarrow. and getting into
The man propelled vehicle. the woman
was given a ride through the deep
/ water until tho t4ck was reached.
! When the car came along. tho man
took firmcr hold on the wheelharroW,
his passenger stood up and hoped
aboard the car.
A corresponding writes concerning Il
coin recently found in the cellar Of
of the old East indian CompanN's So
i called tokens of the date 1915. 50
far as We can learn it has no great
value. once having been very COM
mon and Of no value as currency in
our country, although often passed for
d cent
Pres. Charles f. FlasS of the state
Board of Trade has a Plan in vicW
for populatinS many of the deserted
farms of the State. He thinks that
industrious men with abundance OF
pluck, but hampered by lack of CAPT
tall can be induced to settle on farms
where their families will be benefited,
assured of a good living and enabled
to acquire a better start in life than
bv being mere cogs in the wheels OF
manufact establishments in the
cities Everything that farmer rails
: sale at a profitable price. and he is of
, the opinion that nany abandoned
farms could be made to pay if worked
, by energetic farmers, even with but
, limited experience. This topic along
| with plan to request an annual APP
preparation of $25,o00 for State adj
vertising through the channels of the
State Board of Trade will be taken
up at the September meeting of the
board
On May 10, 1912, a traveller on the
road from Columbia Falls to Ellsworth
might have met a boy Of ten years
driving a horse through from Els
worth to Columbia Falls, and would
, have commented on SO young lac
making so long a drive, says the Els
worth American. Last Wednesday
just "A years later to a day, the same
. lad drove over the same road, IRON
Columbia Falls to Ellsworth, and
traveller meeting him might have com
mented on an "a year old lad making
so long a drive. The lad was r. II
Greedy, the veteran Ellsworth horse
man. On his first trip he went at the
request of George w. Buchanan. Their
operating the Cherryfield-C olumbif
/ Falls stage route, who had asked the
consent of Mr.. Greeleys parents t.
let him drive a horse down there fol
him On his last trip Mr.. Greel!
drove home his own horse. Maine
Todd, the fastest stallion owned II
Maine. He made the trip last week
"A miles, including slight detour, II
six hours, without stepping out OF thu
: wagon until he reached his own barn
: in Ellsworth.