Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-09-15
ODD ITEMS OF INTEREST

ODD ITEMS OF INTEREST
The exhibition Of war trophies at
the Invaldes will soon be opened to
the public. Already certain spoils of
war have arrived-two 105 howitzers
and no less than twenty-four German
Seventy-seven centimeterS. These
guns are to be placed in the court OF
honor. Within the museum itself will
be ranged a couple of German ma
chine guns and numerous stands OF
rifles, sabers and lances. Room Will
be found, too, for Il captured Taube.
and we are promised later an entire
section devoted to German machines,
aeropane motors and bombs. With
no less keen thought different kind OF
interest Parisians will contemplate d
French aeroplane, a wounded veteran.
the wings of which are riddled with
shot and shell fragments: Vivid
sketches hurriedly roughed out by
artists al the front between one
charge and another will form the nu
cleus of war salon.-London Tele-
graph.
Only two marriage licenses were is
sued in Montpelier, VT. city of about
5000. during the month of June. Nor.
weddings than took place in the city
during June, but the contracting par
ties came from outside. The record is
the smallest for June for d great many
years.
At the picnic of the Seventh Day
Baptist Sunday school at Atlantic
Beach, near Pawcatuck. Conn, each
member of the school had three rides
on the merry go-round. Nobody en-
joyed the whirl more than did Uncle
Amos Burdick, for more than eighty
years a member of the Bible class,
who at ninety took his first ride on
the hobby horses.
William Heylens, age 1O6, of Pitts
burg. celebrated his birthday by walk
ing from his home to the office of his
friend, W. A. Bryan, distance of
mile and a half. then walked back
home. At the time of the civil war
Mr.. Heylens tried to enlist. but his
age was against him. as he was then
, fifty years old He cast his first vote
in 1882, voting for Andrew Jackson.
On a recent Sunday members of four
generations in one family joined the
Fourth Presbyterian church in Spo-
kane, Wash. The party included Mrs.
Rebecca Unger, great grandmother;
her son and his wife. Mr.. and Mrs. G.
r. Unger; their son and wife, Mr..
and Mrs. S. Melville Unger and the
little two-year- old daughter of the lat
ter. Fife June JnSer, who was dedi-
Gated in baptism.
The following appeared in Pitts
field, Mass, church calendar recently;
THE church is not a refrigerator for
preserving perishable piety. 1t is
dynamo for charging human wills.
The object of the church is not to tell
how to dodge difficulties. but to fur
IRISH strength and courage to meet and
master them. The business of the
church is not to furnish hammocks
for the lazy. 1t is rather to offer WELL
fitting yokes for drawing life's loads.
The man who does not attend any
church virtually votes to do away with
all churches"
William R. Gardener, who has a
cottage on the west shore of Pontoo-
sue lake. in the Berkshires. has been
noticing what he termed moving stars
in the northeastern heavens. These
stars" he had said, appeared quite
ed. They disappeared and then ap.
peared again lower down in the sky"
Recently a powerful telescope was
brought into play and the mystery
was solved. The lights were found to
be those on automobiles coming down
the Rockwell road from the summit of
Greylock mountain
Prince Gebhardt Bluecher Won VAIL
staff, grandson of Old Forwards, the
Bluecher Of Waterloo fame, died re-
Gently in Berlin as the result of fall
ing from his horse. He was a lawsuit
tlend and spent most of his time
bringing actions or being sued by his
family, losing most of the cases.
The foundations or which the steel
building and dome of the Mount Will
son observatory, in California, are
erected, were made heavy enough to
Withstand the stresses Of a seventy
five4mile wind. They are built on the
mountain top at an elevation of $3.50
feet. The dome is log feet high and
100 feet in diameter
Snow found in the woods near the
Congregational church in Hawley.
Mass. was used at the recent annual
ley. The place where the snow was
found is 1000 feet above sea level,
and is never free from snow. Haw-
ley's annual midsummer sugar eats"
date back to before the civil war.
For the purpose of emphasizing the
sanitary condition of the dairy Of the
state hospital at Napa, CAL the Napa
County Live Stock Association held
its annual banquet in the barn where
the cattle are kept. Long tables we're
placed in an area between rows of
stalls, and covers l.id for 120 persons.
In the same room with the banuueters
were 200 COWS which were being
MIXED.
Salaries paid by the manufacturing
establishments of Wisconsin increased
46 per cent. in total amount between
1909 and 1914, according to a state
ment issued by the United States bu-
reau of the census. Salaries and wa
ges together increased 252 per cent.
The capital invested in manufactures
in 1914 was $754.2s7 900, compared
with $6o5.657.0o in 1909.