Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-15

The Pound swee, baked awakes my
Oh. luscious globule. what delights
You gave to US in wintry nights,
III try you just for chance once more
Egad. this ones a water core,
Horace Seymour \ Ter
Bath will have another launching to-
day when at about 10 a. NJ two COW
cred lighters built a, the Kelley. Spear
Cos. yard for the New England Steam
ship Co. Of New York. will go over
board. They will be towed to New
York
The Boothbay Harbor Board Of
Trade, which for some time has been
active. is taking on a new lease of life
and the members propose to have the
board among the prominent ones Of the
State. A recent meeting voted TO make
Luther Maddocks and Capt. Eben T.
Lewis its delegates to the National
Board meeting this week in Washing
ton and credentials were sent them.
. both being in that city on State bust
| ness connected with the fisheries
Those Monhegan lobster fishermen
are certainly pretty good business men.
They saw where il would pay them to
protect the short lobsters-and did it.
They saw. when the Holsters became
! plentiful, that plenty of Holsters still
existed in the outer world, who would
pay any price for tae red lobs from the
sea-if it was made high enough-and
they accordingly made ii high enough
so that practically no one but the shore
HOLSTERS could think of having one.
The Monhegan men about 10 days ago
made the price 35 cents per pound,
the price known on the Maine coast.
Other points along the coast reported
not higher than q cents per pound.
Misinterpretation of telephone
message caused a Calais man on Wed
nesday to prepare for the funeral of a
| relative whose remains were expected
on the noon train from the west. The
remains did not arrive until evening
and then the supposed corpse walked off
the train in company with another rel
alive, to the great Amusement and re-
lief Of the man who had made the nee
essary arrangements asked for in the
message received the day before. 1t
appears that the relative was in Bos-
ton hospital for treatment, and when
!, the Calais mans wife who was visiting
in that city. wired him that she was
going to bring the patient home with
er and to make all arrangements, the
telephone message was mixed. The CAL
ais resident hustled out and engaged
the services Of an undertaken and the
undertaken with his assistants were
at the train when the supposed dead
person arrived very much alive. The
undertaken sensed the situation and
promptly made good his departure from
the depot, but the story quickly cir
culated and instead Of there being a
house Of mourning there was a happy
reunion; but the head Of the house
would like to know just where to place
the blame for the distortion of the mes
sage which caused all the trouble and
mental worry.
A woman going up the mill road
few days ago, dislocated her jaw in
gaping.-Fort Kent letter, Star Herald
Wonder what would have happened
had she been going the other way?
A Pennington telephone trouble man
was called for a drive of several miles
into the country during Tuesdays cold
gale to restore to commission a tele-
phone which had gone wrong. Upon
arriving he discovered that the trouble
was caused by a metal button hook
which had been laid on top Of the mag
neto box connecting the posts and
causing a short circuit. He removed
the hook and suggested that 1t be kept
in some other place.
III you have cat, don't forget to
plant some catnip in your back yard
when you are making your garden this
spring." heard a member of the AMI
NAL Rescue League advising friend.
There ID no trouble at all in raising
catnip." she continued. "A few plants
well started WIN take care Of them
selves and grow from year to year.
Her listener replied by saying she had
tried that catnip scheme, and SO many