Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-24

pond, 1S5; Williams hlll, 500; WiHleA
hill, $50.
A remarkable baptism and birth
day festival was held Tuesday. July II.
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Nell
son, Madawaska, the occasion being
the joint birthdays Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson and daughter Mrs. Walfred
Norreen from Providence. who with
her two children, is visiting her par
ents this summer. Three infants were
christened, namely, the youngest child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Norreen, the young
child of Mr.. and Mrs. August Sober
gren, Mrs. Sodergren is also daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson and the
child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Osterlund. The
baptismal ceremony was very i'm
pressive. Many relatives and friends
were present.
The conventional distress signal in
the woods is three rifle shots, says Out
ing. Fire one, then wait few seconds
and fire two more close together. In
some districts the signal is just the OPP
posite to the one given above, so be
sure to know the one used where you
are. If you think you're lost. stop
short. sit down, and take half an hour
to think things out. If YOU don't do
this you'll probobly do the wrong thing
and be worse off than you were before.
Get good grip on yourself before you
try even to retrace Your steps.
After fight by moonlight in which
one Of the crew received a bad bite on
the back of the hand, the United States
bureau of fisheries launch Cannot, sue
ceeded Wednesday of last week In I'M
ally effecting the capture of seal.
which was wanted for the aquarium at
Boothbay Harbor. Your fox has
nothing whatever on the SEAL said
Capt Greenleaf when it comes to be-
ing foxy. You dare not even let him
see you put a net down if you have any
hopes of getting him. These fellows
lay on the rocks at Broad Cove Tues
day, and we went down at night after
dark, drove them off the rocks and put
down the nets while they could not see
us. AS soon as they got into the nets,
they came to the surface entangled in
the meshes and crying horribly.
A coin that was already 124 years old
when the Declaration of Independence
was being signed, one Of the rarest
finds in many years in the line of old
money, was the discovery made at Fal-
mouth some days ago in the form OF
pine tree shilling, bearing the date 1867
1t is, therefore, 264 years old. 1t was
turned up in the garden patch or the
estate Of the late Gen. John Marshall
Brown, at Falmouth Foreside, while
the garden was being hoed, and is now
the property Of Herbert Payson OF
Rowdofn street. The pine tree shilling
was the earliest colonial coin made IN
Massachusetts. 1t was coined in loo-,
when mint house" was established
at Boston and coins of the value OF
three pence, six pence and L pence
were struck.
The Pressure Isle fire department is
placing this week in the Aroostook Tele-
phone local office central fire alarm box
from which any number can be pulled in,
thus making every place equipped with
a telephone a fire alarm station Each
person needs to know the district winch
he is in and can learn his number from
the fire alarm card. This will be very
beneficial safeguard against fire.
The Auburn city fathers have voted
TO have the city ordinances revised and
A. f. TerriN has been authorized to do
the work, which will cost about $500,
The good news came to the employ
ees of the Foss- Packard shoe factory at
Auburn that instead of being shut
down, as was recently reported, the
shop will continue to run, a Boston
firm being ready to take over the man
cement as soon as the old firm wishes.
That egg, laid by one of c. A. Brock
ways hens at West Dover some time
ago. was of such sixe (measuring "a
ago, was Of such size (measuring : "a
white, that Mrs. Brockway thought she
would blow the egg and preserve the
shell. She did SO by piercing a hole in
each end and after blowing out two
thirds Of cupful of white was sur
prised that the yolk did not appear as
she had been told there must be three
yolks in such a large egg. Inserting
the needle in the hole she discovered
that it struck something hard and
breaking the outer shell found another
perfect egg OF good size and a very
dark brown.
Light and Airy