Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-25
Maine Gossip

For the first time in Is years the jan
nary term OF the Knox county Supreme
coprt adjourned at Rockland without q
single trial. civil or criminal although
the county had good jurors on naho'
The session lasted only Ave days siA-
teen divorces were granted.
Even if it is winter Len Ross Of Cam
den can show results as gardener. he
recently raised in his window peans'
from which he took bean pod about
three inches long. The Camden cores
pondent says:-"Len doesn't care no"
high yellow eye beans co.
II almost locked as if Camden Wouio
have a coal famine the first of the month
but on The first Sunday OF the month two
"a rgoes ageregating about 100 tons ar
rived which were certainly very well
come. One concern received a cargo OF
all nut coal and another company car
90 of nut and stove coal.
The former four masted schooner, VIM
! Iermond was recently sold by the Pen
dleton Bros. and the price paid is said
to have been $4,000. The Lermond was
So tons gross and was built at Thomas
ton in 1855. Some years after she was
disnnasted and was bought by the Pen
dleton's and towed TO Belfast ana iald
in the dock for some time. Then -FOUR
spars were received from oregon anu
work begun on the schooner Of re-rigglng
LATER il was decided to convert her into
barge and she was towed to Rockland
for the necessary changes she mas
made several trips to Maine ports III
tow of the tug Black Rock. the new
owners will doubtless make her into
schooner again as they are in great de-
mand in the shipping business.
former Pennington boy, Enoch w.
Whitcomb, now of Salmon, Idaho mas
bean elected senator and is now attend
ing legislature at Boise in that state.
One Bath man while in New YORK iase
week on business enjoyed novel expert
ence in securing hotel accommodations,
He made tour of the principal hotels
and was I'D against the unanimous reply,
, Everything taken" Sc solved the pre-
dicament by passing several nights IN
| a Turkish bath which he said was not
| too bad. but hardly up to hotel accom-
modations.
| The Thornaston correspondent of the
Rockland Courier-Gazette says: Measles
are in town-and no doctor here! We are
! all wishing a good doctor would locate
l here soon 1t isn't right for so large
| community as ours to have to SEND miles
away when anybody is sick" Where are
the four listed in the Maine Register for
1917?
Thomas E. Calvert, the newly elect
ed president of the Economic club or
Portland, was in the newspaper busl-
ness nearly 40 years before his resig-
nation from the presidency OF the
Argus Publishing Co. and retirement
as managing editor in 1915. His first
renortorial work was during the
Franco Prussian war and he was wit
ness of stirring events during that
conflict. He was one of the first TO
enter Paris after the fall of Commune.
It certainly was a "sweet" time at
Westbrook when on Saturday, the
18th, Mrs. Edouard Jutras and Elias
Howard took 60 pounds of honey from
bees which have held undisputed sway
! in the space over the sheathing in the
piazza, roof of the two-family house at
60 King street since last spring. The
tenants took advantage of the bees
numbness during the cold spell, ripped
off the boards and removed big sup
plv of honey. Mr.. Labarge, a bee
keeper of Westbrook lost swarm OF
bees last spring and it is thought that
this swarm came from his aplary.
Rockland's new postmaster, John l..
Donohue, made humble start in life
by earning his first money selling
! PAPERS to passengers of the Boston q
Bangor steamships. A year later
when he was II years old he was pc
friended by Charles H. Berry, in whose
employ ne remained until the latter s
death. Mr.. Berrys father, the Hon
John T. Berry, later had young Dono-
hue as confidential clerk at the tune
when Mr.. Berry was president OF the
Knox and Lincoln railroad. He was
after that a hotel clerk until six years
ago. when he entered the real estate
| business.
PALERMO