Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22


| commission signed in 1774 by Jona-
| than Trumbull, then Captain General
and Commander-in in Chief of His Ma
| jesty's forces in Connecticut, naming
| Samuel Morgan. great grandfather OF
the poSsessor OF the document, as cap
tain in His Majesty's service. The
signature of Trumbull. made with a
quill pen, is as distinct as though made
week ago. Another document, 143
years old, gives the roster of the COM
pany. A third paper. of 1887 date, is
set of indentures, wherein boy is
| bound out for seven years to black
smith, the boys father clothing him,
and the lad receiving for his wages
two hats one for every day, the other
for Sunday, handkerchief each year.
The tug A. G. Prentiss has been sold
to the Standard Oil Company. The
| towing on the Saco river will be done
hereafter by tugs from Portland. For
the first time in more than 80 years
| there will be no tow boat on the river.
A Saco bakery closed Wednesday,
the proprietor giving as a reason that
he could not obtain pound of sugar.
| A farmer on Monday sold nine hogs,
averaging $50 pounds each, to a Saco
storekeeper for 90 cents pound.
Tobias Weymouth. local butcher.
says that not nearly as many pigs were
raised in this section of the country as
year ago.
Major Ira Berry, veteran of both the
Confederate and Union Armies, has
closed up his business as watch
maker after 81 years on Exchange
street, Portland, and gone to Los An
| geles to make his home with his
daughter.
Major Berry is just so. but hale and
. hearty. He was born in Portland, was
an apprentice in the firm of Lowell &
Senior on Exchange street from 1851
to 1859. then went to Mobile, Ala, and
there joined the Gulf City Guards.
This company was mustered into the
Confederate service in 1861 and he re-
solved to go along and thereby attract
less attention to his Union sentiments
He watched his earliest opportunity
to escape. This came when the COM
pany was ordered into the field as a
part of the Third Alabama Infantry
| He got away without mishap. jour-
neyed up the Mississippi and arrived
at his home in Portland. In Keene,
n. H., he Joined the 14th New Hamp-
shire Infantry as a private, was COM
| missioned second lieutenant and went
South in October.
He was wounded at Winchester and
captured by his former companions of
the Mobile guards, but was not recog-
nized. He was a captive but a few
hours as a Union raid drove off the
Confederates. He assisted in raising
! the Union flag over Fort Sumter in
April, 1865. four years after it was
| hauled down.
Joseph Skinner. 9, is the youngest
knitter in Rockland. having already
| contributed a number of articles for
the soldiers. He is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Skinner.
Save the coal and save the Juice.
turn out the lights when not in use"
reads sign under an electric light in
Bath office.
Rays OF two new searchlights at the
plant Of The Texas Steamship Co.,
Bath, are directed upon the hull of one
OF the big steamships now under con-
struction and well illuminate the yard,
much to the satisfaction Of Washing
ton street pedestrians.
Restaurant keepers have trouble
with people who not only use sugar
freely at the table but attempt to
smuggle some out in small bags which
they carry. Several instances of this
kind are reported in Bath restaurants.
One proprietor is thinking of handing
out sugar in little envelopes to each
person to conserve his supply.
| 1t is reported that certain industrial
plants are keeping a record of at
tendance" of drafted men, that is they
keep tabs on them to see how much
they are loafing and every day they
remain away from work without good
cause black mark is set against
them. When the time comes for such
men to be called into service If they
have a good record the companies will
intervene for their exemption.
Lovers Of sweetening in their cof-
fee, who are affected by sugar short
age. might do well to adopt the sub
stitute used by Edwin c. Weber.
postmaster in the western part of
kennebunk. He uses old fashioned
stick candy and utilizes a celery dish
for sugar bowl. He takes stick,
soaks it in his coffee until enough is
absorbed and then passes it along
| DR.. John c. Berry, Worcester, a
Bath boy, is to leave early in January
for Japan and Korea as the medical
member of a deputation representing
the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions. The other mem
bers Of the deputation are: Hon. David
Percy Jones, former mayor of Mime
,apolis, vice president of the Board, and
Rev. DR.. James A. Blaisdell, president
of Pomona College, California DR..
Berry is the medical adviser Of the
! American BOARD and the medical