Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-17
fine garden. which he tends and is now
cutting bushes for his son Law.

fine garden, which he tends and is now
cutting bushes for his son-in-law.
A report was recently sent out from
Bangor of the escape of a patient but
we have failed TO see mention of his
cspture-in fact the following would
seem to indicate that he is still at
large, 1t is a headline from Bangor
paper: They Expedite the Anthracite
Our Fires to Light, but the Prices
Kite
Jimmy Ware recently harvested
from one corn stalk 90 good ears of
corn. announces the Damariscotta Her
aid, and adds Next"
A. w. Keirstead's cat gave re-
markable exhibition of the uncanny
sense of location possessed by felines.
reports the Damariscotta Herald. The
animal was put into bag at Wiscas-
set, brought on the train to this place
and after a. few days was let out
OF doors. Next day the cat, an old
white chap, was found on the doorstep
of his former home. He had to cross
three rivers. if he went by the way of
Sheepscot, and travel ten miles to get
there. Cats sense Of direction is
tqualled only by their destructiveness.
Bangor is honored by the election of
Mrs. Elizabeth j. Savage as junior vice
4 president of the National Woman's
! Relief Corps at the grand session in
Boston. Mrs. Savage has held impor
! tant offices in the local and State Or
CARNATIONS, having been department
president, and has also organized a
number of tents of Daughters of Vet
Grams.
The Bureau of Markets, United
! States department of agriculture, has
opened an office at Pressure Isle and
! stationed there Robert l.. Ringer who
will give cut daily the market condi-
tiOns.
Brother Singer Of the Damarisuot-
! desperate German plot, something
| brand new and original, says the Rock
land Opinion. American farmers are
! to be bribcd to allow their potatoes to
remain III the ground and rot, for
which service they are to receive Sl.5G
per hushel, How the number of BUSH
els rottinc underground is to be aScer-
tanned, deponent saith not. Pres
| Imably the spy-mania press agents
Will invent Subterranean periscopS;
or maybe the German agents have
a corps Of trained potato bugs who
so down and make daily reports. One
sure thing, if the Teutons pay S1.50
for every bushel that our truthful
| backyard farmers are claiming to have
in the ground the imperial treasury
will receive a shock that will mean
financial collaSpe. We have about 80
theoretical bushels of potatoes in our
own back ward. Anyone wishing to
speculate on same at $50 may make
check payable to the editor
Maine has made one record in the
war already by enlisting the tales,
man in the I. S. army, says THE Man
! About Town" in the Argus. This IS
! Private Gould of the End Regiment
! GO. X, who stands six feet six inches
And when it comes to UP and down
measurements it will undoubtedly be
the case that the Maine regiments will
have the largest men. on an average
Of any in the service. There must be
some element in the air of this State
that elongates the human framework.
Tor Maine folks. women as well as
men. are noted for their height Fam
lies have very few members much I'M
der six feet in the country. and even
those who are but trifle below that
standard are apolosized for with the
explanation that poor got
stunted when he was boy by hav-
ing to sleep in the little garnet room
where there was no chance for him to
grow" or some such excuse as that.
The Indians of the Abenaki nation
which occupied Maine in the pioneer
days, are said by historians to have
been taller than American aborieines
generally. The early discoveries and
settlers were struck by the stately
height of the natives and by their ath-
! 1etic strength. There were few of the
I dumpy figures that characterize the
western tribes
The Maine regiments in the war
will overshadow the Teutons. and if
these troops can be driven by the un-
dersized Italians there will be a great
skedaddling Of the Boches when the
Maine boys get after them. There
will be a necessity of digging tn.
trenches to an extra depth. for our
country boys have quite height even
when they are scooching down as far
as possible.