Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-03

as wears Foremost among these was
Governor William King. whose visits at
the "King House" In Lexington where
she was employed she could wildly re-
call, Mrs. Washington Clark, for
whom she worked when a young girl
often delegated to her the task of
standing behind Governor Kings chair
to wait on him at his meals. She said
he was always a gentleman" She
spoke In much the same way of
Squire" Miles Standish of Flagstaff
and of George c. Getchell, a prominent
business man of Watervllle. Ihese
three often stopped at the KING House.
"They were smart men, she o1ten
said, land l liked to hear them talk.
The town of Bridgton will be offered
at the town meeting on March the
most noteworthy gift in its history
through the generosity of Joseph A.
Bennett. The gift is the money and
real estate Of the Forest Hill Cemetery
Association, in Forest Hill cemetery,
and although it is valued at $4,000 in
money, its value as public property is
beyond the power of anyone to esti-
mate. 1t is thought that this will meet
the requirements of the town for 81
years.
The attractive and picturesque resi-
dence of Hannibal Hamlin, vice-pres-
ident with Abraham Lincoln from 1861
to 1865, at the corner Of Fifth and
Hammond streets in Bangor is pointed
out 20 automobile tourists scores of
times each week as the most historic
house in that city. 1t is a typical New
England homestead, surrounded with
trees and flowers; a three-story man
sion. resting between an orchard on
one side, a flower garden on the other,
with another garden in the rear. There
Vice-President Hamlin passed the
latter part of his life among his sons
and grandsons. Mrs. Eliza Vesta Ham
lin widow of Hannibal Hamlin, now
resides in the house.
The value of the potato in northern
Maine is shown in the following true
story of an incident at Island Falls.
went into the company store and asked
for a ten cent cut of tobacco and upon
receiving it he reached into his pocket
and brought forth a potato which he
rendered in payment for the purchase
And without cracking a smile, the
clerk took the potato. put it in the cash
register and gave the farmer five cents
in change.
A fine collection of valuable relics
was exhibited at the fourth of a series
of public meetings held recently at
Portland under the auspices of the
Maine, Historical Society. The re-
freshments served included coffee
which was poured from large silver
plated urn, once owned by Marie An
toinette, Queen of France, who was
condemned by the Jacobins and ex-
ecuted by the guillotine in 1898. This
coffee urn is now the property Of Hon.
James z. Baxter of Portland, as well
as the sideboard on which it stood in
the Queens apartments. Both of
these articles were brought from
France by Captain Clough of Thomas
ton and given to General Henry Knox.
They came into possession of Gen.
knox's housekeeper at Thomaston,
from whom Mr.. Baxter years ago pur-
chased them, paying 1890 Both Wash
ington and Lafayette had drank coffee
from this urn. Other conspicuous eX-
hibts at the meeting were. large. hand
home Autographs of Lafayette and of
Louis Philippe, made in France in 1880,
a glass case containing many relics of
Washington and Lafayette, and frag-
10 coffin in which George
Washington was originally buried.