Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-15

Day will break this morning at 33s,
Augusta time, and twilight will end at
s.22 this evening.
Autumn will be with us at 1922 A.
NJ. a week from Sunday, or on Sept.
%.
Lewiston is pleased at having landed
one OF the big conventions for next year,
the Zenodacia, the governing body OF
the Danes of Malta in the United States.
having voted at the convention at Roch-
ester, n. T., to come to Maine in 1913.
Another large whale was captured IN
Passamaquoddy Bay this week. meas
uring nearly 40 feet, which is some
what smaller than the one caught in
Deer Island, N. B., fish weir. The 40
foot whale got into Campopello
Island fish weir after following
the schools of herring of which
these big animals Of the deep seem
to be so fond. The whale caused
some damage to the weir before being
shot by the fishermen.
Capt. William G. Small of the Ken
nebec Towboat Co., certainly made
good trade when he purchased the coast
ing schooner Abenaki a few months
since The schooner, which measures 15'
net tons and is "a years old, was practl-
cally wrecked on the Massachusetts coast
last spring and was purchased by Capt.
Small at U. S. Marshal sale for $500, he
afterwards spending about $1,000 in max.
ing her seaworthy again. This week he
sold her for $4,000 to E. V. Novelty head
of the Atlantic American Trading Co., of
New York, which concern intends to use
her as a cargo carrier between New York
and France.
The sympathy of all will go out to
tie Whitefield man, who writes us as
fellows:
with the cold. water soaked land
in the spring. followed by the awful
frosts of Monday and Tuesday nights.
what is there for the farmers to do
but den like the bear? One will have
to hunt for grace to try farming an
other year. The grasshoppers just
carpet the fields seeking what they
may devour and give the stricken
farmers promise of light hay crop
another year. One man in this sec
ton was obliged to ship his last years
hay to make room for this seasons
crop and received 81 per ton net. Eggs
are soaring to 81 per dozen, caused by
the high price Of grain, and butter is
soon to follow. The farmers life is so
nice. (?)''
One Of our patrons sends In the fol-
lowing, says the Pennington Chronicle:
The notice of the swarms Of ants In
last weeks Chronicle did not express
half the magnitude They evidently came
out Of the woods little above the rail-
road bridge and as described in sizes from
a mans hat to a bushel basket, There
were so many that some who saw them
thought it was either bits of fog or puffs
Of smoke. They were going several
swarns abreast and apparently from
twenty to fifty feet apart and continued
TO fly north for over an hour. They
could be seen in this formation from
their starting point nearly to Fairbanks
by those watching where they got .
view up the valley There were thous-
ands of these swarms in procession. They
were met on the state road above Fair
banks by auto parties, one of which
came in with the auto covered with anita.
some Of which had gotten inside the hood
over the engine.
cfo to hefp0 <O1d about Hon
Harold M. SewaIl Of Bath, chairman Of
the Maine Public Safety Committee, who
has at times been known to display a
near-species of absentmindedness and The
Stroller in the Portland Express passes
II along as follows:
Mr.. Sewall was in Portland on business
connected with the work of the Public
Safety Committee not so long since,
and of how after he had transacted
that business he dropped In to chat
with Portland friend for a while. un.
til it should be time to take his train.
Train time finally coming he got up,
babe the friend goodbye. hustled down
to Union station in a taxicab, and Is
minutes later was back again in the
friends ONCE, having discovered when
he started to pay the taxidriver that
he had come away from Bath with on
ly dollar or two IN his pocket ana
that he had spent that during the day.
with no idea that ne hadn't plenty more
somewhere about hts person.
The burglary Of Taylor Brothers
store at Woodland the night of Aug.
80 was one Of the biggest "hauls" Of
recent years in Maine, the cash reg