Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-08

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But, Oh my health!-
I simply can't
Part with my heart.
The managers of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday
at their luncheon at the Falmouth
hotel voted to ask Senator Hale and
Assistant Secretary of War Ingraham
to make. more use of Portland harbor
for war purposes. 1t was also voted
to take some steps to cut down the
postage bills of the merchants by stop
ping the sending back of receipted
bills by mail. 1t was pointed out that
where payments are made by check
the check itself when it comes back to
the person paying the bin, served as a
receipt for the bill.
A man residing near Bangor stated
on Wednesday that he had just sold
120 head of sheep for $1,000, giving an
indication of the steady increase in the
value of such property, when it is re-
called that not many years ago a man
could have the pick of a flock at 81 a
head, he said. Last year alone he re-
ceived $500 from the wool and he con-
sidered that the sheep had been a pro-
fitable investment as he received a
considerable advance in price over
what he paid.
Carl Anderson of Nye's Corner
Fairfield. has a COW worth keeping.
She is Jersey which he raised from
calf. She dropped her first calf
y N1l IT,
every year since, now being 10 years
old and has just dropped her third
pair Of twins. They are extra large
and strong.
a young lady sent an announcement
Of meeting Of her favorite society to
the Lubec Herald for publication, but
as she did not have a government
postal card on hand, she drew from her
desk sweet scented fancy postal
and wrote her announcement on that.
When the popular little paper came to
her home she scanned its columns
eagerly to read this most important
item. When. 10, it was not there
Then she donned her new fall hat and
walked Indignantly into the Herald Of
flce to demand an explanation. Yes"
her postal had been received, the edit
or answered, actually blushing and
drew 1t from private lock box in his
desk did YOU not receive it in time
for publication" she asked. "Publica-
ton" he gasped, why, l thought il
was a personal invitation for me-"
At this the Office staff broke into a
roar of laughter and the editor, not
n he nnfdnna no l.
that he had bought new suit of
clothes ard got all shaved up ready
TO go. The young lady smiled and
became so embarrassed that she took
out her purse and paid subscription
to the Herald for one year in adj
vance.
The campaign which was started in
Androscoggin county recently to
| raise $4,000 for Y. NJ. c. A. hut"
for the soldiers. although it was not
successful in raising the money in the
two days which were set as the limit
when the campaign began. was CON-
'inued to a successful conclusion, and
in the end several hundreds dollars
more than the amount required was
pledged.
IT is bad enough to have your garden
vegetables stolen by the contenntih,e
thieves, but when a human skunk delhi.
erately enters your garden and DESTROYS
the vegetable, It pretty nearly reaches the
limit. That was what an Old Town man
F. Otis Gould. recently experienced He
i received an anonymous letter stating that
his beans had been drenched with kero-
sene and investigation proved the letter
correct 1t also threatened the destruc-
ton of HIS pigs. Joseph Newell, a former
employee. was arrested and evidence tax.
en- on Handwriting. the case being conttn-
ued to next Friday.
We know OF a few houses IN Augusta.
Me-, Z. S. A, where it would be very un-
health for the herein mentioned chan to
try his scheme
A slick book agent has struck town his
operations causing some alarm in certain
quarters on account of the mysterious
! manner Of gaining a private audience
with his intended victim. When he first
appears he mentions something in a sub
dued tone OF secretiveness which gives
the impression that he is a statistician
from some department at Washington,
making his victim uneasy for fear Of
having unwittingly committed some aw-
ful onense against the new war regula-
the private Office, with closed doors. the
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