Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-18

and bringing them into the kitchen
placed them carefully on a plate and
the plate upon the kitchen table. While
he was otherwise engaged in doing up
/ his morning chores. the pet cat OF the
house, jumping upon the table, discov--
cred the eggs. and also by manipulating
them with her paws, found that ,pey
Joy out Of the plate and over the table.
one by one, and then over the tables
edge upon the floor. When the owner
returned to the kitchen, he found the q
cents worth of fresh eggs total wrecks
upon quite an expanse Of floor and III
expression Of extreme pleasure upon
the countenance Of the cat.
A new kind Of German propag ,nda Is
reported in Maine. workmen are ap.
preached and induced to 90 u some
faraway place. lured by the exc .ssive
wages offered and on arrival ii.sd no
promised agent who was to direct them
to the work The Bidedford Recori says
that several local men have thus been
victimized. ~
william T. Simpson of Bath recently
bought a pair Of steers Of Rawlin Trott
Of Woolwich. paying $3.50 for them. They
weighed when dressed $500 pounds ard
furnished 240O pounds of meat. They
were full-blooded Brown Swiss, a spec
les seldom seen in this vicinity.
With the issue Of Sept. Is the Maine
Woods at Phillips ceased to be pub
lished and its subscription list was taken
over by the Chronicle, printed at Farm
| ington. The Elaine Woods formerly
the Phillips Phonogra phi, has been pub
ilsned by the j. W. Bracket Company
Tor many yeas, and it was the SPORTS
mems delight. 1t will he greatly missed
by them and by every one else who
loves the inland woods and the Lakes
Of Maine.
There is some uncertainty as to
what the future of the Portland
Chamber Of Commerce will be until
there is readjustment of affairs aft
| er the war. There has been little ac-
tivity therein the past few months as
| members are engaged chiefly in their
own business of war work. Many
large projects remain in allegiance I'M
til hostilities cease abroad, notably
| the erection of big tin working fac
| tory by the American Can Co.
Miss Augusta Champney Of Rock
port has hen in her flock that really
knows whom she belongs to, and to
| prove It to her mistress she stamped
| an egg that she laid with a perfect
c on one end. This egg is really a Gu
riosity and has attracted much at
| tentlon.
Word has been received of the death
at her home in Honolulu, Hawaiian
! Islands, of Mrs. Sanford b. Dole, who
had been ill for several months. Mrs.
| Dole was born in Castine, Me, en- July
| 16 1S41. Her parents were a New Eng
| land family and her maiden name was
Anna Prentice Cate. She received UT
early education in Castine and later in
Pennington, Conn.
| She visited Hawaii N the early seven
| ties, returning later to Castine, where
she and Mr. Dole were married on May
9, 1873. Since her marriage, with the eX-
ception of a few trips to the mainland,
she had lived entirely in the islands.
For II years Mrs. Dole held the posi-
ton of First Lady of Hawaii" For
seven years, as wife of the president
during the days of the republic, and
four more years when her husband was
governor of the territory. She succeed
ed Queen Lliuokalani in this honor and
| had the distinction of being the first
| woman, as wife of president of an in.
dependent cou. try, to b. received at the
White House. This vas in March, 1888,
when President and Mrs. Dole visited
Washington and were received oy the
President and Mrs. Mckinley. A -ew
| days after the exchange of calls, they
were given reception at the White
| House and were shown honors due their
position.
| Mrs. Dole always had been identified
with the charitable works Of Honolulu
She was particularly interested in the
! Humane Society and the Temperance
League. For many years she was presi-
| dent Of the Society for the Prevention
Of Animals. which later became the Ia
waiian Humane Society. She also was
identified with the work Of the Associat-
ed Charities. She was chairman OF the
Hawaiian Peace Society in 1915. and was
deeply interested in the work of the
Red Cross. Her husband. Judge Dole,
survives.