Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-18


A safe family medicine becaus.
oas drugs but is all pure and Who'll
business here or take up their homes
in the city, and losing many citizens
on many counts, one of the most inn
portant being the increasing tax rate,
says the Express. This situation and
announcement came up at the annual
meeting of the civic bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce held Thursday
afternoon at the chamber rooms.
The twentieth annual Council meet
ing of the Maine Daughters of the
American Revolution will be held on
Wednesday and Thursday, March 20
and u with Elizabeth Wadsworth
Chapter at Pythian Temple, Portland.
Ernest Brown Of Lubec recently
broke his leg and is now in the hospital
in Machias. Ernest is only eight years
of age, but has developed quite a
n
grandmother, who was visiting him at
the hospital: Ernest, don't YOU hate to
stay here by yourself?" he quickly re-
piled: mo, | have plenty to eat and q
pretty nurse, what more can a fellow
want?"
Note how the Bath Times concludes
the following fish story:
Here is the best fish story the Times
has printed although it reads like fc-
ton it is true. 1t is vouched for by
Charles II. StinsOn. engineer on the car
ferry. Ferdinando Gorges When a lad
of 10 and when he lived on the old John
Mains place in Georgetown he place,t
six small trout in the well on the farm
They all disappeared but one little fei-
low who was there when he left the
place two years later. In 1882. several
years later. when his father, the la:e
Eben Stinson, died he visited the farm
again for the funeral and found tic
trout still in the well, now about six
inches long and appearing fat and
prosperous. His uncle John Mains told
Mr.. Stinson he would not take 500 for
the trout as he purified the we'll
Mr.. Stinson lost all track of his friend
the trout until one day last week nun
who lives on the old place was in the
engine room of the ferry and when Mir.
StinSOn found he lived there he aSke I
him if the old we'll was still there. Re-
ceiving an affirmative answer he askcI
if there was a trout in it and the man
said there was an old fellow there about
ten inches long and the water was alb
solutelY pure. Then Mr.. Stinson tod
him that he put the trout there SO years
ago. Some story! True. too.
Mrs. Mary Davis OF Aurora is 81
years of age and she is at present visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. Harriet Jordan
at the lumber camp of Anton Jordan
near Speck pond. Mrs. Davis this past
winter has spun seven pounds of rolls
knit IS pairs of mittens. three pairs IF
stockings ard drawn large rug. 'oe-
sides taking an active part in the cul-
| mary labors.
The GuilfCrd Lumber Company broke
| camp on Monday of last week at Shir-
| Icy and their teams were started home
| on that day. On the Saturday eve
ming before that the young men of the
| lumber camps gave a free dance at the
Shirley Town hall in celebration Of the
event.
| Speaking Of hens. James Munroe Ct
| Wilton has 4 banner flock Of layers
, From - hens. which does not prove al
| unlucky number, he has gotten from
nine to eleven eggs daily. so that for
the winter the flock has turned in many
dozens and many dollars.
Up Norway way there is patriotic
man and he is quoted by their loca!
newspaper as saying the following: Il
cont think I'll take any contracts here
this summer. I'm expecting to go ID
Bath. | feel it's my duty to help the
government in this struggle, SO you'll
have to get somebody else to do the
work unless YOU can wait until after
the war"
Hold Pike at Norway built a 12XiS
foot building for the storage of paint
and paper and located the same near
his house on Paris street. Mr.. Pike
died and the building was sold to Ran
dali o. Porter and was taken to the
latter's home on Water street where i
ornamented the door yard for about
three years. Recently it was sold 10
John H. Fletcher for a garage and was