Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-07-19

Geer was swimming across the mar
Dor from Sears Island and attempted
to land ut the weir. When releaseo
he bounded off toward the woods.
badly frightened. Mr.. Stlnson has
caught about all kinds Of fish. in
Guiding sturgeon. sharks and seal
in his weir, but never caught a deer
before.
Oxford Democrat: Rev. c. G. Miller
has put in since the Fourth eight
tons and a half of good hay which
had not had a drop of water on it
That may seem incredible, but is due
to the peculiar distribution of the
showers during the past ten days, 1t
is certainly remarkable. and almost
shakes our faith in the rain falling
alike on the just and on the unjust.
Word from Mrs. Frances Holmes
Everett, formerly of Lewiston. now
of Bolton, Missouri, indicates that
on her 1O0-acre ranch the wheat is
harvested and the threshers are
now at work. The wheat crop was
good, though somewhat stunted by
extreme dryness in June. But the
wheat thrived on the early heat
Wages are high there as here and
help is scarce. But the middle
West is thoroughly patriotic. Men
and women are doing everything
they can for the Red Cross and even
the business men, bankers. profess
sional men and others went in the
wheat fields during the rush of har-
vestng, what they made being
turned over to the Red Cross.
The steam lighter Sagadahoc of
Woolwich unloaded a big cargo of
wood in Portland Tuesday for the
Government. The water front re-
porter of The Press says of her "The
Sagadahoc is not the most beautiful
craft ever seen in Portland. but it is
large and powerful and carries an
immense load Of freight of any kind
that may be put into her"
NoSS II Uni iiCoAbS anu local
farmers are coming in slowly, evil
IDENTIFY in storage for higher prices
Plenty of Western eggs are in the
market.-Bath Times.
| Prof George E. Nichols of Yale is
spending the month OF July in Maine
in search of sphagnum to be used
in surgical dressings when tie sup
! ply of cotton is exhausted He spent
! few days in Waldo county, visiting
/ the region about Quantihaconk Lake,
in Searsmont, where he was the
guest u Hart L. Woodcock tie ar
tist. at the latters camp Prof
Nichols found a large variety Of the
| moss but only one that is surgical.
ihE IS not oniv absorbent but is also
a;it'septic. and ir many ways prefer
able in surgical dressings to the alb
sorbent cotton. having more of the
| former qualities than the cotton it
self Sphagnum is found in large
! quantities in England and Scotland
and in Germany and it was in the
latter country that it's medicinal
qualities were discovered.
Hon. Albert H. Shaw has a grape
shot or old ashioned musketball
that recently came into his posses
sion, being found in load of sand
from the middle Of Merrymeeting
bay, dug and brought to this city by
Capt. Croker and used in some Of
Mr.. Shaw's construction work, re-
ports the Bath Times. The ball is
of iron and about the size of a large
marble. A similar ball. several
thousands Of them in fact were
found when the late NJ. G. Shaw of
this city and Edward Payson Viles
of Skowhegan. were constructing a
dam at Ledge Falls. Dead river
Those were thought to have been
cached on the bank Of Dead river
when the expedition of Benedict Ar
mold went up the Kennebec and
Dead river bound for Canada. They
were Of lead and iron. This one
found in Merrymeeting bay may
have been from a similar cache on
the banks Of the bay. During the
more than century and a quarter
that has gene. banks have been
swept by floods and these caches of
lancient ammunition have sWirled
about in drifting sand,
! 1t may also have been some OF The
heavy artillery that Uncle Sam
Ward used in his Paine ducking gun,
; fired at a flock of ducks in the sood
old hunting days when there were
birds galore and few after them
However the genealogy Of this little
ball Of iron may be guessed at. it is
iof undoubted antiquity and suEEes-
tive Of oldAn times. sxa