Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-19

whole section nearby. About 20 years
ago. he retired from active business life
and went to live with his daughter, who
is an artist Of unusual ability, her water
color sketches being known in many parts
Of the country. Mr.. Barbour for years
was the possessor Of the old Bracket
family Bible which had been handed
down to him. 1t was printed in two VOL
umes by Robert Barker in 1870 in Lon
don. and bound in leather. In politics Mr..
Barbour was Democrat but he never
aspired to public office.
The event OF the week in church cir
cles at Biddeford was the installation OF
Rev. Harry Trust as pastor Of the Sec
ond Congregational church Prominent
congregational clergymen from Bangor.
portland, Boston and Dorchester vera
present. Mr.. Trust went there from Win.
tnrop he Is fine preacher and during
MS snort stay has made many friends.
both in and out of the church.
me Dig elm which has stood so proudly
Tor many many years, located in from
OF the former Dillon homestead at the
corner Of Washington and Oak strse+e
bath, has been cut down. To lovers op
trees II seems almost like losing an old
if'ehu' out Il was necessary to remove if
as lis branches were interfering with tho
wires Of the y. E. T. & r. Co
Aloen V. Garter Of West Ellsworth
eel's the Commercial how the figure
TOUR has played prominent part in his
life in letter as follows:
would like to know IL ary 80 woe,
! readers can beat me for having Four n,
| q Kind. VI
! nave had four wives.
-Four of my daughters are dead. fo,,,
are ilNlng. l also have four sons.
| me fourth son is by my fourth wife
anu was porn in the fourth state.
! Inc TOUR daughters are married: the
! 1ohr sons are not married
nave four granddaughters
, nave four grand sons.
| There are four of us brothers and q,
me Tour | am the only one that has 6
| soh IN the army in France-Nasco +.
| Carter
of the four brothers / am the onl,
| one who has son in the cradle.
NY four wives came from four diff
| ferent towns.
| am as much older than nv fourth
wife as four times four plus four.
| was born and have always lived or
TINS farm and never work out.
or the four brothers We have travelci
more or less. Some have been to Eng.
land ana some to California and nave
been only as far as Bangor.-By Josh,
residents of town of Casco make g
very interesting discovery.
People who are glad to hear OF curl.
Gus incidents, will be more than inter.
ested to learn Of an extraordinary fine
OF two graves in wood back Of "OlC
Bel! Hill church" built In Casco owe,
100 years ago. The general appearance
OF the two graves and the rude form Of
the gravestones. lead people to thini
that they are at least the graves O
very early pioneers. For in the GENE
terry nearby. the burials date back tt
| 1899.
! Two stones mark each one, at thu
! head and one at the foot, and thes.
are rounded at the top in a rough man
ner and are Of the natural granite
rock Of that section unsmoothed anG
undecorated in any way
One of the graves is considerable,
more than seven feet long and tn,
| other about six inches shorter and tn,
townspeople conjecture. though o
! course. it does not necessarily follow
that these are the graves of yer,
tall man and his wife, almost giants il
stature and perhaps of another aC,
and race. At any rate. tho graves are
out OF all proportion in length to TIL
other graves in the cemetery datin.
| from 1893 on down to the present day
and since their discovery some month
ago have attracted a great deal Of at
| teEtion. The "Old Bell Hill' church
opposite this cemetery is in itself a yer,
interesting object for those who EMO,
old buildings. 1t was built in 1898 an,
| has an ascent TO the tower. resemblins
! that of the Old North church in Boston
| and box seats like those Of the OLE
| South church.
These graves may be the marking {
! the Happy Hunting grounds Of tw'
! Indians Of enormous size.