Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-06-20

He has brought two live trout from
the brook a short distance from the
house recently and proudly exhibited
them to the family before devouring
them for his supper.
Elder John F. Clothey. pastor
of the Turner street Advent
Church at Auburn for the past 13 1-2
years. going there from Biddeford.
He is 81 years of age and has held
pastorates in Bangor, North Bucks
port and Westbrook and New Bed
ford and Marblehead. Mass. He now
feels that his strength will no longer
permit him to bear the burdens of
the work.
A farmer in Hodgdon received
$500 per ton for his pressed hay
which he had in his, barn last week.
-Houlton Times.
Cheap. Bro. Fogg. A Caribou man
was obliged to pay $4,000 for a ton
OF hay one day last week.-Aroos-
took Republican June s.
Two of our boys. Morrill, and How
ard Rackliff have been having the
time of their lives motor boating out
on the great lakes, writes the Wa
terman Beach correspondent of the
Rockland Courier Gazette. They
went to Michigan by rail, got a pow
er boat about so feet long and start
ed for the Atlantic ocean. They
crossed two lakes, one being over 200
miles wide. then passed through
miles of big bitches and under a
great many bridges. and finally ar
rived at Buffalo. Then they went to
Norfolk. June l they were taking in
the sights at Washington. D. C. La
ter on they expect to come to New
York and make up a U. s. Coast
Survey crew. The boat they brought
from the great lakes was for the
crew to be made up at Norfolk. OF
course Uncle Sam paid the bills.
Silas Anderson, the popular Maine
Central railroad conductor now on
the lewiston Rockland run, has been
in railroad employ steadily A years
and Is truly one of the veterans Of
the line with thousands of acquain-
tanees and hundreds of warm per-
sonal friends for whom he always has
q hearty greeting.
Here's one from the Aroostook Re-
publican:
"Ye Editor" and family were the
recipients Monday of two fine land
locked salmon from Mr.. and Mrs. H.
E. Jones. who are spending several
weeks at Square lake. They will
accept our thanks for the same. Un
this case we use the plural pronoun
Observation-Disclosures. We are
obliged by Government ruling to
attach this word (and the postal au-
thorities say it should be spelled out
in full and not marked simply "adv."
or adj for the simple reason we
accept the fish SO kindly sent, and
not as an advertisement of Mr..
Jones' skill as fisherman, although
he ranks among the best in the coun-
ty.
Charles NJ. Towle has offered $10,-
600. SO it is understood, to j. X.
Plummer -or his place on Main
street, known as the J. S. Hall place
and now occupied as Union Hospital.
reports the Fort Fairfield Review.
An effort is being made by Com
munity Hospital. recently organized,
largely through Mrs. H. D. Stevens,
to buy this place SO that it may be
used permanently as a hospital.
Rev. Melville e. Osborne, pastor Of
the Pratt Memorial church of Rockland.
left last Thursday on a 5-weeks' leave
of absence and with all expenses paid
for q trip to Columbus. Ohio. where he
will attend the India exhibition given
in connection with the Centenary cele-
tration. He will represent a high-caste
Hindu, being a native of India His
first pastorate vas in Columbus.
Three hundred and ninety-six dog
licenses have been issued by the town
clerk Of Sanford, the largest number II
any one year in the history Of that
town.