Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-21

TO matter how familiar he may De
with the sea t. visit the hatchery
anI see what the bottom travis
I operated ty the government fish
f. cries heats reveal. The steamer
! GannetS is busy trawlin= almost
| every day along some section OF
! the coast Of Maine and something
new or peculiar is being brought UP
/ frequently There are about twenty
species Of fish there now and some
! local fishermen have declared that
I they have never before known some
( Of tie species. Some beautiful plant
/ life specimens have also been gath
| cred.
! Supt. Hahn intends to make this
! collection one of the most interesting
! along the Atlantic coast and keep j.
! always open to tie public.
,. Mrs. Samuel Marson of Boothbay
Harbor has Bible printed in 1852,
which was handed down from her
| great great -grandmother. Mrs jean
| cite Bane. Ii con s<ls both the Old
and the New Testament and was
| revised and translated hy John
! Came. l, is somewhat worn and
the fyleaves and part Of the intro
! ductory pages are missing. Il is
| needless 10 say that Mrs. Marsoa
prizes the book very highly.
! The Scarboro High school is said
( to be the first school in Maine to
allow credit in rank for work done in
/ the Boys and Girls Agricultural
! Clubs.
DR.. H. B. Pulsifer OF Auburn is
hunting the records 10 find his
family connection with Rufus
! Choate The maternal grandmother
, of the doctor was Polly Rust who
married Jonathan Pulsifer. Her
| son, father of the doctor. was born
| in 1',9 and the family tradition says
that she was a close relative of
Choate. To find this is extremely
difficult. A brother of the doctor. j.
D. Pulsifer. corresponded with
Choate and learned OF this relation
ship, but there seems to be no written
evidence in any of the biographies Of
Choate. The doctor named one of
his sons Ckoate Pulsifer. bu, the boy
died young. The veteran phi!o-
sopher is bound to dig out the facts
connected with the relationship be-
tween the two famlies-Lewiston
Journal.
Deputy Sheriff George W. Ross Of
. Eanceboro, who captured Werner
Horne the German spy for an at
tempt to dynamite the Vanceboro
bridge. passed through Bangor on
Tuesday morning en- route to Vance
boro with Horne who will be deliv-
cred at that place to Sheriff Haw-
thorns Of Fredericton. y. B. and tax
en- to Fredericton for trial.
A one-iegged chicken with a foot
large enough so that it balances itself
easily and hops about as lively a. any
other chicken is a freak Matched in
the incubator Ct c. Z. Snow Of New
Meadows who had 10 eggs in the in
cubator and Matched out 10s. The
freak chicken is receiving much at
ten,ion. is thrifty and many call to
see it and watch il as it moves about
with the rest of the little flock.
A four-days encampment for the
Boy Scout troops of York and Cum
berland counties will be held at Old
Orchard Beach May 80 to June 2. I'M
der the auspices of Troop !, Old Or
chard. This encampment will be
conducted on a semi basis
and entirely under canvas
Writes the kingfield correspondent
Of the Pennington Journal Chronicle:
The heading: Butter Price High. No
Relief in Sight, caused a Kingfeld
housewife to ask her husband the
reason. He replied: Go to the but
ter man and he will sax that it is the
cost of feed; go to the feed producer
and he will say il is owing to the cost
of labor: so TO labor and it will ex-
plain that it is the high cost of living
caused by the war; go TO. war and
the reply Will be. 1t is hell; go to
hell--but We are getting back to Just
where We started from with butter at
50 cents a pound"