Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-12-13
Maine Gossip


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You are so strange when I am near,
Your thoughts seem miles away; |
And yet. sometimes, think you hear
The things ! dare not say.
lie Baron Cooke In Munsey's ALI
Story Magazine.
Captain William G. Small, who died
last Tuesday night in the Relief hos
pital, Boston, after a brief illness with
bloodpoisoning. was well known on the
Kennebec. where for some years he had
been in the towboat business. the last
few years in command OF the Seguin.
which he owned. He was born in
Phiopsburg about 50 years ago.
A boat came up the river the other
evening after dusk with a sugar barrel
filed with Canadian whiskey in long
neckers aboard. says the Bath Times.
1t made three stops at the North end
and one at the gas house wharf and the
contents Of the sugar barrel was low
cred considerably, before Frank Decker
received his allotment OF Q quarts,
which the deputy sheriffs seized. 1t is
said that the whiskey is obtained from
a schooner that makes trips from Ca
nadian ports and lies Of the coast Of
Maine beyond the three-mile limit. so
that it is beyond the reach Of the law.
When the weather Is threatening or
stormy. the schooner comes into a Sc
cluded harbor and rides there out of
harm from the weather. Supplies are
smuggled from her to whiskey peddlers.
in small boats. who bring the liquor to
various Maine cities and so relieve the
drouth at from $40 to SIS per relief.
When the Bath Tines claimed that a
thunder storm visited that burg last
Sunday. We were bit skeptical. Bar
Harbor now reports regular sized.
full fledged thunder storm, with bright
lightning and loud peals of thunder.
which lasted about 10 minutes" The
Times nay not have been dreaming.
Murray Briggs Of Caribou, we'll
known farmer. about two years ago
lost his farm buildings BY fire. Ii horses
perishing. He recently lost one Of his
best ones by sickness. Tuesday saw
four more lost, the ice in the Aroostook
river giving away under them as thew
were hauling wood. Two small bows
hung to the load and were rescued with
difficulty.
Sanford is enjoying the prospect Of
having daily paper H. 8. Chase. until
recently employed in the office of the
Sanford Tribune, is can,assfne the
town, especially among the business
men to learn the feeling. and il suffi-
cient support can be assured, he may
start sx-page paper, to sell for two
cents.
The Rumford school board recox.
nizes the claims Of the teachers for
more pay and at recent meeting voted
to establish new salary schedule for
that town, to go into effect Jan. 1 next.
TEACHERS who have been receiving $50
will have a minimum Of $50 and maxi
mum Of $500; from $40 to $3.50 to that
town, to go into effect on Jan. I next
The Maine Historical Society Is now
the custodian Of two life preservers
from the steamer Portland, lost of
Cape Cod on the night Of Nov, q 1919
ihey were founc on a beach by Thomas
r. MARI. who went there for the MIR.
pose OF taking pictures for the news.
papers and were presented the society
by his son. Arthur e. Mari of Boston.
Winfield W. Morse and Edwin Sinai,
OF Winnegance each raised about "a
pounds Of tobacco during the past sea.
son. A Bath Times writer savs: III.
tobacco makes very pleasant min.
smoking and is not at all bas In c,..-.
~ Is superior in fact to more than half
uie TOBACCO at present on the market. :,
Here's q novel but effective vay ~
catching rats which have become -.
accustomed to traps that thew shn,
them: Fill cask partly full Of vst.-
ana sprinkle the water with a th,cH
coating OF sawdust. on which Mac
some pieces Of doughnut or Other "a
Dits' 1t will. 1t Is said. completely soo,
the rats. A~0'
Big game shipments over the Bangor
& Aroostook during November shov.d
great increase over the 1918 shin.
ments. 1903 deer. Eve bears ana q moose
coming out this year. against 7s7 deer
and two bears last year. Greenv,,,.
shipped the largest amount Of Fam.
7S deer coming from there. Patt.n v..
next with 81. Ashland 100 and Nasardi.
with 101.
The last Of the Bangor local supply Of
Ice was delivered on Wednesday ts cu..
toners. One company's field wa. in
such fine condition that cutting was BE-.
gun Thursday and delivery made direct
TO the Customers. One other company
expected to begin cutting on Friday.
Over 1000 poultry specimens are In the |
crates at the Maine State Poultry show
in The Coliseum at Portland. competing |
for honors and prizes. This Is the nth |
annual exhibition and the largest yet
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