Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-22

based on December prices paid to
producers. is estimated by the de-
partment Of agriculture as $S4, 6SS. 900.
Maine thus tops Montana, Massachu-
sets, Vermont, New Mexico, Con-
necticut. Wyoming, Arizona, Utah,
New Hampshire, Delaware, Nevada
and Rhode Island, but is preceded in
the list by 35 great agricultural
states.
Mrs E. D. Merrill of Dover has re-
ceived 2 telegram from her father, T.
F. Dyer. announcing his safe arrival
in San Francisco. Mr.. Dyer was IS
year old.
Almon Vinton Of Southeast Monsoon,
| who soon will be SO years old, one day
last week walked from his home to
Hiram Crooker's a distance of one
mile. He planned to walk back but
Mr.. Crooker carried him home. Mr..
Vinton had an i'll turn last summer
and was in quite poor health for a
time. He now can saw wood and dug
| potatoes last fall.
a degeneration group is found on
| each side of @ weIl-known RockIand
| family. Heading one of them is Mrs
Addie Lamb, aged 70. whose descend
ants in the order named are Mrs. AID.
die Hall, Mrs. w. A. Seavey. Paul Will.
| liam Seavey and Norma Seavey. All
are residents of Rockland The other
| five generation group in this family is
| headed by Mrs. Wilmot Nash, aged s.
of Harrington, mother of Mrs Milton
| E. Plummer of Rockland, and grand
mother of Lester B. Plummer. The
two families were united by the mar.
riage of Mr.. Plummer's daughter
| Gwendolyn to Paul Seavey, the fifth
generation being represented by their
| daughter Norma Lucille Seavey, very
smart little Miss who has seen one
winter and one summer
A communication received at this
office on Friday reads as follows: I'll
| has just come to my knowledge that
! some of the Maine papers last Sep.
| TENDER reported the death of E. Belle
! Hardy Barrow of Lyndeboro. N. II
There has been some misunderstood.
| ing in some way. Mrs. Barrow is
alive and is anxious her Maine friends
| should know it. She underwent a very
| serious operation Aug. Is, at ST
! Josephs Hospital, Nashua, and al
though her recovery was not looked
for, she is enjoying very good health
at her home in South Lyndeboro and
would be glad to hear from her Maine
ington Chronicle.
Charles S. Hall of Rockland received
cablegram Saturday from his broth
er, Capt. John Hall of the schoone,
| Horace E. Monroe. stating that Ger.
man ship had fouled the Monroe
chains, and that the schooners head
I gear had been carried away. Capt
Hall was awaiting the arrival of a ca
BILE ship. His schooner had put into
the Azores during a hurricane, while
| bound from Lisbon to Hampton Roads
The reduced passenger fares on Cana
dian railways went into effect on Sat-
urday. They are 10 per cent higher
than the fares in effect before the last
| increase was authorized. At that time
jumps of from is to 20 per cent were
| made in the rates. Another 10 per
cent is to come off next July.-Wood-
stock Sentinel.
Mrs. T. II. Fernald of South Waldo
| boro has a hooked rug worth seeing
1t was hooked on a Park and Pollard
! scratch feed sack and has three little
chickens on it. Mrs. Fernald has add
ed with her pencil a mother hen and
father rooster done in gray. with a
background of green grass and yellow
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