Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-07-19

Sleep, baby. sleep,
Playing time must end.
The cattle low q lullaby.
The sheep all whisper. passing by.
Boughs above you bend.
Sleep, baby, sleep.
Sleep, baby, sleep.
Stars your guard will keep.
Soft falls the tender dew, for you.
Nothing more will weep.
Sleep, baby, sleep. .
Farm Life.
Mrs. Hannah Billings of Norway
celebrated her 95th birthday the
past week, and during the day re-
ceived several callers. Mrs. Billings
is very modest and does not enjoy
any demonstration, but she will ad-
NIT that not many women who have
lived to her age are as able to do
things as she is. She is one of the
remarkable women of the day, and
perhaps her activity is due in,
great measure to her health, for she
has been seldom ill. Born in Oxford,
she was one of a family of IS chill
dren. and she relates how she would
take her knitting and watch flock
of sheep, for in those days there
was hardly farm without its sheep.
Her mother spun the yarn and
made all the cloth for the clothing.
Mrs. Billings comes from a long
lived family, her parents living be-
yond the so mark, one brother
reached the 95 mark, and several
other brothers and sisters lived to be
so. She has been all her life a great
lover of the out of doors and until
a few years has had a fine garden
and a wonderful flower garden. Her
home is with her foster son and his
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank f. Brett,
at the Falls.
One thousand Elks, members of
Cambridge. Mass. Lodge No. $50. are
to come to Portland in September,
according to plans outlined at a con-
ference in Portland, Monday. John
Henderson and George Belanger,
representing George u. Colgan, Ex-
allied Ruler of Cambridge Lodge,
came to Portland to arrange details
of, the trip of the thousand Elks
from Cambridge and held confer
ences with Exalted Ruler Elmer Per-
ry and Secretary Howard D. Ferris
of Portland Lodge. According to
the plans, the Cambridge Elks are
to charter a special steamer and will
leave Boston September IL for the
trip to Maine. They will remain in
Portland until September Is. return
ing by the special steamer to Bos-
ton. The visiting brother Bills"
will be accompanied by their own
band and while in Portland will
have a big street parade and BAN
quet in the Exposition Building.
Thomas F. B. Rattigan of Portland,
a member of Cambridge Lodge, is
acting in the capacity of local chair
man.
Fifty years Catholic priest is the
record of Rev. FIR. Cornelius O'Sulli-
van of Machias. Washington County,
who commemorated his golden an
niversary Sunday, when he was in
receipt of many letters of congratu-
lations from friends and acquaint-
ances in many parts of the country,
also gifts in appreciation of his re-
markable services. For the past 80
years FIR. O'Sullivan has been pastor
of st. Mary's Catholic Church in Ma
chias. He is one of the best known
clergymen in Eastern Maine, a fire.
quent visitor in past years to Lubec
and Eastport. Born u years ago last
February, he spent his boyhood days
in Manchester. n. H., and at the age
of IS years entered Fordham College
in New York City. He is one of the
oldest alumni of that institution. He
had for classmates many who later
distinguished themselves in medicine,
law and the ecclesiastical world.
Mrs. Ida Talbot. lightning berry
picker, and Mrs. Martha Gallagher.
while in Parker Head pastures, Bath,
recently picked SO quarts of blue
and absolutely clean, for Mrs. Tai
bot does not believe in the use of
rakes or other mechanical contriv-
ances to pick them. 1t is a good
season for the berries the two women
find and they expect to have sew
cral hundred quarts before the sea-
son passes.
Lobster fishermen at the Pool and
along the York county coast are
complaining about the scarcity of the
shellfish and say it is impossible to
get a fair days pay in their busi-
ness. They are getting only few
Holsters. The price is around oO
cents a pound. not high price con-
sidering the fact the shellhsh are
scarcer than for long time. The
game and fish wardens have had but
one man before the court for vio-
lating the law for some weeks. and
that case was settled when the re-
spondent paid the costs of court
porcupine had killed a locust tree
close by the house of j. F. Burkill, our
West Montville correspondent writes.
and began to amputate the limbs of
another He worked nights and his
operations kept the Burkilfs awake.
Mr.. Burkill tackled a length of stove
pipe around the trunk, and when he
and Mrs. Bur.ill heard him applying
the toe nails to the iron in an endeavor
to surmount It last Friday at mid
night. Mr., Burkill grabbed the club he