Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-10

The mystery surrounding the death
of Fay Shannon, rs, who was found
shot through the head on a logging
road near Bailey lake, Aroostook
county, Oct. 10, was solved by the
confession of his hunting companion,
Benjamin Sprague, that he had shot
Shannon in mistake for a deer.
After completing a most success
Lake and kineo, Aviator Harry NJ.
Jones has stored his land and sea-
planes in his hangar at Old Orchard
for the winter and leaves this week
for New York to close a deal for a
seasons engagement in the South.
Many Boothbay Harbor people
were guests on board the fisherman
cup challenger, the Mayflower, which
was tied up at the Cold storage dock
Monday, says the Bath Daily Times.
The captain and the crew were very
courteous and explained many points
regarding the structure of the vessel.
She sailed at $50 in the afternoon
for the fishing banks.
Thieves entered the fire station of
the Mexico Fire Department at Mex
leo Corner recently and stole a
number of nozzles from the hose truck
amounting to $40. The Fire De-
partment has offered a reward Of SIS
for any information leading to the
arrest of the parties who made the
break and it is expected that arrests
will follow.
Norris Emery, missing from his
home in Steep Falls since Sunday
afternoon, was found plodding slow
ly along the road at Brownfield,
Monday. He seemed glad to get
home and recognized his father and
mother, but gave no explanation of
his strange hike. Mr.. Emery was
very weak from walking day and
night and from lack of food and
had very little to say to anyone.
Receipts Of coal, both bituminous
and anthracite, continue in consider
able volume in Bangor, and there is
every prospect that all requirements
for steam coal will be met, while
with the economies that have been
adopted and the use of coke and
wood, the supply of anthracite prom
Uses to be sufficient for all needs. The
price of domestic sizes of anthracite
is about the same as last year.
To preserve some of the wild flow
ers of Maine which are rapidly be-
coming extinct, such as the blue gen
tan, the lady's slipper, the trailing
arbutus and several varieties Of or
chids. the Josselyn Botanical Society
to impress upon motorists the desir
! ability of conserving these various
species. Filters are pelng widely cir
culated addressed to motorists, camp
ers and mixers, asking them to re
| frain from the practice Of uprooting
! plants when they pick wildfowers,
and calling attention to the fact that
these wildflowers will last many
years if they are left to seed.-Bath
Daily Times.
J Only six veterans o. the Civil war,
| of the original 163 members who
were on the roll of Meade Post, No.
| 40. G. A. r., in PASSPORT, are now
alive: one of the oldest being Fred
| erick w. Call, in his 18th year,
who was born in Eastport in 1914.
Early following farming and fishing
he enlisted in the 18th Maine Regi-
ment. and later in LIST Maine. in
Calais, in 1862. and was mustered
out in July, 1865, and saw much
fighting with his regiment and in
teresting experiences of the Rebel.
lion. His hobby for the past half
century has been cameras and pho
to-work as he started in this pro-
fession in the days of tin-types, and
wet plates.
Lewiston police have been working
on a "black hand" mystery for two
weeks but with no solution in sight.