Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-23

does all these things and in every
one of them is successful. Her Or
chards have been selected as one of
the three places in the State to be
inspected by the Maine Pathological
Society. at the celebration of the
50th anniversary. Miss Macarthur was
born in Missouri. and received her
business training in Chicago. The
house in which she lives was built
by her grandfather and the apple
orchards originated from apple seeds
sowed by his son, William. Miss
Macarthur came to Maine to care for
her uncle after his health failed, be-
came interested in restoring the trees
to bearing. Not having sufficient
capital for the work, she conceived
the idea OF opening the old house to
summer guests, and with the income
thus derived, she began the work of
cultiva ton. The results are showing
today. and her trees are bearing fine
crops of apples.
A crazy COW ran muck on the Wis
casset -Woowich highway Tuesday
afternoon, starting about three miles
west of Wiscasset and continuing
her mad career to MontSweag. The
mad bovine attacked automobiles
before and behind. sideways and at
almost any angle. Motorists from
other states whose previous know
ledge of Maine had been confined to
! stories of bears, etc, were positive
that here was one of the wild ami
mails of Maine. The COW drove sew
eral machines into the ditch by her
tactics. Motorcycle Patrolman Harry
Thompson of Bath met Mrs. Cow and
she conquered. driving Harry right
off the highway into barnyard. He
armed himself with a pitchfork and
witt, the help OF Hollis Bailey sue
ceeded In getting a chain around the
cows neck and tied her to sour
apple tree while they planned her
A yoke of oxen was secured at
Montsweag farm and the cow was
hitchcd to n jiggcr, but laid right
down on her back and kicked at the
sun. After three hours work they
managed to get her to the farm and
Tuesday night she was guyed be-
tween two apple trees awaiting her
a, owner, who is not known.
Efforts are being made to raise
5000 or 500 in this section to pro-
mote scientific and systematic in
vestigations at Pemaquid Profess
sor Eben Horsford published between
1856 and 1892 several large volumes
such as the "Landfall of Left Erick-
son." John Cabot's Landfall." THE
Discovery of the Ancient City of
Norumbega.' There are also trans
lations into English of the Morse
sagas. These sagas are indefinite as
to location since the country was I'M
known and the Norsemen unfortu-
nately did not make any maps.
Theirs was a work of adventure and
not geography. Horsford after work
ing for years and carefully studied
the Morse descriptions of coasts and
bays decided that the Charles Basin
above Boston was the largest Nor
umbega settlement. According to
the saGas after, two days sail from
their most northern point they made
Norumbega. The Norsemen sailed
only by daylight and two days would
just about take them from Pemaquid
to Boston. This part of the coast
offers better opportunities for land
, ing than any other for open boats
and the later French and English
fishermen made free use of it. Sail
boats could not put far out to sea
and they would naturally stop at
Pemaquid. Prof. Warren K More
head of Andover Museum believes
that explorations there will result in
discoveries which will shed much
| light on disputed points and be of
great historical value. More of the
walled cellars and pavements would
probably be discovered. Many have
been uncovered in the past and de-
stroyed. They might be regarded as
of early French or English. If so,
history is strangely silent regarding
them and the accumulation of two
feet of earth over the pavements
seems to effectually negative any
comparently recent origin. Two
bronze spear heads are said to have
been found here which certainly
could not be either French or Eng
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