Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-16


| sraded it with care;
l seeded, hoed, and watercd it.
When | had time TO spare.
The cutworms ate my squash:
The bugs advanced by millions
Bug powder proved josh.
But by car" and perseverance,.
And working like the dickens,
l raised my little garden
To feed my ncighborS' chickens.
Elliot Hays stone in Farm Life.
The executive committee of the
state Chamber Of Commerce has
voted to undertake the proposed
coast to coast trip. from Portland.
the first week in September to boost
Maine. The special train will in
clude two seventy foot exhibition
cars in which will be placed exhibits
of an educational character from the
State of Maine. The trip VIII con-
sumo twenty-five days.
Bowdoinham has raised some
smart old mon. Among them is J.
+. Lilly who owns a fine farm on
the bay shore. His barn is situated
quite a distance from the house and
Mr.. Lilly has visited the barn not
less than four times a dav for A
Years. He took his pencil and
paper the other night and figured
that he had covered more than 5000
miles in distance during tho time he
has lived on the place in going to the
barn and back.
Maine bulks large IN the canning
and preserving OF fish. oysters, fruit
and vegetables, according TO in
formation from the Department of
Commerce, Washington. y. G. OF the
$40 establishments engaged in the
canning and preserving fish and
oysters, So We're located in the state
of Washington. Next came Maine
with "a. OF those engaged in cam
ming and preserving fruits and
vegetables. Maine ranked fifth with
IS concerns.
Portand's smallest store is located
at SO Grant street. This little shop
is but sixteen feet in width and six
feet in depth. 1t is located beneath
the porch Of an apartment house at
the same address. BY standing in the
center OF his store. the proprietor, NJ.
y. Smithson is able to reach from
that position practically anything
that might be desired. Mr.. Smith
son makes all deliveries himself, via
"shanks mare" and while he is
thus engaged he leaves the store in
charge of Miss Alice Holt.-Portland
Press Herald
The Northeastern Division Of the
American Pulp and Paper Mill
superintendent Association will
hold their annual meeting at Ban
gor, Me, Wednesday, May 23d, at the
Bangor House. The business meet
ing and election of officers will take
place at 11.30 a. NJ. After lunch the
members will visit the mills of the
Eastern Mfg. Co, Penobscot Chemi-
cal Fiber Co, and the Orono pulp
& Paper Co. Banquet will be served
at the Bangor House at 7.30 p. NJ,
following which program of enter
tainment and speeches will be en-
joyed.
Her humble home in the West End
tenement section. Boston, was bright
ened and life took on a rosette hue,
one morning, recently, when Mrs.
Frank j. Nicholson OF 81 Poplar
street, Boston, reading her Boston
Sunday Post. came across a story,
which told how her sister, Mrs. Eric
Sherstron. living in Redwood Me,
had come into legacy through the
death of n relative and was willing
TO share it with her. The sisters had
lost track of each other four wears
ago. and Mrs. Sherstron had asked
the Post to find Mrs. Nicholson.-
Boston Post
Mariners making the Maine coast
after August 1st will see a great
change in beacon lights of Matinicus
rock, one of the most important
guides to navigation along the At
lantic coast Now there are twin
lights, steady burning fixed white.
About July 18th, one of these will
be discontinued and after August 1st,
the south tower will flash a great
beam of $4,000 c. p. visible many
miles at sea. 1t will be a flashing
light-one flash alternating with
two flashes every Is seconds. There
will be no danger of mistaking it for
Monhegan with its single flash every
minute, or Seguin which is fixed
white.
A representative of one Of the I'D
river concerns, which lost consider
able pulpwood by the recent freshets
on the upper kennebec and Andres
co2gin rivers, was in this section
Saturday looking over the piles of it
which had been saved by men living
on the river and hauled up on the
banks. says the Bath Daily Times.
He Was estimating the amount which