Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-09

And Peace on Earth again.
IT. B. In Portland Sunday Telegram
The two-masted schooner Gilbert
Stancliff Of Rockland. loaded with
boards - from South Bluehill for
Massachusetts. was discovered send
ing up rockets for distress signals
Friday night OF Green Island just
to the west Of Hallway light by the
tender Hex. The schooner was leak
ing, due to the damage done by
striking q ledge in Muscle Ridge the
preceding Sunday. The schooner
was towed to Portland Harbor.
While in Boston recently, George
Luks. the famous American artist.
did a series of pencil drawings of
the young poet, LIE Baron Cooke.
Both artists and poet are well-known
in Maine, Mr.. Luks having passed a
summer at Cape Elizabeth several
seasons ago. Mr.. Cooke Is a native
of Maine. Mr.. Luks has just been
awarded first prize for his painting,
1.-THE Player" at the annual exhibit
ton of American Painting and Sculp-
ture at the Chicago Art Institute,
the Logan medal, and $500.
Allen H. Miller Of Lincolnville has
q. genuine and very valuable curl
osity, a 81 Lii in excellent condition.
The paper is whole the quill sigma
lures and printers ink bright. 1t is
Continental currency of the date OF
1876 and bears the words "Seven
Spanish dollars or value In gold or
silver" On the reverse side are the
names of the printers, Hall & Sell
ers, Philadelphia" The bill was the
property Of Mr.. Miller's great-great
grandfather, Paul Stevens of Lin
colnville.
The Bangor firemen have had some
weird and wonderful experiences in
the way of calls for assistance, but
one received on Monday night was
something entirely new. The fire.
men had long run out Birch street
and looked all around for fire.
There were no signs of a confiagra-
ton about and inquiry was made at
a house where woman impaired
the interesting information that she
had called the fire department for
help as a skunk had fallen into her
we'll. The firemen, after a long. cold
run, were not interested in skunkS in
the well and retired in disgust.
Benjamin T. Newman of Fryeburg,
formerly Of Bath. is not only well
known as a painter Of pictures, but
also as one of the most successful
duck hunters in Oxford county. He
makes his own boat paddles and
decorates with grass the sides Of his
boat, thus making the boat appear
as a part of the marsh lands where
the ducks resort themselves before
their migration south. Years ago
the late Colonel Enoch c. harrington
was regarded as the greatest duck
hunter in West Oxford, and the
reputation Is now conceded to Mr..
Newman.
Buddy, a Wells dog, who died the
other day, had a funeral that might
be accorded to human beings. A
local undertaken embalmed the body
and placed 1t in white. figured
lambskin casket with white silk in
terror and regular handles. On the
top was a silver plate bearing the
name Buddy. Buddy. who was
well known all over New England
and various other parts OF the
country, celebrated his seventh
in September and enough
flowers were sent to his honor to
tickle the vanity of q debutante. and
sufficient toys to make any youngster
Says the Boston Post: Sidney
whose new play. Ned Nc
Cobb's Daughter. has been one Of
the weeks sensations on Broadway,
ought to be welcomed in Maine next
summer, but he will get a frosty re-
ception If he ventures to Cape Cod.
The scene Of his new play is a Maine
village on the Kennebee river and In
an Introductory note upon the dialect
Of his characters he praises the
speech Of Maine folks and slurs
Cape Codders. Il submit" he says,
Maine talk as the most beautiful,
the most gracious. and tho most dis
speech to be heard III
any part Of the country. It Ia not to
be confused with the ugly Cape Cod
Yankee"
Evidently Sid Is an old resident of
Maine, and intends to come again.
We're glad to have him.-Bangor
Daily News.
Those interested in the smelling
Industry, which by the way 10 one
Of the most remuneratiya in Ham
cock County are preparing their
tents and lines for moving to the ice
on Surry Bay, Bayside and Trenton,
Last year the smelts shifted" as
the fishermen say from Surry to
Bayside and Trenton making the
latter places the mecca and turning
their shores into villages alive with
men and women. While each To-
,aiity proposed to some extent it TO-
NAMED for West Trenton to reap the
most benefit from the industry as
The greatest number Of fish were
caught along Its shores. Women
ire quite as successful as men. in
'ome instances more so and tend
heir lines and handle their Assn
Usually as well as the male sex.
II used to be a novelty for women,
% DO such work, but there are nov,
quite 9 number In that section who
ire called "smelters" ana it Is said
nat the checks of at least three of
mem run ahead of those OF the sv-
'rase man engaged in the work.
The Great Northern Paper Co. IL
ship in the wilderness.
This is to replace the A. B. Sm,f,,
he old sidewheeier which has been
owing boom on Chesunoook Lska