Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-22

I stand in awesome silence
AS / contemplate the scene; ~
The purpling hills, the red, the gold,
And the quickly vanishing green.
Poets have sung thy glory;
Artists tried to paint thee, but in
vain.
Nature guards her secrets well
In sunshine, wind and rain.
Nellie Jewell, Gardiner, Me.
Oct. 16, 1926.
A big black Bear measuring over
nine feet from tip to tip, wandered
carelessly down the road at North
Bluehill a few days ago, and there
met his death when w. S. Saunders
of that place shot him with single
barrelled shotgun.
A rather unusual passenger aboard
the electric car which runs from Sa-
battus to Lewiston last Wednesday
was that of big parrot with
gorgeous colored feathers perched
on the back of one of the seats. Fell
low travellers who gaZed In wonder
ment at the bird, further noticed
that he was chained to the wrist of
a passenger. He appeared quite at
ease and swayed back and forth with
the motion of the car.
The Eastern State Normal School
at Castine has 1877 students register
ed. This Is the largest fall attend
ance that the school has ever had.
Even when the entrance require
ments were less exacting than at
present and when e. s. N. S.. was
tn one normal school in the territory
now covered by three normal schools
the fall registration never reached
1877.
A plan is afoot to make a game
preserve at Wiscasset of all the Sec
ton Of Birch Point between the high
road and the river, an area of a
thousand-odd acres admirably suit
ed to the propagation Of all kinds Of
wild life, including water birds,
since the river shore IL free from ice
throughout the year. It Is UNDER
stood that all of the owners of lana
in the section have agreed to closing
it to hunting Erastus Foote, who
owns the whole of Cushman's
Mountain, is the principal owner in
the big tract
The farmers of Van Buren, are be-
ginning to worry somewhat on ac-
count of the continued rain in that
section during the first Of the week
and some of them are thinking of
putting men in the fields to pick po-
tatoes by hand as the rain makes
it impossible to use the machinery.
One buyer and grower from that
town stated that he had 1900 barrels
in the ground and that If the rain
continued, he would have to dig by
! hand. This was done last year after
the first snowstorm. The level of
the st. John river has not been ris-
ing as it should on account of the
| rains and 1t is a puzzle to many
! where the water has been going.
The opinion is expressed that the
ground must have been very dry
and was absorbing the water as it
fell. Last year at the time there
was much snow on the ground.
| The best dressed Indian of Maine
| frontier tribe Of Passamaquoddy
! aborigines at Eastport. will soon
pack away his 5000 suit of gaudy
/ colors and await another season OF
trading with the whites as trips OF
the Eastern Steamship Co., will
soon be over.
Chief Pete Moore is an expert
basket maker and peddler and has q
stand at Sea street depot of e. $. S.
| Co., where he sets up an tmpromptu
shop by placing a few sardine
cases and some boards together al
no expense for clerk hire, lights,
| heating, show cases, etc.
For q few years past members of
| this frontier tribe had carried on
! basket peddling as many summer
folks pass through Eastport on
steamers between Boston and St
John, n. B.
Chief Pete was tipped off to don
his ancient historic native costume
of many colors, wear his headdress of
eagle feathers, fasten on his beaded
moccasins, smear few daubs OF
ochre on his face, toss q few orna :
ments across his breast, and then
| look like a genuine Indian. He did
| 1t was a trade bringer. Customers
! flocked to his table and he sold his
unique wares. 1t is all in the dress
or costume, for other Indians of the
| tribe wearing ordinary civilian
clothes, and often looking shabby
did not come in for as much trade as
| the gayly costumed Indian of this
| 1913 year old tribe.
|