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Sugar beet raising in Aristook has proved a
success.
(Source: 5 Oct1878 Paper: Pomeroy's Democrat.
Submitted by Kim Torp)
BOY CHAMPION POTATO GROWER
Miram Gentle of Littleton, Me.,
aged fifteen, held the record for the lowest cost for potatoes per
bushel at the state contest held in Orono. He raised 378
bushells on his one acre plot at a cost of 15-1/2 cents a
bushel.
(Source: The Amsterdam Evening Recorder, Amsterdam,
NY March 7, 1916)
$4,000.00 worth of cattle were
recently purchased in Aroostook County, mostof them for the Brighton
Market..
The Republican says last Monday one hundred
thirty-six left there for the state fair.
The wheat harvest
is coning off and will on the whole be a good yield, though some
fields are injured somewhat by rust.
(source: Kennebec Daily
Journal, Sept. 10, 1881 edition)
Two small travelers, Master
Guy Miller aged ten and his brother, Harry, aged seven, just made
the journey from Butte City, Montana, to Westfield, alone.
their father died five weeks ago and their mother decided to send
the boys to her old home in Aroostook county. Every body on
the road was kind to them and the boys reached the home of their
grandfather.
[source: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, April 29,
1891 edition]
Law Court:
The case of Alden J. Varney vs John C. McCluskey, an action
to recover damages for the alleged non-delivery of potatoes under a
contract to plant and cultivate five acres of potatoes in 1915. The verdict was for the
plaintiff for $195.00 and is before the law court on motion for a
new trial by the defendant, R.W. Shaw of Houlton argued for the
plaintiff, and Charles P. Barnes of Houlton for the
defendant.
[Source: Daily Kennebec Journal
December 14, 1916 edition]
Isaac Willey of
Presque Isle, was released from the Kennebec Jail Tuesday, through
the U.S. District Attorney A.W. Bradbury, of Portland. Willey had served thirty
days of illegal liquor selling and taking the poor debtor’s oath,
was given his release by Commissioner Choate.
[Source: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, March 21, 1896
edition]
The North Star reports
that the house formerly owned by the late Mr.A.G. Davis, at Mapleton
was burned Monday morning of last week. Cause unknown.
[source: The Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, June 9,
1886]
A GIRL WHO SPELLS WORDS
BACKWARDS
In the plantation of Oakfield, Aroostook
County, Maine, there is a girl who possesses the faculty of spelling
difficult words backward without hesitation. Her name is
Hattie M. Drew, and she is just past her 12th birthday and resides
with her parents at Oakfield. They are people of moderate
education, living upon a farm in a rural community. While
this little girl is bright and smart as the average of her mates she
never attracted particular attention until, a little more than a
year ago, it was discoovered that she possessed the singular faculty
of spelling any word with which she was acquainted backward and
without hesitation. At a spelling match recently held in the
school which she attends, without any warning, she stood before the
audience for some ten minutes spelling words selected at random,
some for their difficulty of combination, but without any previous
knowledge of what they were to be, rapidly and correctly, except one
or two which she could not spell in the proper way, and when
prompbed in the correct spelling of these immediately reveared
it. Among the words which she spelled were: Galaxy, syzygy,
astronomy, robin, phonography, difficulty, attendance, indivisible,
etc. All of these words were spelled as rapidly as the eye
could follow, without a single misplacement of a letter. Has
any other person without any training been able to do this or
similar feats? In addition, it may be said, upon the testimony
of the girl, that "she can see the words in her mind, and knows no
reason why she should not read the letters backward as in the usual
way."
[source: The Dodge City Times, February 8, 1883
edition]
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