| Show I PAINTED OLD HOUSE Maine Man Lost Thirty Thousand Dollars by Job Pasture He Swapped for 50 Worth of Paint Afterwards Increased Rapidly In Value Says Style Is Costly Bangor MeTho costliest Job of mouse painting on record hereabouts Is reported by a Northeast Harbor man who lost a fortune through his anxiety to make linprovemnnts upon his residence and his poor opinion of Northeast Harbors prospects This man concluded some years ago that his house then white would look a great deal better If painted a sort of canary color with pea green trimmings trim-mings He hadnt the money to pay for the paint or work but he had rj plenty of land being In fact land poor To a friend from Ellsworth the Northeast North-east Harbor man said Here Jim I need 50 the worst f r way Now you give me the 50 and Ill give you a deed to that pasture lot down there to the shore And Jim said after some thoughtful thought-ful Inspection of the land Well John belns Its you an you want the uuuuu v money an Its a consldable bit o pastur well heros your money an get the deed So the pasture lot changed hands The white house was painted what the neighbors described as light yal ler Summer visitors subsequently came and Northeast Harbor began to hump Itself and get rich The man who got the pasture lot sold a half interest In-terest In It to another Ellsworth man for 1250 and then not long afterward after-ward the two got 2500 to bind an option on the land at the price of 10000 thodcpostt to be forfeited incase in-case of no Bale There was no sale and the owners of the land pocketed the 2500 Last summer they sold a quarter of the land for 7500 to aNew a-New York man who built a fine cottage cot-tage there and today they are asking ask-ing 25000 for the remaining three quarters The man who painted his house at this great cost says that the sea waves are positively gay compared with him More than 30000 for palntln that ramshackle of a house I he exclaimed Now If Id had more sense and less style I might have a yot and a team o speckled mosses an be a swelling round with them big bugsyes slrree uuuu |
