Show PAINTED OLD colw HOUSE maine man lost thirty thousand dollars by job pasture he swapped for 50 worth of paint after afterwards wards increased rapidly in value says style Is costly danger bangor mo me tho the costliest cost liest job of house painting on record hereabouts Is reported by a northeast harbor man who lost I 1 a fortune through his anxiety to make Improve improvements mAnts upon his residence and his poor opinion of northeast harbors prospects this man concluded some years ago that his ble house then white would look a great deal better it if painted a sort eort of canary color with pea green trim ito ho the money to pay for the paint or work but lie ho had bad plenty of land being in tact fact land poor to a friend from ellsworth the northeast harbor man said here jim I 1 need 50 the worst way now you give me the 60 50 and III give you a deed to that pasture lot down there to the shore and jim said after some th thoughtful ought inspection ot of the land yell vell john belna its you an you want tho the money an IVF a consi dable bit 0 pastur well heros your money an got get the deed so bo the pasture lot changed hands the white house was painted what the neighbors described as light summer visitors subsequently aub came and northeast harbor began to hump itself and get rich the man who got the pasture lot abt sold a half interest in it to another ellsworth man tor for 1250 and then not long afterward the two got 2500 to bind an option on the land at the price of the deposit to io be forfeited in case of no sale there was no sale and the owners of the land pocketed the 2500 last summer they sold a quarter of the land for to ift a now new york man who built a fine cottage there and today to day they are asking for the remaining three quarters the man who painted his house bouse at this athla great cost says that tha t the sea waves are positively gay compared with him more afore than for that ramshackle of a housel he exclaimed now if id had more sense and less style I 1 might have a yot yet and a team 0 spec speckled kIdd bosses an be a swelling round with them big bugs yes sirree |