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Show I PAINTED OLD HOUSE I 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, Mo. The costliest Job of house painting on record hereabouts Is reported by n Iprtheast Harbor roan, who lost a fortune through his anxiety to niako improvements upon lils residence and his poor opinion of Northeast Harbor's prospects. This men concluded sonic yenrs ago that Lis lWisa, then white, would look n srcaldcnl better it painted a sort of canary color, with pea green trimmings. trim-mings. Ho hadn't the money to pay for the paint or work, but he had plenty of land, being in fact land poor. To a friend from Ellswortn the North-east North-east Harbor man said: "Here, Jim, I ,necd $50 tho worst way. Now, you give mo tho $50 and 111 give you a deed to that pasture lot down there to tho shore." And Jim said, after some thoughtful thought-ful inspection of the land: "Well, John, bcln's It's you, nn' you want the i? . monoy, an' it's n consld'ablo bit o' pastur' well, hero's your money, an' get tho deed." So tho pnsturo lot changed hands. Tho whlto houso was painted whnt tho neighbors described ns "light yal-ler." yal-ler." Summer visitors subsequently enmo nnd Northeast Harbor began to hump Itself nnd get rich. The man who got tho pasture lot sold a half Interest In-terest in it to another Ellsworth man for $1,250, and then, not long afterward, after-ward, tho two got $2,500 to bind an option on tho Innd nt tho prico or $10,000; tho deposit to bo forfeited In case of no sale. There was no sale and tho owners of tho land pocketed the $2,500. Last summer they sold a quarter of tho land ror $7,500 to a Now York man, who built a fine cottage cot-tage there, and to-day thoy are asking ask-ing $25,000 for tho remaining three-quarters. three-quarters. Tho man who painted his houso at this groat cost says that tho soa waves aro positively gay compared with him. "More than $30,000 for pnlntin' that ramshacklo of a house!" ho exclaimed. "Now, if I'd had moro sense nnd less style I might havo a yot and n team o' speckled bosses an' bo a swelling 'round with them big bugs yes, slrreo." |
