Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-24
STATE HOUSE NEWS.
Interview With Colonel harrington on
Names Fish and Game.
The Stale House Carpenter Corpora
tions-Other News and Notes.


secretary Of the Maine Sportsmen's
Fish and Game Association, to Ken
nebec Journal reporter, Monday.
The lakes will open early this year,
continued the colonel. and many hur-
dreds of sportsmen will be attracted TO
the State, leaving barrels of money
and thereby pleasing everyone. Affairs
of the Maine Sportsmen's Fish and
Game Association are in a most salts
factory state.
The National Protective Association
has been organized with headquarters;
at Kalamazoo, Mich. and will ask Con
gress to protect game in states and
territories In some localities the game
is slaughtered and shipped out of the
state without any limit. The decision
recently passed down from the supreme
court giving the State absolute con
troll over it's fish and game is one that
is all right and pleases those having
at interest the fish and large game of
Maine
Citizens are allowed to take all the
fish that they desire from the first of
May until the first of October proVid-
ed they are for their own use. '"he
limit, however, is % pounds The big
game season opens in October aud
continues until January, and during
those three months many hundred deer
and other animals are pulled down by
the man with Il rifle. Yet there is a
limit.
The woodcock and duck shooting sea-
son opens Sept and the partridge
Sept 20. l predict a good season lor
all those interested in the preservation
of Names fish and game for the sport
itself.
The next meetings Of the State rail-
road commissioners will be held at their
room at the State House, Wednesday
April L. The regular meeting is the
first Wednesday of every month At
this session a large amount of routine
business viii be transacted and sew
eral hearings have been decided upon
for this day.
Mail Carrier d. W .Pettengill re-
sumed his duties. Monday, after be
ing laid up for six weeks by illness.
During Mr. Pettengill's illness, Col
oner' Weymouth has been attending
to the duties of the State4House mail
carrier
The workshop, situated in the base
ment of the capitol, is very busy in
stitution. Mr.. Q. t. Small. an export
eneed cabinet maker, is in charge Of
the affairs at this place Mr. Small
is an artist and can make almost any
thing from q teothpicll to a piano
Especially good is he in the art of
making cases. several of which adorn
the different departments
Colonel Harrington knew w. A
Allen. the Maine Central engineer, vino
was drowned at Lewiston, Saturday.
very well. The Colonel thus speaks
of him: Mr.. Alien was fine man.
one Of those quiet, unpretending bust
ness men who look after the interests
Of the road every moment"
The Gray and New Gloucester MI
tual Fire Insurance Company has been
organized at New Gloucester to be
a guarantee capital for the purpose
Of insuring farm buildings and their
contents against loss or damage from
lire or lightning The directors of the
company are A. S. Carley, J. w.
Stevens, John w. True. John w.
Frank, Seth +. Sweetsir and N G.
Tufts The certificate has been granted
by the secretary of State
The following new corporations haze.
filed their certificates at the secretary
Of States office:
The c. w. Fisher Company, organ
lied at Bath, for the purpose Of ca
rying on the business of buying and
selling iron and steel and manufactui Is
thereof, with $4,000 capital stock o.
which nothing has been paid in The
officers are: President, Charles w
Fisher of Boston; treasurer, John o.
Patten of Bath, Me.
The Croker Mantel and Tile Com
pany, organized at Saco, for the iIl-
pose of manufacturing, buying, sell
ing and dealing in mantels, tiles
bricks, CRATES. fire. places. flooring etc.
with $4,000 capital stock Of which
$500 is paid in The officers are
President Robert w. Dean of trans
ton. r. l.: treasurer, Alfred C. Croker
of Cranston, r. |,
The following new corporations flea
their papers at the Secretary of States
office. Saturday:
The Massachusetts Steam Joint Co.
organized at Portland for the purpose
of manufacturing and doing general
business in improved steam joints