Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03

winners they modestly say that II viii
! ccat the Bangor people S125 fiat to get
| them here for just one game. 1t Is
needless 10 say that the Bangor man
agemcnt will not fall over itself in &C
ccpting the offer. No one over this
way knows on what the Kent's Hin
people base their claims 10 the cham
p!cnship or that they would be sure to
draw big crowd on, for it is fact
| that but few people ever heard of them
before. This request is only cquailed
10y that of the Hebron academy man
aeement. who said that they should
want si25 and expenses for 10 men, to
come to Bangor for one game. They
are not coming. Bangor News.
Five years will see g tremendous
revolution in the Maine railroad world, -
said prominent ZIMMERMAN ut 4.uin-
ford Fails. II was talking with Ed
ward piummer Of Lisbon Falls. agent
.or the Androscoegin water Power
Company. lest weck." NJ continued.
and our talk brought out this idea
with new emphasis. The .Androscoggiu
company owns =. $50 acres Of land MOTH
II here. including byron. Newry, Riley
anA Andover North Surplus and And
over East surplus. Hitherto they have
always driven their logs from the head
waters, but this coming season win do
away with driving altogether and car
their lumber. Last year they drove
100000 and had already contracted
for quite Z number Of small lots this
year, but lately. since they decided to
abandon driving completely, they have
sold TO blanchard 4 Twitchcll all they
had contracted for. This is only an
Indicator. but it shows which way the
wind is blowing. The days of the drive
in Maine are numbered, and as the
railroads push farther into the woods
fewer and fewer logs viii go into the
stream. The modern rush demands
that no time be lost in getting the trees
from the woods TO the mills, and the
only sure way to do this is to ear the
logs. In fiyc years l do not think there
viii he a drive of any consequence on
the rivers of Maine.
In cases Of forgery there is generally
some clue ny which the identity CT the
forger can he discovered, even il he is
10. caught. hut 4 case occurred in Ban
gor this week in which the criminal is
entirely lost, both TO sight and meinor.
\ few days ago G. W. Brown, q drug
gist ut PA Hammond street. gave To
Fred -. Wynan of Brewer check for
$40, drawn upon the Merchants Ma
tional bank. Very soon after getting
1t Mir. Wyman came back ard informed
Mr.. Brown that he had lost the check.
Mr. Brown gave his q ncw check and
notified the bank to stop payment on
the first. On Thursday, when Mir.
Brown went to the Merchants, hefounl
the lost check there. bearing n forged
endorsement of Mr.. Wymans name Il
had come to this bank in the regular.
course Of business from the Eastern
Trust x Banking Co. where it had
been received from T. It. Thompson OF
the firm of Thompson & Cosmey, stove
dealers at Ill Pickering square Upon
inauirinE at Thompson &. Cosmey's il
was found that the cheek had nce.,
cashed there for Il stranger who pre-
scented it, Endorsed with Wyman's
name. 1t was Mr.. Thompson who in
dorsed il with the firms name and pre-
scented it to The Eastern Trust & Bank
ing Cos, but neither member of tho
iiria knows just when, or how err from
whom the firm received it.-Dancoy
News.