The Republican journal., 1901-07-25
MAINE NEWS.

The small fruit meeting of the State
Pathological Society will be held at
Armory Hall, Rockland, on Thursday.
August 1.
Major s. w. Rossler, in charge of
river and harbor improvements in
Maine, has made the following esti-
mates: Lubec channel, $50, 900; Bar
Harbor breakwater, $4,000; Carvers
Harbor, $4,000.
Two Augusta men who are engaged
in sturgeon fishing on the Saco river
caught four fish last week averaging
$50 pounds each. This is the biggest
catch ever made in the SacO. The men
estimate they will make SIS for their
days work.
The first cargo of stone and brick for
the new lighthouse in ROcklaDd harbor
has arrived and been discharged at the
breakWater. The stone is furnished
by the Booth Bros. & Hurricane Isle
Granite Co. and comes from their
Waldoboro quarries.
The Old Home Week invitations to
the number of 1000 have been sent
from the office of the secretary of the
State association. There has been a
brisk, demand for them from the towns
showing that there is live interest in
the event.
The Goth annual reunion of the sth
Maine Regiment association will be
held at their memorial building at Peaks
island, Aug. 18th and Sth. The business
meeting will occur on the first day of
the reunion. Mr.. P. G. ingalls, of
Razorville. Me-, is secretary.
Scion Academy has been incorporated
at the office of the Secretary of State
under chapter So of the Revised Statutes,
which makes provisions for the incor-
poration of educational institutions,
literary societies, etc. Selden F. Green
urer of the corporation.
AT meeting of the board of man.
ayers of the Maine Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution, held in
Portland, Tuesday, July is, the follow
ing were elected members of the society:
Charles Dunning Alexander, Portland;
Major Abner r. Small, Oakland; Fred
erick E. G. Robbins, Portland; Carlton
b. Talbot, Lewiston.
Coastwise captains who carry coal
to Maine ports are much interested in
the movement to petition Congress for
relief from the war stamp duty. AS
the law Stands at present schooner
carrying 5000 tons of coal from a coal
port to Rockland is taxed just one cent
while the small schooner carrying 30
tons is compelled to pay from $3.50 to
$500 for stamps.
Rockland has decided to have fire
mems muster as one OF the attractions
for Old Home Week. The date is
Tuesday, August 10. A prize of fifty
dollars is offered for steamer contest,
fifty dollars for a handful trial, first
class, and fifty dollars for hose reel
races. a special prize of ten dollars is
also offered for the best appearing com
pany with decorated apparatus.
August 3, the best rifle shots belong
ing to the Maine National Guard will
meet in Brunswick i'll a preliminary
competition, for the purpose of picking
out twelve men making the highest
scores as team to represent Maine in
the national rifle shoot at Sea Girt, n.
J. The three making the next highest
will go as substitutes. The condition
will be ten shots over each range at
POO, 800 and 900 yards, no sighting shots
allowed.
The committee of the Maine Histori-
cal society to take charge of the Wads-
worth-Longfellow property met in
Portland last week and organized with
Hon. James p Baxter as chairman;
Rev. John c. Perkins as secretary; and
Fritz H. Jordan as treasurer. Hon.
Joseph w. Symonds and Prof. Henry
L. Chapman were appointed commit
tee to prepare the appeal for contribu-
lions. Gen. John Marshall Brown,
Henry Deering, and Fritz H. Jordon
" ere appointed sub committee to con-
fer with local patriotic and literary
societies and engage their assistance.
The committee visited the house and
decided in Difference to the desires OF
the many summer visitors now in Port
land to make arrangements to open 1t
in its present condition at al early date,
and to postpone the repairs and refur-
niShing for some months.