Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-22
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

The big five-masted schooner Martha P
Small was launched. Saturday. from the
Percy Small shipyard at Bath.
The Androscosgin grand jury reported
Saturday. at Auburn, bringing in - in
dictments. mostly for liquor nuisances
The Reckland Sons of Veterans are
making arrangements to entertain the
State Encampment. which will meet
there. June l. and IS.
A. Carl Beck of the Windsor house
Kennebunk. from whom liquor was seized
April IL. had hearing. Saturday. He
was fined $l12.3i. and paid
The fishing opened at Lake Auburn,
Saturday. The first fish caught was a
31s-pound salmon. On account of the
storm not many tried the fishing.
Fire. Friday night. at Kennebunk,
burned barn and contents owned by RI.
Fuller Curtis Loss. $1,000; insured for
$500 Cause. spontaneous combustion.
Gen. J. l.. Chamberlain of Portland. and
Mr.. w. 3. Kendall of Bowdoinham. are
greatly interested in the movement to
erect a fitting monument to Elijah Kel-
logg.
The Bath Iron Works has been awarded
the contract for building a caisson to be
used in the dry dock at the navy yard Al
Philadelphia. The contract price is
$4,000
The fishing season opened at Green lake.
Friday morning. and during the forenoon
three landocked salmon were killed by
Capt. F. II. Noble. Charles Gould and w
A. Bragg. in the order named. All of the
successful anglers are residents of Ban
gor.
The grand jury at the supreme court at
Auburn reported, Saturday. Beside
number of liquor indictments. the follow
Ing were made public: Paul Parent Lew
iston breaking and entering in the night
time with felonious intent; Alfred Mail
hot. larceny; Daniel j. Roche. breaking.
entering and larceny: James Hanlon, dis
turbance on street car.
Daniel F. Pembroke of Bath. died in
Portland. Saturday morning. He went to
Portland Thursday. to attend the Pyth-
ian tournament, and was taken i'll. He
was native of Bath and had always
lived there: He was caulker by trade.
He is survived by one sister. Mrs. j. W.
johnson of Bath, and one brother, James
of Boston. He was aged As years.
The transportation of limerick by troll
ley is an interesting innovation about to
line is now being built at the northern
end of Rockland. and will be utilized in
carrying the lime from the new steel
sheds to the barge wharf. In Rockport
limerick is to be hauled from the Shep-
rd-Carleton quarries to the kilns of the
lime company on the water front. This
of the street railway. and will not neces-
state the building of new line.
The price of logs on the Penobscot con-
tinues to advance. and there is every in
dcatiOn of a great boom In the lumber
market. Never in the history of lumber
ing have logs been sold for such a high
figure at this season of the year. With
manufactured lumber selling for only ST.
per thousand. operators are getting as
high as SIG for their logs. Cornelius
Murphy Of Old Town. is said TO have sold
his cut Of 4O6O.0O0 feet for that figure, and
James McNulty of Bangor, has sold IA
U0O.0o0 feet at price bette: than $l4. H.
B. Morrison sold 100000 Of spruce for
$l4.5D per thousand.
The difficulty between the Rockland.
Thomaston & Camden Street Railway
which led to the citizens of ThomastOn
voting out the street lights last year is
on the point of being happily adjusted.
Supt. Hawken was in Boston, last week.
and while there ordered material for an
extension of the Thomaston branch of the
railway. The proposed addition of the
road will be about $500 feet, ana will
carry the line to a point opposite the
State prison, thus accommodating nearly
the entire population of that town. The
proposed location is understood to be SAL
isfactory TO all C.ncerned. and with the
completion of this short stretch of rail
way the bone OF bitter contention will
be removed