The Republican journal., 1901-04-04
Maine News aud Notes.

The five-masted schooner building at
the Percy and Small yard, Bath, will be
launched April 1s.
Schooner Nathaniel T. Palmer. in
dock at New York, is found or exam
nation to have knocked off about 100
feet of keel, and her bottom is consider
ably chafed.
A new steamboat line between Bath
and Portland will be established the
coming summer by T. j. and William
Small, and a steamer Sc feet long is
building for the route. The boat will
also make stops at Popham and Phipps-
burg Center.
The ice has left DamariscOtta river
and the steamer Anodyne made her
first trip up the liver March oath, and
will make regular trips until the new
boat, the Bristol, which is now building
at the yard of the Damages, South Bris.
tol, is completed and put on to the route.
Capt. Jesse H. Pease, one of the most
prominent citizens of Southwest Har-
Dor, died March 25tb, aged 81 years.
Capt. Pease was the owner and propri-
etOr of the ClaremOnt house, one of
the finest summer hotels in that vicini-
ty. He was prominent in knight Tenn
plar circles.
The thousands in Maine to whom the
singing of Sembrich has given so much
pleasure sincerely grieve to learn that
her wonderful voice is broken down un-
der the great and constant strain to
which concert and opera singing has
subjected it, and that her physicians
have ordered her home to Germany for
long rest.
Suspecting that under the guise of
lithia and other light beers, liquor con-
tanning an illegal percentage of alcohol
is brought into Portland and sold, the
liquor deputies have ordered from New
York complete set of testing tubes and
propose in the future to personally test
samples of beer thought to contain
more than three per cent of alcohol.
A. W. Thayer of Camden will become
proprietor of the Knox hotel in Thomas
ton on April 18th. Mr. Thayer is one
of the best hotel men in Maine, having
kept the Bay View in Camden, the
Augusta House and the Bangor Ex-
change at different times. S. W. Mas
tiers, who has been proprietor of the
Knox hotel for some years, is to retire
on account of i'll health.
The Portland assessors have begun
their work on Portland shipping, in &C
cordance with a recent act of the legis-
lature which repealed former act I'M
der which shipping was taxed accord
ing to it's tonnage with sliding scale
of values dependent upon its age. 1t
is now to be taxed directly as any other
personal property. Last year $4,000
tons were returned and an increase
since that time will make the assessors
task one of considerable magnitude
Mrs. L. NJ. N. Stevens and Miss Cor
don left Portland March 26th for an ex-
tended trip through the south, in the
interest of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. They plan to visit
every southern State, attending State
conventions and meeting other impor-
tant engagements. Their trip includes
visit to Texas, where preliminary ar
rangements will be made for the next
national convention, which will meet
at Fort Worth, Texas, in November.
The Rockland Woman's Christian
Temperance Union has petitioned to
the city government to close all the sa-
looms in ROckland, mot one day in the
week but seven" The petitioners said
they were pleased to note the action of
the city marshal recently, in ordering
all saloons closed on Sunday, and al
though this is an improvement on the
former order of things, they pray that
the traffic be entirely suppressed. The
petition has been referred to the COM
mittee on police regulation for action,
and the result is anxiously awaited by
all concerned.
Nathan Knox of Oakland was brought
to Waterville March Goth and arraigned
before Judge Shaw of the municipal
court upon the charge of logging deer.
Game Warden Fred Clarke of Smith
field, who had been watching the deer
of McGrath pond all winter, was the
officer who made the arrest and brought
the complaint. Knox was fined 500
and costs, from which sentence he APP
pealed and gave bonds for his further
appearance. This is the third time that
Knox has been brought to court for
like offense
Among the nominations made by Gov
ernor Hill March Goth were the follow
and game, Leroy L. Carleton of Win
throp; associated justices Supreme Ju-
dicial court, Sewall c. Strout, Portland;
trustee University of Maine, Henry
Lord, Bangor: chairman PASSPORT board
of registration, Henry N. Wadsworth,
Eastport; river and harbor pilot, Dan
lei Goldthwaite, Biddeford; coroner,
Charles W. Harris, Auburn; Albert W.
Grover, Bethel; Elmer P. Spofford,
Stonington; agent to prevent cruelty,
Osgood I. Martin, Foxcroft; inland fish
and game warden, W. I. Pollard, Fox
croft; trial justices, Charles E. Knight
Wiscasset, Warren H. Clinton, Gray,
James A. Reed, Springfield; dedimus