Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-19

new experience and proposes to
| make it a permanent thing, not mere
ly an experiment.
The many men who predicted Sep
TENDER hot spell are getting uneasy
about their reputation as prophets.
They raise other things than big fish
at Belgrade Lakes. Eight years ago.
Mrs. Orison Farnham of that villag e
planted Il peach stone in her front
yard. The tree that has grown from
it is row u feet high, and on its
| branches are 40 full grown peaches.
An ingenious Belfast man, Leandcr
Staples, has invented a patent halter
for which he has been offered $1,000
He holds out for $4,000, and in the
| meantime has three men busy trying
to fill the orders for the halter.
The citizens of Eodgdon think thew
can almost hear the distant rumble Of
the train coming into town. This
week. for the third time in a few
| months, officials of the G. P. r. have
been in town looking over the route
to build Il branch into the village. y
large amount of freight from there is
drawn to Houlton. The proposed
branch would give the G.. p. r. all this
freight which now goes to the +. & A.
1t is thought the road will eventually
be built through to MattawamkeaS.
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\ record in brickmaking was made
in ". >. -tiellier's Bangor brickyard or
| Monday. The crew consisting OF ten
men ana using a Henry Martin horse
power machine, such as has been used
| there for the last - years. undertook
10 see how many brick they could
make in 10 hours. The result was i6,-
0G0 The men consider this record
for that vicinity and would like to hear
of any machine which can make more
bricks with the same number of men
in the same time.
THE mackerel season has been a
| failure. looking at it from the local
The few fish which have been caught
| on this part of the coast were mainly
| landed ty the seiners. who ran into a
school now and then"
A Milford resident thinks that he has
| made i discovery which may solve the
| fuel question to some extent. The cit
| izen has been experimenting with Il
certain soil found in a marshy place
Of n, 10Y, ha
| to divulge. This. the Milford man
| claims is very good imitation
| of the peat found in Ireland: that when
properly dried it will burn with a hot
| and lasting heat and be fully the equal
| of the best grade of coal. He says that
there are acres of the peat and as soon
as he can raise money enough to buy
| the farm on which it is situated, he is
| going into the business. Just at present,
| however, he is in something of tick
/ fish position. II happens that symp-
toms of oil. coal. gold, silver, copper
and molybendum have been found ut
different times in the past on ether
portions of the same farm so that the
owner throws a fit every time anyone
makes any advances towards buying
| the place and the price JUMPS from
/ the real value of about 1900 to about
$4,000 an acre which seems to be pro-
hibitive for the present promotion OF
the peat business.
| Those wonderful Pressure Isle beavers
are getting another wrte-up in the
papers. The Beaver brook dam is now
$50 feet in length. four feet thick and
| about Ii feet high and is q marvel OF
animal ingenuity. The beavers will
| fell tree with all the skill of an ex-
hpert woodsman, cutting into the trunk
! at correct angles so as to make the log
fall in the exact spot where they wish
| It. How they sink the log whics
forms the bottom of the dam is a mys-
terry which man has never fathomed
In this dam there are also rocks thai
could be handled by men with only
| the greatest difficulty. Many peopl,
make frequent excursions to Beaver
brook and never tire of watching III,
animals at their work.