Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

biographical sketches VI Tic iheiAoeio
of both branches was a notable piece
of enterprise and deserves the many
complimentary notices it is receiving.
A Greenwood man cut white birch,
this week. that measured rs inches
across the stump, and % four foot
sticks of spool wood were taken from
it, to say nothing of the top that was
worked into fire wood. There may be
larger white birch trees growing, but
|they are not to be found on every farm.
There isn't a city in Maine in which
plenty of liquor cannot be bought and
there isn't a town which has not
|nefghboring town within few miles
at which liquor is to be had.-Biddeford
Record. fie. ~
On the contrary, there are a goodly
number of cities in Maine in which no
liquor can be bought and there are
several hundred towns which have not
a neighboring town where liquor is to
be had.
Next Sunday will be great day up
along Moose river. The latest ad
vices from a Waterville man now So
journing in the primeval forest an
nounce a prize fight a wrestling match,
a target contest and a religious revival
in the camps along Dead river and all
scheduled for next Sunday. The prize
fight will he for the championship of
the township on which the principals
are employed, and will be between a
man who claims to be the "champeen
of Moose river" and a fellow "who had
rather fight than eat,'' but does not
claim to be the champion of anywhere.
The wrestling bout will be between
man of Bigelow township and an UNI
known Canadian. The target practice
will be between a dozen men of several
camps. All of the contests will be for
championship honors alone. The re-
vival service will be held at one of the
Lawrence Newhall & Page Co. camps
on Alder stream. A glove contest in
the Maine bacl1woods differs materially
from the same game in town, in that
the first round continues until one or
the other of the contestants is down
and out. After he has been revived If
he demands satisfaction, the rules COM
pei the other fellow to satisfy him.
Biddeford Journal: A writer who
poses as an authority on pie con-
tributes to the columns of an exchange
an article on the subject in which &C.
ours the following sentence: There's
| a soggy crust on the cuStard pie.
Now even the youngest amateur in the
o,.l mic
| have crust on them. Moreover, a
soggy crust is a contradiction in terms,
| for a crust. in order to be true to it's
name. cannot be "soggy." Why will
writer's continue to write about things
| of which they know nothing. The sub
| ject of pie is one too sacred and deep
and broad and far-reaching to be safe
| ly trusted in the hands of the mex
pert. The writer here alluded to is
simply an individual example of a
class. Most of them have crust
enough, but where they have none they
assume it.
| Col. c. V. Crossman, surveyor gen
eral of the port of Bangor, has COM
pleted his tabulation of the lumber
survey in 1902, and the result shows a
total of less than four million feet in
excess of the survey of 1901, the dis
astrous year of late drives and loss Of
logs by freshet. The figures for 1902
would have been somewhat larger but
for the millmens strike last summer,
but even allowing for this, the total
| for the year is much less than had
been expected. Here are the figures:
/
Dry Pine - 1881, O34 214O7,51S 2o,4 767
| Green Pine . 1882, S6S 1,316, 223 ,329 coo
Spruce $780,. 102. 465.9SO 81, 81, 594 S793 ,649
Hemlock 49,. 1769S,361 16,259,5 62 15,2iS2
| --
Totals .. 142 699, 243 12O, 954, 1897 124, 767 GAG
| Capt. William Otis of Brunswick,
who celebrated his seth birthday, this
week, passed over so years of his life at
sea, all but five years of the time in
command of a vessel. In 1881 he met
his first shipwreck, losing his ship in
the Pacific. and since then he has lived
ashore. He commanded IA ships dur
ling his career.
A few weeks from now, just as soon
as the snow in the woods gets a little
deeper, the annual mid winter slaugh-
ter of deer by poachers will commence.
The game commissioners estimate that
number of thousand animals were
killed in this manner last winter and it
would not be at all surprising if the
quantity was fully as great during the