Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-21


I'm thinkin', sadly thinkin'.
Bout de folks that's gone to jail.
And even more depresSin'
Are the thoughts that still arise
While tears of hot resentment
Come unbdden to my eyes;
Each haunting recollection
Still more hitter leaves my woe;
I am thinkin', sadly thinkin',
Of the folks that ought TO go.
Washington Star.
They are using the Lewiston City
hall for polo games, but there are lots
of Lewiston people who feel that the
Augusta policy is the much wiser one.
Henry c. Prince, formerly of the
Waterville Mail. has purchased the
Madison Bulletin. The Journal extends
best wishes for the success of Mr..
Prince and the Bulletin.
College athletics will now be less IN
evidence for a time. OF this years
Maine championships, BowdOin has
won those in baseball and track sports,
and u of NJ. that in football.
The shipping of birch spool bar lum-
her is a Maine industry which is des-
tined to come into sharp competition
with the foreign article before long if
reports il. the newspapers are reliable.
Though this seasons shipment from
Bangor to the great thread factories of
England and Scotland is large, being
over one million feet larger than last
year, when it reached 1000 600 feet. the
spool wood manufacturers fear there
will be a big dropping off in shipments
next year. The white birch forests of
Finland are now coming to the fore in
the spool wood industry and their pro-
duct is encroaching on the market.
which has heretofore been held almost
exclusively by the American product.
Then the manufacturers of spools i'll
England and Scotland have been taking
the spool wood as it came along until
they are overstucked with the raw pro-
duct, and consequently are not making
contracts for further supply. The
wood of the yellow birch does not meet
the demands of the spool manufacture
ers, and will not stand the shipment as
the white birch does. There are thou
sands of acres Of birch grown in Maine
with the yellow predominating. The
yellow birch is used for making hubs,
hut there are few hub mills in Maine
and the yellow birch is consequently
almost a drug on the market and can
be had for almost nothing.
For nearly five years the members of
Frances Dighton Williams chapter. d.
A. r. of Bangor. have been engaged in
the work of identifying the graves of
soldiers of the Revolution located in
that vicinity and that they have sue
ceeded in this valuable and difficult
task may be seen from the subjoined
report from the committee which the
Bangor Commercial publishes. 'In the
spring of 1901. committee of two
ladies was appointed by the Frances
DightOn Williams chapter, ID. A. r.. of
Bangor to hunt up the records and
Identify the graves of soldiers of the
Revolutionary war. who might be laid
to rest in this vicinity. This was Il
somewhat difficult matter to accom-
pliSh, as very many had no headstones
and in some cases the records had been
lost or were incomplete. The object of
this research was the ultimate placing
of markers at each grave. Where there
was no headstOne. Municipalities were
added to the markers, thus definitely
marking them for all future time. and
putting this on record, in the books
kept by the cemetery superintendent.
Thirty-nine have thus far been marked,
and we hope to carry on the good work
in. the future" Thus it is seen that the
same patriotic service is being done in
Bangor and vicinity that Koussinoc
chapter has done in Augusta.
VIM. Harper Deering. Saco's grand
old man, was SO years of age. last
week. He is one of the smartest and
best preserved men of his age in
York county and bids fair to celebrate
many more birthday anniversaries.
Few men in that section are better
known than Mr.. Deering, who for years
was engaged in buying cattle for the
Boston Market. During this period he
visited all parts of Maine and years
ago it was no uncommon thing for
him to buy 100 cattle in a few days.
He came in contact with hundreds of
people during these years and as
result is well known throughout the
farming districts in all the section.
Here is an Appleton item in the Bel
fast Journal. quite an extensive
strawberry business was done here the
past season. Here are some of the
figures: J. G.. Wentworth sold 5000
baskets at 10 cents a basket He had
three-fourths of an acre under culti-
walton. He paid the pickers SIS.
Frank Kinney sold PTS baskets, which
he raised on half an acre. He received
for berries and plants sold $40, and
paid for work. baskets, etc, s13S.
Geo. Stuart cultivated five eighths of
an acre with good results. Cyrus
Perry sold $500 baskets which he rails
ed on three-quarters of an acre. He
received for the same $40. John Tay-
Tor sold 5000 baskets for which he re-
ceived $500 VIM. Newbert, Chas
Newbert and many others were engaged
in strawberry culture with equally
good results"