Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-10

bare. watch out for the brown-tail
moth nests.
cessful orchardists is c. S. Pope, Man
chester, who has $50 barrels of Al
fruit for market.
The mayoralty campaign in Portland
will find the same candidates running
who ran last time; and the result will
be the same.
Think of a man As years of age. born
within rs miles of Bangor and living
there all his life. who never has rid
den on a railroad train until this week.
That is the experience Of John Smith
of Charleston who went to ,PittSfield.
Tuesday afternoon and rode behind a
locomotive for the first time in his
life.
West Poland has a prodigy in an
eleven-year- odd boy who runs gro
Gerry store of his own and writes poe
try. His name is Walter N. keene
and he is as bright as a button. He
started in with capital of $35 and
now has stock of four times that
value and quite Il balance besides.
A man who has been i'm the northern
woods says the beavers are increasing
there. and have done considerable DAM
age by building dams on some of the
brooks and flowing the swamps, so that
considerable cedar has been killed.
If the beavers are going to damage
timber land, there will be a demand
that the law protecting them be repeal
ed.
At special election on December 10,
the voters of Portland are to decide the
question of the annexation of South
Portland. By the enabling act of
1903 the legislature left it to the two
cities. South Portland voted on the
| question d year ago last June
and pronounced in favor of an
nexation by more than two to one. 1t
now remains for the larger city to de-
eide whether it wants to add some
more territory with attendant RESPONSE
bilities at the present time.
The Biddeford Journal man is skep-
teal about that Indian plough" made
| out Of stone and weighing 20 pounds
which was unearthed at Peaks Island.
He says: Before this relic is identified
as pillow. wouldn't it be we'll to
search the archives of history and ira
| For A.
Maine. or anywhere else for that mat
ter ever used stone plows? 1t is ex-
| tremely doubtful if such evidence is
Forthcoming. Indeed, it is extremely
doubtful if the stone is an Indian relic
at all. Imagine the Noble Redman or
his wife. as his better half did most Of
| the work in connection with the cult
walton of the soil, dragging a 7O-pound
stone pillow through the rocky soil of
Peaks Island,"
Percy A. Babb, Maine boy who has
been in the mining business in the
Mexican mountains for several years,
| is now back a little nearer civilization
and has opened an office as consulting
engineer and mining geologist in the
| lily VI fMchiCO. MI ESdDD is u SFdQu-
| ate of Bridgton Academy. SO, and of
| BowdOin College, 1900, and Is well re-
membered as an athlete and all around
! hustler. Since he has been i'm Mexico
he has won distinction by taking part
| in bull fight. He has married a
| Mexican senOrita and has one son.
The lions Advocate celebrates it's
nth birthday with this weeks issue,
and publishes large half-tone cuts of
the men who have been it's editors
since it was established in 1928. These
have been Adam Wilson, 1923 to 1899
and 1S43 to 1S4S; Joseph Kicker. 1889
to 1s4s; S. X. Smith, 1S48 to 1850: John
Z. Foster. 1850 to 1858: William H,
Smaller. 1858 to 1873; Henry S. Bur-
rage. 1875 to 1904; and Joseph X. Will
. son since 1904.