Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-07

|
The Maine Woods, as well as the
| York Transcript, will so on an abso-
lutely cash in advance basis after Jan.
n.
| IN Old Town they are agitating the
plan of having the public library open
on Sunday afternoon.
| Director Chapman writes to the
| newspapers that he is himself again
after his long illness and is ready once
| more for active work.
| Lots of poultry and a few cats at the
| Maine Poultry and Pet Stock show in
Portland, but the local papers fail to
mention the presence of a single Bel
gian hare.
| The newspaper instinct runs in some
| families. The new manager of the
Bowdoin Quill is the son of Oliver Otis,
| for generation the owner and editor
| of the Rockland Opinion.
Portland Democrats naturally feel
elateG over their victory at the polls.
Monday. Their joy is modified, how
ever. by the knowledge that their
mayor will have to work with IA city
| council strongly Republican III its
makeup. -Biddeford Journal.
1t must also be Il dash of ice water
on their joy 10 gaze at the sad and bob
| tailed specimen of a rooster which the
Argus brought out in celebration of
the victory. Not having had any oc-
cdsion to use election roosters in re-
cent years. the Argus has evidently
mislaid any healthy and respectable
looking birds which it had on hand.
Over 1000, 000. 900 herring were packed
in tin cans as domestic sardines during
1905, the first time in the history of the
Maine saldine industry that the figures
have reached that proportion. That es-
innate is based on count of six her
ring sardines to a box or can; in a ma
jority OF cases the packers give full
count and allow seven. Last year the
total of all kinds exceeded 995 900. 900
fish, and the increased pack of this year
added one more to the long row of fig
ures. The value of the little fish in
cans this year will exceed s51O0,OoO.
making the industry one of the most
important of the Pine Tree State.
Will Mann of Westbrook. while on a
hunting trip at Sebago Lake recently
found imbedded in the earth on the
shore of the lake, a stone AK. 1t was
well preserved specimen of the kind
of tools made and used by the Indians
who formerly abounded in this section
of the State. Mr.. Mann will highly
prize the tool. both as Il souvenir and
sample of the handiwOrk Of the natives
of the forest while at the hunting
grounds at Sebago Lake.
There is a club in Lewiston that
but a short time ago numbered Il
members. At the present time there
are but T. members. a peculiar thing
about this club is that on the two oc-
casions that it has lost member it has
been the president of the club who has
backsiid from the state of bachelor
hood. 1t is already rumored that the
club is looking for another leader rs
| the Indications at present are that its
third president is threatened with the
same symptoms that proved the undo
| ing of Lis predecessors.
The biggest cargo ever brought to
| Portland Oh d steamer is coming on the
Cornishman which is due from Liver
pool in Il few days. The cargo con-
siStS of 2l60 tons of miscellaneous
| freight for Canadian points. In order
| to move this cargo it will take at least
| 200 cars or five trains, the whole aS-
gregating in length almost two miles
| Both box and refrigerator cars will
| have to be used to get the steamships
cargo out of Portland. one item of
| the cargo, by the way. is 40 tons of
| liquor, but it will not remain in Port
| land.
Six inches Of snow and ice cover
Moosehead lake. In the woods, there