Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27

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| There has been almost an endemic Of
resignation among the National Guard
officers this winter, and the captains
in particular have shown a disposition
| to lay aside shoulder straps and sword.
| From one of the lower islands in
| Casco bay comes the report of two
| families Of II persons, cut off from all
means Of obtaining food and their own
! supply given out. For Il week they
had practically been without anything
to eat. They could not reach the other
| islands because their boats were
| smashed by storm.
Presque Isle will celebrate the Fourth
| of July this year When this town
makes up it's mind to celebrate there is
| nothing done by halves. One of the
| most attractive features this year will
be- horse trot. Work OF improving
the track at the park was commenced
| last fall amt as soon as spring opens it
! will be completed. 1t is expected that
by the Fourth this will be one of the
| best half-mile tracks in Maine
The Biddeford Record tells this
| story: Thursday morning Charles Nit
| chell, barber on Main street stopped a
small boy who was performing solo
| on tin horn and asked him why he
was blowing the horn. '"ThiS is George
Washington's birthday replied the
boy, thrusting the small end of the in
strument into his mouth. and blowing
a blast. "Who was George Washing
TONI asked the barber. The boy
| looked puzzled, scratched his head and
| said in a doubtful tone that lacked en-
| thusiasm, II dunno. but I think he was
| chief of police of Biddeford before Har-
mon got the job"
1t appears to have been a good VIM
ter for the Blaine lumbermen after all.
There had been fears that the mild
Interfere with operations, but to the
| contrary the conditions in the northern
part of the State n: least have been I'M
| usually good, with the snow deep
enough and not too deep and dry to
obstruct yarding and hauling. If now
the spring thaWs do not set in too
early and if there is good pitch of
water for the driving, it will turn out
to be a GOOD seasons work. TT is esti-
mated that on both the east branch of
the P-nobscot and the upper kennebec
the cut exceeds the average.
Fort Fairfield Review: The high
prices of real estate are tempting
Aroostook farmers to sell. Many are
willing to part with their farms. the
consideration of course always to be an
exceedingly high price. Recent sky
high prices of farms sold apparently
justify holders in thinking they can
get almost anything they ask for them.
Very few of the farmers who say they
might sell would leave AroOstoOk if
they did; their minds are not made up
TO what they would do. But the temp
tatiOn to take big lot of money is
sometimes too great for them to resist
Better think two or three times before
you sell your farm: it will surely cost
you something to get another.
SAYS South Dresden correspondent:
There has been a report that the cleo
| tries will be run from Bath to Augusta
| on the east side of the Kennebec con-
| Meeting with several villages but this
also would be- too good a thing ever to
| expect. There is one thing more that
| may be possible and that is the tele-
phone which needs only a few miles
| more to connect Dresden and Wool
wien. There has been talk of the con-
meeting link being made in the spring"
According to advices received from
Washington the much needed light
house recently recommended by the
Lighthouse board for Isle au Haul,
near IslesborO, will probably be con-
IStructcd. The request for the appropri-
alton has passed the Senate, so it was
stated and everything looks bright for
! it's final passage through all of the nee
essary channels. The appropriation is
for $14.500 and calls for a lighthouse
and dwelling combined and for fog
signal station. The new station, II
everything goes all right, will without
doubt be constructed during the COM
ing summer and will be ready for oper-
alton in the fall. 1t is also learned that
urgent efforts are being made for q
lighthouse on Otter Island near Rock
lard. This is something that has long
been needed and now a concerted effort
is being made to get it.
A well known surgeon in Portland
tells this story: At the time the sol.
diers were brought up from Cuba tc
Montauk Point nurses We're very badly
needed. number OF young womer
still. in training responded to the cal
for nurses. They meant we'll. but were
OF course. somewhat lacking in expert.
ence. They all looked so pretty and
. fresn in their nurses costumes thai
their patients submitted uncOmplain.
ingly to having thermometers stucl
unner their tongues their nulca taker