Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-02-22
STATE HOUSE.
Coming Meeting Of the
Governor and Council.
Lewiston and Auburn People
Will Fight the Brown-TaiIs.
Many Automobiles to Be Added 10 List
Now Owned ia Maine.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Feb. %, at 10 A. N.

Governor and Council, for the month
| of February, will be held in the council
chamber at the Capitol Friday, COM
mencing at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
and Governor Cobb will probably ar
| rive at the HalloWell House, where he
usually stops on his trips to Augusta
| this evening, coming up to the Capitol
| ir the morning. Ii is understood that
| the session will be of a comparatively
quiet nature. and that the time will
be devoted largely to matters of rou-
tine nature. The only possible mat
ter of a pardon nature which may come
before the council is the hearing on a
petition for the pardon of Fred NJ. Sta
pies of Belfast. who is serving term
in the Jail in that city for selling liquor.
and on which petition a hearing was
| ordered at the last meeting of the
Council. The grounds on which the
pardon is asked is the promise by
Staples that he will not engage in the
sale of liquor again. and on account
of the illness of his wife. who is a para
lytic. The petition bore the signature
of about - of the ladies of the city of
Belfast, and while the man has no
counsel to represent him in the case
a gentleman who has taken Il great
deal of interest in his behalf is DR.. FL
mer Small, former mayor of Belfast.
Stap pies has been in Jail for some time
having been committed to i2O days
Imprisonment for one offensc, and at
the expiration of that time WAS re-
committed for so days on another and
while the matter OF q pardon is Schcdul-
ed for the coming meeting of the Gov
einor and Council. it is possible. as the
man has but about six weeks TO Scrv3
before being released. that he may be
alioWed to remain until the expiration
of his sentence.
The peopl" of Lewiston and Auburn.
in which prompt measures were taken
last year in attempting to rid the cities
of the presence OF the brOWntail moth,
are to continue the fight this season,
and it has been suggested that the
cities this year will pay boys Il small
amount of money for every nest which
they locate. According to Capt. L. L.
Philbrook of the agricultural depart
nient, it will take years to rid the cities
and towns of the State which have be-
come infested. and constant fighting
time Ia come to keep the moths from
Increasing IL number. To neglect the
work for ono season would he to lose
everything. and il is this fact that the
department is trying to impress upon
the people of the State. An example
of this fact was well shown in Massa
chuScttS where it was decided on ac-
count of the excellent work which had
hccn done in tho way of determination
of tho moths, to do away with the APP
lropriatiOn. This WAS done for two
years, and the result was that the
moths not only ovcrian certain sections
OF MasSa chusctts and spread all over
the State, where the situation is now
"A serious one. but also found their way
into Maine and even into New Bruns-
wick. The whole Maine coast is in
Tested. and the moths have been found
as far East as Passport. If Maine
should fail to keep up the fight for
one year. the result would be about
the same as it has been in Massachu
sctts. and it would take years to gain
| the ground thus lost.
The approach of spring is heralded
by the increasing business at the
| Office Of the secretary of State in the
| dcpartmen devoted to the registration
| of automobiles and motor cycles and
| the licensing of operators. The busi-
| ness is not very rushing just at pres
! cnt as might be expected with winter
still in evidence, but one or two APP
plications are received each week. and
| the indications point to busy season
| and a large increase in the number Of
| automobiles owned in the State. At
| the close of the year the number of
| automobiles registered in the State was
| 756. and the number of licensed opera
| tors oS6. while at present the number
| of automobiles registered is 7i6. and
| the number of licensed operators 991.
| According to the Maine automobile
law the operators license does not
have to be renewed. but in Massa-
! chusetts the law requires renewal
yearly, the fee for which is 50 cents.
John +. Sprague. one of the well
known attorneys of the town of Mon
| son, was a caller at the Capitol We'd
| ncsday forenoon.
| Capt. Harry Smith, clerk at the
office of the State highway commits
sioncr. went to Bangor Wednesday af-
ternoon, to participate in the caucus
| in his ward, that evening.
| The following corporations have filed
their certificates of organization at the
office of the secretary of State:
| Indcpendent Telegraph and Tele-
nbone Co. of Lowell organized at
| Lowell for the purpose of constructing.
maintaining and operating Il telephone
and telegraph line between North
Waterford and Hiram inf Oxford
| county. with $4,000 capital stock. of
which $500 is paid in. Officers: Presi-
dent. C. P. Hubbard of Lowell: treas
urer. o. E. Andrews Of Lowell. Certiti-
cate approved Feb. 20. 1906.
Maratime Coal Co. organized at Au-
gnsta for the purpose of conducting a
mining. quarrying. mechanical and
n,anufacturing business. with $1,OO0.-
mn canital stock. of which nothing is