Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-23

| In their stories of the Old Orchard
fire and the conditions following II,
some of the Boston papers have bro
ken all records for taking.
| Why We're the exercises held at
| Father Rasle's grave yesterday. Aug
%? 1t was on Aug. 90. 1924. that the
gentle Jesuit missionary was killed BY
! the English and the NorrldgeWock
tribe of Indians wiped out.
This is Carnival week at Mere Point,
| not quite so pretentious an affair as
Fete week at Squirrel, but still very
| lively and merry affair at one of the
prettiest spots along the whole shore.
A summer visitor at Brooksville, who
| thought he was great fisherman. took
his wife on the lake to show her now
he could catch fish. He caught one;
she caught twenty-five.
At West Sullivan the Benvenue Gram
tie Co. is still busy putting it's plant in
condition for operation on much
larger scale than the quarries there
have heretofore been worked. There
are busy times ahead for West Sulli-
van.
Rumors are heard to the effect that
there is possibility of the old lead
mines at West Lubec being opened up
again, after a few years idleness.
There is custodian now in charge of
the property, which includes consider
able machinery. and it is stated that
with the recently discovered ores
which are being mined at Pembroke.
only a few miles away on the same
genera, vein of rock the prospects Of
work arc not improbable.
South Paris citizens are agitating the
municipal ownership of this water
plant The contract with the Norway
Water Co. has expired and no new con-
tract been made. The water commit
tee recently appointed, while not quite
ready to make their report, feel safe in
saying that the Village Corporation
will soon have chance to vote as to
whether they want water works OF
their own or not. Norway Water Com
panv claim that their full equipment
cost them about $50 600 which includes
n pumping station, that it would not be
necessary to consider. The estimated
income is about $4,000 per year taken
from the water that comes TO South
Paris through the pipes OF the Norway
Water Company. If these 11gureS are
anywhere near to the actual COST anu
the income. it is safe to assume mat
with a much less expensive equipment
than theirs the town ought to make at
least profitable investment and get
water much cheaper.
The Grange at Auburn discussed the
automobile terror" at some length at
a recent meeting. Some of the
facetious Changers suggested binders
and ear pads for horses, to which
another brother, who believed the
horses were not altogether to blame.
moved an amendment to provide the
binders and ear pads for drivers.
Someone else thought that it would be
| a good plan to have a law passed to
allow automobiles along country roads
| only during certain hours of the day
| so that the women might know when
| it would be safe to go out, but after
| everything had been talked over it APP
| peared to be the opinion of the ma
| jority that the matter will be adjust
| ed most quickly and satisfactorily by
having patience with the horse, and in
time training the animal to lose its
| fear Of the automobile.
A bright and promising lad Of Pts
cataquis county is Thomas E. Hughes,
the 12-years-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Hughes of South Sebec. For
the past four years or more he has
maintained a garden Of his own and
sold vegetables from it to Milo juno
| ton parties. In this four years time
he has cleared 800 and this he has put
| away in a Bangor savings bank.
AS evidence of the great scarcity of
LABOR all over the country. and particu-
larly in Bangor. may be cited the
fact that this week an employment
agent from Montana came to the
Queen City in the hope of getting men
who would like to go West and grow
up with the country. 1t is under
stood that the Westerner took the first
| train back to Boston.
Just at the present time it is quite
hard to form a correct estimate of
crop conditions in Aroostook. The hay
crop is row mostly gathered and it will
probably be nearly or quite as large a
crop as that Of last year. but it will be
subject to quite percentage Of reduc-
ton on account of wet weather which
has spoiled a larger or smaller per-
centage of almost every farmers hay
crop. The rust. fears of which Were
greatly entertained a week or so ago
and which did strike hard in some To-
calities. was fortunately checked by
the cool wave which came a week ago
and since that time has made but little
progress. Even under the most favor
able conditions from now on the pota.
/ to crop will fall short of the crnI
of last year, and it is hardly pre-
SII,uable that the quality will be a.