Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-03


service is not to be reduced at present,
as was rumored week or two ago.
The lordly moose will not find life
quite SO strenuous now as it has been
made for him through the past few
weeks.
Lewiston is discussing the plan of
having it's public library open on Sun
day. This plan has been adopted
Waterville.
The eldest merchant in Belfast,
Frank M. Lancaster, celebrated his
Goth birthday las. week. He is still in
active business in the store at the cor
ner of Main and Washington streets.
He has been in trade for about SIS years
and about 45 in the same store.
Six portable sawmills are at work
helping strip the remaining woodlands
within ten miles of Augusta. The
greater part of the product from mills
of this class now goes into boxes for
the various manufactures in the
county. The wooden mills at Mon
mouth, Winthrop. North vassalboro,
Waterville and Oakland: the cotton
mills at Augusta and Waterville; the
shoe factories at Augusta. Hallowell
and Gardiner and Randolph: the screw
driver factory and other establish
ments in Augusta and in tile rest of
the county. not forgetting tho great
oilcloth mills in Winthrop, take i'm
mense quantities of boxes in the course
of the year, and have in the main al
ways preferred to buy of local max
ers. This situation cannot last long
Another menace to the remaining
woodlands of the county is the Dia-
mOnd Match Co., which has been buy
ing its own pine lands in Sidney, Bel
grade and Manchester.
During the past season a party of
men. employed by the United States
and Canada has been jointly resurvey-
ing and remonumenting the North
Eastern boundary line between United
States and Canada, reaching as far
east as Vermont, and as soon as sp:ing
opens the work will be continued on
the boundary between Maine ard
Canada. A carload of camp equipage
was received in Houlton recently, and
will be stored there until the work
commences next year. The head of
the U. S. party is J. r. Baylor while
Canada's representative is G. c. Rain
both. This work has been going on
over the entire boundary from the
Pacific to the Atlantic, and while there
are few if any changes, many of the
monuments have disappeared, and it is
on this account that the joint survey is
being made.
After a long and plucky fight against
the Ice Trust, which was successful
while Captain Amos M. Jewett lived to
command the vessel, the schooner
ErneStine is now passing over its last
cargo of ice to the very trust which for
so many years it battled against with
such effect. Captain Jewett, who died
a few weeks ago. was both owner and
commander of the Ernestine. Original
~ he was in the fish business on Com
merclal street. Portland. as owner and
commander of a fleet. He gave up this
business about fourteen years ago, pur-
chased the Ernestine. and devoted his
time to supplying ice to vessels. He
was indefatigable in his fight with the
Ice Trust and baffled every attempt to
o';st him from the trade. He knew the
fishermen and their needs and was able
To give fhnna
CURED. The Ernestine carries the sign
maine Ice" on both sides, and excites
wherever she appears With
the death of the skipper. however, the
independent career Of the schooner will
probably cease.
Two well-known Bath men believe
that they have discovered the where
abouts of the legendary hidden gold Of
the famous buccaneer and pirate. Cap
tain Kidd. They are Capt. E. w. Neal
OF the New Meadows Steamboat Co.
and his running mate. Capt. Isaac NJ
.Trufant. Tradition has it that this
treasure of Kidd's was buried on one
island on the New Meadows River. and
for years searching parties have made
eflOrtS to discover the location Of the
millions in gold and silver supposed to
have been slowed away by that bold.
bad man. One well-known Brunswick
man, now dead and gone. came into
possession of what purported to be
map of the locality where the treasure
was buried and regularly once a year
used to search for it, without avail
however. According to mysterious
signs on this map, the search in order
to be successful had to be undertaken
at certain time of the year and under
certain conditions. The old Bruns-
wick gentleman faithfully and patient
ly carried out these to the minutest de-
tail and vert to his grave firm in his
belief that during the next year he
would have found the treasure chests.
Neal and Trufant are not telling where
they believe the treasure to be. but
think that they have line on it and
would have found it this week had
they had the necessary tools with them
to break the frozen ground. They have
carefully marked the location so thew
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