Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-16
False Rumor Regarding Ice
Fishing al China Lake.
Fish Commission Will Hold Hearing
at Winthrop, Jan. 20.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Coun-
Gil Tuesday, Jan. %, at 10 A. M.


the insect pests. In speaking of the
brown-tail moth work Mr.. Gilman said
that some Of the towns in which the
moth has been found and work has
been conducted against it, seemed to
feel that tie law was a burden on ac-
count of its requirements. In view CT
the fact however that such cities and
towns as shall have expended in the
work funds to the amount equal to
one-twentieth ce one per cent OF their
assessed valuation of the previous year
are entitled to reimbursement from the
State, and of the Importance of the
work itself, it would hardly seem that
there is much cause for complaint.
The law is very plain in it's construc-
ton, and Section II, which refers to the
above, reads as follows:
Section Ii. When any city or town
shall nave expended in any one ca!en-
dar year, within its limits, its funds to
an amount equal to one-twentieth of
one per cent. of its assessed valuation
of the previous year in destroying or
suppressing the broWn-tail moth. San
Jose scale and similar insects, but not
including the gypsy moth, in any Of
their stages, as herein provided, it
shall receive reimbursement from the
state as follows:
Cities or towns having Il total ASSESS
ed valuation of seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars or less shall re-
ceive such sums as may III the judg-
meHt Of the commissioner of agricul-
ture have been necessarily expended By
them in excess of one-twentieth of one
per cent. of such assessed valuation.
Cities or towns having a total as
Sessed valuation Of more than seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars and
not exceeding one million five hundred
thousand dollars assessed valuation.
shall receive scventy-five per cent. of
such sum as may have been expended
by them in excess of one-twentieth
of one per cent. of such valuation.
Cities or towns having an assessed
valuation of more than one million five
hundred thousand dollars shall receive
fifty per cent. of such sum as may have
been expended By them in excess OF
one-twenteth IF one per cent. of such
valuation.
No city or town shall be entitled t.
reimburse from the state as aforesaid
until it shall have submitted to the
commissioner of agriculture its itemiz-
ed reccipted accounts and vouchers
showing the amounts expended by it
for the purposes herein specified. nor
until such vouchers and accounts have
been approved by the commissioner of
agriculture.
Announcement was made Wednesday
by the Commissioners of Inland FISH
cries and Game that a public meeting
will be held by the commissioners on
Monday. Jan. 20. commencing at 11.30
o'clock in the forenoon. at the Office of
Hotel Maine. in Winthrop, on the pc
tition of +. A. Bailey and 81 Others
residents of Winthrop and vicinity. in
kennebec county. praying that Lake
Annabessacook be wholly closed to all
iCe fishing, and that the order be re-
vokcl which perrnitS fishing through
the ice during the months of February
and March.
A rllmor from some unknown source
has gained circulation to the effect
that China lake was to be opened to
ice fishing for one day each week. and
inquiries have been received AZ the fish
and game department relative to the
matter. In speaking Of the rumo-
yesterday morning Chairman Carleton
stated that it was absolutely without
any foundation whatever. and that the
commissioners had no authority to
open the lake to ice fishing, the last
Legislature having enacted q law clos
ing it, Chapter 1854. of the Private
and Special Laws of 1907. which pro-
hibits ice fishing in this lake, and also
Lovejoy pond in Albion. says
Section l. 1t shall be unlawful to
fish for take catch or kill any kind
Of fish through the ice in China lake.
so called. in China and Vassalboro. III
the county of Kennebec. or in Lovejoy
pond, so called. in Albion, in said
county CT Kennebec.
Section 2. Whoever violates any or
the provisions of this act shall be SUD-
ject to the same penalty as is provided
for illegal fishing in section one OF
chapter thirty-two of the revised
statutes, as amended by chapter one
hundred and thirty-two of the public
laws of nineteen hundred and five
Work has been commenced at the de-
partment of agriculture on the next
Bulletin of the department, which will
be issued in March. 1t will be on the
subject of the orchards Of Maine. 1t
will be an interesting number to the Or
chardists of the State and will contain
q large amount of valuable matter
relative to one of Names staple
products. The preliminary blanks will
be issued from the department in the
near future.
The following corporations have
filed their certificates of organization
at the Office Of the secretary Of State:
Arcadia Cooperative Shoe Co"
organized at Waterville, for the
purpose of manufacturing and dealing
in footwear, with 100000 capital
stock. of which nothing is paid IN.
Officers: President. Cyrus w. Davis
of waterville; treasurer, Lewis G.
Whipple Of Waterville. Certificate
filed Jan. IA, 1908.
Hillside Mining Co, organized at
Kittery, for the purpose of conducting
a mining business, with $1,5O0.000