Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-16

April is taking care that the smiling
buds of spring do not approach the
bursting poirt with undue speed.
The April term Of the Supreme cour.
for Cumberland county is being held
in the Parish house of the old First
Parish church OF Portland.
The new Islander had a most sue
cessful launching and here's hoping
she never encounters a sandbar or
typhoon on the waters of the I<enne-
bee.
Peter NJ. Neal, the famous war may
or of Lynn, Mass, who died Monday at
the home OF his son, United States
Bank Examiner William E. Neal in
Lynn, was a son of Maine, having been
born at Doughty's Falls, North BeI-
wick, Maine, September q, 1911. He
removed to Lynn in 1850, and repre-
scented his district in the State House
of Representatives in 1870 and 1871, and
was state senator in 1877. Three chill
founder of the Juvenile Court and the
Friend of Kids lectures in Bruins
wick Town hall, Tuesday evening,
April 21st. He speaks three times only
in Maine, at Brunswick, Portland and
Bangor. On the day following his
address in the Jefferson theatre, Port
land, there will be a massmeeting of
the citizens in High street church to
welcome him. Few great men come to
Maine whose advent has been more
eagerly anticipated or who have a more
important or mere interesting work to
describe than Judge Lindsey.
Bar Harbor is to have a new news
paper. to be published about the lat
ter part of this present month. An
nouncements have been distributed
announcing the early publication of
new paper, devoted to the interests OF
Bar Harhor, Mount Desert and French
mans Bay resorts. 1t is to be pub
lshed and edited by r.. F. Gerrish,
| well-known publisher and printer, VINO
recently moved from West Sullivan. 1t
has been a number of years since Bar
Harbor had two papers, the present
one, the Bar Harbor Record, having
run for q years for the greater part of
the time having the field to itself, and
passing through a number of changes
of ownership.
A correspondent tells us a story of
Penobscot county merchant who came
to the Bangor markets last week to
| buy goods for his store. The mer-
| chants first name is Bill, and it does
not really matter about the other. The
goods were shipped Immediately and
reached home before he did. When the
boxes were delivered at his store by
the drayman, his wife happened TO
look at the largest; she uttered a loud
| cry and called for a hammer A neigh
Dor, hearing the screams, rushed to
her assistance. asking the cause of the
| trouble. The wife. pale and faint,
| pointed to an inscription on the box
which read as follows: bill inside.'
The Maine sardine canning season
opened Wednesday, and several of the
packers are in readiness for receiving
fish. Market conditions are \ much
more favorable than they were at the
| opening of the season of 1907 and the
prospects are bright for busy year,
provided the little fishes appear in suf-
| licient quantities to make the pursuit
| of them worth while. The packers de
not anticipate trouble in securing sup
plies OF fish on account of the weir
| mems union, composed principally of
fishermen in the neighboring province
| of New Brunswick, as the decided
stand taken last year by the packers of
| Eastport and vicinity is understood
to have had a salutary effect upon the
men who thought to dictate prices and
terms to the owners of the large can
ming plants on this side of the line. The
day Of the high prices for herring
caught at any, time in the season is
said to have gone BY and the weir
owners who attempted to regulate the
amounts to be paid during the season
of 1907 found that they had reckoned
without their host.
Bath people are not at all pleased
over the report that has come by way
of Boothbay Harbor that there is to
be marked change in the time table
of the steamers of the Kennebec di-
vision of the Eastern Steamship Co.,
by which the boats will during the
summer rush season., first make an
entry TO Bootllbay Harbor to distri-
butte island passengers and freight,
then come out of the harbor and into
the Kennebec river to Bath and pro-
coed to Gardiner, and will return to
Boston at night by the same way For
some time the energetic Boothbay
Harbor Board Of Trade has been wish
ing to get into direct steamboat COM
munication with Boston, and finally
sent a representative to consult with
prominent officials of the steamship
company in an effort to have the time
table SO changed this year that it
would permit of a cervice between that
town and the city, and if the rumors
are correct. It would seem that they