Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-02
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Fiftx names were added to the Vot-
ing list by the Bath Board of Regis
uation. which completed its work late
Friday evening.
Officer Edward p Cornish Of Bath
dropped dead Saturday night while
patrolIng his beat. He had just gone
on duty. having relieved the other Of
ficer at 10 o'clock. A widow survives.
Portland police headquarters have
been transferred from the temporary
quarters on Exchange street to The
basement of the old City hall, where
temporary repairs have made portion
of the ruins habitable.
Frank S. Bowker & Son of Phipps-
burg announced Saturday that they
had Just closed a contract for three
masted schooner of 500 tons for Roger
& Webb of Boston. She is to be
Duplicate of the Horace NJ. Bickford,
launched last fall. and will be COM
pleted next August
A commission will be appointed to
advise the Portland city council
whether to rebuild the new City han
on the present site or on another site
to be selected. That is the substance
of the order the committee on pubic
buildings will introduce at Mondays
city council meeting. This commits
sion will be made up of Mayor Leigh
ton, one citizen of Portland and an
outside expert.
Cobb, Butler & Co. of Rockland have
Just contracted to build two more
schooners, making four which will be
or the stocks in that yard the coming
summer One is four-masted
schooner of about 1900 tons, to be
owned by Donnell & MckOwn of Bos-
ton The other vessel is to be Il three
masted schooner of $40 tons, built Tor
the Brainerd, Smaller & Hall Quarry
Company of Portland, Conn.
The report of the selectmen of
Brunswick. issued Saturday, shows the
total liabilities $59,0S6.47 and the re-
sources s14.6OS.43. For the first time
the report contains report from the
milk inspector, DR.. Frank \. Whittier,
who makes the following recommen-
dations: First, that no person be al
lowed to sell milk in Brunswick with
out q license from the board of select
men: second, that no license be given
to any dealer whose cows have not
been tested by the tuberculin test, ana
third, that the dairy division OF the
United States department of agrlcul-
ture be asked to send government
milk inspector to Brunswick to look
over conditions and advise in regard
to improvement.
Sixty-six years Hall l.. Davis mas
been in business in the same store in
Portland and Saturday night he lett
the place where as n boy he first be-
gan his business career. Mr.. Davis
is 30 wears old. There is not a man
doing business in Portland today who
was in business when Mr.. Davis went
t. work for Hall j. Little, his uncle, in
1872 His uncle was bookseller ana
stationer, and in the course of time
Mr. Davis succeeded him in the same
| husiness and in the same location. He
has seen Portland grow from COM
paratively small town to CITY OF ~
900 people He has survived fre'
which destroyed the business places
of other merchants and has weathered
financial panics.
| Harry Smith. gun pointer on the
armored cruiser Tennessee, now on
the Pacific coast has written 70
friends in Portland that he has broken
the worlds records for shooting at a
target with IL six-inch gun smith Is
a Portland boy and has been IN the
navy three years. Recently wheh the
Tennessee was having target practlce
he hit the target six times in SIX SHOTS
the time occupied being - seconiS'
This means over 13 hits a minute Inc
worlds record for shooting was prev
ously held by the Charleston WHICH
made 13 hits a minute, nat. ne snl'''
were fired by Smith when the ZEN
nocsaa was making 10 knots and in a
rough sea Smith gets money from
tho shins prize. from the navy prize
| ,,o,oy IS q month increase in his pay
and promotion as first-class gun
pointer.