The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-06-04
MAINE NEWS ITEMS.

Register Of Deeds Bracket of York
county recently received for record a
deed from the town of Wells dated
$780, This deed recorded after 11S years
makes new record in the State.
Mrs. Sarah Skillings of Gorham has
an oriole in captivity that receives
visits from friends of it's own feather
regularly each spring. Mrs. Skillings
says that these visitors are always de.
lighted to see her pet and make fire.
quent visits to the cage.
The State prison has now the largest
number of convicts it has ever had at
one time, a commitment from Cumber-
land county May 9th making total of
242 All but few cells in the west
wing are occupied. The previous high
mark was 239, with an average of 100.
The Baxter paper box company of
Brunswick, which recently received a
large order that will employ $50 hands
for year, has been obliged to work a
night shift in order to keep up with the
work There is difficulty in securing
sufficient help.
Manton Copeland, who was graduated
from Harvard in 1904, and since has
studied in Harvard graduate school and
taught at Harvard and Radcliffe, has
assumed the duties at BoWdoin for the
remainder of the year of Prof. Leslie
A. Lee, who died last week. Mr.. Cope
land is naturalist.
Burr L. Miller sculptor, and son of
Hon. Warner Miller of Herkimer, has
closed contract with the chamber of
commerce of Portland to make life
size bronze statue of the late Thomas
B. Reed, to be placed in the city park
at Portland. Mr.. Miller is to receive
for his work S35, 900.
Marshall N. McCusick, five times
mayor of Calais, died of angina pectoris
May 2sth in that city. He was sixty
eight years old. He had represented
Calais in the State Legislature and
held the Office of County Attorney. He
was Civil War veteran.
Enoch knight, lawyer and journalist,
who is dead in Los Angeles, was fol
several years judge of the Municipal
Court Of Portland, while as editor of
the Portland Advertiser and Star, he
was no mean antagonist of James G.
Blaine, owner and editor of the Kenne
bee Journal at that time.
DR.. A. G. Young, secretary of the
State board of health, has issued a
special bulletin devoted to information
in regard to tuberculosis of cattle. II
is the outcome of the conference be.
tween members of the board and dairy.
men of Maine held March 3Oth at the
State house.
Russell w. Eaton, the agent of the
Cabot manufacturing company, Bruins.
wick, announced May 9th that the
officials of the Cabot manufacturing
company have decided to build this
year the west section of the mill, to re-
place that portion of the old mill which
still remains. 1t will be about 100 feet
by 100 feet and five stories high. When
this part is completed the main mill
will be about 500 feet long.
The commissioner of sea and shore
fisheries in Maine reports that during
1907 the value of the lobster catch in
the State amounted to zoos, 1852 an in
crease of $64,S16 over the catch of the
previous year. He says that in round
numbers $1,000 short Holsters were
seized and liberated within the year
and he adds that approximately 1000,
600 short Holsters were destroyed on the
coast during the year.
The first party of patients from the
Augusta and Bangor insane hospitals
to 20 to the summer convalescent insti
tuition at Widows Island will leave
Bangor Monday morning, June 9Th
The Augusta patients will be brought
to Bangor in a special car attached te
the early morning train from Augusts
and South Gardiner, and on their ar
rival will be transferred to the steame
which is to take them to the island.
Miss Elsie Valanski of Augusta, who
is not yet IS years old, can speak sever
and can read and write nine differen
languages, Yiddish, Russian, Polish
Lettish, German, Hebrew, French
Latin and English. She speaks all ex
cept Latin and Lettish. Miss Valansk
came to this country in 1905 and afte
she had been here 10 months became
an interpreter in the Augusta municip
al court. She was born in Kovno, west
ern Russia.
POLLY:
Gold Medal Flour makes baking easy.
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