Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-24

museum.
Names latest boom town. Wood
land, gets some undesirable advertising
| at the very start.
| The boys have been playing baseball
down in Saco this week. Two years
! ago they had full game at Kent's Hill
| in February.
The Biddeford Journal diagnoses the
trouble with the 1908 ice crop as being
a case Of sunstrokc with recovery
| doubtful.
Bridgton correspondent alliterated
thus: Picking the pretty pickerel FROM
| the placid ponds is now the prime piS-
catorial paStime.
The fame of the Ellsworth dam has
| spread beyond the ocean. Last Thurs
day the company received a cahlegram
from st. Gaul. Switzerland. asking the
company 10 cable results of first filing
of the concrete dam.
Henry E. Hammond of South Paris
who died this week after serving as
| A years as crier Of the Supreme Court
| in Oxford county, was twice signally
honored by the bench and bar. In
| 1903 he was given handsome gavel
by the judges, the members Of the Ok
| ford county bar and court officers,
and later he was requested to have his
| picture hung in the law library with
| those of the famous members Of the
bar.
There is every indication now that
the present season will be one of the
largest in grain shipments from Port
land for several years as up to the
present time the shipments made are
ahead of the average and are consi;l-
erably ahead of the amount of BUSH
ness done last year in the same period
Of time.
DR.. W. w. Piper Of Cleveland. Ohio.
q former Maine man, who is the com
| mander Of the Army and Navy Post,
No. 1877 G. A. R.. of that city. was
recently presented with a remarkable
cane by his comrades. In the speech
OF presentation 1t was described as
made of a peculiar wood found in
Maine, with bark sometimes known
as the root Of all evil" It is engraved
from top to ferule with pictures of
Lincoln. Grant. the American eagle
the national capitol and many intri-
cate designs" After the speech Of
presentation the cane was unwrapped.
and it proved to be a plain pine stick
covered with so crisp, new one dollar
DIS. DIR Piper has been a most
efflclent and popular commander of
the Post and is held In high esteem by
the people of his adopted city.
w ord comes from Colorado of the
death of Albert II. Estes, native of
Maine VINO was prominent In the af-
lars OF this State half a century ago
ana who has lived in Denver for the
past ID years. He was born in BetEc;
IN 1875. He was California pioneer.
going there in 1850 and remaining four
years. After his return he was men,
was a close friend of Blaine's and
WHERE. he was active in Names early
temperance legislation. He was a
member of the Chicago convention Of
1850 which nominated Lincoln ami then
served through the war as a captain of
the 10th Maine Infantry. OF mis- life
in Denver a paper in that city says:
'tIn 1870 he came to Denver, and at
once took the lead in the upbuilding of
the city and state. He devoted a year
to mining in Clear Creek county ard
tfen purchased the old Wentworth
hotel, now the st. James. It was the
first four story building in Denver, and
for years was known as the chief hos
telry Of the city and state. Every man
of prominence in the state made the
ST. James his headquarters, and few
| were better known or respectd than
Captain Estes. He was one of the
| committee who helped largely to secure
| the location for the state capitol. and
! TO his enthusiastic persistence must be
| credited the first sewer system Denver
! had. He also was a leader in the agi-
| tation to give Denver a park system.
and was a strong factor in the work
which led to the establishment Of City.
park
| An alligator story in which a Maine
man figures. George Drummond of
Atlanta, formerly of Winslow, comes
from Georgia by way Of the truthful
Atlanta Constitution. The story be-
gins away back in 1861 when a baby
alligator was presented to an Atlanta
,acc. Wy
1t was branded with an H on its
head. as a means of Identification, and
became a pet. During the exciting