Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-25

one OF the DlSSeSI IIlduuIdCtuAM MS
establishments in the State.
Within a short time the town of
Phippsburg will have one of the few
wireless telegraph stations along the
coast. Alonzo Terrill and his son,
John A. Terrill Of Parker Head are
now getting out the poles and other
necessary paraphernalia for conduct
ing experiments with the wireless. The
younger Mr.. Terrill has been in Boston
for number of years in the electrical
business and all of the time has been
studying the wireless idea Of sending
and receiving messages and has made
an apparatus which is said to possess
many valuable features and some
which are an improvement over others
now in use. Young Mr.. Terrill was
at one time in the employ Of the tele-
phone company in Bath. He came 20
his former home at Parker Head last
summer and tried out a number of eX-
periments and received and sent
goodly number of wireless messages.
Since that time he has made more-ex-
periments and is perfecting an APP
paratus for which it is said that he
has been offered a good price but
which he does not care to sell at
present He now plans after getting
experimenting and make some i'm
provementS over even his present SyS-
tenn and get it perfected.
A. E Fairbanks brought to the
Journal office the other day one of the
oldest newspapers which it has been
our privilege to look over for long
time. 1t was a copy of the Gazette of
Maine, and was published by Benjamin
Titcomb, Jr at Portland May 6, 1898.
This was Volume of that news
papers existence. The paper is ex-
ceptionally we'll preserved. Like most
newspapers of the early days it is filled
largely with foreign news many weeks
old, while local happenings are givtn
no place in it's columns. Except for
few quantity worded advertisements
and a list of unclaimed letters at the
Portland post office, there is nothing of
Portland or Maine interest in its four
pages.
A Belgrade subscriber writes to the
Journal to ask US the origin of the
name of Snow pond, more generally
known in these later years as
MesalOnskee lake, the long body OF
water lying between that town and
Sidney Snow pond takes it's name
from Philip Snow, whom tradition
credits with being the first white man
to cross that beautiful lake, and also
the first white settler Of Belgrade. 1t
was in 1774 that he settled on the west
shore of the pond, about two miles
north of the present Belgrade railroad
station and built a log hut, the first
dwelling place erected in Belgrade. he
brought no wife or family with him,
and came moro with the intention or
hunting than of making permanent
home, but with his arrival begins the
known history of Belgrade. In the
same year, 1774 a few months later. the
Wymans and Richardson's came from
Massachusetts and settled upon the
slopes of Belgrade hill a mile or two to
the north of the hut of Philip Snow,
the hunter Snow left no descendants,
but there are still numerous descend
ents Of the first Wymans and Richard
sons dwelling in Belgrade Phllip
Snow lived in Hallowell, which then
included Augusta, before he pushed
back further into the wilderness. HIS
name appears upon the Halloween tax
list of 1872, the year after the town
was incorporated. The memory OF
Philip Snow is not only perpetuated in
Snow pond, but also in Mt. Philip in
Rome near Belgrade Lakes, which
was named in honor if his famous
hunting exploits in that vicinity. He
moved away in 1880, selling his place
to Joseph Greedy. When Belgrade was
incorporated in 1896 the first town
meeting was held, appropriately
enough, at the house of Joseph Greedy
on the spot where the first settler had
located.