Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-11
Regulations Adopted Restrict
ing Fishing on Poland Ponds.
Fire, Move Made Toward New Nor.
NAL School in machlas.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
"Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 10 A. m.

=. ~ snecial act of the Legislature
md have filed their certificates of Or
,,aoization at the office of the secre-
tary Of state IS the Osslpee Valley
Power co. which was organized at the
oft,cc If Pavson & Virgin at Portland
on Tuesday. Sept. I, under q charter
annroved Feb. -. 1907, and amended
and approved March 10, 1909.
The purposes of the corporation are
to develop the water powers on Little
Ossiree river and the tributaries there
of i'm York county, and to store and
regulate the flow of the water of said
river and its tributaries so that said
waters may be economically employed
for mechanical and manufacturing pur-
noses; to erect and maintain dams,
mills and buildings on or adjacent to
said river and tributaries; to furnish
water power for manufacturing and
mechanical purposes; to generate,
make, buy, sell, distribute and supply
electl icity and electric power for light
ing, heating. manufacturing, mechani-
cal and transportation and other power
purposes, in the towns of Shapleigh,
Newfield, Limington, WATERFORD and
Alfred, with all the rights, privileges
and power and subject to all the re-
strictions and liabilities by law Incl
dent to corporations of a similar ma
ture.
The capital stock of the corporation
is 100000, all of which is common
stock and of which the sum of 5000 has
been paid in. The par value of the
shares is 500 each.
of 1n .1,o !, oil al
of whom are residents of Sanford and
each of whom has subscribed for one
share of stock. are as follows: Charles
A. Bodwell, William J. Bodwell and
Stillman A. Bodwell The president and
treasurer of the corporation is William
]. Bodwell and the directors are the
shareholders mentioned above.
Announcement was made Friday at
the Office of the commissioners of in
land fisheries and game that at
hearing held at Poland Thursday on a
petition asking that Upper, Lower and
Middle Range ponds, and also Trip
pond, all in the town of Poland. be
closed to ice fishing, and that restric-
tons be placed on fishing in those
ponds the following regulations were
adopted:
Section 1. 1t shall be unlawful to
take, catch or kill or have in posses
sion any white perch less than eight
inches in length, or any black bass less
than u inches in length in Upper,
Lower and Middle Range ponds, Or in
Trip pond. all in the town of Poland,
Androscoggin county.
1t shall be unlawful for any one per-
son in any one day to take, catch and
= kill or have in possession more than
20 white perch and six black bass TAX
en- in any of the above-named waters.
It shall also be unlawful for the oc-
cupants of any one boat, canoe, raft
or other vessel or conveyance propelled
by steam, electricity, hand or other
power to take, catch and kill more
than 20 white perch and 6 black bass
in any one day in the above-namcd
waters. and it shall also be unlawful
for the occupants of one house, one
cottage, one tent, one camp, or the
members of one family or the members
Of one party collectively in one day to
take, catch, kill or have in possession
more than 70 white perch and six
black bass taken in any one day in the
above named waters.
1t shall also be unlawful for any per-
son at any time to fish for, take. kill
or have in possession any trout or
landlocked salmon in any of the above
named waters and it shall also be UNI
lawful for any one person in any one
day to take, catch, and kill more than
three togue and five pickerel in these
waters.
There shall be an annual close time
on the above named waters for black
bass, in which it shall be unlawful to
fish for in any way of said fish or to
take, catch or kill any of said fish,
from October 1 to June 20 of the fol-
lowing year of each year for a period
OF four years from october /, 1909.
1t shall be unlawful to fish through
the ice for any kind of fish at any
time in any of these waters.
Chairman Carleton of the commits
sion of inland fisheries and game has
received notice from Game Warden
Daniel It. Brown stating that on Tues
day, Sept. I. Abner McPheters of Old
Town was arraigned before the mu-
nicipal court at Greenvlle on the
Suui Sc Vi SuitiiS NlluOuC a Incense,
s McPheters pleaded not guilty but the
court found him guilty and imposed a
line of so. from which decision he ap-
pealed and gave bonds for appearance
before the supreme judicial court
The architects of the State have
neen invited TO submit sketches for
.he proposed new Normal School build
ing to be erected at Machias in ac-
cofoance with the provisions OF Chap
Ter a OF the Public Laws of 1909. and
70 bs known as the Washington State
normal School. The chapter carries
Win 1t an appropriation of $4,000.
me following corporations have filed
'neir certificates of organization at the
once OF the secretary of State:
The Press and Potter Co. organized
az Portland for the purpose of con-
quoting the business of bakers, with
5000 capital stock, of which nothing
Is paid in. Officers: President, Harry
Potter of Portland; treasurer, Benja-
MN Press of Portland. Certificate filed