Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-14

How the Lewiston Sun does love to
chase the glttering rainbow of Free
Trade.
Ellsworth is to be the scene of a two
days Changers carnival on Tuesday
and Wednesday, Oct and 6.
Two whales have been playing in
Linnekin Bay the past few days and
the numerous summer resort people
in that vicinity have been having
great sport watching them.
| Fort Fairfield is going to have an
old fashioned country fair Aug. II and
| IS, under a big canvas tent on the
High school campus under the direc-
ton of the c. C. A. of the COngrega-
tional church.
Evangelist Chapman has completed
his plans to hold series of meetings
| in Bangor. Maine, from January Is to
February 18th. Prior to that he hopes
to be able to conduct a similar series
at Portland probably between the 5th
and 25th of January
Company G. Of the Maine National
Guard deserves great cerdit for the
valuable and timely service it rendered
in helping fight a bad forest fire on
the Biddeford Pool road thereby saving
a number of houses that were serious
ly threatened with destruction.
James w. Luther, aged IS, Albert
Robbins, aged IS, and Freeman Rob-
bins, aged u, all of Attleboro. Mass.
have been spending several days in
ROckland and vicinity. Their adj
vanced years were no bar to a climb
up Mt Battle, Camden, where they
were charmed with the view spread
out before them.
The Bangor News pays the follow
ing merited compliment to popular
Augusta pastor: Many eminent
speakers have stood on the stage in A.
O. II. and thrilled their audiences with
their eloquence, but no speaker ever
made better impression than did the
Rev. H. E. Dunnack, pastor Of the
Green Street Methodist church of Au-
gusta, Wednesday night, when he ad-
dressed a big gathering of the labor
men of Bangor. Mr.. Dunnack is an
orator in every sense of the word. and
his clear understanding of the labor
question and his lucid exposition of
the needs of the labor element in the
country brought rounds Of applause"
Portland Press: movement is on
foot to revive the sturgeon fisheries of
this coast by introducing into our riv-
ers fry of the Black sea sturgeon. 1t
cannot be done successfully, at least
not so long as present methods of waste
disposal are continued. Sturgeon flour
ish in the Russian, Roumanian, Bull
garian and other rivers emptying in
to the Black sea. and that is because
those streams are not INSTRUCTED by
dams and contaminated by sewage
Many of our rivers on the other hand.
have become little else than open sew
ers conducting the refuse of cities, vii
lagos and manufactures, and no self
respecting fish can be expected to live
in them.
G. NJ. Marshall of Bowdoin recently
passed through Brunswick with a
drove of thirty Angora goats which
he had sold to Frank Beals of Phipps-
burg. The goats were driven to
Cundy's Harbor and from there trans
ported to an island. The animals are
particularly useful in cleaning up I'M
derbrush and killing the growth of
scrub bushes. Mr.. Marshall has been
raising Angora goats for the past
eight years and keeps sometimes as
many as fifty in 65-acre pasture
which is fenced with woven wire. The
goats will eat almost anything that
grows and their keeping is, therefore
inexpensive. He shears them once a
year, in the spring, obtaining abou:
five pounds of wool from a full grown
goat The wool sells for 33 to 40 cents
pound.
City Auditor Frank J. Smith of Bid
deford took an afternoon off the other
day and went fishing. going to the end
of the Old orchard pier After noting
the fact that other fishermen there
were losing their hooks, he watched
| the operations for while and then
taking a strong line from his fishing
kit, secured large pickerel hook from
his wallet book and batting it, threw
it into the water. Il let it remain in a
half-hour or more" he said. in relating
his experience, "and when I went t.
pull it up / discovered that it was
hitched to something on the bottom.
Then / says to myself What the
dickens have I got? worked away at
the line and learned that I had some
thing on the hook that had life
Finally I got it to the surface AMI
what do you suppose it was? 1t was
a skate and measured nine feet lone
from the head to the end of the tail
7 got it up under the pier but it re-
quired the services of two other men
as strong as I am to do it,
LIGHT AND AIRY.
Where They Differ.
"a high financier should be some