Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-02

| Ine new uyQrO-eleCtIlS oN'NAopii'oie
at Bristol and Damariscotta means
big boom for Lincoln county.
| 1t is reported that several vessels
are tied up at Bangor and Rockland
because they cannot ship crews. And
there was time when Maine was full
of sailors!
| All eyes are on the Rockland course
where the North Dakota is preparing
| to tie brooms to the masthead.
| The New England Telephone and
Telegraph company has announced
that the exchange Of the Northeastern
Telephone company at Portland will
| be closed Dec. l.
! Massachusetts Democrats have
forced National rather than State
issues into the campaign which will
be decided today, so that the vote is
likely to be somewhat of test of
public opinion on certain national
issues. Maine is watching the result
|
The carpenter who placed the
barricade across Portland's ferry slip
used planks IS inches wide. The ferry
company probably believe the situa-
| ton is bad enough without rubbing It
| in.
Colby college football team looks
like a winner at the present time,
though University Of Maine has shown
| unexpected strength
The Degel Zion Society of Portland
has established a night school for
Hebrews in that city.
| H. H. Pittee of South Portland, who
is now SO years of age, has built
several lighthouses for the depart
ment Among the Photographic evil
dences of his work is a picture of a
| lighthouse at ST. Augustine, Fla,
which is striped like BARRIERS pole.
At Bangor a man 20 years of age
while watching football game, was
knocked down by bunch of players.
sustaining a compound fracture of his
leg and other injuries. The innocent
lbystander again.
A Penobscot county farmer is ac-
cused of having risen at one o'clock in
the morning and doing his usual
chores under the apprehension that it
was $50 A. NJ. He was set right by
another member of the family after
the work was nearly finished.
The people of Steuben will be
pleased to learn that it is the intention
of Henry d. Moore of Philadelphia to
give a library building to his native
town. The lot north of the church
was recently surveyed and probably
work will be commenced next season.
Higgins Hill correspondent Of The
Fort Fairfield Herald: zone of the
hardest luck stories we have heard
this fall is of a man who didn't have
any potatoes but rotten ones, and in
trying to take care of them, he piled
so many on his barn floor that it broke
down and killed his only pig"
Lewiston Journal-It is generally
understood all through northern Maine
that the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Ry. has secured control Of a
majority of the stock of the Bangor &
Aroostook Railroad Within four
| ha hnl Of Ia
holder in Bangor have been trans
ferred to the New Haven and it is be-
lieved this is sufficient 1t means a
unification of railroad interest and
ownership from Aroostook to the great
transcontinental trunk lines. Now, for
fair play to the shipper, and cheap
fares and quick trains!
| splendid steamer Belfast of the Bos-
fton- Bangor route, Eastern Steamship
Co. will be placed on the Portland
division about the middle of December,
replacing the steamer Bay State,
which is to be practically rebuilt, new
staterooms being added and more
powerful engines installed. The Bel
| Ao'e - oiiC VI lIc SttdllcIS
owned by the company.
The Portland lodge of Elks is pre-
pairing to give the children Of that
city monster Christmas tree. To
carry out the plans as arranged will
entail the expenditure of several thou
sands of dollars and the funds are to
be arranged by popular subscription
among the members of the local lodge
which at present numbers over 100
members
Remember this. Names roads are
not perfect, but they were better in
1908 than they were in 1907, better in
1909 than in 1908 and will be better in
| 1910 than in 1909. The present genera
ton IS not altogether to blame because
we have some few miles of poor roads
We will be to blame if the next gen.
Grafton finds no improvement.
If the men who cannot find good
word to say of Maine would only keer
still, their friends could attribute it tc
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