Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-02
Maine Gossip

Miss Hattie p. Brazier of Portland
| is one Of the seniors at Wellesley Col
lege designated as Wellesley honor
scholars and received the degree of
Bachelor of Arts at commencement
yesterday. There were 271 in the class
and Miss Brazier was one of few
Wellesley honor graduates.
rhcughAhe disastrous fire nearly
ruined Hesque Isle. it's enthusiastic
citizens are now planning on securing
the location for a park. Grounds have
been selected for the park and grading
is now being done and trees planted.
Many new houses are being built and
later all of the burned section will be
rebuilt by the owners.
Notice has been issued that the San
ford mills, Sanford, are to shut down
for all of next week. 1t is thought by
the management that this is the best
time for the operatives to take forced
vacation and that is one reason for the
shut down just at present. 1t is under
stood that work at the present is slack.
The shut down affects LOO employees.
A steel launch weighing 1876 pounds
has been put on Taylor pond, Auburn,
by Wilfred Bergeron of New Auburn,
local representative for a Montreal pa
per- Mr.. Bergeron, who has only one
arm made the boat himself, with
little assistance. Not being able to row
a boat, Mr.. BergerOn devised con-
trivance to propel the craft by hand.
The boat has an air-tight compartment
to prevent sinking, if capsized. 1t will
carry ten people comfortably.
C. c. Garland of Old Town has re-
turned from a trip to New York, Bos-
ton and several of the Massachusetts
cities where he has been on business
connected with the proposed Old Town
cotton mill. Next week Mr.. Garland
expects a party of Massachusetts, cap
italists to visit Bangor and Old Town,
when they will discuss the cotton mill
proposition with people of both cities
and look over the location with the
view of financing the project.
Four small donkeys arrived in Port
land this week from Kansas City, each
one of them in a crate. They will
weigh little over two hundred pounds
each. They came all the way by
American Express and did net seem
the least bit fatigued by their long
journey, They We're taken to Green
wood Garden, Peaks Island. The fact
that theXwere in crate makes this
importapE No doubt Portland would
be pleased if they all came that way.
Polices.officers Fahey and O'Neil of
the Portlasa police department saw
deer on the Eastern Promenade in that
city early, Tuesday morning. 1t be-
came frightened at passing locomo-
tive, pl6nged into the bay near the
EasteEas Yacht club house and swan
acroST to "the Diamonds" 1t vas
imIseEsible to tell in the haze of early
morning whether the strange visitor
made a landing on Great or Little Dia
mo1d.
The {. P X. from Pressure Isle to
AIOOStooK ) uHt'tloH Will NC eleCliiIleu
next year, and a passenger service Of
trains each way only an hour apart put
on. For many important purposes this
will make Fort Fairfield, Caribou and
Pressure Isle only one town, fairs, con-
certs, celebrations, lectures, plays, etc,
in anyone of the three villages will
thus be readily open at all times to the
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freight service will also be much i'm
proved.
elms has gone the way of all good old
trees when they die. This is the one
standing near the ladies' entrance to
the Prehle House, Portland concerning
which there was so much speculation
when the platform was built around
it last week preparatory to taking it
down. The limbs We're taken off one
by one without doing any damage and
yesterday the trunk itself was taken
down and the roots levelled off ever
with the sidewalk. The cement walk
that it all around that section was
completed out over the spot where the
tree stood ard the spot that once
knew it will know it no more forever.
The old tree was slowly dying and
within year or two would have be-
come a positive menace to life and
property.
Specifications Of the plans as drawn
by Edgar l. Lord, of Bar Harbor for
the bridge that is to be built between
Bar Harbor and Bar island, are in the
hands of bidders. At the March meet
ing the town appropriated the sum of
$40, 600 with which to build a bridge
over the bar to Bar island, believing
that the consequent enhancement of
the value of the island, part of the
town of Eden, would prove beneficial
to the town to that extent at least.
Pennington ChrOnicle.-The lack of
names of streets on suitable places is a
need that should not exist in Farming
ton much longer. Strangers are put to
much annoyance and delay in going
from point to point by this deficiency
Small boards bearing the names of the
streets would not be great expense