Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-22
Camden Gets Location Of
New Fish Hatchery.
Examination Of Elective and
Appointive Guard Officers.
State EntomoIogist Says Flight Of
Brown Tails Need Not Alarm.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Thursday, July 20, at $50 A. M.

The Commissioners OF Inland Fish
cries and Game have decided to To-
cate the Knox county fish hatchery in
Camdep at the mouth of the Megunti-
cook lake Leases have been received
from the land owners free of charge
to the State for so long as the laai
shall be occupied by fish hatchery.
The commissioners are now inviting
bids for the erection of the hatchery.
The 74th Legislature appropriated for
the construction Of fish hatchery in
Knox county. $4,000. $4,000 available in
1909 and $4,000 in 1910 All of the latest
modern improvements in fish culture
will be adopted at the Megunticook
hatchery.
Bids are now being received by the
Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and
Game for two feeding ponds for fish
at Oquossoc hatchery. The feeding
Y ponds are to be constructed for the
purpose of carrying out the idea of
feeding the fish until one and two years
old, This policy will be gradually ex-
tended to all the hatcheries
denominations We're held Wednes-
hay at the office Of the adjutant gen
sAfaIby the Board of Examination and
the Medical Board of five officers ell
aected for commissions and an appoint
tee as first lieutenant of the medical
department. If the elective and APP
polntive officers who appeared before
the boards Wednesday all pass the
result will be the filling of all exist
ing vacancies in the National Guard
These will be the last examinations
held by the boards before going into
camp.
The Board Of Examination consists
of Brigadier General James l.. MORT
arty, inspector general; Col Everard
H. Newcomb, End Infantry; Col. John
j. Dooly, chief of ordnance; Lieut.. Col!
VIM. o. Peterson, LIST Infantry The
officers ordered to appear before the
board are Charles H. Norton, Capt.
Elect. Co. F, End Infantry: Second
Lieut.. S, f. Colburn, First Lieut..
Elect. Co. f; Sergt Carl r. Bailey,
Second Lieut. Elect, Co. f; Sergt.
Percy i. d. Knox, Second Lieut.. Elect,
Co. A, End Regiment; George C. Web
Der, Capt. Elect, Co. G, LIST Infantry
The eMedicaI Board consists of Col
James b.. O'Neil, surgeon general,
F. Bradbury, surgeons of the medical
department. First Sergt. John G.
Towne of the Hospital Corps, appoint
ed first lieutenant of the medical de-
partment is the officer ordered to ap-
pear before the board.
The State Board of Railroad Com
missioners Wednesday issued a Ger
70 ne OF FL
the Cape Shore railway from the con-
nection with the tracks of the Port
land Railway Co, at South Portland
Heights to the Cape Elizabeth Town
House. a distance of 21h miles,
The Insurance department is send
ing out copies of the new revision of
the insurance laws of the State. The
revision makes pamphlet of 125 pages
including index and is thoroughly re-
vised up to date, including the laws
passed by the Legislature of 1909. The
last revision was made in 1905
and although two Legislatures
have convened since then but
few important changes have
been made in the insurance laws of
the State. A large number of minor
changes. however. have been made,
and these changes are all included in
the revision which is now being sent
out. The work of making the re-
vision has been done for the time by
the Insurance department.
State Entomologist F. +. Hitch
ings went to Gardiner Wednesday
afternoon to confer with Mayor Charles
H. Gray and Postmaster G. Dexter
Libby of that city in regard to the re-
ported flight of brown tail moths IN
large numbers. In discussing the mat
ter of the flight of the moths the State
Entomologist says: mo prediction can
be made in regard to the future re-
suits from the flight of the moths as