Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-26

7. w. Wardwell, a resident of North
Turner, who served five years in the
Civil war, was three times wounded,
and once taken prisoner, is Y years OF
age and has carried the mail from
North Turner to North Leeds and re-
turn daily, a distance of Ii miles, Tor
eight years, only missing one trip He
has also for three years been the first
man in town to pay his taxes.
Gillie Foster of Bar Harbor is minus
a hen. 1t happened in this way. Mr..
Foster had given 10 chicks to one of his
finest hens, expecting that she would
care for them in most tender and ma
ternal manner. Evidently, however,
the mother hen wearied OF taking the
responsibility of so large family and
hanged herself: at any rate Mr.. roster
found her dead, one morning, suspend
ed from nail on the side OF the barn.
Whether in a state OF mental aberra-
ton she flew wildly about and finally
impalnd upon the nail. or whether the
little wire point pierced her eye as she
lllnged upward fer fly, is not known,
of course The suicide theory may be
true. At any rate Mr. Foster thinks
this b very strange way to lose a men.
It has been announced by Col. John
V. White, Commander of Forts in the
Portland Artillery District that Gener-
al Leonard A. Wood, commander of the
Department Of the East would be in
TO
his inspection of the forts here. Cen
eral Wood will be accompanied by
party of officers. Secretary of war
Dickinson will come to Maine about
the same time
Sir Edward Morris, the Premier left
st. Johns, n. F., early in the week for
Northeast Harbor, Me, to confer with
Ambassador James Bryce, who is at
his summer home there, regarding the
coming arbitration of the fisheries dis
pute at the Hague tribunal AT the
conclusion of the conference Sir Ed
ward will go to New York, whence he
will sail for England to attend the i'm
perial defence conference during the
latter part of July.
The Union Water Power Co. of Lew
iston has acquired control of the two
valuable privileges on the AndroscOg-
gin River at Clarkes rips and the Bah
bit & GOogin dam, few miles above
Lewiston, heretofore owned by the In
ternational Paper Co., and will at once
proceed to develop the power by means
of a concrete dam and electrical trans
mission, increasing by 49, 900 horsepow-
er, or practically doubling, the mill ca
pacity Of I.ewiston's textile industry.
The Union Co are also to build a large
storage basin on the Magalloway Riv-
err. under a charter granted by the leg
islature of 1909. for which the hydrau-
lie engineers, Sawyer & Moulton. Lew
iston, are working out the details of
construction.
For the past ten days L. S. Metcalf
seismograph of the shocks in France at
the rate of an average of one a day.
The records on the disk show move
ment all pushing from the east but all
are noticeably different. Some are a
regular snarl. others more straight-cut.
These records We're taken on his origi-
nal seismograph. He has recently in
stalled q seismOgraph which does not
differ from those used by the govern
ment 1t clearly records the time of
the shock The drum slowly revolves
and the marker, whenever it presses on
the surface, making the record, indi-
h., HI 1,1rn Of n
shock.
Charles A. Wren Of Sherman Mills.
relates an experience with forest fire
which he will not soon forget and
which he doesn't cara to repeat. On
Friday, the 18th, he with his son, Ches-
ter, were at work with team warping
logs out of Marble pond about 20 miles
northwest If Patten and early in the
afternoon the smoke from a forest fire
began to roll over and soon they
could hear the roar of the fire.
AS the shores and bottom Of the pond
where they We're working We're muddy
so that team couldn't be waded out
into the water. Mr. Wren told his son
to take the team and hurry over to
Jerry pond which would be somewhat
out of the track of the fire and where
the shores and bottom of the pond were
gravelly, and he would remain and look
after the tent and camp outfit. This
program was carried out and Mr.. Wren
at once set about taking down the tent
and packing things up. but the fire
came on so rapidly that he had only
time to get the bedding and a few ar
ticles into the water and weighted
down with rocks. when he had to flee
for his life over the floating logs to the
center of the pond, where by lying close
to the logs with his face near the water
he was able to breathe only with con-
siderable difficulty on account Of the
dense smoke. During the period of his
Imprisonment he saw many wild ami
mails come out to the water. including
a large black bear, many deer four
moose. foxes. and smaller animals
The fire destroyed the dam at the
foot Of the pond and many of the logs