Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-19

1t Is hoped that the recent rain was
far reaching and heavy enough to
thoroughly quench the forest fires
throughout the State.
Leland L. Knapp, principal of the
North Parsonfield academy. has been
elected principal of the Rockland High
school, Mr.. Knapp is a graduate of
Colby.
Elijah Norton, the well known
Dover fox raiser, has shipped TO
parties in Philadelphia II young foxes.
This shipment will soon be followed
by another, Mr.. Norton having sold
the parties "a young animals. The
foxes go to a hunting club which |
will turn them loose during the sum- |
mer and in the fall will hunt them
with dogs.
Darling Bowden of South Orland
found a sturgeon in his weir the
other morning that weighed 5l2
pounds. He sold the fish to parties
who shipped it to New York.
1t is understood that Chancellor Day
of Syracuse University is contemplate
ing a visit to Lubec this year. Mr..
Day is a native of Washington county,
having been born in Whitneyville. He
has Just returned from a trip around
the world.
Among the recent golden weddings
to be celebrated in Maine was that OF
Mr. and Mrs. Anders Utterson of
Portland Mr.. Utterson was born in
Sweden and Mrs. Utterson in Norway.
They came to this country in 1882.
There were about so guests present |
and their gift was purse of $50 in
gold. A letter was received by Mr.. |
Utterson from the f. T. BurrOWes Co,
with an enclosure of a $50 certificate. |
The Sunday schools of oxford |
county are to hold a union field day |
Wednesday, July IA. Two speakers |
have already been engaged. Rev. W. |
w. Main, secretary of the Baptist |
Sunday School Association of Massa
chusetts, and Rev. Mr.. Stamford also |
of Massachusetts
Dana Estes, head of the publishing
house of Dana Estes &, Co., who has |
just died at his home in Brookline, |
Mass, was a native of Maine. He |
was born in Gorham March 4, 1910, |
and lived in Maine until he was 10, |
when he went to Boston.
Information from all parts Of New
England indicates an unusual interest |
in the Castine meeting of the Ameri |
can Institute, July 6-S. A strong and |
practical program has been prepared, |
and there is every prospect of an
unusually large audience.
The new pulp mill at Skowhegan,
owned by E. l.. Savage, began opera
tons last week. The machinery was
started for the first time in the early |
afternoon and during the night was IN
full operation. Mr.. Savage has
entered into contract with a mill at |
Benton Falls to furnish a large supply |
of pulp, and the product now being |
turned out will be sent there.
All plans have been perfected fer
the start of the work of razing the
building at the corner of Congress
and Preble streets in Monument
Square, Portland the site of which |
will be occupied by the II story build
ing of the Fidelity Trust Company
A pine stump six feet and seven
inches through the stump is a curios-
ty on a piece of land in Phillips north |
of the road leading to Thomas Vim
ing's from the Nehemiah Haincs place |
Augustus Vining says that his father
and uncle filled the tree, sawed and |
bolted the butt of it and shaved $4,000 |
shingles and 1000 feet of boards from |
it. This pine stump measured more |
than seven feet across before it rotted /
around the edges and lost it's bark |
and part of the wood on the outer /
edges.
Mrs. Sarah Durgin observed her |
9th birthday last week at the home /
of her daughter. Mrs. John H. Ring, |
Flying Point road, Brunswick and a |
called to extend their congratulations |
Mrs. Durgin was born in Harpswell, |
June II, 1872. The last of her
brothers and sisters died II years ago,
and her husband, James Durgin, died |
four years ago.
Portland is anticipating visit from |
Secretary Of War Dickinson some
time in the near future He is t. |
make personal inspection of the At |
lantic coast defenses and principal
military posts of the East during the |
coming summer. The tour will begin |
June 26, and in company with Major |
General Wood, the Secretary of War
will inspect the defenses of New York, |
Long Island Sound, Boston and the
New England coast as far as Portland
DR.. Elmer Small Of Belfast has in
his possession an old family record
book which is extremely interesting
on account of its age. The book was
the property of Dr. Small's grand