Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

William Dean Howells, the author,
who has been at his summer home at
kittery Point, expects to sail today
from New York for Europe. Mr.. How
of his health. His daughter, Miss Mil
dred, will accompany him.
The new dredge Francis d. Martin,
which has been built in Portland at
a cost of $4,000, was successfully
launched the other day. This is the
first launching of any consequence in
Portland for three years. The last one
was the four-masted schooner Victory.
Sturgeon are apparently plentiful in
the Penobscot river this season. Two
were caught at Hampden recently that
measured - feet 1t is said that it
is not an uncommon sight to see a
sturgeon jump off the docks Of the
Eastern Steamship Co., at Bangor.
A motor, for the running of the band
and circular saws, the turning lathe
and grindstone, will be installed in the
manual training department of the
Lewiston schools, for readiness at the
opening of school in September.
Advices from Mere Point state that
despite the 16 mile stretch of water
between the lower harbor and that
place, the firing of the past week at
the local forts was so severe that the
cottages there were somewhat shaken
as the result.
A fowl fiend of South Portland who
keeps a small flock frequently digs
them a mess of clans. Having a
"broody" hen that he desired to break
of the habit he put her in a coop by
herself. He also put her in some clans
for food. The next day he found the
hen contentedly setting in a corner of
the coop. On removing her from the
nest behold she had it filled with CLAIMS,
and what is not so remarkable, she
had Matched them all out. '..
Levi Sawyer of Bates street, Lewis
ton, is having a wagon built that will
ever been owned in Maine, it is be-
lieved. The tires are an inch thick,
the axles 3x4 inches, the spokes 31a
inches thick and everything else in
proportion. 1t is designed to haul
heavy machinery from the depots to
the mills.
Norway is soon to have within its
limits one of the best summer hotels
in the State if the plans now being
considered are carried out A New
York syndicate has recently pur-
chased the property of A. w. Thomas.
about a mile and a half from the viii
lage, and are to build a $4,000 sum-
mer hotel. The company is capitalized
at 100000 and Walter A. Brady of New
York city, is at the head of the con-
Germ. The plan is to build the hote
on top of the hill above the lake. This
is one of the prettiest places in that
section and affords a fine view. There
is a shore front of $50 feet and the
farm is composed of about 200 acres.
Capt. David N. Poor, at one time, a
well-known master mariner sailing out
of Portland. and later equally wei
known as a pilot out of this port, died
July % at the ripe old age Of so years
at his home on Beckett street. Capt
Poor was born in Portland on India
street, in 1918, and from the very first
his inclination seemed to point toward
a seafaring life. At the age of II years
he started forth as cabin boy and has
since that time filled every position uI
to master.
DR.. Lewis Hodgkins Of Ellsworth, has
an interesting document found among
some old papers-a license to own 8
carriage, or rather a certificate thai
the owner Joseph Dean, name
prominently associated with the early
history of Ellsworth, had paid the
annual rate Of two dollars for the
privilege. 1t suggests the possibilit,
that some day the licenses now granted
to automobile owners may be as mucl
OF a curiosity. The paper reads as fol
lows:
Certificate to an Owner of a Carriagt
Chargeable with the Yearly Rate
of Two Dollars.
No. AL. This is to certify, tina
Joseph Dean, of the town of Raynham
In the county of Bristol, in the four
tenth district Of Massachusetts, ha
paid the duty of two dollars for thu
year to the end on the thirty-first da.
of December next, for and upon a tw'
wheel carriage for the conveyance o
persons, not hanging upon steel o
iron springs. called a chaise owned b.
him.
This certificate to be Of no avail an.
longer than the aforesaid carriage shal
be owned by the said Joseph Dean, un
less said certificate shall be produce,
to the collector. by whom it was grant
ed, and an entry be made Thereon
specifying the name of the then owne
Of said carriage. and the time whe
he or she became possessed thereof
Given in conformity with an act q
Congress passed on the oath day {
July, 1873.
Signed this twelfth day of Januar,