Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-23

Portland Will have weekly pasSen-
ger service to Europe this winter
through the ships of the Dominion
Line.
A. r. Mason, former student at
Bates this fall will harvest the largest
crop of potatoes ever raised in Oxford
county, which goes to show that edu-
cation and farming mix well.
Mrs Eliza Shaw's garden at Bolton
Hill yielded a handful of ripe raspber
ries in perfect condition yesterday
morning. The berries were in perfect
condition and so ripe that they readily
dropped from the twigs.
John Bradbury of Fairfield was born
50 years ago. in the town of Buxton,
and has lived in Fairfield 20 years. He
was d famous river driver in his
younger days and there are many
stories of his prowess on the logs still
told in the camps
The Portland Iron and Steel Com
pany of South Portland has 50 in
creased it's business that plans are be-
ing made to increase the plant
The State association of Free Bap-
lists will meet at Pressure Isle Oct. 5,
6, 7. Reduced rates on the railroad
will give many people an opportunity
to visit Aroostook county.
Officers of the Maine Civic League
visited Old Town this week and burned
raid of August %, 1903. The machines
were valued at $1,000.
Maine is to be represented at the
Fulton celebration on the Hudson by
the tow boat Brittania OF the Knicker-
booker Towing Co.'S Penobscot river
fleet. The Brttania left Bangor Tues
day In the parade she will tow
two barges.
The Strawberry Inn is the title of
the small hotel at Washington June
ton, the station where the Washington
county railway connects with the
Maine Central. Across the highway
from the inn is located the Junction
Strawberry Farm.
General Joseph S. Smith of the
board of managers of the national
homes for disabled soldiers, has re-
turned to Maine after tour of the
homes. He reports the veterans in
good care and the homes well man.
aged by their respective governors.
Old Town is so sure of its new cot
ton mills that the people can almost
hear them hum. The latest report is
that work will be begun in the spring.
Just to keep the enthusiasm up there
is a rumor that someone has bought a
site and is to erect a small paper mill
at once.
Searsport hears that the Canadian
Pacific railway, which has already had
big cargo of coal discharged at the
Mack Point coal pockets, is to have
1900 tons more come there. This
with the years supply of Aroostook &
Northern Maine means a lot of bust
ness in Searsport. This c. p. r. coal
is for use. on the Maine division of the
great Canadian road.
Georgetown has one of the best field
spar quarries which ships about 10, .-J
tons of the rock annually to Whining
ton, Del, and East Liverpool, Ohio.
About 20 men arc employed at the
quarry constantly and there is rock
enough there, of good quality, to keep
up the present rate of shipments for
many years to come.
Bangor Commercial-It is interest
ing to recall in reading our histories i'll
connection with the Hudson Fulton
celebration in New York, which begins
on Saturday, that the explorer, the
300th anniversary of whose discovery
is being observed, sailed into Penob-
scot bay in July, 1909, and here equipped
himself with new mast before
proceeding to the westward to discover
and explore the river that is given his
name. The Maine coast point ante
udte lHdIly olnerS along the Atlantic
front of this continent in receiving
visits FROM the intrepid voyagers of
the old world
The italian fountain presented to
Bar Harbor by Philip Livingston of
New York has been set up on the viii
lage green. 1t was purchased from an
estate near Florence. 1t dates back to
close to 1900, and is of dark bronze
weathered by time and exposure to
the elements, and gives an artistic APP
pearance to an unoccupied spot on the
lawn. 1t consists of a bronze shaft
with two basins one of bronze, the
other of granite, as a base. The shaft
is surmounted by bronze youth, hold
ing a fish. From the mouth of the
fish the water pours, while Jets of wa
ter come from other spots at intervals
on the shaft.
A. S. Kimball of Norway, was in
Spokane, Wash, on September 16, the
guest of H. j. Hamlin, formerly dep