Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-09


tention.
The fish screen at the foot of High
land Lake, in the town of Brldgton,
which was put in by popular subscrlp-
ton at an expense Of something Ike
$50, has been removed by the mill au-
thoriticS, presumably on the ground
that by catching the floating sticks and
leaves it retarded the flow of water.
Manager Goodrich of the Sebago
Lake, Songo River Route is again agl-
tating his street railway scheme from
the steamboat landing at Rrldgton to
the head Of Main Hill, a distance OF
something like q mile and a half. The
plan is being worked up with the idea
that Briigton put Il thousand dollars
or so into Il stock company, estimated
at something like third Of the cost
OF building the road.
Urban. the tWclVe-year- old son n1
Bert Camel of Naples, holds the rec
ORD for the crack shot of Naples. The
young fellow sighted wild goose in the
water on one Of the lakes and with his
rifle shot the head cleanly OF the bird.
The goose when dressed tipped the
scales at nearly eight pounds.
The present prospect is that there
will be two ice tracks for the accom-
mediation of the speedcrs Of Bangor
this winter. the first, the old one, on
the river above the dam. where 50
many good races We're held last winter,
and the other on the waterway at the
Black farm, formerly known as the
Boardman farm. near the Niben club
track. The latter is thought to be the
best course for the purpose and 1t is
estimated that 5000 will put it in condi-
ton. IT is probable that there will be no
racing to speak of on the Mt. Hope
course this year
Ephriam F. Wood OF Norway was SO
years old last May, but he hasn' /
stopped work just the same. He has
gathered thirty bushels of sweet corn,
cut uD the stalks and shocked the
fodder. He has dug $50 bushels of po>
tatoes, picking up 20 bushels of them
himself. He has pulled and stacked
beans to the extent of nine big shocks.
He has picked some apples too, forty
three barrels for John A. Roberts, six
barrels for Benjamin Tucker and eight
barrels for Cora Wood. In picking
apples he used an eight foot ladder
and picked them with great care and in
good share. This does not include the
work he has done at home during this
time He lives with his son, John
Wood at the Lake. and cares for the
garden and does the chores about the
house.
The Maine Woods recently printed
the following paragraph:
The 12M-pound brook trout that was
taken for stripping at Upper Dam,
Rangeley Lakes, this fall Ohe heaviest
spotted trout that was ever weigheD
was a male fish with an enormous
hooked under jaw. He was IS inches
long. Q inches deep, as measured by
Avery Rowell.
The Woods has since received sew
eral inquiries rs to the truth of the
statement. 1t is rather mean to de
mand proof where fish are concerned.
Capt. Little, l.. S. n. at Bath, has an
interesting heirloom in the form of a
picture ct Fitcl's two steamboats,, one
propelled by paddles, the other by a
screw propeller, both of which anti
dated by four or five years, Robert
Fulton'S Clcrmont. on board the pro-
peller. in the picture, are chancellor
Livingston, Robert Fulton, Mr.. Fitch,
the inventor, and u boy named Hum
phreys. This boat had wooden cylin-
derS on its engines and was obliged
frequently to stop to get up steam. The
''lermont's engine was built in Eng
land.
Portland'S Importance as shipping
port was emphasized one day last week
when three handsome siX-masted
schooners came into the harbor at the
same time. This is a most unusual
sight. Nearly 10000 tons of coal were
brought in by two schooners arriving
including the six-masters Addie NJ
Lawrence, Alice NJ Lawrence and the
Eleanor a. Percy. The five master
Fanny Palmer also came in with car
go from Newport News.
Those who know Arne Arnesen, OF
Deer Island, know him to be a man OF
truth. Not long since he was fishing
for trout in Utopia lake, ST. George
with TWO other Deer Island men. Net
Their Of the others got a bite, but big
fish rose to Arnesen's bait and succeed
ed in breaking the line and getting
away. His companions reeled up their
lines i'll disgust and wanted to go home
at once. There were no more fish after
that, they said. He persuaded one OF
them to lend him his line for one more
cast. The cast was made and once
more trout took hold. When it rose
to the surface it was found to be the
trout with Arneson's nook and lire at
tached. The fish landed, Arnesen re-
turned the borrowed line to his COM
panion, made his own fast again, and
was ready for more fish but they didn't