Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

~ Soih tIiS IHdn loose mtO dnOtHeT
state. You know where he is now, he
is safe and that is good place for
him to remain"
Attorney Blanchard read letters from
Joseph c. Holman, A. L. Henderson,
b. M. Small and E. E. Richards, men,
bers of the Franklin county bar, who
were in the court room at French
trial, and they state they do not re-
member of the question of the man S
sanity being mentioned.
County Attorney Blanchard also read
letter from State Senator Frank A.
Emery of Jay, in which he stated
that he hoped that the council would
not grant a pardon to French and
that he, with others, believed that he
received a very light sentence.
The council took the matter under
advsement.
There will be no meeting of the Gov
ernor and council during the month
of September and the next session will
be October at 10 A. M.
The hearing on the petition for the
pardon of Edward A. Chase, which was
assigned for Tuesday was continued
until the session of the Governor and
Council in October, on account of the
Illness of Hon. J. E. Ladd of Gardiner
the father of the woman whom Chase
was convicted of numbering.
The following notices of interest to
stock breeders and dairymen of the
State have been sent out from the Of
flee of Hon. A. w. Gilman of Foxcroft,
commissioner of agriculture for the
State:
A meeting Of the Jersey breeders Of
Oxford county and Northern Cumber-
land will be held at the Grange hall in
South Waterford on Thursday, Sept.
2, commencing at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, to consider the ACCESSIBILITY
of organizing Jersey breeders as
ISOLATION for that section of the State.
A picnic dinner will be served at noon
and all people interested in the i'm
provement of this particular breed of
cattle are cordially invited to be pres
ent. The program will include a lee
ture on cooperative breeders associa-
tions by Dairy Instructor Merrill, a
discussion and if so decided, the or
ganization of an association, an ad-
dress on breeding dairy animals, by
Prof. p. A. Campbell of Orono, and
stock judging e.
A meeting of the Sebasticook Valley
Holstein Breeders Association will be
held at the home of c. H. Drawn at ST.
Adams at 10 A. M. Tuesday, Aug 81,
for which an interesting program has
been arranged and which will include a
business meeting, discussion of the
question how to start a pure bred herd,
an address on the work of the dairy
division of the department of agricul-
ture by Dairy Instructor Merrill and
an address by Hon. c. w. Wood. A
picnic dinner will be served
The oxford County Holstein Breed
ers Association will meet at the home
of Benz. Tucker president of the as
sociation, at 10 A. M. Wednesday, Sept.
1. and it is expected that there will be
a large attendance. The program will
include a business meeting, d discus
sion of the question how to start a
pure bred herd, and an address by Hon.
C. w. Wood. A picnic dinner will be
served.
People interested in dairy testing as
SOciatiOns in Minot, Hebron and ad-
joining towns will hold meeting in
the Grange hall in West Minot at P.
NJ. Thursday, Aug. 26 Considerable
interest is manifested in the work as
there are a number of large herds
there and the owners are finding that
it does not pay to keep an animal I'M
less they know what it is doing.
Notices are being sent out from the
office of the State treasurer stating
| that the wild land tax laws will be en-
forced and that interest at the rate of
| 20 per cent. will be charged after Oct.
2, 1909. The text of the notice is as
follows:
Many inquiries are being made at the
office of the Treasurer of State relative
to the payment of the State, county
| and forestry district taxes, and for the
information of all concerned the fol-
lowing statement is made:
The law under which the State AMI
County taxes have been collected in
past years has not been strictly en-
forced. but with the addition of the
Fire District tax. which is assessed as
the Maine Forestry District tax, to-
gether with new laws governing the
collection Of all these taxes, a full COM
pliance of the law is made necessary
The law reads in part as follows:
Said lands are held to the State
for payment of such State and County
taxes, with interest theron at the rate
of twenty per cent to commence upon
the taxes for the year for which sucn
assessment is made at the expiration
of six months, and upon, the taxes for
the following year at the expiration OF
eighteen months from the date of such