Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-21

The annual bargain safes dlt vi.
Detroit Free PRESS.
Plans for the biggest fruit snow ever
attennted in New England outside the
New England show at Boston were
made at meeting Of the executive
committee of the Maine Pomologlcal
society held ut the board OF tradc
rooms, Auburn, last week. Inc tlme
of the show is next November, put lts
place has not been decided Yet, peing
left in the hands of a committee con-
sisting of President G. M. Twitchell
Secretary T.. l.. White of RoWdolnham
and Prof. E. f. Htchings. Everybody
boost!
Department Chaplain Rev. John w.
Webster of Newport has announced MS
candidacy for department commander
of the G.. A. r. for Maine. Inc an
nouncement is meeting with the APP
proyal of many veterans, and ALREADY
some of the posts have instructed their
delegates to cast their votes for
COnrade Webster at the next annual
encampnent.
A peculiar fish was caught by one CT
the crew of the Lunette OF Lupec
while on the last fishing cruise. Inc
fish was called a mermaid py Tue
members of the crew owing 10 the
fact of it's having a face similar 10
that of a human being and the fesh
tint being similar to that of a chllu.
Rev. Claude H. Priddy, formerly OF
Portland, late of Brooklyn, N. Y, has
accepted a call to Stamford, CT
church. Mr.. Priddy will always be re-
membered in Maine as responsible LOT
the excellent Maine law regarding
boxing exhibitions.
Walter f. Reid, who is in charge Oh
Charles w. Morses affairs during MS
term in prison, was at one time III
charge of the Augusta agency for
Yeast manufactures.
The Scottish societies of Name are
Manning extensive celebrations Tor the
anniversary of the birth Of Robert
Burns.
During the year 1909 the Portland
fire DEPARTMENTS responded to 42O
alarms of which III were bell alarms
and 3O3 were still alarms. This was
marked falling off in the number OF
alarms from the preceding year. when
the fire department responded to oz'
alarms While the decrease IN the
number of alarms is noteworthy. tHe
falling off in the annual fire loss IS
still more so, for while in 1908 the total
loss amounted to $1.64I,6S "a, the loss
during the past year was less than
| one-tenth of this sum or to be exact.
s10l, $3.50.
Among the L. S navy surgeons VINO
may succeed Surgeon General +. NJ
Rixey, chief of the bureau of medicine
and surgery next month is Medlcai III
spector Henry G. Boyer. well-knoWn III
Maine. His son. Henry G. Boyer is
member of the Legislature from Port
land and another son. George Wescott
Boyer. is actively connected with large
business interests.
The wireless station at PASSPORT is
rapidly assuming a businesslike APP
pearance, one of the big masts being
| in position and firmly anchored by
| numerous guys. The second mast is
| about completed The operations OF
| the workman who was engaged IN fas-
| tening the guys to the top of the tall
| pole was watched with keen interest
by all and few envied him in his ex-
! allied position.
| Rockland feels sure that she is going
to get that big cement plant. 1t means
an expenditure of $1,000,000 and the
permanent employment of about 800
men. Good, Rockland ought to get
it. No city in the State is more de-
| serving.
Caribou wants public library and
if the enterprise that has characterized
the growth of that town in the past is
a criterion of the present, the town
will get it. sKAU
South Portland and the Cape Eliza
beth shore resorts will see more of
the Coast Artillery Corps in the future
than in the past, as the war depart
| ment has ordered them, in common
with the other branches of the service
to march an hour each day. The
spectacle of several hundred soldiers
marching over the Cape roads will be
another attraction for that summer re-
sort.
The Passamaquoddy Indian who
bought bears paws and noses at a fur
shop in New Brunswick. struggled
them across the line and collected the
bounty on them, came to the same sad
end as did the Indians who manu-
fractured seals noses a few years ago