Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1910-12-14
COUNTY GOSSIP.
The smeltsrs are on ths ice ct surry.

COUNTY GOSSIP.
The smeiters are ON the Ice ct surry.
Oar East Surfy correspondent recently
called ON Mrs. Mercy Grindle, mother Of
DR.. X. L. 0rindle, OF Mt. Desert. Ars.
Grindle 10 eighty-nine years old, keen
and bright. She talked OF the days when
she and her callers parents were pioneer
settlers OF the west part Of the town Of
Surry, and said they were indeed happy
years.
During the past week, two more parties
who have the past summer been seining
herring in Union river bay on the shores
OF New bury Neck, have been brought BY
Warden Frank L. Hodgkins before Judge
Snow, OF Bluehili, who impoeed such hnes
as to Impress upon the minds OF the
violators that the people Of HANCOCK
county wish the laws OF sea and SHORE
fisheries enforced.
The flrst step in the construction OF the
proposed new automobile road to Bar
Harbor from Trenton, seems to have bsen
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to be presented to the incoming legisla-
ture for the modification, repeal or amend
ment Of the present laws 20 ~ to give the
proposed road the right to cross the public
roads OF the town at such points a. il
necessary. In Southwest Hafbor similar
petitions are being circulated for the pur-
pose Of giving automobiles access 10 the
mainland.
The Hancock county trustees Of public
Reservations, Of which President Emeritus
Charles w. Eliot, of Harvard university,
Is president. has given notice OF its inten-
tion to ask the Legislature for special oct
giving the corporation the right to pur-
chase or to take a. for public use by emf
nent domain, upon making just compen-
sation, any land on Mount Desert island
in the watershed OF any lake or pond used
~ public source OF water supply which
the corporation may deem necessary for
the protection OF such water supply from
pollution.
After long delay, Joseph belmont Clark.
formerly OF Psnobscot, has been granted .
P0ustsu. AoV 49, pN0~cnso0 PcNaAkAk
dificulties because Of the fact that for
many years he has been living at West
Green Bay, Wis, under the name OF }. d.
Hudson, and il has been hard fight to
prove he was J. D. Clark. Two years ago
c. H. Grindal, OF Ellsworth, visited his
daughter, Mrs. Addison Saunders, OF West
Green Bay, and saw Mr.. Hudson several
times. They were boys together. and Mr..
Grindal positively identified Mr.. Hudson
- the J. D. Clark whom he 90 we'll knew.
Maine lobster fishermen will BE- In
tcrcsted in the statement which comes out
Of Rhode Island that HOLSTERS may soon be
purchased at q bout seven cents . psir--if
the experiments now being made by .
group Of scientists Ut the United States
government hatchery continue to Be
practicable. For the first time in history,
It 10 claimed, the crustaceans are now be-
ing raised from the egg to the adult stage
at the hatchery in Warwick. Prof. Mead,
OF Brown University, the nrst person sue
cessfuily to hatch HOLSTERS artifcially,
says OF bis work: .sInciuding the cost Of
the breeding plant, with allowances for all
necessary running expenses, we are now
able to produce HOLSTERS at an expense OF
less than p thousand, or ~ cents each.
Hitherto il has not been believed possible
to raise 10 captivity lobsters from the egg
to the adult stage"