Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-30

People interested in salmon fishing
are rejoicing because T. f. Allen OF
| Bangor was able to prove TO the sat
iSfa ctinn of the New Brunswick leg
iSlature that if a dam was built on
| the Tobique stream. the st. John sal
mon fishing would be spoiled. Tobique
stream is the only spawning ground
| left.
| For the second time within 20 years
| the ice has left a portion of Sebago
xiously awaiting the first day Of the
open season, which is April l..
The Lewiston textile school closed
| its first term last week after very
successful season. Cloth analysis and
| designing. spinning and carding were
| taught. The fact that four overSccrs
! and six second hands attended the
| glasses regularly shows how much
such q school is needed.
The ForeSters of America, Court city
of Westbr"ok. has an option on Il val
liable business block site in the cen
ter of Westbrook and plans 4" build
at once.
The postofiice clerks at Augusta and
tie carriers 1T Waterville will make
kcnnehec county fairly bristlr with
government employees April -.
Sanford York tollntNS raDiUlV
srOMs7g manufacturing center, has
formed q board of trade and Bidde
ford will have to hustle to keep her
place as the largest community in
that county.
Edgar j. Riker has been at the head
al the blacksmith department of the
iston since 1853, with the exception of
| two years. 1t is believed this long
term of service cannot be duplicated
| in any other manufacturing establish
ment in New England. He was born
| in New York City in 1888.
Isaac Douglass, a former Brunswick
man, writes, from oklahoma. where he
| is now located, that he has already
planted 100 acres of corn. 2S acres of
| cotton and 30 bushels OF POTATOES.
The, spring season is well advanced
| There.
There was quite a representation of
| Portland people at the Rogers Mem
orial church at Fairhaven, Mass, Sun
| day The entire choir there was COM
posed OF former members of VI Port
land choir, Mrs Florence Knight Pal
mer. Miss Henrietta bennett Rice,
Willard A. Bowdoin and Frederic A.
Kennedy.
Fort Fairfield Review: Eugene M.
Curtis and Ezra Curtis We're hunting
| last week and found fox hole and
! dug it out about 10 feet long and two
| lee. wide and worked for a day and a
half, and when they got their animal
driven out of his hole it proved to be
nice ground hog instead of fox
What are groundhogs' pelts worth?
| Howard b. Cloudman of South
Windham recently passed week trap
ping in the vicinity of Higgins Beach
and Prout's Neck, with excellent re-
suits Mr.. Cloudman is an expert
| trapper of many years experience ana
has taken many valuable pelts this
spring having taken something over
| 100 skunk skins alone. to say nothing
of the mink and musk rats.
| 4 letter received from Shubal Lea
| Witt of Alameda. Calf, by his sister,
| Mrs. Louisa PomrOy of Pembroke.
and ncphews and nieces of the Lea
| Witt family. acknowledging his SSth
birthday greetings, brings up inter-
esting "reminiscences Of his visit to
| Pembroke in 1889 He gives an inter-
| esting account Of his early days, with
strong desires to become "a musical
| professor. He was a violnlSt and
| singing master, having at one time a
| class of 20 pupils.
| Muskrat skins at 81 sets the boys
| into excitement and the Older trap
pers, of whom Orland has many, into
activity. James Saunders and Tracy
| F,ldridge are getting ready to start up
| Union river for months trapping.
| Many dollars have come into Orland
the past season for rat. mink. skunk.
| fox, and bob cat pelts. Walter Bray
captured four mink in February near
Bray's MILL in the Orland river. which
| he sold for $4,000.
| The library room of the Maine His
torical Society at Portland has another
| and important addition. 1t is a large
and handsome portrait of Sir William
| lohipps, one of Names notable sons. 1t
| lis the gift of Henry Deering, Esq, a
ci tizen who has happy habit of doing
many things for Portland. In Decent
Der, 1907, he presented this society the
POI trait of Sir William Pepperell that
haLgs in the same room. The Phips
| pori raft is the work of Miss Elizabeth
P. Patterson. a sister of William d.
| Patti eTSOn. ESQ. of WiScaSSet the cor