Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-08

Y, M. C. a. next year. The dates as
signed for the annual session are Feb.
II. 10 and 10. The annual session OF
the College Y. NJ. c. a. of Maine Will
also be held in connection with the
State convention. A large number Of
notable speakers from all over the
country have been secured for tho
The schooner Methebesec, Capt.
Brown, arrived in Bath Monday with
a cargo of pine from Jacksonville,
Fla One hundred and eighty-siX
thousand feet of the cargo is for the
Kelley Spear Co, planking for tho
new steamer, Merida II, being built
for the. Red D. line. The balance Of
the car Is to be discharged at the
Maine Central Railroad wharf.
The Bangor patrols of the Boy
Scouts Of America went on a long hike
last Saturday and enjoyed the day i'm
The start was made at
10.45 A. M. at the Y. NJ. G. a. building
and the route lay across country to
Hermon pond, q distance Of 10 miles.
Arriving there the Scouts made their
headquarters at a cottage, but cooked
their own individual dinner outdoors,
each building his own fire and making
all necessary preparations. Inc
smaller boys returned to Bangor by
train, but the others hilled it back ar
irving home at 100 Z. NJ. The Scout
trips on foot across country arc prov
ing very popular with the boys Of the
Queen City.
1t is reported that one Of Bangor's
leading employment agents went to
Boston Sunday night for the purpose
of getting 100 men to so into the
MooSchead region and get out the logs
left on the landings last winter on ac-
count of the lack Of snow. There is
little demand now i'll bangor for
woodsmcn Those who drift through
the city from New Brunswick report
that men in the woods there are get
ting an average of more than $50 this
winter.
4 number Of Bath men, who count
on smclt fishing to help swell their in
come during the winter months, are
now busy constructing smclt camps to
have ready to go on the ice at Ar
rowsic bridge just as soon as it forms
thick enough to hold them. The fish
ing there has not been as good of late
as it used to be. A number Of fisher
men have houseboats. which they pull
up along the banks and live i'll them
all winter.
The School Street Methodist Epis-
copal church at Berwick, which has
been twice visited by fire during the
past year, was rededicated this week,
the dcdicatory sermon being preached
by Bishop John W. Hamilton of Bos-
ton. The original structure occupied
by the School Street society was
burned on March 20 last. The work
of repair was Immediately commenced
and on May % when preparations had
all been made for the re-openng and
rehabilitation of the building there was
another fire.
The commissioners of cemeteries
and public grounds of the city of
Portland have secured control of the
property of the CasCo Tanning Co,
adjoining the DccrinE park. The
agreement stipulatcs that :; portion of
the property shall be purchased each
year, the whole of it being acquired
probably in four years. The Tanning
Co. will remove to another site.
Negotiations for the property have
han IN, fr,. ,h VIC,
The land will be added to the park
known as Dcering Oaks.
The sum of $122, which had been
raised by subscription, was Sunday
presented to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Dubois of Saco, who had lost three
children from scarlet fever in six days.
The quarantine has now been raised
from the house. The total number
of names on the subscription paper
was 12o. IN
CLANS are getting scarce and there
is talk in Portland of boosting the
price Of the bivalves.
Business men and citizens of Rum
lOTu are quite generally III favor OIL
accepting a proposal of the Oxford
Paper Co, which if carried out will re-
suit i'll that town having the largest
pulp mill in tho world. The town of
Rumford about six years ago voted TO
make a fixed rate of taxation for the
company for 10 years. The company
now proposes if tho town will vote to
extend this period to 16 years in all to
add four more machines, which will
give employment of 600 additional men
and add to the daily pay roll about
$1,000.
Hon. Samuel w. Gould Of Skowlegar
is the first alumnus of the University
of Maine ever elected to Congress He
was one OF the speakers at q recent
banquet given to Pres. Alley, the new
head of the U. OF Nj and in the course
of his remarks advocated economy in
the management of the affairs of the
institution and expressed d belief that
it should not be allowed to drift too
far from it's original purpose.
When you have a cold get bottle of
Chanberlain's Cough Remedy. 1t will
soon fix you up all right and will ward
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