Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-21

held at South Paris on July this
year. 1t had been intended to hold it
on June II, but change was made
comes that week.
An Old orchard lady picked up a
sealed bottle on the beach recently
with the following address written in
neat hand: Joseph NJ. Darby. South
port, Lancashire, England. The ad-
dress was put in the bottle Dec. 10
and the Old Orchard lady found it the
| last of April.
Among the very few Gorham peo-
pie low living who remember Hal
ley's comet at its last appearance IS
years ago is Mrs. Kate Towle Smith
| of South street, who was then SIX
years old. She can clearly remem-
Der just how this celestial wander
err" looked at that time.
Ed West, engineer on the Sandy
River and Rangeley Lakes railroad.
| reports that in going to Rangeley
from Phillips one evening last week
and running back the next forenoon.
he saw thirteen deer from his cab
| window. In the lot was one deer
that was almost clear white.
Traffic was held up on the Bidde-
ford and SacO electric road Monday
| by small black and white kitten.
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| track ahead of car on Main street
and disappeared under the car. The
motorman stopped his car to see what
had become of the kitten. which was
| found on the truck frames uninjured.
Robert Warren, veteran of the 10Th
Maine Regiment. who died late Tues
day afternoon at his Bowdoinham
home, will be remembered throughout
| the country in connection with the
strange phenomena of the old mirror
| that hung in his Bowdoinham home
wherein he saw much that was unex-
plainable. This was some years ago
and at the time the Warren residence
was visited by prominent scientific in
vestgatOrs throughout New England.
| James F. Hunt, the first letter car
rer appointed by the Federal govern
ment in Boston, who died at his home
in Somerville, Mass, this week, was
born in Liberty, Me, Nov. %, 1916.
He worked as a young man in Boston
and at Benton, Me-, for his father.
| After the Boston fire, which crippled
his fathers business, he returned to
Boston, and July IS, 1873, became a
letter carrier. He had since been
continuously employed in the postal
service, being at one time superin-
| tendent of the Somerville office.
Dogfish are raising havoc with the
fishermen along the coast to the ex-
| tent that a large amount of fishing
gear has been destroyed. many fisher
men have given up senes and have
gone handling, while others have
given up deep seafishing entirely and
are turning their labors toward lob
ster catching. Many of the fishermen
claim that the dogish are more plenti-
full than ever before and that they
destroy gear. One fisherman said re-
| Gently that when he pulled in his nets
he found many cod and haddock with
| their heads eaten Off He said that
the dog fish are giving all sorts OF
trouble and that there is absolutely
no way to cope with them.
Oxford County Citizen: In a talk
with one of the leading business men
| of Rumford, who is interested in the
building of the Rumford- Bethel cleo
trio road. recently, we were given
permission to state to the public that
work on the road will commence in the
near future. The road will start at
Ridlonville and run to Mexico and
| thence to Rumford by way of the
Swift river bridge. The company plan
| to have the road completed as far as
East Rumford this season. The mat
ter of storage battery cars is being
looked into and this new system which
is now in operation in several cities
will be thoroughly investigated before
the equipment of the road is pur-
chased.
When the new addition now being
putt on the west end of the Klon-
dixie Wooden Mill in Sabattus village
is completed. work will be started on
another addition, the third within "a
year, which will make that building
compare favorably in size with the
other two mills of the Webster Wool
en- Company. The first addition,
putt last summer, was two-story
AFFAIR running the whole length of
the south side of the old mill,
equipped with all modern machinery
and appliances and adding largely to
the mills capacity. This spring.
announcement was made Of a two
story addition on the west end, and
this is now half completed. The par
tition between it and the old mill has
been torn away, and one side of the
weave room is open to the air.
The third addition will be the same
size as that of last summer. and