Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-07

The salary Of Daniel S. Hamilton
probation officer has been fixed a
| $500 year by the York County com
missioners.
Boothbay Harbor may be selected Il
the destination OF the South Bostol
Yacht Clubs annual cruise this year
Such a decision would be very accep
table to the citizens of Boothbay Har
Dor and would add much to the gaiet,
of the season there.
Somerset independently Reporter
With the indications strong that TIL
State convention of both big politica
parties of Maine will be held there thi
year, Augusta is beginning to thinl
she once more is coming into her own
in the political affairs of the State.
r. G. Saylor, who has been promot
ed to the Office of general superinten
dent of the eastern division of the
Western Union telegraph company
was for several years an operator il
the Portland office. From there ht
went to Philadelphia, where he work.
ed his way up step by step until hi
held important offices. Following his
work in Philadelphia, he held i'm.
portant offices in New York foS the
Western Union. Afterward he ha(
charge of work in Chicago, Atlantt
and San Francisco. Mr.. Saylor mar
| ried a Portland girl and spends a
great deal Of his time during the sum
| mer at Higgins Beach.
Sheppard S. Woodcock, the well
| known architect and builder of more
| than 20 public edifices in New England
| and elsewhere, who died at his home
| In Somerville, Mass, Wednesday, ageC
80 years, was born in Sidney, Me
| Among the buildings he designed anG
erected was Rice Library at Kittery.
Last year farmers in New Sharon
| and vicinity tried the experiment OF
| planting potatoes extensively for the
wholesale market, believing that this
could be as successfully done in
Franklin county as in AroostoOk. The
results of the experiment were far
beyond expectations. This year the
business Of raising potatoes will be
gone into on an extensive scale, and a
| large quantity of specially prepared
potato fertilizer has been ordered by
the farmers, who have dubbed togeth-
er for the purpose A large amount OF
sweet corn for the factories, much
| more than usual. will also be planted
in this locality this year, it is said.
Charles S. Heselton. formerly of
Skowhegan. now in the employ of u
large wireless telephone and telegraph
company. recently conducted an ex-
pertinent with the wireless telephone
which attracted considerable atten-
ton. An opera singer rendered a Sc
! lection or two in front of a wireless
| telephone instrument at 1913 Park ave-
nue., New York and an audience con-
| sisting of scientific men listened to it
| in the Metropolitan building. some dis
| lance away. Similar tests have been
| made in Portland
The Portland Society of the New
Jerusalem is now occupying its new
parish house on Stevens avenue fol
church services. The society has beer
worshping, since the sale of their ole
| church, in Y. NJ. c. A. hall and have
been looking forward to the completion
Of their new church home for some
time. The new parish house will be
| used at present for the services, anG
also entertainments and suppers. bu
IT is hoped that the society will a.
some future time be able to build &
chapel on the corner lot which They
| own.
The Bath built four masted schoon.
er Cohasset, which was burned to the
waters edge at Baltimore three year,
| ago and has been on the ways al
| SharpSton Md. for the past Is month;
| has recently been launched, having
| been thoroughly rebuilt and changed
| from a double to a single deck vessc
and has also had her name changed tt
the Anna r. Heidriter.
| Stephen S. Bunker. a civil engineer
who graduated from the University OF
Maine IN 1897 and who has perhaps
| done more extensive travelling in the
| pursuit of his profession during TIL,
past IL years than any other engineer
] IN the State, has just returned tt
| Maine from a years occupation il
| western Brazil, where he has been EN-
ployed in the engineering of new
! commercial railroad for the trans
portation of the crude rubber anC
| other products from uneXplored BraZi
| and Bolivia. The railroad is beint
built by the Madeira Mamorc rail.
road company, Maine corporation
| and is now about half completed
1t Will be $40 miles in length Inside
| of four years. it is expected that the
line will be in operation.
The celebrated York bridge case
Which. during the past one OF two
| years has figured in town meetings
| Legislature and courts has had an.
other chapter added to it in thej is
| suing of d writ of mandamus from
| the Supreme Judicial court ordering
| and directing Town Clerk Plaisted t.
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