The independent-reporter., 1910-04-21
Here and There in Maine

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II looks like poor year for many
OF the drives.
The weather has not been over COM
Portable for the fishermen the past
week. but most of them report high
line"
The latest news from Rev. Frank
w Sanford is from Gibraltar. The
Holy Ghost and Us leader is certainly
an enthusiastic yachtsman.
The outlook for the coming season
points to considerably smaller acre
age of potatoes in Central Maine. A
considerably larger amount of land
will be devoted to the raising of sweet
corn.
The time for the annual opening of
the sardne canning business in East
port, as well as all along the coast of
Maine, is on Friday, April Is, but it
is not expected that any of the can
ming plans will open until the follow
ing Monday.
A two-year-old trout that is two
and a half inches deep and nine and
half inches long is one of the new
acquisitions of the Fish and Game
Museum at the Fish and Game office
at Augusta. This fish was fed at the
Rangeley Lakes hatchery at Oquos-
soc.
When Mrs. S. c. Dinsmore of Reno.
New, was visiting in Dover last fall
she found a handsome little spruce
which she took up with the idea of
taking it to her home. Her father, j.
e. Martin, kept it through the winter
and sent it to his daughter this spring.
She has written that it arrived in
good condition and will be given op-
portunity to become a tree in Neya-
da.
About 1876 100000 feet is the amount
of last winters lumber cut in the
Aroostook timbcrlands, and as there
is yet plenty of snow in the woods for
hauling, practically all of 1t will come
into the mills this season. The st.
John Lumber Company of Van Buren,
is the largest operator having cut
So 900 600. The operations on both
the st. John and the Allagash rivers
are larger this year than usual.
Maine Woods: We heard a young
man stopping in the country tais
spring, say, Il thought we had to pay
big price for maple syrup, 3ut now
| know how much work it is to make
il. | know that the farmer earns all
he gets for it," If we could but
change places one with another now
and then, we should come to have
quite a different estimate or many
things and approximate much nearer
To their true value. Much is learned
by observation; more by experience.
All lost fishermen do not close their
experiences as happily as did two
from the Valentia who went astray in
the fog off Boon Island recently. They
finally found themselves in York Har-
DOT, SOlu IneiI WHiSh
to 100 pounds of fish and joined their
vessel in Portsmouth. where they had
been reported as lost by the skipper.
Both men were in good spirits and re-
garded the incident as an ordinary
happening. Neither had had food nor
water for about l2 hours, and were
naturally tired from their sail and
row.
Old York Transcript: While back of
the Congregational cemetery the 9TH
er day, James Holland unearthed an
old foil The point of the weapon is
broken off, whether by accident or as
the results of some duel years ago it
Is impossible to tell. The foil is in
good shape, and may be of late make,
although examination reveals no date.
There are, however, initials on the
guard. Anyone who has indulged in
a duel lately, and cares to keep their
weapon as a memento, can have II by
proving property. In the meantime,
Jimmy is prepared to give lessons in
the art of fencing, providing his OPP
ponent will furnish another foil.
A Rockland exchange records the
fact that all efforts to find the South
ThomastonkSt. George town line have
failed and as result folks living
along the line are having all sorts oil
trouble One gentleman, who has
paid taxes and voted in st. George all
his life. says he does not now know
where he lives. His property and
poll have been assessed by both
towns, both threaten to sell him out
for taxes II he doesn't pay. He posi-
lively refuses to pay taxes in both
towns. and for the present, until
somebody can tell him where he
lives, will not pay in either. Mean
time, Finn, to whom he had sold
woodlot, has brought suit to com