Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-29

j. B. Lanpher of Palmyra has an ap-
pie tree which blooming full in the
spring. had several branches in bloom
with what looked like double W hite ros-
rs this June
The year 1911 will be the first in
thirty-twO years that Mr. and Mrs.
James Steele of Madison Centre have
had no CHILDREN attending school and
the Family numbers nine children.
The barn IF William L. Rhoades of
WinsIow is in ruins as a result of last
weeks tornado" The building was
wrecked to the foundations. This is
the structure build by neghbors early
last spring, after Mr.. Rhoades' barn
WAS destroyed by fire.
. Estimates on freight for the proposed
SkoWhegan-Athens electric road are
most encouraging for the construction
of this long wanted addition to the
trolley lines of Maine. There is hardly
any farmer but has from five to 20
tons faul;ng both ways.
Plans for a big terminal for inward
and outward freight going trains of
the 3. and NJ. and M. c. r. r. at Port
land are now in the Office of the NJ c.
X. r. constructing engineer. 1t will
have a width of 1924 feet and a depth
of 40 feet and face State street. 1t
will be two stories high.
The thunder shower of Tuesday last
week made things interesting for at
least two Thomaston men. says the
Rockland opinion. Frank Flye, while
attending to one of the new block
system signals received a shock that
threw him from the pole on which he
was at work: and Frank Clark, resi-
dent of High street. was struck and
badly burned by the electrical fluid.
The fact that Mr.. Clark wore rubber
boots probably saved his life. AS is
was, the services OF physician were
required.
A movement is on foot to organize
Knox county baseball league this sum-
mer to include Rockland. Thomaston,
Camden and Warren, and, possibly.
Ninalhaven. The idea is to make the
teams strictly local. eliminate Salaried
men, and divide receipts among the
players Fred Eugley has taken hold
of the plan in Rockland and. under his
energetic management, a successful
season seems extremely probable. A
schedule of two games a week for each
team is contemplated. with small ad-
mission fee.
The only three-maSt whaling
schooner in the United States is the
Arthur V. S. Woodruff. formerly owned
by F. NJ. Nicholson and others of
Bucksport hut now owned by Captain
James A. Tilton of New Bedford.
Mass The Woodruff was built at Es
sex, Mass, in 1888 and was for years
one of the Bucksport fleet of fisher
men. The Woodruff is now on her first
whaling trip which will be a short one.
On her return to New Bedford the YES
sci will be converted into a barkentine
and she will be fitted out for an Is
months cruise for sperm whales.
A curious freak is pullet owned by
Miss Jennie Hanley, Gleason street,
Thomaston Blind, from the time it
was Matched, this uncommon bird has
survived the vicissitudes of this cold
and trust-ridden world. and managed
to hold it's own with more fortunately
blessed chickens. Ordinarily. chickens
are Matched with but one"spur-toe;
but this particular bird boasts of two
on each hoof. The name "Blackie' has
been attached to the pullet, and. al
though she is a full hlOoded partridge
Wyandotte, yet her color is nearly coal
black.
the city park playground. Lewiston.
who has recently attended the great
Play Congress in Rochester. y. Y.
says that none of the nine Fairgrounds
which she visited in that city, were
more attractive or better adapted for
the work than Lewston's park play
ground. However. all of the grounds
We're more extensively equipped. Miss
Dunn and all those who are in touch
with the work here appreciate the need
of ad iitional uipment-another
swing especially. Eight swings for four
or five hundred children. in the course
of n dav. is certainly limited. The pub
lie Fairgrounds of Lewiston and An
burn will probably be re-opened soon
after the Fourth.
The above from the Lewiston Jour
nal should be suggestive reading to
many Maine cities that have no such
play grounds.
Rear Admiral John A. Howell. retir-
ed. inventor of the Howells torpedo. is
having built craft which he believes
will solve the problem of combined
land and water travel The boat. which
is being built at the plant of the Bath
Marine Construction Co, is 90 feet
long. six feet, five inches beam with a
tail ten feet long. She viii be fitted
with a 10 h. p. engine making 1000 rev.
olutions per minute. She viii have a
three balded. IS inch propeller with a
81 inch pitch. on the port side and a
trail wheel at the stern. The two. driv
ing wheels are four feet in diameter
and are placed forward. Except for the
driving wheels, the craft is constructed
on the lines of any small boat. 1t is
expected that the boat will make about