The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-04-14
Here and There in Maine

lere in Maine
Kate Douglass Wiggin has returned
to her summer home at Hollis.
Rear Admiral John Entwistle. T. S.
n, who recently died in New Jersey,
was an inspector at the Bath Iron
works in the COS. \
Elmer Brown of Caribou, recently
weighed, rolled into car and emptied
100 barrels of potatoes in 20 minutes
This is believed by his friends to be
a record
A e. Oulette of Sanford has just
completed an aeroplane which has al
ready made one successful fight. The
whole machine weighs about 600
pounds, without the aviator, and has
a total supporting surface of 400
square feet.
The man who caught the first sal
mon is the proudest individual in his
section of the State. The first fish
out of Bangor pool will bring $1.25 a
pound this year and the price will
hold high until the st. John river
season opens.
Isaac Douglass, a former Bruins
wick man, writes from Oklahoma
where he is now located, that he has
already planted 100 acres of corn, %
acres of cotton and 80 bushels of
potatoes. The spring season is well
advanced there.
Although teams are still crossing
the ice on Moosehead lake, indications
are that the ice will leave this ia
nous fishing ground considerably
earlier than usual this spring. The
usual time for the ice to leave Moose
head is from May to the 10th, but
this season it should go out a week
or two earlier.
Edgar ]. Riker has been at the head
of the blacksmith department of the
Hill Manufacturing Co. of Lewiston
since 1853. with the exception of two
years. 1t is believed this long term
nf service cannot be duplicated in any
other manufacturing establishment in
New England. He was born in New
York city in 1888.
L. Wadsworth Harris of Calais, has
in his possession several copies of
Dickens novels which were condens
ed by the author and used by him in
his public readings. There are only
very few eXtant. They were pre-
scented to Mr.. Harris by a friend in
New York city in remembrance of his
giving a recital for the sick
Major Holman F. Day is making a
sea trip on coal-carrying schooner
from Portland to Norfolk and return.
Major Day will take his typewriter
along with him and expects to do
some work he has ahead of him on
board ship. He also will gather ma
terial for a sea story which he plans
on writing sometime during the next
year.
Paris Bros OF Bath have complet
ed the work of loading sc spars on
cars to be shipped to Gloucester,
Mass. The spars were brought here
from Tacoma, Wash. in the bark Sea
King, and some were over 100 feet
long They occupied II freight cars.
a pretty good train. 1t is an unusual
occurrence. perhaps, the first time
that spars have been shipped out of
Bath. They usually come in.
The boilers of the New York tug
B. F. Williams are being extensively
repaired at the Bath Iron Works.
The craft was recently purchased by
Walter Ross of Bangor and will be
used on the Penobscot during the
coming season. She was formerly the
New York Central Transfer, No II.
1t is reported that her name Is to be
changed to Hugh Ross. Captain
Charles Baldwin is in command and
Ernest Hutchins is chief engineer.
One of the peculiar features Of the
past winter is that the narrows be-
tween Mooselookmeguntic lake and
Cupsuptic lake did not freeze for the
entire winter and looms, ducks, crows
and robins were right around that
vicinity all the time. Billy Soule of
Pleasant Island camps says that he
expects the fishing will be especially
good in the spring for the reason that
the water will surely be very low in
the lakes, as it was extremely low
last winter and it cannot rise to its
common height.
Chas. l.. Harnden, the Rangeley fur
dealer, says fur has been higher dur
ing the past winter than ever before.
He says he can sell fox skins today
for $3.50 to $500 that IL years ago
would bring but $3.50 to $1.60. The
best mink are worth say $500 each
today, and ~ or Is years ago the
same skins would sell for about $3.50.
The greatest change within the past
Is years has been in the price of
muskrat Formerly they were worth
from 10 to Is cents each. Now the
same skins are worth 60 cents to a