Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-04

Though prices may be wrong
Man wants but little here below,
But chew that little long.
Chicago Tribune.
The cat in Guilford Maine family
recently brought into the house a
snake % inches long.
| Rear Admiral John Entwistle, U. 5.
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 a car and emptied
100 barrels of potatoes in % minutes.
This is believed by his friends to be
a record.
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 VIII be
used on the Penobscot during the
coming season She was formerly the
| New York Central Transfer. No. Il.
1t is reported that her name is TO DC
| changed to Hugh Ross. Captain
Charles Baldwin is in command ana
Ernest Hutcnins is chief engineer.
| c. NJ Fahs, of the first lighthouse
district, has inspected 81 stations since
| March %. Included in the stations
visited We're Seguin, Cape Elizabeth.
| Island Goat
Island. Isle of Shoals. Matinicus and
the Cape Elizabeth Lightshir NO. "a.
| When the Lilac left Portland she
went to Portsmouth, n. H., and then
| started towards the east and visited
| all the stations, including those on
| the Penobscot bay. Everything at the
stations was found to be iii lirSt-clasS
condition and Inspector FANS said that
| exceptionally fine weather had been
theirs during the entire trip Of i'll
| SpectiOn.
| Paris Bros. of Bath have completed
| the work of loading Sc spars on cars
! to be shipped to Gloucester, Mass
/ The spars We're brought here from
| Tacoma, Wash, in the bark Sea King,
and some were over 100 feet long.
They occupied 81 freight cars, a pref
| ty good train. 1t is an unusual occur
renee, perhaps, the first time that
spars have been shipped out of Bath.
They usually come in.
| A. 3. Taylor, treasurer of the Ban
gor Salvation Army building fund
has recently paid $500 on the principal
| of the mortgage held on the build
| on Harlow street. When the army
| first bought the property. it was
obliged to place mortgage on it of
| So 600 but this now amounts to $1,000
| Good progress is~~being made in lift
ing the encumbrance and hopes are
entertained CT an early start on the
new workingmen's hotel.
Although teams are still crossing
| the ice on Moosehead lake, indications
are that the ice win leave this famous
fishing ground considerably earlier
than usual this spring. The usual
time for the ice to leave Moosehead
is from May to the 10th, but this
season it should go out week or two
| earlier.
Work on the new male ward at the
Eastern Maine Insane hospital is pro-
crossing rapidly. The terra Gotta
| floors are practically completed and
the structure will be ready for the
plasterers in a short time. The build
ing is expected to be ready for oc
cupancy in the fall.
Nearly $4,000 pounds of fish were
landed in Portland Thursday and of
the total amount $4,000 pounds was
pollock. The schooner Marion Turner
brought in 27,0o0 pounds while tin"
| little Sloor. Alice c., came IN with
II, goo pounds. The only schooner to
come into port with mixed fish WAS
the Angie 3. Watson and her crew
landed 10000 pounds of cod, naddock
and make.
The season in Maine is certainly
we'll advanced when an automobile
can be run on the streets of Range
ley before the first of April.
| Preliminary work on the Portland,
| bTdy anu LEV lStOIl fa1lTOdu IdS DeeH
begun by = crew of carpenters, who
are building portable quarters for the
construction crew at Lewiston. The
shacks will be transported to the
work on fiat cars
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 ali the time. Billy Soulc of
Pleasant Island camps says that he
expects the fishing will be especially
good in the spring for the reason that
the water will sure be very low in
the lakes. as it was extremely low
last winter and it cannot rise to its
common height
The friends of Mr. Stewart w. Price
believe that he holds the log haulins
record for Maine During tire past
winter he operated a Lombard ma
chine for the Hollingsworth & Whit