Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-17


Beneath the BAN no longer than
Ten years ago
But now they both get ample chance
To show their skill,
ana any day can draw big pay
In vaudeville
-Pittsburg Post.
r. w. Haines of Skowhegan, Maine.
bears the distinction of landing the
| only salmon caught from the Kenne-
bee river in forty eight years On
wednesday morning, May 4th, Mr..
Haines cast a line into the Whirlpool
| beneath the Skowhegan Falls, hooked,
and after fiftyfive minutes play sue
| cessfully landed nineteen pound and
four ounce salmon, measuring two
| feet three and one-half inches long.
Anglers both young and old are out in
scores looking for the mate
The skin of Il blue fox is said to be
| lends interest to the announcement
that Frank Whelpley, who spent some
| years in the business in Alaska, has
| come back to st. John. n. b.. with
| small colony of these animals and
| started fox farm on the little island
| in the bay, near the mouth of Saint
| John harbor. He is confident the cli-
! mate will be suitable, and that the
| blue fox will flourish on the tiny island,
which is otherwise uninhabted except
| by rabbits.
A crack has been discovered on the
| little hill across the railroad track just
| in front of the Maine State Fair
| grounds in Lewiston. 1t is a clear cut
! crack in the ground nearly one hum
| dred feet in length and extending down
| to an unknown depth In fact there
are two of these assures. The opinion
| of Prof F. D. Tubbs of Bates was ask
| ed as to the cause. He says the hill
is a deposit of the glacial epoch, and
| that the digging of large hole on one
| side to obtain sand has disturbed the
| balance and caused the crack.
| The cat of Napoleon Gooch of Bid
deford has produced litter of freak
kittens. According to the Biddeford
| Journal there were six kittens, two of
| which died soon after birth. Two We're
| perfectly formed and but one of these
| is now living One that died had no
! legs. One has but two legs, and two
have three. two being in front and
| the third a hind leg. All the kittens
| are naturally formed except as to the
legs, and are apparently as healthy as
any kittens. The kittens that had no
limbs died four days after the birth.
City Auditor, Charles B. Thurston of
Portland has just been added to the
| rolls of Bosworth Post of Portland. He
| was member of the 18th Maine regi-
ment and served with that organization
| which was commanded by Col. Neal
| Dow. afterwards a brigader general.
| Mr.. Thurston was always too busy to
| join organizations, is the way he put
| it when asked how it happened that he
had not joined post before. His SER
| vices in the war We're known to but
| few until his recent move to be mus
| tered into Bosworth Post. Such in
| stances are rare, naturally, 45 years af-
| ter the close of the war. There are
! few veterans in Portland who are not
| members of either Bosworth or That
| cher Post The combined membership
| is about 300.
| Pennington Chronicle: We have
been greatly interested of late in
| looking over a years file of the Maine
| Farmer, Vol. I. The Farmer was es-
| tablished at Winthrop in Jan 1888; the
| first number of the volume bears the
| date Jan. q, 1888; the last Jan. H. 1894.
! The journal, which, as its title page
| announces. was devoted to agriculture,
| mechanics and the useful arts was
| conducted by Ezekiel Holmes and pub
lished at Winthrop by William Noyes
| & Co. Some years later the head
| quarters of The Farmer were removed
to Augusta and the paper has been
| published there for a long period of
time. The volume in hand was brought
to this office by Charles Adams Of East
Wilton. 1t was probably the property
of his grandfather the late Major Lo-
| rim Adams one of the foremost agri-
culturists of Franklin county in his
| lifetime.
| During the year 1909 surveys were
| made in the Union river basin in Han
| cock county by the State Survey Com
mission and the United States Geolog-
ical Survey The district engineer of
the State Water Storage Commission
has recently received preliminary blue
prints of plans of the following lakes
in this basin: Abraham, Scammons
and Molasses, and Webb pond outlet.
| Alligator Rocky and Spectacle ponds.
| Great pond and Green lake outlet, and
Branch lake outlet 1t is expected that
the first draft and profile of Union riv-
er itself will shortly be out of the
hands of the draughtsman. The orig
| inal to be sent to the United States
Geological Survey at Washington. d.
| c.. at an early date when limited ed
ition will be available for distribution
| by early fall.