Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-06

ufacture OF steer ever tiVN'
Maine.
| The Portland ship building company
of South Portland has barge ready
| to launch which will be used in ana
around Portsmouth. n. H. The barge
is lO5 feet over all, % feet beam ana
seven feet and five inches deep.
A. f. Oulette of Sanford has lust
completed an aeroplane which has al
ready made one successful hight.
The whole machine weighs about 600
mounds. without the aviator and has
| n total supporting surface of 400 square
feet.
The Guilford Register tells lot in
the following paragraph and also leaves
something to the imagination of the
reader: Pole cats have tenaclty
to life. So thought the man VINO I'M
dertook to kin one, the other night.
Took nearly an hours time, exhaust
ed a good supply of fence rails. ana
nearly exhausted himself.
Work on the new male ward at the
Eastern Maine Insane hospital is pro-
crossing rapidly. The terra Gotta
the structure will be ready for the
plasterers in a short time. The BUILD
ing is expected to be ready for occu-
pancy in the fall.
pnnn1D
out at the end of the Cape yesterday
afternoon witnessed the novel slght
of n school of whales playing about.
They were first seen between Wltch
rock buoy and Trundy'S reef ana ms
ported themselves about for some time.
At one time four of the monsters We're
in sight and there may have been more
in the school.
Former members of the Montgomery
Guards of Portland, who We're also
members of the drill squad which won
the championship of New England
from the Emmett Guards at WOrceS-
ter, Mass, 20 years ago. are going to
to celebrate the anniversary with d
banquet in Portland, April II.
Major Holman F. Day is making Il
sea trip on a 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.
Mrs O. C. Doibier. writing from
Kingfield, says in the Maine Woods:
1--WE think we have a flock of hens
that have layed pretty we'll this win
ter. There are "a of them and they
have laid steady since before
Thanksgiving. They layed in jan
uary, 27l: in February, 306. Their
best weeks record in March was 1856.
an average of 10 81 per day. The
flock consists of white and brown
leghorns and full-blooded Rhode Is
land reds.
Rumford Falls Times. A COMPARE
son of the following prices which were
quoted about seventeen years ago,
with those of the present may be OF
interest to economists. Fresh eggs
were sold in Wilmington, Del. for 3
cents per dozen; in Camden, n. Y,
cabbages were sold for cents per
head; Porter House steak sold in Oak
land, Cal, for IA cents pound and
Strawberries were 5 cents for two
boxes. These are some of the prices
quoted by Mr.. Cunningham to one OF
| the local business men to illustrate
| the difference in prices since the reign
| of the trusts.
Bath Times.-A woman in this city
has an April fool Joke that she prizes.
Twenty three years ago, she received
| through the mail from a relative llving
under the English flag, a letter whlch
| contained the words, April lst, 1881.
| She said nothing about receiving 1t
but when the next April arrived, she
returned the missive with an appro-
pirate remark relative to the GATE.
Since then each April it has put IN an
appearance. OF course the paper has
been heightened to accommodate the
| messages, until it now makes quite
bulky letter During all these years.
it's arrival has never been mentioned
between the two, the only way its exis-
tence is known is on April LIST when
one of the two receives it.
| Nathan Goold, curator of the Maine
Historical Society's museum and Ii
brary at Portland, through his syste-
matte efforts to discover the graves Of
all Maine revolutionary soldiers, has
disclosed the fact that quite number
of the Penobscot Indians fought with
1.-THE colonists. Years ago, Mr.. Goold
collected much information concerning
the participation of the Penobscot In
dams in the Revolutionary war and it
makes an interesting chapter in the