The independent-reporter., 1910-03-10
Here and There in Maine

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The Bridgton Board of Trade, at
recent meeting voted to endorse the
horse car scheme and to recommend
that the town put In $1,000. The plan
is to have a car line run from the
boat landing to the head of Main hill.
Rhode Island, one of the two states
which retains annual elections, seems
disposed to go over to Names admir-
able biennial system, bill to that ef-
feet having gone through one house of
the Legislature almost unanimously.
The termination of the receiyership
for the Mt. Waldo Granite Co. and the
fact that this company has been
awarded the contract to furnish $2,-
100000 worth of granite for the new
S., 500 900 municipal building in New
York City were announced March 2.
Charles A. Bean, one of Portlands
wholesale merchants, who disappear
ed Jan. 81, and who was a short time
ago found in Chicago, having assumed
the name of Carleton A. Baker, arriv-
ed home, recently, accompanied by
Representative Franklin r. Redlon, a
personal friend, who went to Chicago
the latter part of last week.
With a shortage of 100000 bushels
of potatoes in the Boston market and
foreign stock being used when it can
be secured. while. at the same time,
the potato houses of Central Maine
are filled to overflowing with few Or
ders at the low prices of from 33 to
40 cents a bushel there seems to be a
potato situation the most peculiar in
the history of the business.
Ten years ago E. T. Getchell of Bath
noticed that some insect was destroy
ing the leaves of his elm trees. Mr..
Getchell had set out these trees In
1853 and naturally wanted to preserve
them. AS an experiment he bored six
inch holes in each tree, filled the holes
with common sulphur. and plugged
them up. AS result there was no
further trouble from insects. This
year the trees are filled with brown
tail moth nests, and Mr.. Getchell will
again try the sulphur experiment to
see whether it will have any effect in
keeping the trees from this pest.
e. d. Chamberlain a retired bust
ness man of Boston who was an
nounced to be the donor of a recent
gift of $215,0O0 to the Hebron sanator-
ium at Hebron, Me-, became interested
in tuberculosis work, especially at
Hebron sanatorium several years ago
when a near relative was stricken
with the disease and went to the Maine
institution for treatment. Il am not a
Maine man myself. but have rela-
tives there" said MIR. Chamberlain.
He Is reputed to be a millionaire and
has resided at the Vendome for nearly
ten years.
An architect of note and builder OF
more than 200 public edifices in New
England and elsewhere, Shepard 5.
Woodcock. died at his home aged &c
years. Mr.. Woodcock was born in
Sidney, Maine. Some of the buildings
he designed and erected were the Pa
cific mills at Lawrence, Mass, Rice
library at kittery, Maine, numerous
high schools and seminarieC and sold
iers monuments at Lowell, Natick and
Danvers He also furnished plans for
the remodeling of the Rockingham
bank and First National and Savings
bank at Portsmouth, n. H.
In order that the passengers arriv-
ing at Portland on transatlantic lin
ers will not be detained any longer
than Is necessary, the Canadian i'm
migration officials are now boarding
the ships upon their arrival at Hall
fax and are thereby able to make their
examinations during the remainder OF
the trip to Portland. In that way the
work for the United States officials Is
made a great deal less and gives the
immigrants bound for Canadian points
an opportunity to get away quickly
The first inspection OF immigrants
bound for Canada was made on the
steamship Dominion which arrived
last week, and the three Canadian in
spectors say it proved decided sue
cess.
Bath Times-Virginia was the name
of the first vessel built in this coun-
try, the one the Popham colonists
launched at the mouth of the Ken
nebec in 1907. 1t Is also the name of
beautiful steam yacht which was
launched by the Bath Iron Works in
1899 for Isaac Stern of New York, and
which has been commanded ever
since by Capt. Leander A. Jeffreys, one
of the finest yacht captains in the AM
erican service. a thorough judge of
vessels as we'll as one of the most
competent navigators. Word of this
excellent skipper comes to our desk
through a paragraph in the Maine
Journal. 1T was pleasure to find"
says the editor of that New York pub
lication, that Capt. Jeffreys was
watching very closely the result of the
efforts of the Anglo-American yachts
men in their attempt to have set aside
in the courts the recent act of Con-
gress which compels them to pay 81
per ton for the pleasure craft they
have had built abroad. Capt. Jeffreys
stated that he was amused to read in