The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-03-24
Here and There in Maine

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The town of Charleston will cele-
brate Its centennial In 1911.
Portland Is still following up it's
plan of taking the overhead wires
out of the business district.
Bowdoinham Is sure of that new
shoe shop, 80 what matters 1t If she
does send a few tramps to Jail.
Peary's next visit to Maine will be
for the purpose of telling the people
of Saco about his Polar trip.
Lamoine Is one of the happy towns.
mo liabilities, taxes all paid, cash in
treasury" said the town clerk in his
report to the Ellsworth American.
o. s. Tarbox of Red Beach Is to
furnish the granite pedestal on which
will rest the Thomas B. Reed statue
which Is to be set up at Portland.
Plans have been completed for an
other new elevator at the Grand
Trunk piers, Portland, which is to
have capacity of 100000 bushels
of grain.
The marble for the floor of the new
Bath National Bank was on board the
burned steamer Manhattan and the
marble work will be necessarily de-
layed.
P. G. Wooster, a Hancock boy,
was elected. president of the Pasade-
ma Pioneer association at the annual
meeting Of that association in Pasa-
dena, Cal, recently.
Flocks of wild geese have passed
over PASSPORT recently and one of the
gunners in the southern part of the
city is credited with shooting SIX of
the big birds on the wing.
Another evidence of an early
spring Is the early appearance of a
bear and three cubs near East Sulli-
van last week. The bear and two
cubs were shot and one cub was cap
tured.
Charles M. Lincoln, formerly of
Bath, has joined the staff of the New
York World. He was for many years
with the New York Herald and later
with the New York Times.
A Westbrook man, John ]. Knowl-
ton, is one of the pupils who learned
Mary Had a Little Lamb" from the
lips of the author, Mary Rugg, when
she was teaching school in her home
in Portsmouth, N. H.
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.
While all Of the details have not
been perfected 1t is only question
of short time before the Portland
Railroad Co. will put into use the
service stripe system so that patrons
of the cars can readily tell the length
of service rendered by the men run
ming the cars.
An Ellsworth Falls man, Leonard
J. Maddocks, is cutting his third set
of teeth. Mr.. Maddocks. by the way,
has a twin sister living, Mrs. Mary
J. Durham, also of Ellsworth Falls.
and they are sharp competitors for
the honor of being the Oldest twins
In Maine.
Aroostook Pomona Grange Is con-
sidering ways and means to develop
that county still further, by opening
up new farm lands to cultivation. The
plan suggested Is to get power from
the Legislature to purchase virgin
land which is to be sold to settlers
at reasonable prices. The unique
plan will be worked out by COM
mittee who have the matter. in charge.
Friends of Mrs. Byron Wallingford
of Portland are urging that she be
awarded a Carnegie medal for her
brave act in leaving a sick bed to
extinguish a fire in the clothing of a
domestic, who would otherwise have
been burned to death. Mrs. Walling-
ford, who was dangerously i'll, ran
out into the snow and rolled the do
nestle, who had become human
torch, in the snow.
Five barrels of salt pork that were
stolen from Calais storehouse about
three weeks ago, were found Wednes-
day morning in door yard, a case
of where the thieves got scared and
rather than have the goods discover
ed by the officers who were on their
trail, they rolled their booty near
Constable Perry's residence, who
took 1t In charge, and delivered the
same to the rightful owners.
Rev. Isabelle Phelps, formerly pas
tor of the Congregational church at
Pittston, now pastor of the churches
at Springfield and Carroll, is under
appointment by the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions to work in China. Miss Phelps
expects to leave for that country this
fall. She is assigned to Poa-Ting-
Flu to take the place of Miss Mary
Morrill, of Portland. who lost her life
in the Boxer massacre in 1900.
Lightkeeper Sawyer of the Egg
s,h% t. l.