Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-11

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~ Chicago Tribune,
One of the much looked for improve
ments at Peaks Island for the coming
will be the new public landing place
which the city is to put down about
the first of June.
A large addition is to be added to
the Casco Canning cos. plant at Por-
ter's landing in Freeport, it will be 100
feet long and 80 feet wide. it will have
cement foundation and the floor will
also be of cement, it will contain five
cooking watts. This company has done
quite a large business since they en-
tered what is new field. that is the
putting of CLAIMS up in glass jars. and
they now employ % people.
The new concrete dam which is beng
built at the foot of Millinocket lake by
the Penobscot Log Driving Co, to re-
place the old one. is rapidly assuming a
finished condition. All of the concrete
bankments are being placed now. When
the frost is out of the ground. the en-
banllment work will be completed The
ne" dam is o. the same height as the
old one and over 1000 feet in length.
AS Mrs. Annie Welch of Shapleigh
was returning from the posto:lice one
day last week she saw a raccoon in g
tree in an orchard. She Immediately
took "a stick and drove the coon
down and then came down and killed
il and carried it home.
Mrs Safronia Tibbetts Of Levant,
aged IS years. has record which
many younger woman might we'll en-
Wy. Since Sept %. she has knit 20
pairs of mems stockings, footed eight
pairs of mems stockings. knit four
pairs of mems mittens. eight pairs of
ch:ldrens mittens and four pairs OF
baby mittens. She has spun and pre-
pared all the yarn for these. beside DO
ing sewing and assisting in the house
hold work each day.
Alfred Allen undoubtedly has the
oldest clay pipe in Sanford II not III
York county, especially if you consider
an article in constant use. MT. Alien
is the proud owner of penny cray
pipc purchased 26 years ago ny ms
son Edward. The younger man Says
that he earned the money picking up
homes to buy the pipe TOR ms latacr IL
is certainly Il beautiful sight TO tue
eve of a smoker and on several occa-
sjcns Mr.. Allen has been offered a
considerable sum for the old dudeen.
If has been smoked for the entire num-
Der OF years every day by Mr.. Alien
and has q fine color. being easily mis-
taken for mcerSchaum.
Charles W. Noyes Of Castine viii
soon erect tablets of bronze in ana
of it's important historical events.
tablet which is to be located at the FOOT
Of Broadway in Castinc SHOWS the
shields Of the four great nations which
for 300 years fought for the possession
of this town and the surrounding coun-
try Mr.. Moves has devoted lifetime
to the study of the history of Castne
ana is to put these tablets where they
will best mark some Of these stirring
events.
Fl. \. Duncan, president of the Ma
rine National Rank. has signed
every bill issued by that bank
either as cashier or president. As
the time extends about "A years. his
record is probably unequalled in New
England. To make the record unbrok-
en-, the officials of the bank have on
several occasions during the illness or
absence of Mr.. Duncan held the bills
until he was able to sign them. The
best time made by him in attaching his
signature to bills was 400 signatures
in As minutes. President Duncan has
also q pair Of large steel shears which
have an interesting history. They have
been in use in the bank since its Or
ganization Al years ago. and during
that time have cut thousands of bank
bills
Lewiston Journal: This remarkable
reduction in night rates by the rele
graph companies. says a Maine man,