Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-23

Yet be so fond of rats
Chicago News.
a former member of the religious
colony at Shiloh, writing in the Port
land Express Advertiser says: Il
think l may confidently predict that
in five years Shiloh will have passed
out OF existence. great many VIII
forget 1t. the ones who know Oh II
through the newspapers, but there are
the hundreds who will always De al
fected by it and can never help re-
membering. Old men who have gone
there with their all. expecting to emu
their lives in Gods service: young
men and women who have gone there
with the evangelist's spirit burning
within, them, and lived away perhaps
the best and most useful ten years
of their lives
w. II. Rowe of Cumberland Center
raises trout in brook and ponds on
his farm. He maintains a hatchery
and sells the young fish all over the
country. Thus far Mr. Rowe mas
given his attention only to the raiS-
| ing of the spotted trout. but he hopes
to enlarge his ponds and be able to
raise salmon. He says that it is gen.
orally conceded that the Maine trout
is the best in the world. and for this
reason they are in great demand for
the stocking of ponds in other states.
Mr.. Rowe is a young man who was
born in Parkman.
In the Colombo (Ceylon Observer
of April s appears an interesting
account of the ascent of Il lofty noun
| tain in that island by Mrs. a. a. wa
| terhouSe. The feat, remarkable OH
account of the lady's age. C3 years.,
| has an added interest for people IN
| this vicinity, Mrs. Waterhouse De>nS
| o. daughter of Carleton 5. Bragg.
| prominent lumbcrman of Bangor who
died about 20 years ago. and sister
of Mrs Harlan P. Sargent of South
| Brewer.
j. W. Barnes of Bath has just cont
pleted q trolley catcher. The catch
| err is Il V shaped attachment. one
arm of which projects upward from
eacn side of the wheel. When the
wheel slips off the trolley it hits one
or the other of the arms and slides
back, guided accurately to the center
| 1t works automatically. Mr.. Barnes
has fine working model for trial. He
| has received scores of letters in regard
| to his invention.
| York Transcript-Sewalls bridge IA
nous in the history of York, was put
out of commission Monday. through
| the failure of the draw to work. 1t is
| said that a craft, in passing through.
| swung against the piers and spread
them, and that later the tower post
broke and the draw could not be
opened. she Atlantic Shore Electric
line. which uses this bridge. sent men
to the scene of the accident and Spin
ney the bridge builder, was employed
/ to get tie bridge in shape temporarily.
| Tuesday, the electric company walked
| their passengers over the bridge, rath-
| err than take the risk of running cars
over the damaged structure. Wednes-
day tug attempted to go through.
when i. was discovered that the
weights on one side of the draw had
been lost. This prevented the draw
from being raised. Sewalls bridge en-
| joys the distinction of being the first
pier bridge built in America. 1t is 27O
feet long and q feet wide 1t was de-
signed and quilt by Maj. Samuel Sew
all in 1851.
| Icy the provisions of the naval ap-
| preparation bill. which the Senate will
report on this week. six torpedo boat
| destrovcrs will be recommended and i,
is expected that the Bath Iron Work.
| VIII receive contracts for building (
part or all of them. This company has
| been very successful in constructing
| this class of war vesscls and are able
to build better destroyers and at a lower
| figure than other shipbuIlding concerns
Last year Congress provided sS0O,0Ot
for each destroyer, but the Bath Irol
Works submitted bids considerable low
er than that figure and Senator Hal,
recon- mended in the present naval bill
| that these six torpedo boat destroyer.
shall not cost over s750,0GO each. Tn,
dcstroyors Reid and Flusser, built by
the Bath Iron Works, developed grea
speed and are the fastest vessels OF
| their class n the American navy.
| Pressure Isle thinks it has the record
lof holding the shortest town meeting
lever known. A special town meeting
WAS called to vote additional money
for highways. The meeting was called
to order, warrant read, moderator
chosen. article passed over and meet
ing adjourned in less than ten min
iutes.
A ripple of excitement was caused
in Dryden. Thursday morning, when
the Goodspeed truck team came down
the street with load of warm beams
Iall ablaze. When opposite the new
hose house the team was stopped. and
a stream of water was applied and the
fire was soon extinguished. 1t was
not stated how the fire caught.
The Portland Cement Company, To-
Gated rlI