Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-18

sets has apparently proftcd by the
example of Governor elect Plaisted of
Maine. who appointed as his private
secretary a wide awake Maine news
paper man in the person of John
Clement Murphy of Augusta. and has
also appointed newspaper man in a
similar capacity. Governor-elect Foss's
appointce is Dudley NJ. Holman. editor
of the Taunton News Herald. Mr..
Holman is the son Of well known
Maine newspaper man of a former
generation, Rev. W. Q. Holman OF
RocklaEd, who was for number of
years on the staff Of the old Rockland
star, and is still a frequent contribu-
tor &c the local papers of that section.
The younger Holman has also worked
on Maine papers and was for num-
Der Of years editor of the Portland
Evening Express. He left Portland in
1882 to go to WoonSocket to become
managing editor of the Can Mr., Hol-
mans wife was Il Portland girl, Miss
Helen Il. Hart, whose death occurred
only few months ago.
II Is now estimated that the pack of
sardincs in Washington county this
season will not exceed 1,000,0 900 cases.
or about one-half the normal output.
The small herring. which are the
Ains r'can sArdines of commerce. have
not Schoolcd this year IN Passama-
qunddy bay waters and packers hav.a
been Obliged to send all along the
coast. as tar West as Portland for
fish. The depression in the sartline in
dust'E has seriously affected all lines
OF trada in Passport and the other
Eastern coast towns and many of the
operatives have been obliged to look
for employment in other callineS
some having moved to Massachusetts
manufacturing towns
An immense compressor has inst
been erected for the Mt Waldo Gran
lite works. 1t is one of the largest in
the State and will be used to furnish
compressed air for the cutting plant
at the wharf and quarrying purposes
on Mt. Waldo. the air being forced
about two miles through six-inch
pipe to the quarry. The compressor.
VIII ~ 10 sc utfI lthS, ttlc capacity
varying from 20 to 80 tons each. it's
mules Of railroad and ineXhaustible
supply of gray granite building stone
makes the Mt. Waldo Granite Works
one CT the best equipped plants in the
State
ActlV" work is to resumed at once
in the shipyard OF cobb, Butler d Co.,
at Rockland, which firm has Just ia
ken the contract to build the hulls for
two large fishing steamers. which are
to be constructed this winter for the
Atlantic Fertilizer & Oil Co. of New
York City. The contract for the ma
chinery, boilers and electric lighting
plants was awarded to the Portland
Co. of Portland. which will also build
tn" machinery for a third steamboat
for the same concern. the null of
which will be built by y. d. Storey
of Essex, Mass.
Mason NJ. Lcmont, Gardiner Rogers.
Arthur Footer. Walter Rogers, Arthur
Gay and Walter Lrmont, six enter.
prising Bath boys. have planted an
oyster bed in the New Meadows river.
Three weeks ago they visited the
SheepScot and secured about 100 fine
oysters from the beds there and took
them to the New Meadows They
placed them in locality where oys-
tcrs ShCuli increase and are hoping
that the experiment will turn out all
right. If it does they will not only
have an oyster bed of their own. but
thcy VIII have demonstrated that oyS-
tiers may he raised on the New Mead
ows.
a conservative estimate of the
Washington county potato crop places
it at 100000 bushels. This is gain
of 10000 over last season when 1,55O,-
O"4 bushels We're harvested Approyi-
matcly 5000 acres We're planted to DO
tatoes then and the increase in acre
age this year is proportionately the
same as the increase in the crop.
While some new land has been cleared
many farms long since abandoned,
have been ploughed up again and po-
tatoes planted.
r. 3. Lambert of Wiscassct created
quite a stir Tuesday morning at Bath
by driving two yoke of oxen through
the principal streets. He was taking
the oxen TO Lewiston to be shipped
into the woods for the winter and
walked behind them all the way Of the
journey. He arrived in Bath about 10
\. NJ. Tuesday and got his oxen into
Lewiston Wednesday.
The experiment of shipping potatoes
by water is being tried in Washington
county The two-masted schooner
Alaska of Machias has recently taken
n full cargo on board at Luber, bound
to New York. This method Of trans
portation was frequently used 80
years ago and thousands of bushels of
potatoes wer" shipped each fall by
water from Bangor. while from Bel
fast they used to send them out by
schooner all through the winter.
The steamer Sebenoa, which was
built in 1880 for the Eastern Steam
boat Co and was afterwards sold to
the Maine Central Railroad for the
Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert route. has
been purchased of John Davis of Bath
and William R. Sawyer of Boothbay