The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-02-10
Here and There in Maine


Yet In spite Of the talk about the
injury to the lumber business by the
recent rain, letter, under date of
January 80, from the Penobscot west
branch region. states that there Is
plenty of snow there for operations.
The steamer Ransom B. Fuller of
the Eastern Steamship Co. will come
on the ways at East Boston In about
q fortnight, her number Of staterooms
increased by SO and her freight ca
pacity much enlarged. Work on the
steamer Bay State Is also progressing
rapidly, her repairs being made while
she Ia in the water alongside the
Fuller.
1t Ii reported that two new hotels
would be built at Old Orchard this
spring, one on the ocean front and
the other near the camp ground.
There will be number Of cottages
built, II plans materialize and the car
penters are looking for busy spring.
1t Is claimed that the work on the
hotels will be pushed forward SO that
they will be ready for opening after
the Fourth.
Calais Advertiser.-One evening re-
Gently, before the stony-hearted street
commissioner had sprinkled gravel on
the sidewalks, a delegation Of young
sters visited all the houses on GER
tain street on which the slipping was
superb, requesting that lights be
placed in the windows facing the
street, so that they might better see
to coast. And the request was gen.
orally complied with.
The American Express Co. has re-
Gently closed deal with the Union
Pacific railroad, whereby the former
gains control OF the express business
over the lines and adds about 1000 or
5000 miles to the mileage already
controlled by the company. In ad-
dition to the Union Pacific lines, two
auxiliary lines, the Oregon Short Line
and the navigation company have also
been acquired, which gives the Am
erican Express Co. direct line from
PASSPORT, Me-, to Portland, Oregon.
w. l. Beecroft, author of who's
Who Among the Wild Flowers" pub
lished by Moffat. Yard & Co., New
York. Is Bangor boy, belonging to
the well-known Beecroft family of
Ohio street. famous for its gardens
He Is a born naturalist, and has
studied the fora of New England in
Maine and the Berkshire Hills OF
Massachusetts. This attractive book
will be followed in time by Who's
Who Among the Ferns" and prob
ably others of a similar nature.
South Paris Corr. in Oxford Demo
crat.-L. S. Swan was 80 years OF
age Monday of last week. Mr.. Swan
tells the Democrat that the winter
eighty years ago was something like
this, as there had been no chance to
get to Portland with a sleigh up to
the Oath of January. His father had
a sleigh loaded ready for the Port
land trip, but had not up to that time
been able to get there. He does not
tell this of his own knowledge, but
has reliable information in regard to
1t. People talk frequently about the
climate changing but there 10 rarely
a season so peculiar that 1t Is not pos
sible to refer back to something very
much like 1t in the past.
Much interest in Augusta at the
present time centres around the i'm
provements now we'll under way at
the State Capitol. The old building
is being rapidly put into shape to
receive the new additions which are
from the plans of the we'll known
architect, G.. Henri Desmond, of Bos-
ton. When completed Maine will
have one of the most beautiful capt.
tol buildings of any state in the
Union. And we may be justly proud
of its architectural beauty as we'll as
the fact that its exterior will have
been built of granite quarried and
manufactured entirely within the
State of Maine.
There are six river and harbol
projects in Maine for which the army
engineers have recommended appro-
priations. These are Camden Harbor
Pepperels cove, Rockport harbor
Matinicus harbor, East Boothbay har.
Dor and Penobscot bay. Some OF
these favorable reports are a year OF
two years old but have all been turn
ed in since the last general river and
harbor bill was enacted. An effort
Nature makes the cures