Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-18


Chicago Tribune.
Glover Titus, the East Union Fur
king. has during the season, bought the
skins of nearly 1900 skunks and abund-
ance of ,furs Fur bearing animals
were plentiful during the winter, with
the exception of muskrats. which were
uncommonly scarce.
The new shoe factory at Norridge
wock is doing an extensive business
and is growing rapidly About 60 men
are employed. Others will soon be
needed as arrangements are now belng
made for installing another floor OF
machinery.
William II. Melcher of Bath, though
SC years of age is sill regularly en-
ployed as q joiner and is foreman of "A
crew Mr.. Melcher was born in Bruins
witch. May >. 1924, son of Abncr and
Nancy Melcher. His father lived to be
So years old His mother was "a when
she died. After learning the ship build
ers trade Mr.. Melcher worked In many
yards in Bath and also in Brunswick
and some of the cities along the Allan
tic coast While employed by the New
England company of Bath he completed
the work OH the steamer Portland which
went down while bound from Boston to
Portland.
What is now known as the Booker farm
| in Dunham was formerly the Dudley
place. the Dudley heirs selling it in 1914.
Mieajah Dudley bought the farm pre-
viously to 1883. He set out a row of
| about 80 rock maple trees on the Free
port Road Most of them arc now
standing. Nails were. scarce in those
| days ard Mr.. Dudley in building his
house cut a groove in the end beams So
| as to run the boards set in. into it. in
stead of using nails. The beams can
| now be seen in the wood house on this
farm. Mr. Dudley was a noted minis
ter of the Friends Society.
| Little Of Everything Ed Page
Ground has been broken at Fort Will
| lams for three of the new buildings
which are to be constructed there by
the United States Government. The
buildings are the bakery, the guard
house and the uuartermaster's store
house and the work on the other build
inSS which are TO be constructed there
will undoubtedly be started in the near
future. The work on the new ones now
| iE the process of construction will he
pushed forward as fast as possible and
when all the buildings and quarters are
completed ara occupied. Fort Williams
can boast of being one of the finest
equipped posts in this section of the
Department Of the East.
Real estate transfers during the past
year between the S. D. Warren Com
pany and a number of private property
| owners. controlling land along the Pre-
sumpscott river, some three or four
miles above South Windham. involv-
| ing nearly 200 acres along the river
and including that. at Dundy's Falls,
| just beyond Newhail, indicate that the
S. d. Warren Company has some i'm
portant improvements under cOnsid-
GRAFTON in connection with the steady
expansion of the paper mills at Cum
| berland Mills. Recently the company
has secured about 20 acres of the
property known as the Joshua May
berry Farm. above Dundy's Falls
Surveyors and engineers of the s. d.
Warren Company have spent consid-
cradle time in surveying along the
river and it is rumored that the COM
pany is planning to build a so foot
dam at Dundy's Falls and a large
power station to generate power for
use at the Cumberland Mills plant.
Mrs. Fred +. Eastman of Biddeford
who recently made the journey to Ag~
convention Of the Young Peoples So
ciety of Christian Endeavor, met there
Rev. John Cummings, formerly of Sa-
CO, d brother of City Clerk Cummings of
Portland, who has been for many
years missionary in India. Mr. Cum
minss' missionary station is about 100
miles from Agra, and he made the
journey to attend the convention. On
arriving he asked the question: rs
there anybody here from Maine?" Mrs
Eastman replied that she was from
Portland and then Mr.. Cummings said
that his brother was city clerk of
Portland, who is very well known to
Mrs. Eastman. When Mr. Cummings
first went to India he visited one of the
greatest warehouses of Calcutta to Sc
cure cotton cloth from which to make
the clothing that is universally worn in
that semi-tropical country The first
piece that was shown him bore the
trademark Pepperell mills and a pic
ture of Saco falls, within sight of
which he passed his boyhood days. Mr..
Cummings was for long period locat-
ed in HERNIA in his missionary work.
Portland Press: Lying side by side.
perfectly at peace the Enterprise and
the Boxer are now in Portland harbor.
But they are not the famous old brig
Boxer and sloop-of-war Enterprise
that fought such terrific battle off
this port nearly a hundred years ago.
The Enterprise is the steamer that
plies her peaceful way between Port
land and Boothbay. The Boxer is a
toWboat and she arrived here yester-
day with the barge Powell, carrying
coal for the Portland Railroad Co.