The independent-reporter., 1910-03-17

is decidedly gratifying to the people
of Calais and others who have to do
with the navigation of that river.
Melvin Thomas Copeland, assistant
professor In economics to Dean Gay
of Harvard has been honored with
the degree of doctor of Philosophy.
Mr.. Copeland was born In Brewer and
was graduated from Bangor High
school and Bowdoin college. Later
he took post graduate work at Har-
ward.
A man living in Ellsworth caused
a sensation last week by walking
through the streets In his shirt
sleeves In spite of the zero weather.
He later explained that he didn't
travel that way because he wanted
to- but because a pipe set his coat on
fire and burned it while he was at
work.
H. M. Lincoln of Lincoln's Mills
cut on his farm and hauled to his
mill what has been known in this To-
cality as the big pine which measur
ed AZ inches in diameter, making six
logs 16 feet long, the first cut seal
ng $50 feet Of very nice, clear boards.
We have only got the scale of the
one log as yet there were about 30
feet of the top not used in lumber.
D. T. True of Wilton Is doing quite
business making skewers. He has
machine of his own invention that
works finely. The skewers are made
very fast. They are polished and put
up in pasteboard boxes, 1000 in each.
and Grated, 80 boxes in a crate, then
shipped. 1t is said that Armour &
Co. use $4,000 worth of skewers per
year. Mr.. True employs six or eight
hands.
A gentleman in Lubec, who has ar
gued about the weather as conditioned
by the gooses breast bone. and has
vehemently declared the bone Is in
perfect harmony with the meteOrologi-
cal conditions for the year 1909, has
recently surrendered, 1t having been
proven that the goose was a cold stor-
age bird of the vintage of the year
1907. He does, however, agree that
Candlemas day myth has proven itself
reliable.
Bishop Quayle will be the head OF
the annual Maine Methodist Episco-
pal conference in Portland. April 13
to II. The sessions will be held In
the Congress street M. e. church.
save for Sunday meeting at the
Auditorium; and the Munjoy club
has offered its room for social head
quarters, one floor to be devoted to
rest rooms for the women and the
other floor to dining room facilities
, Bishop Quayle will be the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey B. Griffin at
their home on Eastern Promenade.
The 42d annual State Sunday School
convention will be held in Portland
Oct. 14-17 opening Friday and closing
the following Monday.
Lewiston Characterization are
that the coming census will show that
PiscataQuis county has made the
greatest relative gain In population
,, and wealth in it's farming towns, every
. town except five having experienced
this prosperity. OF the 400 farming
towns in Maine, 1876 have gained in
population In the past 10 years and
others averaged nearly to holding
their own. The figures for 1909 show
that Aroostook county made the great
est gain in farm cultivation. The valu-
alton has increased from $18 100000 to
, nearly $21 100000. All but four OF the
423 towns gained In population and all
but five in valuation
!, S. W. Rowell of Brunswick owns a
copper cent of date of 1887, for which
he has been offered 5000, but which
, he will not sell. He values the coin
} above money. as it was given him
when a young man, by his mother
with instructions never to part with
the coin. Upon one side, at the top,
/, Ia embossed a sunburst, at the left
of which around the edge Is stamped
the Latin word Lucio, II Shine" On
] the right of the sunburst along the
edge is the date of coinage. 1887, and
at the bottom the words, Mind Your
Business" In the centre, much
blurred by erosion, coiled serpent.
On the reverse side, encircling the
edge of the cent, is an embossed chain
of 13 links, one for each state. while
the centre contains the words, I'VE
Are One," around this inscription
and forming a small circular frame,
the letters reading, United States"
Bangor News:-Searsport seems to
be becoming a center for the phos-
phate trade for this section. In addi-
ton to the American Agricultural
Chemical Co.. and Hubbard plants
now situated here, the Martin &
White Co. of Baltimore has made ar
rsngements to distribute from Mack's
point and will ship some 5000 tons
here the present season to be bagged,
barreled and shipped In their Maine
territory. The firm will employ so
or more men and will use one Of the
big warehouses on. the point for a
shed. The boarding house at the
Harbor. owned by Eugene Carver Of
Boston, which has been closed for 2
years or more has been opened for
the accommodation of the workmen.
The making Of Searsport distribut-
ing point, by the Martin & White Co.,
will doubtless mean that the COM
pany will build here another season.
) Searsport's Board of Trade welcomes
all new industries and takes pleas
ure In answering all communications
- Il II L. H.. L..