Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-24

That's really worth the money.
Detroit Free Press.
Peaks Island folks are interested in
the announcement that its three
largest hotels will be run under one
management this season.
A farmer asks, in the Lewiston Jour-
nal, whether it is more profitable for
Maine farmers to raise sheep or dogs,
in view of the fact that a CORNISH
breeder recently sold six sheep to New
Hampshire parties for 500. The an
swer is easy but how are we going
to make them see it
Perhaps the most remarkable auto
mobile trip ever made in Maine was
successfully accomplished Sunday.
when a party of four Bangor men
went three miles beyond Bucks
Cove. on Sebec lake. over rough
logging roads to Engers numbering
camp. Returning the party made
about seven miles on the ice in five
minutes, Considering the time of year
and the character of the roads tray
eled the feat is a remarkable one.
Porter Ladd of Weld, though 50
years of age, enjoys Il fishing trip up
into the Bemis stream region as well
as younger men. He was one of the
first to penetrate this wilderness and
knows all the good fishing ground.
He was born in Tunbridge, VT, and
has lived in Pennington. Temple and
Waterville.
Frank Stuart of ,Ncrthlicld mas in
vented trolley log bundler. and has
made application for patent upon the
same. 1t is an apparatus for chain
ing logs. so as to hoist them from
pond or river One of his inventions
for this same purpose is now IN use
at different pulp mills in this State Tor
hauling ana piling logs on the banks
Of ponds or rivers. Mr.. Stuart claims
the present invention is a great i'm
provement on the other one.
Lewiston Journal: Aroostook coun-
tv is still in the limelight. An un-
usual feature of the county is that at
Pressure Isle, the starch factory is
running still on full time and is rushed
at that. potato buyers at Easton are
hiring teams to haul their culls over
there as the starch factory here was
burned in the fall. G. M. Goliath is
having lumber hauled and intends to
build large factory this spring, we
are informed.
Another addition to the list Of
handsome Italian gardens in Bar Har-
Dor is to be made this spring and
summer at The Turrets. Mrs. J. j.
Emery's estate. Contractor c. H. Nor
ris is now at work on te pillars OF
the garden, which are copied from d
garden in Italy visited by Mrs. Emery
a year or two ago. Several of the
estates, including the Kennedy Blair
and Sears places, have italian gardens
which are among the handsomest
spots in the resort, and the one at
The Turrets promises to be equal in
quality to the best of them. 1t will
be a handsome addition to what is
already one of the show places of Bar
Harbor.
Preliminary work on the eXcavatinS
for the $4,000 annex to the Customs
building in Belfast has begun. The
interior of the building will be some
what changed by the new extension
as tie general workroom will be con-
Sidera bly, enlarged and a Skylight will
give additional light, a thing which
toI la tnE
The postmaster's private office will be
changed from the south side to the
opposite side where the money order
department now is and the latter will
occupy d place ON the south side. The
extension viii cover some thirty feet
buck. ON the north side there will be
Il place for the rural drivers to stand
their horses. In the basement Will
be a sWing-room fer the carriers fitted
up with shower bath and other con-
venienccS which will be appreciated.
The contract has been awarded to the
w H..FiSsel c., of New York. whose
representative. Superintendent Cham
berlain, is now here with his crew.
Hiram FarroW of Belmont is engin-
Ger. The appropriation of $4,000 was
allowed through the instrumentallty
of Congressman E. c. Burleigh of
this district.
Among the Belfast people who will
take n trip to Washington this spring
is Mrs. Alice J. Waldron. aged IS, VINO
is one of Belfast's Youngest old ladies.
She was in Belfast the party which
visited Canada last fall. standing the
trip as well us the youngest.
Probably one of the oldest records
that can be found in SkoWhegan is one
that is now in possession of Jefferson
Savage. The record is of the old
Bridge Corporation dating back to
1906. 1t gives an account of the bust
ness done by the corporation from the
time that the bridge company was
organized after the toll bridge across
the kennebcc river below Skowhegan
Falls was built. The act for building
the bridge was passed March 10, 1906.
The time allowed to build the bridge
was seven years. The first members
of the bridge corporation We're: Dan