Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-04-21

| AL present lie is WFltlHS wv hs''''N :"
week for leading evangelist.
| Captain Wylie r. Dickinson OF
Phippsburg was once wrecked on the
island of Juan Fernandez the island
where Robinson Crusoe is supposed
to have had his unique career
The ice is out and so are many OF
the fish, but the camp proprietors are
"in" TO the extent of several thousand
dollars though the fishermen are Just
beginning to come.
| one of the largest power boats
which win be seen about Portland
this summer is now building at West
WATERFORD. She will be equipped
with a 25 horsepower engine and Will
be used as a freight carrier between
| Portland, way points and Small
Point. She is expected to begin SER
| vice about the first Of next month.
The new owners of the Peaks Is
| land water system are going to erect
large standpipe as an additional pro-
| lection against fire.
The Millinocket journal has found
a man who says he has a hen which
recently produced three eggs within
| "a hours. 1t seems that the hen laid
| one very large egg which contained
| two others, all three being perfect in
form. Next!
Mrs. John Quimby Wood. wife of a
former BuckspOrt resident has made
a success as Mimi in La BOhcme at
the San Carlos theatre in Venice.
Bath Independent: Last fall the big
guns at Fort Baldwin, at the mouth
| OF the Kennebec river were given a
good trial and some damage resulted
to the town schOolhouse at Popham
village A claim was made to the
government for about $40 damages
and this week word has been received
that the government Representative
who was sent there to investigate the
cost of repairing the damage finds
that it amounts to between 81 and $S
and that if the amount is satisfac-
tory to the town that Congress will
be asked to make an appropriation TO
cover this expense.
If the government representatives
| time is worth anything it would have
been cheaper to have paid POpham
| $15 and said nothing more about it.
Bath independents: W. c. Todd al
ready has forty lambs on his Indian
Point ranch and more to follow. Mr..
Todd commenced the sheep raising
business about three years ago with d
very small flock of native sheep. He
now has about one hundred and con-
templates increasing his flock. He is
much elated over the success of his
venture thus far. and has great con-
fidence for the future.
A handsome deer was seen StrOlling
along the street at Fogg's corner in
the town of New Gloucester last
Wednesday, says the Lewiston Sun.
All this talk about smaller potato
acreage in Central Maine in 1910 may
or may Ilol De true MANY IdTHltTS
lost money on account of the poor
market last year, but their courage is
still good. 1t takes more than one
poor season 10 scare a Maine farmer
away from a legitimate crop.
f. H. Kimball of Mercer has n
flock of 36 hens which averaged to
yield 2S eggs each day during the
month of March. a rather remarkable
performance.
The new extension to the Jordan
Lumber Company's mill at Old Town
will be freproof or at least of very
slow burning construction
Maine Woods: Phillips must be
seen to be appreciated Its situation
| and its geological curiosities are alone
worth a trip across the state to see.
Its falls are among the beauty spots
of Maine and as the summer sun
glintS along the polished bOulders at
! their base we can well imagine this
to have been a trysting place for the
savage in the long ago.
The machinery in the s. S. Manhat-
tan, recently burned at Portland. has
been found intact and practically un-
injured. The boilers have been sold
to coaStwise transportation COM
pany for use in a small freight steam
Ter
A Republican club has been organ
iZed in Eastport, with membership
of one hundred of the Independent
Republicans of that city. The Object
of the club is to purify local politics
sort of good government associa-
tion, in fact.
The thriving town of Garland is
anxious to secure an electric rallroau
that will facilitate hp getting OF Ine