The independent-reporter., 1910-04-28
A plant bearinoA good-slzeA ,tc-.
matoes grown In d6of1 by MRS. Frank
Courson OF Brunswick, was exhibited
this week

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matoes grown In d6ofS by MRS. Frank
Courson Of Brunswick. was exhibited
this week.
Maine cities and towns appear TO
be swinging into line pretty generally
with the movement to secure a safe
and sane observance of the Fourth OF
July.
The Brunswick Bean Company
raised more than seventy bushels OF
the old-fashioned yellow-eyed beans
on four acres last year, and for those
sold received 81 bushel.
Portland club women are making a
determined effort to secure fund
sufficiently large to build a reforma-
tory for women in that city. Such an
institution is very much needed in
Maine.
Rev. Alfred Barrett. who has been
in charge of the Methodist church at
Bucksport the past year, is the author
of many poems hymns and stories. At
present he is writing two hymns
week for leading evangelist
Some cats live to reach a good old
age but the one belonging to Mrs
Frank Frisbie of Phippsburg Centre
which recently died, was the longest.
lived cat of any we have ever reported
The animal was over : years old and
Mrs. Frisbie felt badly to lose her as
the animal had been family pet for
so many years.
ho
and Canning company is building on
Tilson's wharf in Rockland, what is to
be the finest sardine plant in the
world. The building will be reinforced
cement and will be POI feet by 81 feet
in size and two stories in height The
structure in every way will be sani-
tary. This plant will give employ
ment to $50 people. The fish will be
brought from along the coast by the
steamer Pioneer, craft so feet long
and which is owned by the company.
1t is expected that the new building
will be finished by June l.
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 satisfactory to
the town that Congress will be asked
to make an appropriation to cover this
expense. If the government represen-
tatives time is worth anything ii
would have been cheaper to haze paid
Popham $l5 and said nothing more
about it.
THE suggestion of Rodman Wanna
maker of a heroic statue in memory of
the North American Indian, to be To-
Gated in New York harbor, seems to
me to be we'll worth carrying out" F."
said Senator William P. Frye, in a re-
cent interview. Il am glad that the
Committee on Library of the House of
Representatives has reported favor
ably on the bill which was introduced
by Congressman Goulden, in the
House, and Senator Depew, in the
Senate, providing for the erection of a
National Monument. on some site Sc
lected by the Secretary of War and
the Secretary of the Navy, in New
York Harbor AS | understand it, this
monument is to be erected without ex-
pense to the government and | see no
reason why Congress should not de-
signate the site if a suitable location
can be found on one of the islands in
the harbor of New York