Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
Maine Gossip
One Day at a Time.

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A good one to live by: A day at a time.
Helen Hunt Jackson.
| A new development of feeling of
fraternal interest between the employ
er and the employees in Springvale
village was the Field day of tho
shoe operatives of the SPRING
vale Shoe Works held recently
| at Monsam Lake The affair was
| under the direction of Superin
| tendent l.. NJ. Carroll and his fore
man, and the shoe workers enjoyed
| the day immensely and freely exr
pressed their gratitude 10 MIR. Carroll
for his kindly intentions
Contractor F. w. Carlton has sew
eral crews OF men at work con-
structing the new railroad bridge at
| Montsweag, Woolwich. Years ago the
Knox and Lincoln division of the
Maine Central then an independent
road, was called THE land and water
| route" because there We're SO many
bridges along the line. Since the pur-
chase of the road by the Maine Cen
trail the company has been gradually
replacing the old wooden bridges by
fills or structures of steel or concrete.
Names potato crop has nearly dou-
bled in the past decade according to
the Maine statistics issued by the
United States Census Bureau. d. II
Gilman, former Bangor man, now b.
Seattle, Wash, says that Maine tu-
a ND H.
ing of the Panama Canal is expected
to be great thing for Western lovers
of Maine potatoes as it will probably
reduce the freight to less than So q
ton. The Maine potato raisers Will
doubtless profit by the opening.
The resolutions adopted by the Bid
deford convention reveal the fact that
there are $1,000 Franco Americans in
the State of Maine 1t is surprising
to learn that there are so many, near
ly Is per cent. of the population. II
is an element that can by no means be
neglected by either the Church or the
State
Tenants in part of the property on
Chestnut street. Lewiston, which was
purchased some time ago by Walter
f. Rose of Greene, have been mott
fled to vacate the buildings within 80
days Twenty eight of the &C tenants
have been given notice. 1t is claimed
by the local agent of the property
that the buildings occupied by the %
tenants are out of repair and it has
become the question of making extern
sive repairs or putting up new struc
lures. 1t has not yet been decided
what will be done with the property
vacated.
Fly fishing is fine now at Belgrade
Lakes, the catches amounting on an
average from 80 TO 40 10 a party
day. The trout fishing is not as
good as in the spring but the aver
age fisherman enjoys a fight with the
frisky bass. Prospects are good for
many visitors at the Lake during the
month of July.
The big battleship Utah, the largest
warship built for the u. S. Navy, Will
soon make her appearance in Maine
waters, and will doubtless attract the
attention of many persons along the
water front and at the beaches down
in Knox when she arrives on Sun
day June %, for her trial over the
Rockland course on the following day.
The Utah will give 20 runs over the
Rockland course varying from the
highest speed down to 10 knots. She
is required to make 20A knots at
heavy load displacement. She will
probably go to sea for other trials
after the Standardization and the test
will end at Delaware breakwater.
New England produces more gran
lite than any other section of equal
area according to figures recently
compiled by Ernest F. Burchard OF
the u S. Geological Survey. Maine
was the third State in the production
of granite for the year 1909. produc-
ing granite to the value of 81. $685.
Rome will howl" in Old Town on
July 4th but it will be in an orderly
way, for City Marshal Orman b.
Fernandez will have charge of the
old fashioned celebration which Old
A cottage famine is likely this sea-
son at York Harbor. There is hardly
cottage there to let now, everything
having been rented and in many cases
the rental price having been more
than at any other time. Some of the
owners are away in Europe, with the
Coronation in London as the princi-
pal attraction, but in each case where
one of the summer residents have
gone abroad their house has been
sub-let. o.
great future for Washington
county is now being predicted. Cyrus
f. Stackpole of Bangor. a native of
that county says, Washington coun-
~ is great big territoy and has
great future. There is in that county
$4,000 acres of sheep pasture land.
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