Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-03

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Give ear to thee. sweet Sabbath bell!
Dear church and bell. so loved, of yore.
And childhood's happy home, farewell"
William Harris Sparks.
Riverton has Duck Pond I'M
ladies' nights, banquets, business meet
ings ard conferences. all touching the
Importance of various improvements
to be made at the lake this spring and
summer The most ambitious program
is the matter of screening the pond
and stocking 1t with salmon and trout.
Did you have smelts on Sunday? I'll
not, you probably smelled your last
smelt this season. for the Maine law
dictates that no smelts shall be caught
for commercial purposes or for ship
ment out of Maine after midnight
Sunday, April 80. Amateur smelt fish
ermen, or men who earn their liveli-
hood by catching smelts. may catch
the little fishes for their personal use,
but the market season is over for 1911.
A family at Five Points, Friday
evening. had an exciting session with
an oil lamp, which for time threat
ened to reduce the number of homes in
that section, according to a Biddeford
paper. When discovered the flames
were in the bowl of the lamp, but it |
was transferred to sink by a plucky
lady who vas present. There it broke |
and the oil blazed fiercely but was fl :
nally subdued with cold water. The |
fal,,
was the sink spout. which was of lead. |
Maine is indeed left dry as a "cov-
cred BRIDGE" but from lack of rain |
rather than from efficiency of enforce |
ment of the law From every quarter |
of the State come reports of damage |
from grass and forest fires in addition |
to the costly conflagrations that have
visited several cities and towns For |
est fires are now the principal source |
of danger, while already a dense haze
hangs over almost every section. The |
slash N the big wods far north is a !
source of much anxiety to lumber
dealers and timber land owners for |
great masses Of this stuff are as dry as |
finder.
Special liquor deputies ut Lewiston |
made several raids on Sunday. gather
ing in quite collection of drinkables. |
The Lewiston Sun says that since
these recent raids began the deputies
have made % seizures, had % people
before the court. have seized $50 gal
Ions Of whiskey, 650S bottles of beer, 240
gallons of bulk beer, 20 gallons of i
wine, 10 gallons of alcohol and gal
Ions of gin, which would have made
quite a hole in that impervious Gov
cred bridge" had il been peddled out
as intended.
a Bath milk team ran away, Satur-
day morning. creating considerable ex-
element in Sagadahoc Square. It'll
first struck a gracery wagon and de-
livered the goods in all directions at /
once. 1t wiped out trolley signal
box in front of the Western Union
office, and considerably disarranged
the perambulator of the Bath street
cleaning department The milk OUTFIT
was entirely uninjured, not a can Of
milk being spilled. but the proprietor
who tumbied off the rear of his wagon
was somewhat bruised by coming in
collision with the pavement.
Two men in a white launch were seen
cruising up and down New Meadowsl
River the other day, amusing them
selves by shooting gulls. They did not
pick up their victims, and left a num-
Der of wounded ones to fiutter in the
'In
tined. and is now looking for two men
In white launch. or anyone else who
cares to indulge in such cruel sport.
Youngsters who have tried the swim
ming report the Kennebec river still
rather cold. One down river young
ster. when questioned admitted to his
mother that he had been in but de-
eiafed that he had been pushed over
board by ehum. When she remarked
that his clothes did not show it, he
further admitted that when he was
pushed in he did not have them on. |
Which seems exceedingly thoughtful
for even an Imperial Kennebec repre-
sentative.
Z Capt. James Merriman, who has
been absent 20 years, is paying a visit
to Harpswell. For part of his life
he followed the sea, but his last voy-
age began on the same evening that |
the Inflated steamer Portland went
down. The captain has reason to re-
member that awful night, for his bro
Their Hugh was one of the many I'M
fortunate passengers who were lost
There are few farmers on the Nor |
ridSewock road from Skowhegan that
are making big money. 1t is by pull. |
ing automobiles OF. of hole in the
road. There was at least one pulled |
out nearly every day last week. The |
road is in very good condition except |
ing this one place and this place has
the appearance of being good until the
automobile gets onto it when down it
goes to the axles. When a machine is
pulled out the farmer makes from uI