Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-05
Maine Gossip
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nance.
The spiritual stars rise nightly, shedding
a private beam into each several heart
Daily the bending skies solicit man,
| The seasons chariot him from this exile,
The RAINBOW hours bedeck his glowing
chair,
The storm winds urge the heavy week
along,
Suns haste to set, that so remoter lights
Beckon the wanderer to his vastcr home.
-Emersons The Adirondacks."
DR.. G. NJ. Twitchell in the Rural
Life department of the Express-Ad-
vertiser declares that outside papers
are crying the decline of Names po-
tato industry simply because they
know nothing about the situation. He
predicts that within 10 years instead
of 30,000.000 to 35,o00,o0O bushels
Maine will produce yearly more than
50,G00,O0n bushels. He admits that
growers in some sections of Maine
have lad two years of Encouragement,
| partly from continued wet weather.
from the low range of prices the past
year. and in part through failure tn
sell when fair price was offered but
insists that it takes more than two
years to kill a Maine farmer or the
potato industry in Maine.
According to the Ellsworth Ameri-
can Capt. john r. Miller of East Blue
hill, who will be 81. years old July 4,
has sawed and split 121s cords of fire
wood at the door this spring. The
captain must be years young instead
of years old.
The town of Penobseot is much eX-
ercised over the question of who will
be the collector in that town. A cor
respondent from North Penobscot
writing the Ellsworth American says:
1T is Well known that a minor was
elected and as yet has not been quail
fed. The eligibility of a minor to Of
flee is the question to be determined"
War is to be waged against the mo-
snuitoes the coming summer at Pop
ham Beach. Interested private citi-
zens in the village have been in COM
munication with both State and Fed
eral government experts and the first
experiments toward Kidding the boys
and low lands of these pests will be
made in the early summer. The mo-
squitoes have been one of the draw
backs to the popularity of this resort
in the past, which the citizens intend
to overcome.
The Portland Gas Light Co in an
ticipation of big increase in the con-
sumption of its product is preparing
to spend nearly 100000 in improve
mentS this year The directors have
just closed deal with Philadelphia
concern for building a new gas holder
with a capacity of 100000 cubic feet.
New retorts, a new purifier and a
general enlargement of the present
plant are among the contemplated
changes.
The control of the Portland G. Bruins
wick st. Ry. passed on Monday into
the hands of the Lewiston, Augusta
Il Waterville st. Ry. interests. Tho
property will undoubtedly be improved
and brought up to the standard of the
l.. A. & w. system. The Portland C
Brunswick st. Ry. operates between
Brunswick, Freeport and Yarmouth
and was built in 1903. The old COM
pany sold its park and casino. Casco
Castle, over one year ago and it is now
operated by private parties.
One of our Maine exchanges has the
following to say in favor of the gray
squirrel: Our hard wood forest has
sn uncommon lot of gray squirrels
this season and they are proving to
be great enemy to that terrible pest
the brown tail One gentleman told
me last week that near his residence
there stands d large oak tree and on
its top there were 10 nests of the
brown tails Two gray squirrels came
Ia that tree in the afternoon and he
watched them and they did not leave
the tree until they had destroyed every
nest. Many of the webs dropped from
the tree and on examination he found
that tie middle of each nest had been
eaten out
The Pennington Chronicle complains
that the State Highway Commissioner
left Franklin county out of his timer
airy this year and then adds: Prob
ably the good roads campaign will moi
suffer very much because the meeting
failed to have the State official pres
ent. The fact is that the towns have
not been receiving any great increase
Of help from the State office for
year or two. Mr. Sargent. the former
commissioner, did splendid pioneer
service in awakening interest in bet
ter roads all over the State and his
next great service was in his reiter-
ated advice to keep water out of the
roads and drain all springy places in
the highway"
Major Myron f. Bennett, drug
store proprietor, and Walter E. Rog
crs, Who has been for several years
on the reportorial staff of the Sanford
Tribune. have bought out the plant
owned by the late Fred b. Averill at
Sanford. This plant includes both the
weekly paper, the Sanford Tribune,
and the job printing plant known as
the Ayerill Press. 1t is expected that
several changes and improvements
viii be made. Mr.. Rogers will con-