The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
Here and There in Maine

The Feldspar mill of the Trenton,
Flint & Spar Co. have been destroyed
by fire which caught from an over
heated bearing recently. The plant
was running day and night. a force
of Is men being employed. The mill
building contained considerable yalu-
able machinery which will make the
loss heavy.
Some time during the years OF 1913
or 1914, most probably in July. 1914,
The 300th anniversary of the first per-
manent settlement of white people at
Castine will be observed with appro-
pirate exercises, if the plans, which
are now under consideration by Chas
W Noyes of Newark, \. j., Il summer
resident of Castine, are carried out.
The Kennebee county commission
ers have decided that hereafter pris-
oners committed to the county Jail
who are considered to be of sufficient
Importance in criminal circles. will be
photographed and measured accord
ing to the Bertillon system. This
conclusion was reached after several
weeks consideration of the matter
That young man of Saco who piled
some hay upon his head, placed a
brick upon that and then tied the
crown of an old derby hat over all,
has established new football recipe
for smashing through the center. 1t
is doubtful, however. if a particular
official might let this method progress
as far as in the Saco game which re-
suited in two broken noses.
Photographs of the first products of
now great industries are now interest
ing Bath people. In the office of City
Clerk Kelley is shown a picture of the
first steam marine engine built at the
Bath Iron Works, and the steamer,
Stella Picket, in which this engine
was placed. Another photograph is
of the first steam windlass turned out
by the Hyde foundry, now the Hyde
Windlass Co
With the opening of the clam can
ming season at Eastport, large num-
Der of boatmen have engaged to raid
the clam-flats. The large sardine
factory at Sea street has been leased
as usual and if the present mild wea-
Their continues there will be little diff
fculty in securing an abundant guam
tity. The industry will furnish employ
ment through the winter months to
about 200 men and women.
Alonzo Seavey and brother of North
Fryeburg went deer hunting recently
Mr. Seayey drove one of his valuable
span and fastened the horse in the
woods. The brothers were on the top
of a hill when a deer came in view.
They both fired. Didn't we shoot in
TIC vi FNllOll vi Niit llOt dShfu OIlt.
They hurried to the team and found
the horse had been hit They led
her few feet and she fell dead The
horse was worth 5000. The deer es-
capped untouched.
The Oldest street railroad line in
Maine is the Portland Railroad Over
100 miles of trackage forms the CEN
trail link extending from Boston, Mass,
to Waterville. Maine. Over 200 cars
its service and experts are
said to declare it one of the best reg
ulated systems in the country. One
years receipts showed the carrying of
20 coo, 600 passengers. This company
owns and operates two public pleas /
lre resorts. Riyerton Park and Cape
Cottage Casino and Theatre
Virgil Cole of Andover is in criti- |
al condition at Il sanatorium in that |
a deer, recently. He was dragging
A deer to his camp on Black brook
and while waiting for his partner
Steve Marston, to come 10 his aid, he
was fired upon by a hunter, whose
name is not known. The first shot
missed and Cole shouted, BUT a second F
shot struck him in the back two inches .
above the heart, puncturing one lung
and breaking a rib. He bled inter T
nally before reaching Andoyer, where
he was taken by wagon.
Students in Bath deserve full cred |
1t for mathematical superiority,
proved over the same examination pa
pers put before the pupils of Frank |
fort, Indiana, and Springfield, Mass. |
The ninth grades of these schools were
given the question puzzled over by
the Springfield class of 1886 and, |
though Bath entered the lists near the .
Of this year Frankfort and T
Springfield pulpits of 1905 took their
tests at the close of the elementary
period. Even with this advantage. I
Baths average with Ill pupils, shows .
SOIL; Springfield's 65.5, and Frank .
forts 60 These ranks are n Sur-