Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-10

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Tie numbering operations i'll north
crn Franklin and Somerset counties
are being brought to a clost. Thu
cutting has altogether ceased in most
places and efforts are nov being CON
ccntratcd in getting the legs landed
on til, shores ot the streams down
which they viii be driven when the ice
goes out. The season has been vcry
favorable for cutting and yarding the
logs. there now being three feet of
SNOW in the woods. 1t is stated by the
woodsmrn that the total Of logs To
90 cut from these counties will show
sll.Iler figures than in many years.
The prices for legs are low and most
owners ot standing timber prefer to
let il grow until the market shows a
change.
\ Carmel man, Z. f. Bryant. the
wcll-knoWn horseman. laughs at AS
scrtions that farming does not pay.
Last season, without hired help, Mr..
Carmel raised i,ia9 bushels of potatoes,
560 bushels of oats, 100 bushels of In
diaa wheat. A. baskets of corn. l0a
bushels of barley and 80 tons of hay
OH a 6)-acre farm.
Particulars Of contest Which may
interest boys and girls nor over ls
%cars OF age, may be obtained from
Mrs Belle Fletcher Union St. Bel
last, M@inc. Miss Anna y. Gordon, of
the ". g. T. L.. has offered a prize to
the boy or hirl who makes the most
words from the letters in the word
"prohibitiHft." and also sends her the
hest composition ON the question,
WHY Should the Saloon STAY out OF
Maine.
Some pr, test is recorded from the
idle Of Biddeford over the large repre-
sentation Of the common council in the
broWntail moth crew. Six of the mem
be"s of the body are thus securing re-
munerativc employment and it is re-
ported that more are to follow. Bug
hunting appears more fascinating than
Biddeford's business.
Skowhegan can Well boast Of her
smart old men. They never give W
work. Perhaps one of the smartcst
of many aged citizens is LorcnzoI
Palmer. He will observe his 18th
the 2lst Of this month. There
has not been working day this win
ter that has not found him at work.
In the early fall ne bought lot of
standing wood. He has been into the
woods nearly every day and swung the
axe with a much younger man and
with equal alacrity,
\ shocking mX-up in Bath cduca
tional circles. Charges OF pin and pen
scratches on the students hands and
the hurting of unladylkc names, such
As idiots "blockhcads," and dune
rs. is charged against one OF the
teachers. Equally sensational ale
cations have descended upon the heads
If two others and the truant officer.
one woman states that her boy
scratched the letter w upon his
desk and that his teacher punished
him by using a brass pin to scratch a
w" upon the back of his hand. The
boy was taken out of school and short
~ following the truant officer served
10 the mother that she might
be arrested and fined 80. The woman
no" demands, as neither fine nor ar
rest has been imposed that the ia,y
be executed or an apology be made to
hcr 1t IS tn he hoped that the school
board will find some means OF grant
ing her desires.
The Ear Harbor aviator A. V Will
son. has announced his intention of
taking his machine out of it's storage
in a boat shop. as soon as the weather
permits. Mr.. Wilson planned TO Try
out a special ice machine on Eagle
lake this winter, but the necessity of
building a large hangar finally decided
aim against the attempt.
The fertilizer statesmen who visit
Dexter and that section OF the State
report great falling off in the sale of
potato fertilizer this year Many of
the farmers, who bought large orders
last year, have cut their orders in two.
which indicates that they do not pro-
pose To plant as many potatoes as last
year. There are d few, however, who
Will go into the business as extensive
iy as they did last season. There
seems to be feeling among the potato
growers that it is necessary to have
some sort of a cooperative organiZa-
ton for marketing their crops. While
they have received low prices this
season from the buyers here they real
lZe that the same potatoes sold for 2S
and 81 cents per bushel. have been re-
falling in the city markets at good
prices. They have made up their
minds that someone other than the
sro"ers are getting the cream of the
potato business and the sentiment at
'hc present time is in favor of some
organization that will enable the
growers to get something like a fair
ana reasonable price for the potatoes
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