Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

| From all eyes is hid.
| Here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
| Think wilt thou let 1t
| Slip useless away?
| In short time so the report goes,
| Portland is to have one of the largest
ahattoirs east of Chicago. 1t will be
| buiIt at East Deering by the Portland
| Neat Packing and Cold Storage Co.,
! and will be financed by Portland and
other Maine people. 1t is planned to
| have a capacity of 5000 animals day.
and give employment to between 1000
and 1900 people. 1t is expected that
the work upon the construction OF
this plant will commence next month.
n now looks as if the Union barber
shops in Bangor would be charging 10
cents shave instead of 10, within the
next few weeks. says one of the lead
ing BARRIERS in Bangor This proposed
change is said to be caused by high
cost of rents. materials and. in fact,
nearly everything which the barber
uses.
Pressure Isle parties are giving trou-
BILE to those in charge and TO the
scnool beard by insisting upon forcing
entrance to the new High school
building Already one door has been so
damaged that new one had to be
purchased The Pressure Isle Star
Herald remarks that this state CT
things is certainly not very compli-
mentary to the behavior of someone
and the law will have to be enforced.
The west door was found open again
sunday and people have been known
to try to pry up the windows. It is
hard to realize who could be so law
less TO desire to injure property like
this fine institution of learning.
One of the best known guides in
Maine is Clifton MeKenney of Range
ley village. He is known as a canoe
guide, from his skill in handling that
frail craft. and has padded on all of
the principal waters of the State. He
frequently takes parties to the West
Branch and Mosehead region and has
guided on Rangeley waters for many
years. He recently took a Boston par
ty on a 200-mile canoe trip in Eastern
Maine and can handle a canoe in al
most any waters and has never met
with a serious accident. He has the
true woodman's ability to make his
campers comfortable and can strike
into the deep woods without compass
and tramp for days without losing his
direction.
The annual reunion of the S2d Maine
Association will be held at the Peaks
Island House, Portland Harbor, Tues
day August 1. The change in the
place of having the reunion is made
necessary as Comrade L. r. Carleton,
whose invitation the association ae-
eepted to go to Winthrop. has been
obliged to withdraw it. as the hotel in
that place has been burned and it was
impossible to provide accommodations.
The Bath Times remarks that hotels
do not need bars to promote their sue
cess, and says that this fact is eve
denced by the extra ordinary profita
bleness of the Poland Spring House
and the Samoset of Rockland. No Ii
quor was ever sold at either of these
most successful of Names hotels.
One of the busy places on the lower
Kennebec is the feldspar quarry in
Georgetown, and II is good news to
the residents of that town to know
that another quarry is to be opened
on the Calvin Tarr property.
One of the incidents of the last sea-
son IN Dead River region that escaped
press notice at the time. says the
Maine Woods, was the fact that Will
liam Ledgyard of Boston and Albert
Leavering of New York. then guests
at Round Mountain camps. attempted
to capture an eagle and We're unable to
carry off the slly-king alive. The flu
rious bird made such good use of his
beak and claws that the gentlemen
were finally obliged to hold him under
water until he was drowned, in order
to demonstrate that one of them was
not in reality a captive of the eagle.
The village of Springvale has had to