Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-23

The dearest things to me
Are my little grassy Wander-roads
| That Ioter by the sea!
The season at MaeMahan Island Will
| or,en earlier than usual this year says
the Bath Times. y number have Wis
! tied the island this month and several
| cottagers viii open their homes early in
| June.
Reports from all parts of Maine state
that unless the present situation is re-
lieve6 by rain Immediately the hay and
other growing crops Will be COM
plete failure The soil is exceedingly
dry and the crops thus far have grown
bat little. If the drauth continues
much longer the roots will be so dry
'hat the grass will not grow at all
Thousands of dollars worth of hay Is
grown annually by Maine farmers and
a failure of the crop will reduce their
revenue materially as we'll AS prevent
them from carrying their usual amount
of stock.
A corporation known as the Ginn's
Point Land Co has purchased the val
liable seashore property near Crescent
Beach in the town of South Thomaston
lacated at Ginns Point and may build
there summer hotel. Tho property
has already been surveyed and a por=
ticn of it plotted into cottage lots.
The Boy Scouts are fiourishing In
Maine New communities are being
organized daily and more and more of
Names best business men are cham
Iioning the work but the best thing
about the movement is, according to
State Scout Commissioner A. A. Head
ef Waterville, thar the Boy Scout pa
trolls already organized have been
making good.
Names first public hotel was built
IN 1864. Waddoek's Ordinary erected
near Old Orchard according to Saco
historian is entitled TO the distinction.
The old tavern was erected by Henry
Waddock and stood almost within
sight of the large summer hostelries.
which fringe the Crescent shaped
beach at Old Orchard.
The new fire alarm whistle for Me-
elianic Falls, which was secured
through the efforts of Frank p. Wy
man, who circulated paper anong
the citizens and secured the necessary
amount. something ever 500, has been
received and by the courtesy of the
Poland Paper Co. installed on its en-
CINE house in the millyard. IL IS of
the gong variety, six feet tail and 10
inches in diameter.
The dreaded elm leaf beetle has OBJ
+. Philbrook, formerly in charge of the
brown-tail and gypsy moth field work
in Maine, short time ago made &
discovery of this famous pest on the
Western Promenade with some infes-
tatons on Vaughan street. The elm
leaf beetle is one OF the most dreaded
tree pests known. Its effect on old
elns is especially serious and the trees
on which il was found in Portland are
mostly of this class.
The dates of Tuesday, Wedne sday|
and Thursday, Sept. 20, 81, and % have
been set for the holding of the Calais
town fair. Its promoters claim for it
that the fair will be the biggest thing
IN the East" Work has already be-
gun upon the building of the track and
the diamond.
Otis r. Willard Of Sanford Sunday
celebrated his 18th birthday. He is a
farmer and retired lumberman and one
OF the early settlers of the town. His
great grandfather, Samuel Willard,
settled at Sanford more than 100 years
ago. Mr.. Willard enjoys excellent
health and is seen on the streets daily
William II. Bickford of Windham is
introducing a novel method of planting
potatoes. He neither plows, harrows.
nor makes hills for his seed. He sim
ply strews his fertilizer upon the top
of the grass land, then proceeds t.
place his seed at regular intervals.
These he covers with straw, which in
turn is covered with corn stalks to
keep ii from blowing away. Mr.. Bick
ford CLAIMS that he learned this meth
cd from an old man whom he had be-
friended and that he tried it with eX-
cellent results. The outcome of his
enterprise viii be watched by his
neighbors with much interest.
Al the Easley Ellers mill on Com
mercial street. Bath, are siy; stanchions
of solid teak. which are to be made
into table legs to be covered with an
oak top for Hon Harold NJ. SewalIs
Small Point cottage. These stanchions
have an interesting history. They We're
on the L. S. S. Trenton, which was lost
in the big hurricane that destroyed
her and the L. S. S. Vansdalia and Nip
sic in 1889 in the harbor pf Samoa. Mr..
aewall, who was consul there, after
wards secured the stanchions and
shipped them to Bath about 20 years
ago. The Trenton was the largest
wooden ship in the navy at the time
End was the first to be equipped with
electric lights.
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