The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-07-06
Here and There in Maine

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The first salmon caught this sea
son at ChickawauN pond near Rock
land was taken on Sunday by Knott
c. Perry Jr. The salmon weighed
81 pounds.
The Bangor forestry firm of Apple
ton & Sewall is engaged In making a
big topographic and timber map of
100000 acres of woodland owned by
the Davidson Lumber Co, of New
York in Nova Scotia.
Gardiner Reporter Journal: The
Maine Non-Partisan Local Self-Goy-
eminent League sounds pretty well
when you say 1t quick, but an easier
one that would mean the same would
be License League"
Warden Willis tells the Bath Times
of an oak forest through which he
drove on his recent trip over Lincoln
county, where all the trees resembled
bare poles, having been completely
stripped by brown tail moth cater
pillars
A strong sentiment Is observed In
Knox county in favor of the retention
OF the prohibitory amendment The
opening meetings of the campaign in
Rockland and Thomaston were we'll
attended and much enthusiasm was
shown.
A remarkable record of the Civil
war is the album containing the pho
tographic likenesses of the officers
who served in Maine organizations
Which took part in the great conflict,
still preserved in perfect condition in
the office of Adjutant General Elliott
c. Dill. During the recent eneamp-
ment of the Maine Department of the
G. A. X. in Augusta. several of the
veterans inspected the volume and
found 1t extremely interesting.
Since school closed large number
of Bangor boys have been engaged in
cleaning bricks in the downtown dis
trict. They earn very good wages
for young boys at this, the majority
being paid $500 thousand and In. a
day the average lad can clean 700
bricks which nets home $40, or
about So. 40 a week.
In addition to the $1,000 pledged for
the endowment of the e. NJ. C. sem
mary at Bucksport, at the meeting
held in Grace NJ. e. church recently
and at which Bishop Hamilton presid-
ed, the sum OF $500 has been pledged
Inv tho M ri oh innopo of Eraaa Nhnrpb
The larger sum was given by mem
bers of the two Bangor and the Brew
er NJ. e. churches.
The family of Narcisse LaRiviere of
3iddeford has been sadly invaded by
death during the past few months.
The recent death of a three-year-
daughter is the fourth death in this
family since last winter, all children,
and three of the deaths were from
meningitis. Mrs. LaRiviere is at
present i'll from consumption and one
of a pair of twins is but just alive the
other twin having died earlier in the
month.
Charles Edward Abbott is evidently
ihC NhuAipiOi pNb tIOHCi Vi III idto AOllt
says the Bridgton News With the
specimen to prove Abbott says he
picked from the vines in his garden
June 81, quite enough for six people. |
He picked last year peas on the 23d
and in 1909 on the 28th and In 1907 |
on the 25th of June Abbott had let |
tuce and radishes suitable to eat
May 6 and now has potatoes over
ALL L., IL
Writes Whitefield correspondent: |
We had the pleasure one morning re-
Gently seeing a progressive young |
man of SO years clearing his sheep |
pasture with a stub scythe while his |
helper Of 80 years was pitching the |
bushes together. This particular
young man was w. r. Heath of
South Whitefield, who lives on the old
Heaht homestead where he was born
and always lived. rarely leaving the
home he loves so we'll. Uncle Rice
has always kept sheep and believes
there Is money in EN-" He now
has large flock of sheep with many
fat lambs.
A correspondent writes the Bangor
Commercial: Il read an item in your
paper recently, stating that Mrs
Nellie Kittredge of Walden. VT, was
4 grandmother at 81, and was with
out doubt the youngest grandmother
in New England, but know of a lady
friend of mine, who Is only 35 and
was grandmother at "a, having been
grandmother more than a year at
this writing. She il Mrs. Norah
Chambers of JOnesbOro and the
grandchld is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Look of Columbia Falls
and was year old last April"
Black flies and mosquitoes have
been the means of good many men |
finding employment In the bark woods |
during the past few weeks, says the !
Bangor Commercial. Many of the /
crews of bark peelers, are made up of
comparatively inexperienced men,
Most OF them got along swimmingly |
until the advent of the fly season and |
then the trouble began A man unused |
to the woods is usually more annoyed |
by mosquitoes so per cent more than
the old timer and many of the bark
peelers became irritated to the verge
of madness. BY tWOs and three they
have been throwing up their jobs and
journeying down river in search OF
work under less annoying conditions.
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