The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-06-29
Here and There in Maine

The Hyde guards Of Bath at their
recent drill In the emplacements OF
Fort Baldwin destroyed vast imag-
mary feet attacking the kennebec
Here 10 hoping that this phantom neet
off Popham is the only kind that the
guns of the new fort will ever have
to be aimed at.
The schooner Nellie G. Davis ar
rived recently from Yarmouth, N. B.,
with the last Nova Scotia Holsters to
be brought this season to Portland as
the law forbidding Canadian fisher
men catching Holsters went Into
effect June Is. The Davis brought a
fare of 5000 of the crustaceans.
The Albany correspondent for the
Norway Advertiser says that dogs or
wild animals are making bad work
with the sheep and lambs since they
were turned out to pasture. The
marauders have visited six or seven
different flocks and killed about 25
sheep and lambs.
Bids on the temporary loan of $780,
900 to the city of Bangor were opened
recently at the Office of City Treasur-
er Henry o. Pierce, and 1t was found
that the Merrill Trust Co., of Bangor.
was the lowest bidder of five COM
peting banking houses. The bid en-
ter&a by the Merrill Trust Co., was
4-10 per cent.
Harry Cousens while confined in
the Cumberland county Jail at Port
land few nights ago upon the charge
OF larceny and intoxication turned
his yoke, SO to speak. His hands were
fastened behind him with handouts
and in some manner he got them up
over his head or down under his feet
and to the front He then tried to
choke himself with shoe string, but
was unsuccessful
The concrete piers upon which will
be erected the iron signal towers for
the Rockland trial course have been
completed and the frames are expect
ed in a week or so. The mainland
signal towers are located near the
Crescent Beach windmill and on Port
hill, the others are on Sheep ant
Monroe islands. 1t will be necessary
however, to use the old beaconss fol
the trial of the battleship Utah.
/ Neil E. Stevens of Auburn, Ia amont
those given Phi. d. on Commence
ment day at New Haven He is B
A, Bates 1908, and received his NJ. A
In 1909 at Yale. During the year 191
he had the University fellowship a
Yale, which Is the greatest honor con
ferred by that University. He ha
been elected a member of the Yal,
Chapter of the Sigma x Scientific So
ciety In recognition of his work IL
science.
William Parker of Providence, R. I.
was arrested recently by Deput,
Marshal Stetson of Auburn, charged
with violating the city ordinance pro
hibiting bill posting on city property
Parker, 1t is alleged, has been tack
ing up tin signs, advertising a dry
battery. Seven of them were on the
watering trough at the corner Of
Minot avenue and High street, while
IA more were on the fence near the
Logan, to say nothing of scores Of
others all over the city.
More permanent improvements have
been decided upon by the Bath Iron
/ Works. President Hyde states that q
building. 50x20, is soon to be built or
the' north side of the property to be
used for the pipe shop, copper shoI
and tinsmith shop. The building will
4 be fire proof and equipped with the
latest Improvements and will be con.
structed with steel frame and con-
crete roof and floors, while the waf4s
Will be nearly all glass. The work
on the new brass foundry will be be-
gun in a few days.
Operators who are cutting poplar
in Northern Maine for the paper mills
are experiencing some difficulty in
securing experienced men to do the
peeling. The season for getting the
bark of is at its height, as it is only
for few weeks in June that it car
be separated from the trunk. Not
outstanding the scarcity of skilled
Workmen, it is believed that the pom
lar cut in Maine this season will be
fully as large as last year After the
bark is once off there is but little
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/ for weeks without injury.
summer visitors on the coast of
Maine, especially in the neighborhood
OF PASSPORT, are advised to be eau
tious in wading at low tide among the
rock pools along the shore. If not on
| their guard they may be attacked and
severely bitten by wolf fish. This
creature Is one of the most remark
able of the finny tribe and though
rarely exceeding three feet in length
Is muoh more ferocious than the av-
erage shark. Its large and powerful
teeth render it a dangerous antagon-
list in a fight with any other denizen
or the ocean. In the stomach of one
flsh caught at Eastport four quarts of
sea urchins were found, most of them
whole and with the spines on.
Alderman H. L. Grinneu of Bath
VINO is employed as a master Joiner
at the Kelley Spear Co yard, had a
narrow escape the other morning
from losing the sight of his left eve
he was at work near the planning ma
chlne when the belt broke and one
end snapped around hitting him in
the face, bruising his nose. giving him
Dlack eye and also slightly brujs-
ing his left wrist. He was Just about
TO put on his glasses when the belt
parted and he thanks his lucky star
that he had them of1 g. -