Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-27

| Within Gods plan of progress
1t matters not at last
How wide the shores Of evil.
/ How strong the reefs of sin
/ The waves may be defeated.
| But the tide is sure to win
/ Priscilla Leonard, in the Outlook
| The deal between the city of Bidde-
ford and the owners of the Hill block
at the corner of Main and Alfred
streets, where it is proposed to widen
| the main thorouehfare, is declared OF
one of the owners wanting $3,0e0 for.
| his land while the several owners of
| the land had been jointly offered be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000 for the entire
parcel. the mayor deeining this sum
an, unusually large ont for the proper
", which comprises some 700 or 500
feet The next move in the projected
Improvement will Doubtless be a pc
titon to the county commissioners, to
be presented and urged at the next
meeting of that body at Alfred in about
TWO weeks.
Some Portland youths in a misdi-
reeted effort To boom the bird market
in Portland have engaged in the oc-
cupation of sharing pigeons in the
neighDorhood of Lincoln Park, usually
beginning operations just before dusk
in the late afternoon These cuIpritS
are young men out Of their teens, who.
after scattering grain or peanuts about
moose snare of string, secure one or
more birds when the pigeons flock
about to feed and later dispose of
them for whatever price they can get.
Indications point to a sudden going
out of the bird business by these
young men.
The new Government topographic
map of the Fryeburg quadrangle isl
now available This quadrangle includes
Lowell, Sweden, portions of Bridgton,
Denmark, Waterford, Albany, Stone
ham and Stowe, and fills the gap be-
tween the Norway quadrangle and
North Conway quadrangle. The cost
TO the government of these surveys
for both field and office work. ranges
from s3,5eo to 5000 each. much work
being carried on through rough and
almost impossible areas. with dense
forests. insurnountable precipiees or
deep. morasses. Hundreds of teiapor
airy camps are made during each field
season, 1T attitudes ranging from
above snow line tc below sea level. All
this work is followed by Office draft
ing, and the completed task is seen in
the copper plate engraving and lith9-
graphic printing of the map.
Several years ago. the night lunch
cart, with its hot dogs and coffee.
sandwiches. doughnuts and pies was
hanished from the streets of Biddeford.
Two weeks ago, the night doorman at
the police station. Dwight Richards.
petitioned the municipal officers for a
license to operate cart in vicinity
where a present resident of the West
formerly accumulated a handsome
property in this branch of industry.
If the chef is up-to-date in safe and
sane cookery, perhaps the lunch cart
may come back and with the pres
ent keen agitation it appears more
than possible.
Two Saco young women, now con-
Quoting poultry farm at LakeYiew
N c., took the blue ribbon at a South
ern poultry show for Black Orpng
ton exhibit. A wealthy poultry fani
er, who visits Lakewood winters, was
SO much impressed with the farm, that
he sent the girls the eggs for tile set
ting for this flock, which are said to
have been worth $3.50.
1t is now expected that the Mcnson
Slate Co. will reopen the Forest quar-
49, ,,.l,;o,, l;ac hatuaan tho Mon COW and
Oakland quarres. This company is
now running its Oakland and <ineo
quarrics, with mills at the Kineo and
Monson Pond quarries and some roof
ing slate is made at the Oakland. Most
of the stock from these quarries is
conveyed to the Monson Pond mill.
The Forest quarry has not been oper-
ated for several years.
A somewhat novel test was on the
card at the recent Ripley fair, the re-
suit of which caused general surprise.
A man of the name of Clark OF that
town entered pair of horses in the
pulling contest, and his team won the
first prize, pulling a load on Il stone
drag a certain distance without stop
After the several teams had finished
their effort number of men, weigh
| ing in all 5000 pounds, took off their
| coats and prepared TO see how nearly
they could equal the stunt set by the
800 pound winning pair. The men
pulled the drag and his load 20 feet
farther than it had been hauled by the
horses. This test was actually made
in this way. and the horsemen who
witnessed the excitement said that
lthey would not have believed the
thing true had they not seen it with
Their own eyes.-Bangor Commercial
The Rockland Courier-GaZette pub
fishes communication which il has
just received from Commander G. f.
Hughes recorder of the board of in
lspection and survey for ships. regard
ing the speed tests of torpedo boat
,destroyers Patterson and Paulding,
which We're as follows: THE Patter-
son has had no speed trials since Aug.
III. Her highest run with the tide