The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-07-20

One Bath boy is praying for rain
every Sunday until the BURBERRY sea
son Is over. His father, a few Sun
days ago. invited him to 90 out Der
rying and they made such a good pick
that the program for the coming Sun
days Is made up.
The Bath Times complains of the
spread of whooping cough in that city
and lays ii to the fragrant disregard
of many parents for the law in al
lowiEs affected children to run at
large. Down in Biddeford 1t is diff
ferent-they have whooping cough
parties there.
The annual retreat of the Catholic
priests of the diocese OF Portland was
held last week. The retreat Is con
Quoted by Rev. FIR. +. j. Gasson and
Is being held at St. Joseph's aead-
envy. Deering district. A large mum
Der of priests from all over the State
are in attendance.
The late DR.. James NJ. Bates of
Yarmouth, who died recently at the
age of "a years, began the study Of
medicine in 1848 at Augusta under his
father, the late DR.. James Bates. who
was then superintendent of the Maine
Insane hospital. He practced eight
years in kennebec county. the last
five of which were at Sidney, where
Oct. II, 1865, he married Miss Hester
A. r. Sawtelle, who survives. to-
gether with a sister, Mrs. Emily b.
Jewell of Portland, and two children.
Dr. George F., a practieing physi-
eian In Yarmouth, and Harriet L..
VINO resides at home. He had prac-
iced medicine in Yarmouth from
1888 until about six years ago when
ne retired on account of i'll health.
Mixed mackerel have struck in
'hore 1000 pounds having been
brought into Portland recently from
he traps at Small Point and Rich
mond Island. The fish vary in size
from thinkers to large four-pound fish.
During the palmy days of the mack
erel industry the appearance of the
smaller sized fish, commonly called
thinkers, was almost invariably fol-
lowed by good catch during the
months of August and September and
1t is believed by many old fishermen
that such will prove the case this
year. The catch the past 10 DAYS all
llong the New England coast has been
very disappointing, for although large
bodies of mackerel have been seen in
different directions the seiners have
not been able to accomplish much.
Capt. A. S. Cameau of the British
schooner Lille f. Melanson. was
a few days ago to pay a fine
of $40 for smuggling imposed by Col
lector Wight of the Rockland custom
house. The schooner entered at the
port of Rockland and her papers cred
tied her with having a cargo of kiln
wood and miscellaneous ship timber.
The former was discharged at Rock
port and the latter at the wharf of |.
l.. Snow & Co, at Rockland. 1t is al
legged that while the vessel WAS at the
South End PIC pairs of wooden stock
ngs were brought ashore from it and
sold to a local firm. The custom
house authorities were informed OF
The incident, the goods We're seized
and Capt. Cameau taken into custody. /
A curious case that is interesting
many Bangor people will come up
this week for a hearing in the New
York court. 1t concerns the sum of
10 900, which came to light as the
estate of Michele Barrile of Bangor at
the time of his death year ago.
Barrile had been for many years
barber in Bangor and 1t WAS always
supposed that he had nothing more
than his daily earnings. When he
died while on a trip to Italy ii was
disclosed that he had $4,000 distrib-
uted among various American banks.
woman appeared shortly after that
who said that she was his widow and
laid claim TO a part of the money. |
Her existence was unknown to Bar |
riles brother and three sisters and |
contest resulted. Several Bangor at |
'3rneys are connected with the case .
The Central Maine Summer School
association was organized July > in
The following officers
we're elected: Supt. c. n. Flood of .
president; Supt. W O. Her (
'ey OF Fairfield, treasurer; Supt. II. C.
libby of Wateryille, secretary; Supt.
IL. Holman of HalloWell, Supt. I
George Il. Paine of East Vassalboro, /
'upt. j. G. Morrell of Clinton. exc
utive committee. The members dis .
,ussed the work to be undertaken
Turing the ten days at the last of
august and the first of September
Among the studies decided upon are
eading, penmanship nature study. pri-
nary methods, theory and practice
geography, sanitation, and arithmetic !
There will be several systems of read /
ing introduced including the Aldine T.
system, Ward system, and the Pro
road to reading. Each house
will give practical demonstrations at
the meeting and furnish books for
the teachers. In all ten instructors
will be engaged and regular courses
will be held. Each evening stated ad-
dresses will be given by prominent
When the United States fisheries
steamer Cannot which arrived in
Portland recently finishes her season,
she will have had the best year in her
history. Capt. G. w. Greenleaf est
mated that the total number of lobster
fry that would be planted on the
whole coast would probably amount
to l50,0000o0. On the trip which
was completed recently, 10000 fry
were planted in York Harbor. A
number of both old and new seed lob
3ters were taken and these will be