The Republican journal., 1911-08-03

E.l,. will be Ia Waldo county from August
1oth To 18th and will speak upon "The Model
license system and How it Works in License
States" Mrs. Tillinghast is one Of thu ablest
women speakers in America. She holds her
audience by her oratory and drives her points
home with force and logic that convinces
She has lived in four license States.
before the municipal court last week. Deputy.
Sheriff Edgecomb Sc zed some bottles of whis-
key and other liquors from barrel Friday
night, just as it was landed at the Phoenix
house on truck team, and the proprietor,
True c. Trundy, was arraigned on search and
seizure. He said the liquor was not his and
was not for SALE but was for a party that was
going to camp for rest and recreation. Judge
Knowlton ordered the goods returned. Ralph
Woods was before the court Saturday charged
with single sale of liquor at his place on low
er Main street. George Woods testified that
he bought pint of liquor there Friday. The
accused pied not guilty and Judge Knowlton
decided that the evidence was insufficient and
dismissed the case
SHIPPING ITEMS The many abandoned
wrecks on the New England coast, particular
.ly in the waters off Southeastern Massachu-
sets, are to be cleaned up for the money
equivalent in old metal. iron and other parts
which still remain. by the schooner Mabel E.
Goss, formerly in the stone carrying trade,
but now fitted up as full fedged wrecker by
Boston company. The Goss left Vineyard
Haven July 9th for Cuttyhawk for the pur-
pose OF tackling the remains of the Red Star
liner Sylvia, which was wrecked on Sow and
Pigs four or five years ago ...Sch. L. Snow
Jr, Capt. Leslie Robbins, loaded kiln wood at
Citypoint last week for Rockland . Sch.
Donna T. Briggs finished discharging coal for
the Penobscot Bay Electric Co., last week and
was grounded in the dock on the north side of
Marshall's wharf to stop leak about the
sternpost. Sch. Northern Light was taken
out on Gilchrist's marine railway last week for
calking and pain ting +. The kennebec Jour-
nal says: at is said that the little old schooner
Andrew Peters, which is now loading lumber
at the mill of the Augusta Lumber Co., was
during the Civil War, blockade runner She
was of English build and was engaged in
sneaking cotton out of Southern ports. and on
one occasion was captured with her hold full
of that product" The government list of
merchant vessels says that this schooner was
built at Columbia, Me-, in 1854, and she was
formerly the schooner Crystal Palace and the
British schooner St. George. She now halls
from Calais. -. In the storm last Friday the
schooner Island Belle, owned by Nickerson,
Spratt & Greeley, parted her. lines at the
wharf at Bar Harbor and went on to Rodick's
island. but sustained little damage. >. The
schooner N. E. Aver, whose disaster is re-
ported in another column, was practically re-
built on Gilchrest's marine railway few years
ago and her name changed at that time from
George Nevinger.. The big fve-masted
schooner Rebecca Palmer, carrying $500 tons
of coal and drawing 26 feet, grounded at the
dock in Bangor and was so badly strained that
she filled with water and it is feared her back
is broken
CONCERNING THE WEATHER AND FRIDAYS
STORM This has been a record-breaking sea.
son as to weather. First, drouth. only re-
markabe as it was earlier than the average;
followed by long-continued heat, such as no
now living remembers to have experienced be-
fore. And last Fridays storm of wind and
rain, general throughout New England and
causing much damage both on land and sea,
brought the heaviest rainfall for many years.
In some places there was fall of 2 l-2 inches
in few hours. In this city the damage was
mainly to gardens and trees. Corn and grain
was laid fiat and if like conditions prevailed
throughout the county the loss will be serious,
A big elm tree in front of the Wooster Parker
house on High street was broken short off Is
feet from the ground, but fortunately did no
damage when it fell 1t was rotten and should
have been cut down some time ago. A plum
tree at Mrs. Dolloffs home on Congress street
was up-rooted and on High street near the
upper bridge big birch tree was blown down
across the road. The sch. L. Snow, Jr., Capt.
Leslie Robbins dragged her anchors and collid-
ed with the upper bridge, damaging it SO that
it was closed to teams the next day. though
still passable on foot 1t has been in state
of decrepitude for some time and passing
automobile would cause it to shake for its
"Aoic iSAS II was ie-DullI uHueF a former
administration of the present mayor. On
the water front number Of motor boats
broke from their moorings, but we have
heard of but one that was badly damaged A
launch owned by Walter Varnum and moored
below the steamboat wharf broke adrift and
getting broadside to the sea was turned bot
ton up and then dashed upon the Shore Nor
man Cottrell lost sailboat, and lobster car
owned by A. R. Leadbetter was broken up.
At Northport Campground there was much
damage to boats. The cabin launch Lucie E.,
owned by Hon. F. s. Walls of vinalhaven, was
wrecked and Charles Kennedy lost a canoe in
which was a gasolene engine. George and
Robert Ferguson of Houton who with Frank
Hazeltine of this city were guests of Orrin J.
Dickey at Temple Heights, had their motor
boat badly wrecked She broke from her
mornings and went on the rocks, but will be
repaired, The fire alarm put out of COM
mission early in the evening and the Penob-
scot Bay Electric Co., which lights the city,
had troubles of its own. Some of the incan-
descent lights burned only internationally for
several hours and the lights went out in the
Unitarian church, breaking up the anniversary
service The steamer Camden, which left here
at 6 p. m. for Boston, remained at Rockland
until midnight, but the Belfast came through
from Boston, arriving here Saturday morning
on time.