Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-24


That touch Of the good old sum
mer time still fingers on the sunny
slopes of the kennebee river is indi-
Gated by a paragraph in the Richmond
Bee of Dec. 20, which says: Tom Bor-
lesson picked Il dandelion blossom, on
Tuesday of this week"
spark from a farm hands pipe is
believed to have started a Ere, Sunday
night. in the barn on the farm of John
Daigle on Hermon Hill. five miles from
Bangor. which burned the barn. with
five cows, pigs, 10 tons Of hay and 100
bushels of potatoes and farming tools.
Tie fire spread to and destroyed The
house, with part of the furnishings.
The less will be $500, with insurance
of $1,000.
1t cost the state OF Maine a small
fraction over two mills an acre to pa
troll and protect from fire a vast ter
ritory OF wild lands in northern Maine
during the last season. This territory
was under the direction OF Hosea +.
Buck of Bangor, chief warden under
Forest Commissioners Nice, and it IN
cludeS g, townships, embracing an area
Of 2.3l7,l99 acres, and is valued, ac-
cording to the report q the assessors
for 1916. at 9527, 1893. Tha fire district
tax of Que and one-half mills on this
valuation amounted to 50 for The
present year, and Of this amount th=re
was used $49S.37.
Figures just compiled by the officials
OF the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes
Railroad show that 555 deer, six bears,
146 cartridges, three ducks and one
bob cat have been shipped over the
lines ofthis road the past season, which
has Just closed. This is Il falling off
from last year of. Sc deer. but gam
over the average for the eight years
that records have been kept. The year
ly average has been 500 deer. The
largest shipment of deer was from the
Bigelow station, whore 206 were sSnt
TO various points. The smallest num-
Der was sent from Strong, with rec
ord of 3 deer. The solitary bob cat vas
shipped from Carrabasset. It will he
noted that no moose are recorded. the
official records show that a large pro-
portion of the deer Shot We're snlpped
by in State hunters Among the ship
ments this year was one of the largest
bucks shot in Maine this season. L
point head. baagcd by a hunter from
Wayne. The territory covered by TINS
record includes about all of FRANKLIN
county north Of Harrington, which
means the shipments for the vast for
ests of the Rangeley and Dead River
regions. Hl15fr
Maine Woods: 1t is estimated that
fully 500 horses are i6le in the woods
of Franklin county. owing to the abs
senee of snow.
According to the Patten corraspon-
dent of the MiHinocket Journal the
member of the police force m that
town is right on the job when the oc-
casion demands, and able in every way
to preserve the peace and quiet of tne
village to the queens taste. lie says:
"Three men came down out of the
woods. Thursday, and as they had been
calling along to the pieces where they
sell q fluid that makes the poor feei
rich, and the weak as though a common
man would be a small boy in their
hands Well, they struck town about.
noon and began to abuse both male
and female alike This did not just so
down with our police. Mr.. Boynton.
who took a hand in the restoring oil
peace, calling on Earl Finch, one OF
p AS athletes. able to throw IT,
pound hammer los feet, sailed in and
landed the trio in the lookup. one oil
them allowed that he was not gonS
and turned on Finch. who struck ms
feet which shifted ends of him so
quickly that he thought best to submit
to the inevitable. Friday they paid
5000 and left"
West Harpswell boasts of two smart
old ladies. Mrs. Susan M. Colley walk
ed two miles Tuesday to visit Miss
Catherine Slower who was 90 years old
the 31st day of last August Mrs. Col
ley passed her 93rd birthday Sunday.
George p. Haskell, whose death oc-
CURED Friday afternoon, Dec. 20 at
his home in Portland was one of the
best known among the Older rallrodu
men of Maine. He was born in Bucks
port June ~, 1885, out Wilile ehii"
his parents moved to Bangor, where
he attended the public schools. In 1901
Mr.. Haskell came to Portland to learn
the trade of a machinist at the Port
land company. His first employment
when he had served his apprenticeship
was III the repair shops of the T. D
& P. r. r., shops at the foot Of State
street, where he re manned until ls9e.
Then Mr.. Haskell went to the r. *. Il.
shops in East Boston, where he remain
ed until 1864. In 1865 he took charge
of the Maine Central shops at Angus
ia. where he remained until 1879 when
he assumed charge of tn shops at Au-
burn In 1889 Mr.. Haskell moved TO
Portland and was in charge OF the car
shops there and served as superintend-
ent until his retirement II years ago.