Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-09

served him in Washington, ID. C., IN
the fall of 1861, when he was there IN
Co G.. First Maine Regiment, Capt.
Beals commanding. 1t is a piece OF
bareback and so far as looks goes,
hasn't changed much in all these
years.
Tie water in Moosehead lake is
nearly as high as it was last spring,
which is an unusual condition for this
season of the year. Monday nights
rain extended as far north as the lake
and raised the pitch of water several
inches. There is still sleighing IN
Greenville, but the roads are very icy,
the rain having washed off practically
all of the snow.
Livermore Falls Advertiser: Fred
Trip of North Jay while working his
horses in Wilde Hill yard at East Dix
field, recently was driving around to
make a turn, when. his horses came
across the we'll which is used for the
power in the mill. The covering broke
and let them both into the well. rms
created much excitement and num-
her of men were called to help get
them out, so by the help of the men
and the aid of a pair of horses after
some dieulty they succeeded IN gettlhs
them out. The horses We're very mucil
chilled, otherwise no serious injuries
were received. This well is a very
large one, so that both horses could
drop into it, the water coming up
nearly over them.
The power station of the CORNISH
and Kezar Falls Light and Power Co.
was wrecked, last week, by the water
undermining the bulk head on which
the front of the power house was huilt-
1t is understood that the station VIII
be taken down and rebuilt next spring
al soon as the weather is suitable Tor
such work. In the meantime the ke-
Ear Falls Wooden Co. is furnishing
power for lighting. At the noon hour,
TUESDAY of last week, everything APP
peared as usual, but ten minutes Ia
ter ten-foot wall was rent asunuef
and the power house tilted to one side
The water has been shut out OF the
canal, the power house propped up un-
til the coming of warmer weather, ana
a temporary building is erected
around the pumping station. The sta
ton was erected about ten years ago
and cost when completed about $40.
The high price of grain has stimu-
lated Levi Merrifield of West Rockport
to raise his corn for home use He has
raised 275 baskets of as fine corn as
can be found in Knox county. 1t IS
worth a ride of several miles TO see
the long, yellow ears of corn spread
upon the floor or hung from the raft
ers of his corn room. Mr.. Merrifleld,
in the early summer of the present
year. purchased the home and farm
of the late l.. r. Morse of Union,
where he raised the most of his corn.
There is no good reason, says cor
respondent of the Rockland opinion,
why the farmers of Knox county can
not raise most, if not all, the corn
needed for home consumption.
| According to the South Harpswell
correspondent of the Brunswick Her
aid the path of true love does not run
any more smoothly, today than it did
in the times when the lines expressing
the fact were written. He says: zone
of our young men employed with I'm
Gle Sam visited Bailey Island, Sunday
levening, and on returning nome late,
near the cemetery a tramp stepped be-
fore him and demanded his money OF
his life. He pushed him aside and ran
like a deer for the shore, and was soon
on board his boat rowing 2-40 clip
:, When nearly across the harbor one oai
was broken, but he padded along I'M
/ til he landed, and was soon at home
, Since then he has been wondering i
! it will be safe for him to make anoth'
J er visit, next Sunday evening"
J woods and the scarcity of men for thu
: lumber camps will have a strong ten
! ,tency to decrease the timber cut alont
the st. John waters in northern Maine
' says the Bangor Commercial. snow
. came early in northern Maine and q
v the present time there is between
+ foot and a foot and half in the woods
h 1t came before the ground had frozei
r and some of the woods roads for thi
reason are almost impossible II
some sections the lumbermen hav'
been obliged to swamp new road
Ialong the ridges to get to their oper
atoms, and in other places where plan
: were made to operate on low land Q
q in the swampy country the work ha
had 10 be abandoned altogether OWNS
= to the fact that the swamps are lille