Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-11

pet;
The day that's gone will never come
Tomomow's song may have new re-
frain.
From Lippincotts
Eastport Farmers Still Hayine.
Farmers are still having hard time
to finish haying. says the Eastport
Sentinel, ON account of continued rains.
OLD residents cannot recall a time
when haying was so late as this sea
son. While some have managed to get
through. between showers, others are
DELAYED. a week of good weather will
probably see haying all done, but some
pieces will be plowed under. Harvest
ing is now on. and many fields of grain
are ready to cut.
Much interest is taken in the archaic
illogical explorations of Prof Moore
head and party in Maine. He reports
that he has secured more prehistoric
implements and relies than any prev
ious party. He affirms that at Orland
he has found the Oldest graves ever
discovered on the continent. over 600
implements nave bttli Sttti Co., many
of great beauty and finish. and
with them great quantities of red
paint. brought from some unknown
locality. Prof Moorehead proposes to
give a portion of his collection the
Maine Histrical Society at Portland.
The gun which is to ornament the
Farragut Memorial Park on North
High street, Bridgton, has been placed
in position and is attracting consider
able attention from the passersby. 1t
is a Maxim gatling gun and was made
for one of the boats of the United
States Navy but owing to the fact
that it throws a different shell from
those in general use it was never plac-
ed upon a gunboat for fear that there
might be some confusion owing TO the
different shells The gun has been
placed upon a cement pedestal. Those
who are interested in this park have
plans while not elaborate will never :
thelcss make of it a very attractive
place. They include memorial foun-
tain and already "A lady now resident
at Washington but of Brldgton de-
scent has offered a generous contrlbu-
ton when the promises of funds shall
be adequate to assure immediate sue
cess.
A wonderful variety of articles stol-
en- by the notorious outlaw, Wills
Tompkins, who was killed in the Bow
erbank Woods, week ago Sunday,
from residents in that vicinity and
. Cahn
found by Deputy Sheriff Henry n.
Spaulding of Dover in places of con-
cealment in the woods, was taken to
the courthouse in Dover and much Oh
the plumber has been Identified ana
taken possession of by the owners.
Harry Tompkins, who had been with
his father the past two weeks. assisted
in the work of Identification, as he re-
nembered where much of the goods
had been stolen. Most of the stuff was
odds and ends OF little value, as pro-
visions and wearing apparel comprised
the greater part of What Willis Tomp-
kins had taken.
According to figures on file at the
custom house in Portland, nearly 2o,-
600 cords of pulp wood were landed in
that city during the month of August
The value of the pulp wood was $751;
| Eos and it all came in free OF duty
| The value of all the imports Tor the
| month was but $257 ,527, so that 1t can
be seen pulp wood played a pretty I'M
portant part in the business OF the
| port. OF dutiable goods, perhaps the
| leading import was salt 1855
| pounds the total value being $l0,bo9
| 1t is reported that movement mas
| been started by two of the cottagers
| at Bar Harbor to oppose the erection
| there of a fine summer hotel by the
| Maine Central Railroad. 1t is not ex'
| pected that the effort viii be crowned
| with success. People who live in tina
| noted Maine summer resort and de
mend upon its prosperity for "a livint
have awakened to a realization tina
unless the hotel business can be de
veloped there the place has reached
the limit of its growth and business
They now want the hotels and the &C
companying summer people, just q
they now want the automobile expul
sion act repealed and to be given an op
portunity to hang out the welcom
buzz ears sign.
United States Senator George I
Perkins of California, native Of Ken
nebunkport, has announced his In
tent;on of retiring from public life o
], account of failing health. His teri
+ | expires March 4. 1915. Senator Pei
, lSins has been member of the Senat
since July "a, 1893, when he was ar
painted by the governor of Californi
J to ill the vacancy caused by the deaf