The Republican journal., 1912-08-29

staging placed on the Court House
last Tuesday to make repairs on the conductors
and outside finish and the woodwork will tie
painted.
One more excursion will be made to Togus
under the management of Orrin J. Dickey,
which will be the last trip to that popular
point for the season.
Orrin J. Dickey has been engaged to act as
secretary at the annual fair of the Unity Park
Trotting Association Oct. 1st and End, posi-
ton he has held for number of years
Work was begun last Tuesday on the foun-
dation for the new summer home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ira NJ. Cobe at Hillside, Northport, which
is much earlier than anticipated The CODES
will leave for Chicago Sept. 18th, spending
few days in Boston en- route
| VETERANS MEETING. The Waldo County
! Veteran association will hold its next meeting
at the X. of P. hall, Ellingwoods Corner. Sent
5, 1912. If stormy, the next fair day. TIE
people are making arrangements to give the
boys royal welcome Rally on Elingwood's
Corner
FRED TIMM's New SHOE STORE Mr.. Fred
Timm opened his new store in the Morrison
building on Main street last Saturday and was
pleased with the patronage he received and
with the wishes expressed by many callers for
his success. The store, which was practically
destroyed by fire, has been entirely rebuilt
has fine display window, a hardwood floor and
the walls and ceiling are sheathed in matched
hard pine The workroom and office are fin
ished in like manner and the whole interior is
most, attractive as well as convenient. The
stock is all new and Mr.. Timm stands behind
the quality of his goods and his prices are al
ways right. He sells the Maiden rubbers and
other standard makes of footwear, and soicits
share of the public patronage.
I CITY MATTERS. A special meeting of the
municipal officers was held Wednesday even
ing, Aug. 21st, for the purpose of opening bids
for the construction of sewer on Bridge
street In the absence of Mayor Hanson Al.
derman E. F. Littlefeld presided. All bids
were rejected as being too high, and the city
will construct the sewer by day work and the
committee was authorized to hire H. M Ben
nett to superintend the work. The subject of
matchmaking Custom House square was
brought up, and the committee on highways
was ordered to have this done, and to employ
H. M. Bennett to oversee its building The
work will be begun as soon as possible, and
will extend around the whole front of the
post office to the easterly side of Church street
taking in the whole square. The mayor was
absent, but the one-man city government pre-
vailed just the same, in providing jobs for one
of his followers and turning down city Off
cial who could not be made to bow to his will
If there should ever be an opportunity to as
certain the exact cost of the proposed sewer
it is safe to predict that it will exceed that of
the highest bid. AS to matchmaking the
square. that properly belongs to street COM
missioner Burgess, salaried official, and the
amount to be paid another for doing the work
will be SO much taken unnecessarily from the
tax payers to pay political debt of the may
ors and crafty his personal spite.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Calvin Austin, president
and general manager of the Eastern Steamship
Corporation, recently inspected the Cape Cod
Canal and gave it as his opinion that when that
waterway was completed it would revolution
ize the shipping and transportation traffic be-
tween New York and Boston. 1t ought to be
the means, says Mr.. Austin, of cutting down
the steaming time of vessels between these
two oints some three hours. The canal is
about two thirds completed and is expected to
be open to navigation early in 1914. The
builders are figuring on 100000 passengers
passing through annually, besides the majority
of the 25,O0O,OO0 tons of freight which now
pass outside of Cape Cod every year. -. The
largest side wheel steamer built since the
Great Eastern made her debut is the City of
Detroit III of the Detroit and Cleveland Navi-
cation Company, now in commission on the
Great Lakes. This vessel has length of 500
feet over all and is IS feet wide nodded and
100 feet over the guards. Her nodded depth
is % feet :. The schooner Mary Langdon
built at Thomaston Me-, in 1845, was A days in
making recent voyage from Rockland to
Boston, distance of 1876 miles, Owing to he-
unseaworthy condition her captain sought
shelter at the slightest indication of bad
weather. The new steamer being built at
Newport News for Crowell & Thurlow, to be
commanded by Capt. A. L. Kent of Brewer,
will be launched about Dec. 1st., and named
the C. H. Crowell. She will be a fine craft of
about 5000 tons cargo capacity and will cost
about 100000. Capt. Kent, who goes from
sail to steam. will take trip or two in steam
er of her class to famiiarize himself with the
change. The new steamer will be followed by
seven others similar, built in anticipation of
the increase in business with the opening of
the Panama canal. The schooner Pendleton
Sisters discharged at Calais last week the larg-
est cargo of coal ever landed there, 1927 tons.
She could carry more. but owing to the con-
dition of the river and the 20 feet Of water she
draws, this cargo was the limit to ensure safe
passage up the St. Croix. The Pendlet0n Sis
ters sailed Friday for Delaware Breakwater
for orders. The bark Matanxas, which has also
discharged coal at Calais, has been towed to
st. John, N. b.