Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-07

sell goods for old rags again;
\ sordid ambition? Wen. maybe. But
SomewaV that store of the past
Seems part of dream that has van
ished-a dream that was too sweet
to last
on account of the strike on the Ban
sor q Aroostooll Railroad. work on the
three -masted schooner, IL be built by
F. :. Bowker x Son of Phippsburg, is
berg delayed. The frame is coming
froal the northern Maine woods and
was due To arrive the first of February,
but has not yet been received.
Madison gave the Athens SkoWhe-
gan Electric railroad project $4,000
IT its annual town meeting, Monday,
with little oposition. This makes the
car line j certainty.
The executive committee of the Cas-
60 Angling Association held Il meeting
in the State of Maine room. Falmouth
motel, Portland Tuesday for the pur-
pose of considering the matter of stock
ing a dozen or more o. the streams Ill
Cumberland county with fish. The bu-
reau of fisheries at Washington ana
the state bureau have promised fish tor
the purpose and the work of stocking
up the streams of this county within an
easy radius of Portland will commence
at ali early date.
While the icemen are busy along the
Kennebec river between Gardiner ami
Richmond, further down river prepare
tions are being made for the coming of
spring Wednesdays Bath Times says
that Supt NJ. A. Haraden of the East
ern Steamship Corporation returned.
Wednesday morning, from a business
trip to Boston and that the steamer
CITY OF Bangor will leave for Boston,
next week. to clean and paint and be
maze ready for the coming season.
Tile Eastport Sentinel says that the
absence of ice in the rivers and bay,
during the past winter. is great boon
to weir owners, as usually at this sea-
son ana a little later huge cakes of ice
are set afioat by the spring tides to
drift about, propelled by the stormy
winds and waves, and as weirs are
generally built in the currents, these
foes coming in contact with the weirs
are very disastrous, and a single foe
has been known to entirely wipe out
the labor of several months and cause
a loss OF hundreds of dollars.
o-;lli,,,, NNondua ard pf Fills
worth, the Oldest shipmaster in point OF
service sailing from that port. died at
his home. there, Monday. He was mas
ter of the schooner Henrietta \. Whit
ney. which was built for him Is years
ago. He hauled the vessel up Tor the
winter at Fall River five weeks ago.
The wife, three sons and two daughters
survive.
on Monday morning, says the local
correspondent of the Bangor News, the
people of East Orrington were treated
to an unusual sight in the log hauling
business, when the gasoline engine
owned by +. w. Aver of the Eastern
Manufacturing Co., South Brewer, went
through with three four-horsc sleds at
tacned. going as easily as an auto
would with a lot of pleasure seekers.
Thu ROADS are in good condition ana
the teamsters are making fine record.
TWENTY teams in succession were
counted, Monday morning. The logs
are being hauled from Brewer Pond to
d. Sargent Sons. South Brewer ana
the uulp wood to the Eastern Manutac-
turing Co.
Tuesday was the 99rd birthday OF
.ionn w. Roberts, of Bath, WHO quietly
ohs, rved the event al the home of MI.
and Mrs. Harry w. Tucker, Where ne
resides. He enjoyed the day very much
and receive many congratulations from
friends. He is in excellent health ana
GETS out every day. Mr. Roberts was
horn in Brunswick and went TO batti
when a child of five wears OF age. ne
attended the schools there until ne WAS
IA and then left to learn the shoeihdh
er's trade. About lS49 he opened 4
shoe store and continued III business
untll he sold out TO his SON law, tha
late John p. Welch. Since then ne mas
taken life easily. He has never useo
either liquor or tobacco ana attributes
his longevity to this reason