Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-02

A. seems to have a bad case of tina W
ton issued.
Writes the Bethel philosopher who
corresponds for the oxford Democrat:
THE blue jays are screaming around
and everything seems to be fading ex
will rise again.
The little steamer Bon Ton, which
runs between Bangor and Brewer, re-
ported to the steamboat inspection
service approximately 900 passen-
gers a year, number that is surpris-
ing in its magnitude when in consid-
ering the small size of this boat.
George w. BoWker, who on the
seventh of September passed the SD
mile stone in the journey of life
and at the same time entered upon
the sixty-seeond year of his life as a
workman, day after day goes to his
bench in the Wade & Dunton factory,
w
maker with hand steadier than many
of middle age.
The Biddeford Journal opines that
Joe Knowles. the Maine woods ex-
ponent of the Primitive Life, seems
to be in the position of the farmers
/ boy who yoked himself up with 4
nd
the boy found that he was powerless
to control the course of events, 10
shouted Stop us, For Gods sake.
head us off. Joe has killed "A
deer, and he seems to be worried for
fear the game wardens will not take
enough notice of his Illegal act to
| help along his publicity campaign BY
an arrest.
The next annual meeting of the
Maine State Pathological Society will
be held in city Hall. Lewiston, No
vember 1920 The society is anxious
to increase it's membership, thereby
placing it in a better position to cor
rect evils, and to increase its eff
ficiency to the orchardists of the State,
in many ways. The executive COM
mittee has voted a prize of "a free
scholarship in the short course in fruit
growing at the University of Maine,
Orono." to the young man in the State
who procures the largest number Of
members for the society, before II
O'Clock, noon, November 20, 1913. For
information and blanks, apply to the
Secretary Z. l.. White, Bowdoinham.
Portland is agitated over the sug-
gestion that some means of com
raunicatfon be established between
Half Way Rock light and the main
land 1t is believed that this connec-
ton, If such it may be termed, could
be made through the medium of wire
less apparatus which might be oper-
ated by one of the keepers--sufficien :
| ly to answer any emergency require
ments. The light is well out at sea
and from it a view is commanded
of practically all the dangerous out
side waters between Cape Elizabeth
and Cape Small Point, section where
disaster is likely to overtake the small
boatman at any time particularly il
motor troubles develop.
| Cherrytield is nearly rent in twain
| the two sides OF water and mo wa
ter" Never in the history of the town
was there SO much excitement and
| trouble as the water question is caus-
| ing. For some years number of the
people have urged water supply foE
and at the town meeting of 1912, an
| appropriation of $500 was made for a
| survey of mains from Cherryfield
Pond eight miles from the village. The
| last Legislature passed an act incor-
1porating the Cherryfield water district
| without opposition. A meeting of tire
| town was held August II to vote upon
the district proposition and it was ae-
cepted by poll of SO to S.. Their
| was great excitement as much ops
position developed. Trustees wers
| elected and are going ahead with thf
| work. Meanwhile the defeated fac
ton has been claiming that the meet
ing was illegal. that there We're
vote and that the cost of the system
was misrepresented to the voters. a
petition for another town meeting Wa,
circulated and presented to the select
men, but they have thus far refused
to call a meeting and now the m
water" faction is consulting legal ad
vice and threatens to bring action 4
stop any expense to the town.
However much taking" there ma,
be about the primitive sojournings .
Artist Knowles there must be interes
in his Wilton home and townspeople
His parents live in a small and some.
what out of-repair house in this Maine
4 town with the artists brother, Lean.
der. Knowles senior is a promnen
: Civil war veteran in Wilton. He wa.
fS0 Years old on Sept 90 Mrs