Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-08
Maine Co.'S sip
Unchanging.


"Why not the knightly deeds of olden
The virtues born of chivalry?" | cried.
''Oh. once there was no lack of men
who died
To right foul wrongs, whateer the blame
or praise,
| Upon their forheads time has set its bays.
oh. once were men like Sidney, who
The tyrant helped the weak, and sane
| titled
The name of manhood. Those were
| And 1oi AS | complained. a man | knew
Took up another's burden as his own;
/ And one put forth his hand and gently
1 drew
| A wanderer back where better things
1 were known:
And one, who walked in silence close
beside,
Showed me the saviour's look when
| erucified.
John Clair Minot, in The Youths Com
panion.
| Although the Popham Colony settled
at the mouth of the Kennebec, in
| Phippsburg in 1907 and ever after that
| there We're various villages scattered
over the Phippsburg peninsula. it was
| a part of Georgetown fer many years
but next year will mark it's Tooth ami
/
of the citiz ms OF the town are in favor
| of holding some sort of observation
| in honor of the event and II is prob
| able that the town warrant for the
| next March meeting may contain a
| clause pertaining to a recognition of
| the towns tooth birthday
A Searsport citizen has learned that
| it. is not safe to steer an auto with
one hand and hold watch in the
other, especially if the auto is a bor-
rowed one and not just like his OVID
says the Waldo Herald. He had just
twenty minutes to take a passenger to
| Belfast for the train. His own auto
vas gone, so he borrowed the doctors
which happened to be near. 1t was
muddy, the auto skidded and turned
turtle in the ditch. Another auto came
along lust then and the driver consid-
esateiy stopped to see if he could be of
any assistance. The wheels of the
overturned auto were still revolving in
the air and his surprise can be i'm
agined when his own father crawled
out from under. His first words were.
Here take this man to Belfast, he's
got Just ten minutes to catch his
train" The son Immediately obeyed.
The next morning the captain received
a telegram of congratulation that he
was alive, from his passenger.
Topographic mapping and investi-
cations of the water supply of various
sections of Maine are being carried
on this season by the United States
Geological Survey in corporation with
the Maine State Water Storage Com
mission The field work includes the
mapping of the areas known as the
WaIdoboro and Washington Pond To-
minute quadrangles in Lincoln, Knox.
and Waldo counties. These quad
rangles have each an approximate
area of 215 square miles. The work is
being done by TepoSraphers W. II.
Griffin. j. II. LeFeaver, j. Nj. Perkins,
and ]. II. Davey. This mapping VIII
include the detailed surveys necessary
to prepare maps according to the as
ual standard Of the Geological sur
vey's topographic work in Name
showing all rivers, towns, roads, ana
railroads, as well as the surface re-
lief of the country by means of 20
foot contour lines. The completed
maps will be engraved on the scale oil
| mile to l inch and will probably be
ready for distribution about two years
after completion of the field work. In
its investigations Of surface water 1he
Geological Survey publishes records OF
stream flow in Maine which are furn-
ished BY the State Water Storage Com
mission CYRUS G. Babb, chief engineer,
and which include hydrometrlc DATA
collected at % gaging stations ana rec
ords of the huctuation in level OF
Moosehead Lake, Green Lake, ana
Branch Lake At these gaging sta
tions the height or stage OF the rivers
is determined each day by local op-
servers and measurements of the DIS
charge of the streams are MADE by
| ENGINEERS of the survey. From these
data the quantity of water flowing past
the stations is determined. rms IN
| formation is of use IN Maine ehieis III
| the design, construction, and mamie
nance of power plants. in the slnas
of water storage, and in the selection
of suitable water supplies fer munic-
| inalitits. The records are published IN
| Tho annual report of the Maine state
| water Storage Commission and IN the
| water-supply papers of the ohite"
| States Geological Survey. Information
| relative to stream flow in Maine may
| he obtained by application to Z. u
| pahb chief engineer, State House,
| AUGUSTA. Maine, or to the director
II. So Geological Survey, Washington