Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-12
Maine Gossip

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Five hundred dollars reward has
been offered by the Auburn committee
| on. police for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of the party
who at $40 last Wednesday evening
shot Aretas A. Rowell. A man about
40 years old and answering to the gen.
eral description of the person who
shot Rowell purchased revolver and
five cartridges at the Boston Loan Co,
81 Main street, Lewiston, about two
hours earlier the same evening. AT
9.2S that evening a man of similar
description boarded the Figure s car
at the overhead bridge. Conductor
Lowe says the man came running
down Troy street.
Eastport had considerable surprise
during the past week when it was
stated that the two insurance COM
panies who held $4,000 policies in
favor of a prominent Eastporter who
recently met his death following a Sc
we're fall on icy steps, had decided that
his death was not due to the accident,
although it had been so declared by an
autopsy of three leading PASSPORT
physicians and the coroner in charge.
1t is probable that more will be heard
from this case later.
Engineer Rodick of the Bath-Lewis-
ton branch of the Maine Central was
showing some of his friends in BATH
freak in the fish line which he caught
last fall on Grand Lake Stream and
had mounted. 1t is half trout and half
salmon and has attracted lots of at
tention among veteran fishermen. Mr..
Rodick has been d fishing enthusiast
for over twenty years and has shown
his catch to many fishermen and none
have ever seen one like it. 1t has
salmon body and trout mouth with
line and one half of red spots along
the sides. 1t is about ten inches long
and made a terrific fight before being
landed. Mr.. Rodick has refused sew
eral big offers to part with the fish.
The potato acreage this year is
thought by most judges to promise
nearly as large as that of last year, al
though the extreme lateness of getting
to planting may cut off some of what
would otherwise be the latest planting
of the spring, says the Fort Fairfield
Review. Ground that habitually pro-
duces potatoes affected by any kind
of scab, also ground that is known to
have produced any powdery scab, of
course should not and will not be
planted this year, and this cutting out
L. ,,est, fnr
slight reduction in the total acreage
of the county. However, little more
fertilizer than ever. before will this
season be used to the aere, thus per-
haps giving promise of as many bar
rels Of potatoes as usually promised
at this season. So far as we are aware,
no potatoes have yet been planted, al
though few may have gone IN the
past day or two on the highest and
dryest spots. Last year quite a lot
of potatoes were planted in Aroostook
in April, some of them before the very
last days, too.
1t is not poWdery scab that ais
Aroostook, it is too many automobiles
and 100 many high priced horses, as
serts the Fort Fairfield Review. We
have no objection to high-priced
horses, and indeed know that they are
necessary and that they must often
be had. only we think it is too bad
that often men who could get better
service for a season or two out OF a
cheap pair of horses are bound to pay
double their price in order to get a
pair that looks better and more styl-
ale tn
with the automobile, where it can be
used and in the hands OF people who
can afford it. Too many, however, are
owned by people who can not really
afford them-who have them to the
exclusion of more valuable things and
often with the result that they cause
many bills for necessities to go unpaid
Is this good business? A few Scotch
or Dutch families should be imported
into Aroostook to teach real thrift to
many of our people.
W. E. Adams of Pennington has
several russell apples which were
grown in the summer of 1912 and have
been in his cellar at the Woodman
house through two winters. The ap-
withered. This seems really remark
able and it is wondered if it is not a
record hard to equal, says the Frank
lin Journal.
The selectmen of Caribou have de-
cided to prohibit the sale of fire
crackers in that town during the
Fourth of July period, owing to the
great crowd of people expected at the
celebration and the liability of acci-
dent to pedestrians and teams.
st. John river lumbermen are prom
ised good driving this spring, plenty OF
snow in the northern woods insuring
plenty of water when needed, though
more rains will be necessary as the
time passes along. The st. John has
little or no storage and the rise and
fall of water is very rapid. 1t is said
that about 100000 feet more has been
cut on the American side than last
season.
Portland High school has the honor