Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-20

! hard worked for. A subscription of
$500 started the week and the people
are confident that the amount needed
will be forthcoming.
The alewives this year are coming
| in largely increased numbers and
much fatter than usual, being due, the
fishermen say, to the long, cold win
ter and the heavy snow. The late melt
/ ing of the snow and the large amount
of fresh water running farther out IN
to the ocean tolls the alewives in at
| this later date, seeking spawning
places. The fish are still running up
| the Damariscotta river and many are
also going in to Nequasset pond, Win
negance creek, Eastern river and at
Arrowsic, into Sewalls and Spinneys
ponds. The same cause is also said to
be bringing the shad and salmon in
larger numbers and better condition
than usual.
Sheriff divers deputies in Sagada-
hoe county must be unusually polite,
judging from the following from Mon
days Bath Times: Sunday morning
around the peaceful hour of $50, a
complaint was made regarding card
party at house on North st. and Dep
uty Sheriff Aderton went out. sent in
his card and advised an immediate ad-
iournment. The dozen or so men pres
ent adjourned at once.
Two lads, giving the names of r. c.
Brown and K. c.. Jackson and armed
with an old-fashioned powder horn
and a 22-calibre rifle, were rounded up
by a Portland officer near the Union
station and upon being sharply ques-
toned finally admitted that they had
escaped from the Livingstone school
at Mattapan, Mass. having started
out on a big game hunting trip. They
were sent back to the school.
The Ordaining Council of the Maine
Minister'S Conference met at the Main
Street Free Baptist church, Lewiston,
Tuesday, to examine candidates for
sacred orders. A. T. Salley D. D.
Lewiston, is president of the council
and Rev. C. G. Mosher. Augusta, Sec
rotary.
Biddeford voted 33S to IS Saturday
to issue bonds to the amount of $780,,
600 that sum to be used in the better
ment of the highways and sidewalks
of that city. The action was taken
after a thorough investigation of the
situation by Paul d. Sargent, chief en-
gineer of the State Highway Commits
sion.
The mystery of q feather stolen 46
years ago at the Butchers ball at CAL
ais was cleared up the other day when
two ladies met in q store and engaged
in conversation while looking over the
millinery styles. One remarked that
she used to like big feather but the
last one she owned was stolen as
above stated. II know who stole your
feather" said the other lady. 1T was
Jim -, who escorted me. He had
embibed freely and seeing the feather
in the ladies room, cut 1T off and later
gave it to another girl" The ladies
had never before met and also parted
without learning each others names.
The one who lost the feather belongs
in ST Stephens and the other in Calais.
While there have been old deeds re-
ceived at the Office of the Cumberland
register of deeds at Portland rarely is
there a paper that comes to the office
from such a distance as one that has
Just been received there. 1t is quit
claim deed from John L. Morong to
Helen Gertrude Morong of Falmouth,
transferring all interest he may have
in the estate of the later Walter w.
Morong, the late husband of Mrs. Mo-
rong of whose estate she is admins
tratrix. The deed was made out in
the town of Caldera, Chile. in the prov
ince of Atacama. 1t is dated March 70,
1914 and attached to it are two 30
centavo yellow Chile stamps. 1t also
bears the seal of Juan Tomas Moro
no" and is witnessed by Y. Pinerio,
notary public The deed Is, of course,
in English.
]. T. Giles will begin hemlock lun1-
bering operation on the Buffalo. in
township 2. Penobscot county, next
week. He expects to take in a bark
crew of 40 men. The lumber Will be
landed in the Passadumkeag. Mr.. Giles
does not expect to break camp Tor III
or II months.
The first automobile to go from Car
ibou to Presque Isle this year went
through last week, driven by Perley
Allen. He found the roads exceedingly
bad, and really unfit for travelling as
yet The road to Fort Fairfield, hok-
ever, is considerably better, several
cars having gone from Caribou to that
village and return. And speaking OF
roads we are informed tnat the piece
of road in Jemtland. which runs
through a swamp, is in the pink of
condition. This highway was con-
structed by O. H. Nelson OF New
Sweden, who has the reputation of be-
ing one of the best road builders in the
State. For years when other towns
had rough roads, with deep holes and
| bad ruts, the roads in New Sweden
were practically smooth. Mr.. Nelson
is a firm believer in the split-log drag,
which he has successfully demonstrat-
ed can keep highways !, in repair. He
also believes in the Stitch In time
saves nine' policy as applied to- high
WayS and the first sign of a hole COM