Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-07

hEo%lton OF Lewiston toId the Lew
iston Journal Rambler of an expert
ence when he was a student. During
vacation season he was retained as
assistant of the late Thomas II. Little,
principal of Gardiner High school,
having accepted an invitation to make
"a weekend visit to Mr.. Little'S old
home at Augusta. Sunday afternoon
they harnessed up livery team. pre-
paratory to return. 1t was bitter
cold day and in sympathy for their
horse they took the bride into the
house and thawed out the bit 1t as
noticed as they were returning to Gar
diner that the horse was difficult to
manage. With little difficulty they
completed the journey. and drove to
the stable. This was the salutation of
the livery man: Don't you fellers
know enough to bride a horse?" 1t
then dawned upon the travellers that
they had failed to put the bits of the
bride into the horses mouth. 1t was
a marvel that they returned in safety.
The saving of 100000 feet of lum-
Der every four days is some stunt, but
a Bath Times man learns that that is
John mill at Van Buren,, does. The
mill is run and owned by the st. John
Lumber Co and the Times man un-
derstands that in this enterprise
Charles Milliken of Augusta has $780,
900 cash. The mill has four big band
saws. each of which produces more
than $4,000 feet of lumber every day.
In addition to the big saws the mill
cin oil nd incjdPn-
tally the pile of shingles on Elm
street, Bath, at Farnham's came from
these machines, in the Van Buren,
mill The Dean Lumber Co. whose
members own the st. John mill own
and operate many other mills and own
townships in northern Maine. They
have recently purchased the Squaw-
pan Township and will start a mill
there This company in their vari-
Gus mills are said to turn out 90,000,000
feet of lumber every year.
The postal clerks of Maine will
hold their annual convention April 10
and 20 in Portland. a large attend
ance is expected. Hon. Thomas L.
Reilly of Meriden. CT, will be one of
the speakers. Mr.. Reilly is the au-
thor of the Reilly bill limiting the
hours of service of postal employee
to eight hours not to extend over
period of 10 and allowing eompensa-
tory time for Sunday work No great
er legislation for the benefit of the
postal employee was ever enacted.
The duties of a postal clerk require
his presence at the office during the
rush hours and prior to the passage
of this law his tour of duty many
times extended over a period of from
II to Is hours.
The receipt of a pole for a hack by
parcel post at Portland leads one to
wonder when the hack will arrive.
The death of John H. Bellany of
Kittery, Me-. Sunday night removes
the last of the old time wood carvers
in that section He was born at Kit
terry Point April IS, 1886. and learned
the carvers trade with the late Sam
ual Dockham. He began his work
as an expert wood carver at the Kit
terry navy yard during the Civil War,
and was employed there until 1900,
making the ffgureheads for all of the
war vessels constructed there during
that period. In addition he carved the
figurehead for many Of the clipper
ships built here, when shipbuilding
fiourished on the Piscataquis river. He
was the last of his family. Many
patterns designed by him when a
young man were the source of much
revenue to others.
The second salmon of the season
caught at Bangor pool brought the
lucky fisherman, Gus Youngs. s1.25 per