Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-07


nal helps the farmers. They are the
/ people who supply the cities.-Henry
| Palmer, WHITEHEAD
That is what we are here for
The Bangor Park Commissioners
have decided to plant Norway naples
through the burned district and have
appropriated the sum of 5000 for the
! purpose, the remainder of the amount
needed to be raised by subscription
among the residents of the district.
We have been thinking that we had
good reason to kick about the wealth
er, but the good people of Portland
and probably of the entire State-5O
years ago seem to have had about the
same reason, judged by the following
from the Portland Advertiser of May
5, 1854: The Weather.-For some time
back the weather has been in a state
of dubiosity. The wind for some six
weeks has scarcely varied from n. e.
& e. Yesterday, however, we got
peep at the sun. which we thought ap-
peared rather mouldy. We have had
rain, drizzle, hail and all sorts of un-
comfortable weather, and no doubt 1t
is for the best, as it may be the
means of reducing the price of but
ter. If the clerk at the weather bu-
reau could give US western breeze
we would be much obliged"
The Pepperell mill teams at Bidde
ford are just at present engaged in
| loading a big consignment of cloth, the
lot including 1495 bales. AS each bale
contains 600 yards the grand total is
well up toward the 100000 mark to
be exact $4,000 yards. The consign-
| ment goes to Bombay, India.
H. A. Holmesof South Sumner over
looked a bushel of Baldwin apples
last fall and they passed the winter
in bransack by the roadside. Mr..
Holmes opened the sack about April
10th and was surprised to find the
apples in a perfectly sound condition,
having kept much better than those
that he put in his cellar.
Fishing in Long pond, Mt. Desert
island, has started well, numerous fish
having been taken. The largest re-
ported was taken by George Harmon
and Arthur Gilley of Southwest Har-
Dor, salmon Weighing 9 pounds and
2 ounces and measuring 26 inches long
and II inches around.
The audience at the Odd Fellows
service Sunday at Pressure Isle was
promptly dismissed in response to a
;v, ho
of N. P. Cooks store on Main street.
The early discovery alone prevented a
disastrous fire, but as it was the dam
age was mostly by smoke and water.
The flames ran up the basement stair
way and quantity of rubber goods
was burned.
The Bath Times is informed that a
robin redbreast for month past has
been in the habit of flying at early
dawn to the residence of Woodbury.
Potter, j. r. Andrews and oliver Moses
and picking at the window glass for
minutes at a time. At first the fam
lilies residing in these homes thought
that the robin was hungry and an
swered his supposed requests for
food by placing on the window sills
crumbs for him to eat. But this did
not satisfy the bird which kept COM
ing and awaking the inmates each
sunrise and often before the sun had
risen. The rata tat of his beak on
the glass disturbs the sleepers'
morning slumbers and can be heard
up and down the street. 1t sounds
like the racket of woodpecker Just
what the robin wants is a mystery.
Perhaps this redbreast is a practi-
cal joker and does the act just for
fun!
With half a dozen Bath ship car
penters at Work on the Bowker three
masted schooner at Phippsburg Center
it is no wonder that work is being
rushed and that the last frame was
put up Monday. remarkably short
time since the keel was laid.
One of the Eastport sardine fac
tories has started, small amount or
the fish having been received. The
tide will serve right by May 10 for the
fish to run and the Gamers are
anxiously awaiting that date.
The sawmills along the Penobscot
are starting or preparing to start
Business is reported generally quiet,
though plenty of orders are being
booked. The first of June will prob
ably see all the mills at work.
A record was set for the month OF
April for potato shipments over the
Bangor & Aroostook railroad during
the past month, the returns showing 1t
to be the largest April in the history
of the railroad in regard to carrying
potatoes. There were shipped over
the line a total of 3044 carloads of the