Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-19


Their teacher is the wind. know;
For while they're busy at this song,
He turns the music quickly, so
! The tune may safely move along.
So all through summer time they sing
And make the woods and meadows
And teach the brooks, soft murmuring,
/ Their dainty carols to repeat.
| And when. at last. their lessons done,
/ The winter brings a frosty day,
Their teacher takes them, one by one,
| Their music, too and goes away.
! Frank Dempster Sherman.
Annual meeting of the Maine Visit
ing Nurses Association was held in
Portland Wednesday, and the following
| officers elected: Pres, A. L. Des-
jardines of Waterville; Sec, Susan G.
Floyd of Machias; Treas, Margaret
Hughes of Old Town. 1t was decided
that the next session should be held
| in Bangor at the same time as the
Maine Conference of Charities and
| Corrections on Oct. q At this time,
proposition to change the name to
| the Maine tuberculosis Association
will be acted upon. Two papers were
read at the session Wednesday, one by
Miss Myrtle Taylor of Lewiston ana
the other by Miss Mary Creighton OF
the State Board.
This years caterpillar crop is
bumper, to be sure, but they nave
been here before. Fifty years ago
Lewiston was complaining of the
great damage being done to the shade
trees in that city by the same kind OF
a pest.
The Morris Cummings Dredging Co.
will suspend dredging operations IN
Portland harbor for the present being
already two months ahead of their
contract as regards the work OF eN-
cavation. Their big dredge- Will be TAX
en- to the Portland Co. wharf where II
will undergo some much needed re-
pairs having been in constant opera
ton night and day for a long time.
Besides receiving a general overhaul
ing the dredge will take on new buck
cts and other new parts. On the COM
pletion of repairs the dredge and
scows and the tug Viking will pro-
coed to the Kennebec, where the
deepening the channel in the river
off Richmond, which it is expected will
take about two months to complete.
Following that work will be resumed
on the dredging in Portland harbor.
there being about three-months work
yet undone on the old contract. 1t Is
understood that the money is avail
able for further improvements IN the
way of dredging in Portland haroor,
but bids for the work have not yet
been called for.
There is growing belief among
fishermen that the present season is
to be one of the best for mackerel in
a great many years. There would
seem to be good reason for the be-
lief, if the immense quantities of tink-
ers now being found all along the
coast is any indication. Large RATS
of tinker mackerel, stretching as far
as the eye could see, have been school
ing off Newport. r. l., and thousands
of barrels were taken in there, for
which the fishermen were able to get
only 81 per barrel, the same price that
is being paid for herring. Boston has
also been glutted with thinkers and the
New York market is overstocked.
T. H. Gledhill, the veteran Lewis
ton fox hunter and breeder of hound
dogs, is making preparations to ship
5-year-old fox hound of the famous
Buckfield strain to a party in Ed
mundston, n. B., who will take him to
Alaska to hunt black foxes. He is a
very fast running dog and the party
purchasing him proposes to drive the
foxes under ground and dig them out.
Mr. Gledhill has wide range of ship
ments for his dogs. Three years ago,
he bought one of r. H. and L. P. Par
ker of Auburn and shipped him to
Panama.
Game Warden Charles C. Chad
bourne of Sanford is circulating a pc
tition which is addressed to the next
Legislature, requesting that body to
enact a resident hunters license law,
and large number of signatures have
been secured already. Mr.. Chad
bourne states that such a law would
put a stop to many evasions of the
nonresident hunters license law by
residents of other states who claim
residence in Maine during the hunt
| ing season. This practice has been
especially noticeable in towns near the
| New Hampshire line.
A lady living on the River road just
on the edge of Orland village last
week glanced out of the window and
l ,.,I in front