Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-19
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL MONDAY JANUARY 10. 1914

| SNAPPED share. This snare Is very
sharp and so constructed as to run
under the trees. cutting Off the roots
| from eighteen to twenty inches below
the ground. The soil Is disturbed
very little and the trees remain stand
| ing, but can be easily removed by
hand at pleasure. If the share is kept
sharp, the roots will not be broken,
! and so need but little pruning before
planting. Besides, the necessity or
! heeling in is obviated, as the trees
may be taken out at any time and
placed in storage.
/ A valuable and popular Study Club
has been organized at Otter Creek
by Mrs. William S. Austin, a Bar
Harbor year round resident, who is
a teacher in the Otter Creek school.
The club is partly the outcome of the
extension work of the University OF
Maine, and thus finds available ref
erence and text books, which the uni
| versity sends out, and which nave
been supplied the club. The univer-
sity will also send speaker. The
club meetings are held in the school
house each Tuesday evening, and the
average attendance is at least doz-
en- Interested men and women. The
last part of each evening is given
over to current events. Brief talks
are to be given soon upon the Lime
ing of Soils" by Samuel w. Walls;
''Grapevines" by Mrs. Arthur Saun-
ders and Sweet Corn" by Mrs. VIM.
S. Austin. Through the generosity of
a Bar Harbor cottager the club has
three periodicals, The Country Cen
tleman, Current Events and the Path
/ Finder, besides some reference books.
A large numbering concern, working
the territory about Brewer lake. has
just put into operation huge 15-ton
steam log hauer between the pond
and South Brewer. The proprietors
have been waiting for the ice to thick
en- before using this monster machine,
as it requires pretty stiff coating TO
carry a 10000 pound vehicle dragging
a train of wood after it. The ice is
now from Ia to 16 inches thick, and 1t
! is deemed safe for that purpose. A
gasoline log hauler, about 10 tons in
weight, takes the logs from the scene
of the operations across the lake four
miles, and it is taken at the lake by
the big hauler, which carrier the pulp
wood into South Brewer, to the mills.
There are II cords of puipwood in
each trainload. From $500 to 5000
| cords will be hauled to the mill this
winter. Seventy-five men are en-
/ ployed on the operations, and this
number will be increased to $50 in
/ few days, also 10 more teams. II is
unusual for such extensive numbering
| operations to be carried on within ten
miles of Bangor at this late day.
Looks like board of arbitration for
+ the Portland Express Advertiser and
+ the Rookland Opinion. The Express
declares 'Rockland owes its name to
! the large deposits Of granite around
there" The Opinion makes the obvi-
i Gus retort regarding wine, and adds
] that the Portland papers information
should be treasured along with that
volunteered by a boy. to the effect that
"Catgut is So called because il is made
from the intestines or a sheep" It's
difficult to conceive of the following
from the Express being a retraction:
LAS a mater of fact the Objectionable
/ assertion first appeared in a special ar
j ticle in the Sunday Telegram and was re-
+ printed in an early out-of-toNn edltion
of the Express-Advertiser of the follow
ing day But we do not blame the Opin,
ion for feeling peeved Every ody should
know that Roekland was named. or
rather. misnamed from its famous lime
rock formations. 1t should have been
called midland. Let's see. it must have
been close to As years ago when on Janu-
airy 1, during the progress of January
thaw old DOC Coombs. the mail car
rier started from Keag, now South
+ Thomaston for Rockland. When he
reached South Main street he unhar-
messed his horse from the pung and har-
+ messed him to fat bottomed boat. He
placed an American flag in the bow. the
mail bags on a thwart and then sailed
his horse-boat the length of the main
/ street, over eight to Il inches of lime
rock mud, to the post office. Not cross
/ walk was visible and wag had face
/ tiously inverted a pair of old shoes and
/ placed them in the middle of the sticky
/ mass, thus creating the impression that
somebody had fallen in and smothered
in the sea of cement
Bessie, the 1G-year-old daughter of
johnson B. Perkins, Mariaville dairy