Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-25
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.
Maine Apple Shipments

steamers from Portland, says the Ar
gus, have been gradually falling off
the last few weeks and are now
practically over for the season. The
supply of sound shipping fruit in the
State is about exhausted and If is
said that there is a very limited guam
tity remaining unsold in the provinces.
Tha shipments from Portland for the
season up to and including March
IA, foot up ,615 barrels. as compar-
ed with 25,116 barrels for the cores
pending period for the season of
1928. The cures for the season are
unusually small, being the conse-
quence of the very light crop of last
year. some of the best apple growing
sections of the State only having
about one-third of a crop. Prices have
ruled high all winter in the English
marketsSand the few fortunate farm
ers in the State who had many to sell
Melted good results.
Defrauded HoteI-Goes to Jail
George Normand was sentenced to
so days in Jail Monday on g charge of
defrauding Karl r. Shaw, proprietor of
the Park Hotel Brunswick where
Normand had been staying. He plead
ed guilty in court Monday morning,
was unable to pay the fine of $40
and costs which Judge Thompson i'm
posed and went to Jail.
Horse Show at Bar Harbor Likely
A canvass of the probable presence
of a number of summer residents who
have stables of fine horses at Bar Har
Dor makes it practically assured that
there will be horse show this sum-
mer. This event was omitted last year,
for the first time in many years, as
many of the directors were not there.
Bangor Waiter Takes Poison
Harry Allen. % years old. employed
as a waiter in a Bangor restaurant. is
in the hospital in a serious condition
from taking poison. He was given
prompt medical treatment, but is on
the dangerous list. Allen is said to.
have been respondent over domestic
troubles.
Promotions In U. of M. Battalion
Promotions in the cadet battalion of
the University of Maine, decided by
competitive examinations, have been
announced as follows: Woodbury. F.
Pride, Auburn, major; Fernando It.
Norcross, Portland, 1st captain; AL
den B. Hayes, Bangor, I'd captain;
Oswald B. Higgins, Sewaren, N. j.,
Sd captain.
Bankruptcy Proceedings
Discharges from bankruptcy have
been allowed by Judge Hale in the
United States district court in the
cases of the following: Frankie w.
Gerry, Hermon; Clarence A. Cooling,
Oxboro Pl.; Hart and Stetson, Port
land; Harry Gerber, Portland; Frank
e. Martin, Caribou; Andrew ]. Pears,
Rumford; Simon King, Silver Ridge;
Charles EE. Dewitt, Lincoln. A petit
ton in bankruptcy has been led by
James F. Mason, a laborer of Fair
cid. His liabilities are 1895 and his
assets $40, all of which is claimed
exempt. George NJ Chapman of Fair
cid is his attorney
saco, Me-, Mill Overseer Resigns
Cassius L. Tarbox, who has been
employed in the spinning department
of the York Manufacturing Co. plant
at Saco for 40 years, a greater part Of
the time as overseer, finished his du-
ties with that corporation Monday. He
resigned on account of his health and
will live on his farm in Buxton. He
will be succeeded by Thomas F. Carey
of Biddeford.
Engagement Announced in Rideford
The engagement of Miss Henrietta
NJ. Gerry of Searsport and Bangor,
Me-, a graduate nurse, who obtained
her training in the Trull Homeopathic
hospital in Biddeford and in New
York, to Wilbur Carver of the United
States Navy was announced Monday.
The wedding will take place next sum-
mer. Mr.. Carver is a native of Sears
port and graduate of Annapolis.
Skipped Jail, but Is Caught
Edward Hennessey of Boston, who was
serving four months in the county Jail at
Bangor for larceny, told Sheriff O'Con-
nell that he was first-class engineer,
had worked in many big plants in Bos-
ton and was willing to do anything in
his line around the county buildings. The
regular engineer was i'll and Hennessey
was set at work firing the court house
boiler Late that night Hennessey tripped
off his jail uniform, donned some old
clothes he found in the boiler room and
walked out He was soon missed and