Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-16

as you kin be.
You's ben aroun a-lunchin' on malaria
Till voi,'s les about as danjus as a rat
| tlesnake wifi wings.
didn't use to min you when you come
Case / know'd a slap ud send. you
tumbln' senseless to de grouq.
But since / hyud dem white folks Use as
syart as | kin be nor,, ,,o,, sing
| Go'way Mistuh Skeeter! Don you sihs
dat song to me.
The work of collecting the unpaid
taxes due to the city of Bangor IN ac-
cordance with the plan announced by
Mr.. Marvin of the auditing firm en-
gagged in going over the citys aHalrs
at the meeting of the city council
NAV 5, was commenced frlaay Whei
the first of the bills were mailed TO
delinquents from the city soiicitol'
The auditors have gone over the
books of the tax collector pack 10
1909 and as fast as they compiete
them are turning over the statements
to the city's legal department oil col
lection. The auditors in gong over
the accounts found approximately
s74. 600 uncollected in the period from
,q0a through 1918, and are preparing
the statements as the accounts With
the city stood Feb. %, 1914.
Someone asked Sunday at MILFORD
whv the veazie railroad was run 10
Milford, going to the expense VI
building that long bridge at the heau
~ rho falls. which was an expensive
STRUCTURE and would be in these days
Tobn p Woodman was in the party
ond said that the intention was wheh
the bridge was built to continue the
railroad to Princeton, Maine. II
,yo,,ld seem that the promoters must
have had such plan in view or they
never would gone. to the expense VI
building across the river.
The sea gulls seem to have left the
ocean and hover over fresh water
ponds. Reeds pond seems to attract
them more especially, owing to the
fish which have increased In large
numbers. Recently the writer saw
a sea gull with fish of great size
In its mouth fly directly from the
pond This is fish story, out True
one.--Boothbay Register.
A pair of sea gulls have mace thelr
homes for years on the kennepec'
near Gardiner, often visiting Augusta
Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Hemenway OF
philadelphia, arrived in Machias
wednesday, having made the entire
trim by carriage They had pair OF
horses hitched to fine carriage ana
made the trip in Is days, besides max
ing MANY long stops. They averaged
% miles per day for the entire time,
which is considered good. Both MI
and Mrs. Hemenway were feellns
fine and not in the least fatlgued'
They proceeded to their camp at Ca
thance lake, where they expect to re-
main all summer.
Through the efforts of DR. G- h I
Walling the government steamer can
nett arrived last week at Rogue |
Bluffs from the Boothbay hatcheries
with 100000 lobster fry which were
liberated in the cove on the east size
of the bluffs. The fry are expected
to replenish that section of the coast
tn quite an extent. The doctor has
also recently been successful in having
a large number of fingerlin trout no
Grated in Ropue Bluffs pond, to min
ole with those liberated there year
ago. In all about 1900 fingerllns have
been placed in the pond according /
to the doctor. There ought to be some
good fishing there in couple OF
years.
The Somerset County Guides Asso-.
citation recently met in Bingham and
elected Guy Chadbourne of Moscow
president of the association to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Pres Frank J. Durgin. Mr.. Durgin
is chief warden in that section and
cannot look after the interests OF the
association as 1t ought to be. MT.
Chadbourne Is we'll known in North
ern Maine as camp owner ana
guide. He has served nearly four
years as secretary of the Guides AS
sociation and has been faithful
worker and helped to build up the as
ISOLATION. Many of the guides are
looking for grand neld day under
his management, some time the hrst
of August, the definite date to be
given later
Fifty years ago today the site OF
the Battle monument at Trophy
Point" erected to the memory of the
soldiers of the regular army who had
fallen in the war, was dedicated, Gen.
Geo. W. Mcclellan delivering the ora
ton.
Biddeford Journal: Reuben Chap |
man while returning in his boat from |
Portland, where he delivered a cargo |
of fish, Tuesday morning, when this
side of Cape Elizabeth was startled by |
a cry like that of a human Being. He |
worked his boat around and came |
upon a baby seal which he took in. |
and after a while concluded to put 1T |
back in the water. He had no soon
er done so than the little fellow |
commenced to cry and 1t grew so |
pitiful that Mr.. Chapman went back |
and took him aboard again. After |
arriving at the Pool and tying up the |
boat, Mr.. Chapman fed the little |
fellow and then put him in the water |