Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18
Maine J0TT|NCS

| Maine J0T1INCS
There was near riot at the
Brewer end of the long bridge
Wednesday evening and the city mar
shaIs lights We're on about the same
time, perhaps to lure him away from
the spot while the boys had their
scrmmage out. At all events, it ap-
pears from what information is avail
able, that a lot of the sophomores Of
the High school didn't appear salts
fed with the class game of Tuesday,
which was supposed to take the place
of the class hazing. So they laid for
some Of the freshmen, or else the
freshmen laid for them and they en-
deavored to even up imaginary in
equalities in leadership. One student
is reported to have lost all his clothes
except his union suit and to have set
an entirely new record in obstacle
running. hurdling and high climbing,
in a successful effort to get home by
way of the sand bank. Another was
threatened with the pump. but that
long suffering article declined to dive
down and a dipper was commandeered
for the ducking purpose. while others
were rolled over banks and chased
through such back yards as offered
themselves. 1t is reported that both
sides were satisfied, in measure and
that hostilities were not renewed
Thursday.
The new bridge connecting Kittery
and navy yard was opened to the pub
lie on Wednesday and fulfilled long
felt want. The construction is en-
tlrely of steel the structure COM
rrises railroad bridge, a roadway
and a passenger walk combined. 200
feet long and 36 feet wide. Work
was started about a year and half
ago and has just been completed. The
total cost of the bridge together with
the land approach and highway was
$4,000 The walks are of cement
and the bridge is profusely illumi-
mated by tungsten incandescent lights
of the boulevard cluster type. The
old bridge which has been in use since
the yard was first opened early in the
18th century, has been closed and will
shortly be removed.
Hath Times Sept. IS: For the first
time in history, this noon the hVe
whistles at 12.45 +. NJ. today were
blown as the, signal for no school on
account of the heat. The signal has
been heard for stormy weather before
but this is the first time because il
was thought to be too hot to contne
the pupils in the schools. The boys
immediately whooped her up to the
ban fields and swimming pools and the
girls came down town and devoured
ice cream. The thermometer ranged
from 81 to lO2 in the shade.
George s. Rowell of Portland. form
erly publisher of the old Portland Ad-
vertiser and at one time connected
with other Maine papers, has recent
~ returned from a sx-weeks tril
through upper Aroostook county, Wis
itine Prcsque Isle Fort Fairfield, Carl
hou Houlton and other towns in the
course of his travels. At Pressure Isle
fair Mr.. Rowell reports that he was
astonished at the immense crowd tina
turned out: there being between %,
900 and $4,000 people present at one
time during the exhibition and more
than 1000 automobiles parked in the
grounds The agricultural exhibits, HI
states were above the average, Ow.
ing to the fact that Aroostook county
escaped the heavy rains of June ant
July preventing rust on the pota
n and resulting
The biggest hay and grain crop evel
known there. The potato crop, how
ever. he states, according to a care
full estimate will he short and this /:
true all over New England. which i!
expected to show yield of 100000
bushels less in the total than ARGOS
took alone turned out last Fall. Wha
fields have been planted however have
done well. and in one case Mr.. Rowel
saw farmer dig 115 bushels from 6
single acre which is much above the
average production. Prices are low, bu
the producers feel that the crop short
age will result in boosting barrel quo
tations to above a dollar in November
Mr. Rowel reports Aroostook county
as an extremely lively and hustlinf
place Just now, with the influx Of the
digging crowds of all nationalities anC
that large sums of money are chang
ing hands in wages and among the
merchants and farmers daily. On his
return homeward he stopped off to the
fair at Houlton.
A settlement out of court of the
dispute over the will of the late Nine
Nordica is regarded as likely follow
ing the announcement of an indefinite
postponement Of hearing on the pro-
test filed by. George S. Baldwin, q
nephew. and three sisters of the diva
against the will, in which the entire
estate was left to her husband, George
| w. Young. 1t is rumored that riva
heirs fear the estate may be consum
ed by attorneys fees and prefer ar
adjustment to further loss through ex.
pensive court proceedings. A will made
on Thursday Island, in the Pacific
Ocean. where Nine. Nordica died fol.
lowing a shipwreck. disinherits Young
and leaves the estate valued at 81, 900,
900. to other relatives and charities
This will has never been produced II
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