Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-02

mystery is still unsolved." Something
on the plan of mot guilty, but don't
do it again." Ell? --
Stanley Nelson Of Westfield has two
smart girls, and 10 years of age.
They have been picking potatoes dur
ing the season, some days picking as
many as AZ barrels. The 1O-year-old
one day recently raked Is acres of
potato tops. The Westfield correspond
ent of the Mars Hill View asks:
What is the use Of bothering with
boys when girls like that can be
raised?" an echo answers "Why?'
An article in one of the magazines
issued by last Sundays papers, en-
titled "Tomorrow's Defender" by Ed
win Wildman. highly complimentary
write-up Of Charles M. Schwab and
the, Bethlehem Steel Works, contains
the following significant paragraph:
1T was a year Of great crises in
the business world, one which shook
1t to its foundations, but Mr.. Schwab
what was more important, he becam.
the supreme control of the great and
growing Bethlehem property with Its
subsidiary companies, the Union Iron
Works Of San Francisco, the Bath
Iron Works. the Fore River Ship
Yards. the Crescent Ship Yards. Har-
Ian & Holllnsworth of Wilmington.
Del, and many smaller companies in
this country. in Mexico and abroad.
And this list does not include those
recently come into control of the Beth
lehem corporation"
Chief Justice Savage. Justice Haley
and Chairman B. F. Cleaves of the
State Utilities Commission has accept
ed the responsibility of settling be-
tween the city Of Portland and the
Water District disputed questions rel
alive to construction to be placed on
certain contracts in existence between
the two. All existing contracts of the
Water Company were accepted by the
district trustees when they took over
the property. These include water for
Agreement was unattainable when the
two corporations representatives UNI
dertook a readjustment and the result
is for referees to hear the evidence
and then find out the true balance.
They will begin hearings soon.
A Houlton Canadian Pacific Railway
conductor, Edward Attridge, is now
wearing seven service bars which
marks his 35th year as a conductor
the oldest in point of service on all
the Eastern lines of the Canadian Pa
cific. Mr.. Attridge has been an en-
ploye of the road As years.
Three big Portland schooners have
just chartered for long voyages at high
freight rates. The five-masted
schooner Harwood Palmer is to take
1000 tons of coal for Lisbon Portugal.
the six-master Edward J. Lawrence
is to take 5000 tons to Barcelona and
the five-master Cora F. Cressey is to
make the long voyage to Rio Janeiro
with a cargo Of oil on which the
freight is about $4,000. The coal
carriers get the unprecedented price
of $40 a ton freight.
Deputy Sheriff Edward Bullock of
Richmond has rendered his resigna-
ton to Sheriff oliver to take effect
Nov. 1. Mr. Bullock has been dep
uty since Sheriff Oliver was first ap-
pointed and has been a faithful and
efficient officer. He retires on ac-
count Of the illness of his employer
Mr.. Lowell. a coal merchant in Rich
mond. Sheriff Oliver has selected
Joseph s. Carter of Richmond to fill
the vacancy. Mr.. Carter is highly
recommended by citizens of Rich
mond as a good man to succeed Mr.
Bullock This is the first break in
the list Of deputies Sheriff Oliver has
had to Ill since he was appointed in
1912, and he says that he Is sorry to
lose Mr. Bullock's service.
Philip, the 12-year -old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Varney w. Pearce of White
Salmon. Wash. formerly Of Fort Fair
field, arrived in town Monday night,
Oct. Is, having come nearly all the
way alone An official Of the road was
to meet him in Chicago. but through
some misunderstanding did not do so.
However, that was nothing to Philip.
as he got acrpss the city alone all right
and thence to Boston. An aunt was to
meet him in Boston, but, through an
other Misunderstanding. she too was
absent. He crossed the city alone. ar
irving in Fort Fairfield on his feet and
all right. That is about as good as
anybody could do. Philip will spend
the winter with his grandmother, Mrs.
H. o. Perry. His mother, Mrs. Pearce.
is now in hospital in Minnesota.
An interesting case came before
Judge Pike in the Municipal court at
Eastport Thursday morning, for a
hearing, when Mr.. Farris Of Charlotte,
had Newell Lewey or the Pleasant
Point Indian reservation before the
court for cutting ash on his property
In Charlotte. Lewey claimed the right
under the treaty with the Indians to
cut ash anywhere in the state and felt
that he was within his rights when he
cut the ash on the premises Of Mr..