Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-03

for rs years for the great struggle and
has felt the need Of commercial ex.
pansion. OF all the nations, according
to the speaker, Great Britain is the
only one toward which Germany bears
any hatred.
The Cumberland County Power and
Light Co. is soon to start on a new
dam at North Gorham. The site is
just above the company's power house
on the Presumpscot, and as the width
of the stream at the point is some 800
yards, the construction work will be
extensive. This dam is to be built
where the mill Of the United Indur-
ated Fibre Co. was situated. This
industry after closing up its business
there located at Lockport, n. Y, and
the Cumberland County Power and
Light Co eventually bought the prop
ertE. 1t is understood that a contract
for the cement is about to be placed,
with a prospect Of the work on the
dam beginning in couple of weeks.
Deputy United States Marshal Eu-
gene L. Harmon, representing the
located at Dunstan Sunday and to
show autoists the best way to get to
the city by a detour made necessary
by the work on the new state road.
Between the hours of 10 A. NJ. and 9
P. NJ. last night, Marshal Harmon
stopped 1858 autos coming east and
containing probably 5000 people. This
is an average Of over two cars min
ute-Portland Argus.
While it had been feared that the Pep
PEREZ Manufacturing Co. of Biddeford.
employing 400 workers. would follow the
program of the Amoskeag Manufacturing
Co Of Manchester. n. H.. and shut down
in August for three weeks. notices were
posted Saturday that during Labor day
weel; the plant would be closed. There
will be no suspension Of operations dur
ing August unless some unforeseen con-
tingency should arise. The mill is rum
ming five days a week.
Fred C. Davis and Earl B. Norris
both of Lewiston. were taken to the
Cumberland county Jail at Portland
Saturday noon to serve a sentence OF
one days imprisonment. Before they
began this brief Incarceration, they also
paid a fine of 500 apiece for the offense
to which they had previously pleaded
guilty to Judge Hale in the United States
district court. Davis and Norris were
charged with breaking into a postal sub
tation at Auburn. They were taken to
Portland by United States Marshal John
S. p. H. Wilson from the Androscoggin
county Jail where the two had been serv-
ing a term of six months for breaking
into the Lewiston store of 6. B. John.
son & Co. Judge George c. Wing Of Au-
burn appeared for the two young men,
A fine of 500 and one days imprison-
nent was imposed in each case.
Mrs Eva Brown of 100 Salem street.
Portland, reports that her husband
George F. Brown. has been missing
since Dec "a, 1914, and that she is anx.
ious to have him return. to see their
baby daughter who was born Feb. Is.
1915. The Browns have been married
seven years and this is the first one of
their three children to live, as they had
formerly lost boy and girl. Mr.. Brown
was native of New York, and would
be now 80 years old. At the time of his
disappearance they were living at g.
Nashua street, Boston.
Capt. Frank Sawyer of the yacht
Sky Pilot, owned by Rev. Mr.. Boyn-
ton of Five Islands. had a bad ex-
perience off Whitehead rocks last
Wednesday. reports the Boothbay
Register. The Sky Pilot arrived near
Whitehead with little wind blowing
and the captain started up the gaso-
lene tender and began to tow the
yacht. While under way the breeze
suddenly freshened up and the yacht
started to overtake the tender. No
one aboard seemed to know how to
steer her away from the smaller boat,
which she overlook and ran down.
Capt. Sawyer was thrown into the
water and the yacht and tender went
on a considerable distance, without
sailors and not able to come around.
The man in the water had to keep
anoat and finally to swim to the boat
being in the water about half an hour
and nearly all in when pulled into the
boat
According to the specifications
there will be more than 5000 square
feet of floor space in the new box mill
to be erected in Woodland on the site
of tho one recently burned. The new
mill will be fitted with the latest ma
chinery obtainable and it's payroll will
contribute greatly to the prosperity OF
the forest town that has already
grown to ample proportions since the
location there Of the mammoth paper
mill.
There is Just q suspicion of i'm
probability about that story sent from
Maine to a trustful New York paper
to the effect that one Of our grangers
~ country has trained eight porcu-
pines to come daily to his back door
and shoot quilts as they feel they can
snare them into a washtub, to be
punched up later by their trainer and
shipped to New York to be used as
toothpicks in the lobster palaces. The
writer forgot that porcupines do not
shoot quills for purely physiological
reasons, and this gives grounds Tor
doubling the entire story.
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