Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-02

Bar Harbor may soon have a ma
tional park: at least a movement Is
being made to have Uncle Sam take
over a large tract of land including
the mountains which rise back OF
this noted resort and form its back
ground, and if everything goes as
we'll as is expected the park will soon
be realized-perhaps within year,
says the Bar Harbor Times. The offer
of these lands has already been made
to the government, and it now only
remains for the government to accept
them. Just what will be done"with
the land in Transforming 1t to q ma
tional reservation is matter OF mere
speculation now, but it Is safe to say
that if anything at all is done by the
way of developing it will be big
boon which will assure a bright flu
ture for this popular resort on the
north shore.
Game Warden Veo Small Of Farm
ington returned a few days ago from
a three-weeks' trip through the fish
and game regions of Franklin county,
reports the Franklin Journal. He
visited the Jim Pond, Megantic Pre-
serve, Arnold Pond, Big Island, kenne-
bago and Tim Pond regions and re-
ports that bobcats are numerous
throughout the sections traversed.
These animals are evidently on a
rapid increase and in sections where
they become too numerous the ex-
perienced hunters say they drive out
the deer, forcing them to migrate to
localities not infested by the big cats.
In the region between Arnold and Big
Island Ponds three deer were found
by Warden Small which had been
killed by bobcats. The carcasses had
been almost entirely devoured by the
cats, but it is thought that the Winter
as whole has been favorable for the
deer in taking care of themselves.
Warden Small was accompanied on
his trip by Warden Ed King who has
his headquarters on the Kennebec.
About 100 members of the Canadian
Weirmen's Union met recently at
Lords Cove, Deer Island, and made
an agreement as to the price to be
asked this season for their catch Of
sardines. 1t was voted to ask the
Eastern Maine Gamers SIS per hogs
head between April Is and August l.,
and if refused by the Gamers to auc-
ton off the catch, the lowest price to
be s15. The Gamers are not saying
what they shall do regarding the price
of the herring, but it mentioned that
this season is the Third" year, when
a great run of the fish is sure to come
and the Gamers may get all they
want for less than the Canadians de-
mand. Herring have been as high
as SIS and as low as 81 per hogshead.
A tragedy is revealed in the death
last Saturday of Mrs. Laura Teed,
aged 81, known as Mrs. Laura Adams,
at Houlton, from the effect Of poison,
self administered. She had left her
husband and had gone to the home
of Arthur Witham, also divorced, to
keep house for him. Witham says
they were to be married after she had
secured a divorce, but, hearing that
he was Making up" with his former
wife, she became very jealous and
brooded over it, finally taking the
poison She confessed taking anti
septic tablets and insisted she wanted
to die.
A strong protest has been entered by
the Central Labor Union Of Portland
against the action Of the Cumberland
county commissioners in taking pris-
oners from the county Jail to work
on the highways at Cape Elizabeth,
though the experiment seems to be
working well. Those convicted of
drunkenness and other minor offences
are those given such work and the
scheme is the result of the petitions
of over 1000 citizens for tryout of
the proposition, which has worked
well in other states.
The wheat reserve which had piled
up to an enormous amount in Port
land, the elevators all being full and
thousands of bushels lying in cars
on siiinSs, has faded away under the
draft Of the many huge steamers
which have been loading for European
ports, until, when the vessels now
loading sail. not over 100000 bushels
will be left Receipts have been
q time suspended, but will be resumed
at the least notice of 4 shortage.
A good, heavy rain is needed to
wash the ground and dispose of the
millions Of disease germs which are
being blown about and taken into the
systems of the people with the tre-
mendous increase of sickness now
everywhere reported.
is found to be true in Augusta and
doubtless in other places. The Kenne-
bee Journal has recently had several
inquiries from families in the same
predicament as mentioned in this
item:
Il have been trying to find a me-
dunn priced nurse to care for a sick
member Of my family, but have
been unable to do so. Now, here Is
a great field for women who are de-
pendent on their own resources.
Not everyone can afford a trained
nurse but many would hire q
woman who understood little about
the business Of caring for the sick and
would be willing to pay ten or twelve
dollars per week."