Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-16

this one Industry for its livelihood.
\ precedent is said 70 have been Is
tablished Monday in Portland by the
vote of the High School Commission 70
demand a s5Q49 5-year bond 10 be for
fei.cd Il any commission Is paid 10
anv yerson or firm on the LABOR or ma
,erial for the superstructurH. IT Was
also announced that similar BOND
VIII be required with bids for the otAer
parts Of the new High School building
as they are awarded.
Another case right at home where
the wireless saves property and prob
ably life The schooner Irene +. Me
serve. IA tons, built in 1856 in Waldo
horn and owned BY the Eastern ManI5.
Co. Of Bangor anchored between Sc
criin and Pond Island, mouth Of the
krnncbec Monday night and the ire
nendOus wind was threatening I"
drive her into the breakers. The Pop
, ham Beach Coast Guard made three
Intellectual attempts to reach her, the
heavy sea rendering it impossible Tug
I!l Ht1 Stil-IIp!+''A ~ D'i' I'm 49, 49,
COULD rot get near enough, the sea be
ing mountains high" Then capt.
I Berry Of the Cosat Guard telephoned
Portsmouth and the wireless quickly
called the cutter Ossipee from Booth
bay Harbor and after considerable
quick maneuyering, hooked on to the
schooner and towed her out o. danger
TO Roothbay. Capt. NJ. ]. Morey of Ban
gor had a leg badly injured by being
caught in coil Of a haWsec and was
taken 20 the hospital at Boothbay
Harbor
The next warship TO have her official
trials over the unsurpassed Rockland
deep water course will be the Oklaho-
ma, which is expected during the last
Of January. The Oklahoma. is a mate
Of the Nevada, being modest little
craft Of only q 500 tons. those vessels
being the largest now in Uncle Sans
! navy. But, just wait until February,
when the Pennsylvania comes-that
will be a craft worth seeing, for she
is nearly 1000 tons larger than the Ne
v2da and Oklahoma and the largest
b1ttf-iilp III tiir WI
When the tug John G. Morrison came
back to her dock last Friday, says the
| Roclland Courier Gazette, she bore
n very excited crew. Returning from
Belfast the craft had run in close prox-
unity to a whale, which is said to have
been at least s. feet long. Capt. Ralph
Curtis ciphtG6 "a fY-tt Grc
| willing to believe the evidence Of his
own eyes called the attention of the
engineer, Frank Hewett The whale
came out of the water far enough so
that both observers had a fine view
of him IF We tell this in Rockland,'
said Capt. Curtis, they'll call US both
| liars" Don't care q dern," replied
the engineer bill Sullivan will believe
| us, anyhow" The whale was sighted
near Belfast, but what it was prowling
around that locality for everybody is
| at loss to explain. NJ. 3. & c. 0. Perry
| plan to mount machine guns in the
DOW OF each of their tugs, to guard
| against further adventures Of this sort
Rockland Courier
tons new gasoline fire engine has been
formally christened &C. L. Crockett" in
! honor OF that towns head selectman
me matter was put squarcly up to the
fire department which selected the
| name without a dissenting voice. If the
new engines lungs are as good as it's
namesake's, therell be no more con-
fiagrations in the town of Thomaston.
nearing was held before Judge
Keegan at Bath Monday upon a gal
lon OF whiskey seized from o. Busch,
Richmond farmer, and Hbelled. Mrs.