Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-08

ASQe ana kliuTeU HIS,
Trying to pay my bills.
Since thou vert mine.
Gone is my bank roll now:
No more . 'twould choke cow"
AS once before.
Yet if l had the mon,
So help me JOhn-amen,
I'd buy car again,
And speed some more.
One Aroostook farmer is said to
have sold recently 500 bushels Of pota-
toes for a S. bill, but the price Of the
new potatoes will hardly be as low as
that.
The people of Machias as we'll as
others who have business on the Ma
chias are pleased to see going on the
work Of a preliminary survey Of the
river to ascertain the necessary
amount of dredging to put the river
in safe navigable conditions. The
channel is now pretty we'll filled up
with all kinds of foreign material and
navigation Of any stable craft is very
difficult.
George ". Maxfield, president of
the Eastern Maine Railroad, has
been in town this week. Are you go
ing to build the road?" was asked Mr..
Maxfield. Things look encouraging,
was the answer. Mr.. Maxf1eld seems
optimistic over the outlook and is full
of his usual enthusiasm for the final
building between Houlton and Ban
croft-Aroostook Pioneer, Houlton.
What seems to give a very good
argument for the profit to be derived
from sheep raising in this part Of
the country is the record Of a sheep
owned and raised by Miss N. Marie
kilgore at the farm Of Frank Tucker,
Pennington Falls. The sheep Is now
five years old. During the first two
years there was sheared from her liz
pounds of wood which was sold at
Csc. the pound. In the last three
years she has had three sets OF
twins. The first set was sold for
sS.13 and that same year the sheep
sheared 81 pounds Of wool which
was sold at csc. pound. The Sec
ond twins were sold for $11.98 and
in this year 81 pounds Of wool were
secured which were sold at soc. a
pound. The third set Of twins was
sold for s16.S4 and Z pounds OF
wool were sheared which were sold
at soc a pound. This record shows
that from the sales of the three sets
of twins and the wool for three years
~,
and the total amount received from
the sheep in the five years has been
s47.90, or in general terms, nearly
$50. This would tend to make one
draw the conclusion that sheep rails
ing is profitable industry.
A curiosity for June 20 was an
apple blossom picked from the tree
on Tuesday by Lyman g. Preston Of
Pennington. He says that in all his
experience he never before knew of an
apple tree being in bloom SO late in
the season. His theory Of explana-
ton is that the original bud was killed
by frost and a second one developed
later and blossomed. 1t was of large
size and perfect in every way.
By the use Of a check instead of Civ.
ing the money to his wife w. S. Mill.
EFT Of Lisbon is probably better off by
$40 than he might have otherwise been
Saturday night Mrs. Millett went tc
Lewiston on business and Mr.. Millett
gave her check for payment Of an &C.
count. She left the car at o'clock al
the head the street and went to a drug
store for a purchase and back to the
waiting room. When she got to the
waiting room she found her pocket
book had been stolen. In it were about
FIVE dollars besides the check. Pay
ment was stopped on the check.
net came up from the Boothbay
hatchery Tuesday. says the Portland
Argus, dropping about 100000 fry
in Quahaug Bay as she came along
The steamer is now devoting herself
almost entirely to the collection Of
seed Holsters, about all the little
Holsters in the hatchery having been
liberated. On Saturday last she took
down over 700 "seeders," and will go
east again today with 400 more which
she secured here Tuesday. Capt.
Greenleaf says the conditions are
favorable for a record collection Of
seed Holsters this season. For the
purpose of collecting specimens Of sea
life for the new aquariums at the
hatchery the steamer has been using
otter travis lately in sweeping the
bottom, good results having followed.
That which is probably one Of the
handsomest salmon ever secured from
the waters Of Lake Wassookeag, Dex-
ter. was caught by Forest Swanton
this week at a point near the boat
houses on the Lower lake. The fish
weighed IA pounds and three ounces.
1t was viewed by many enthusiastic
fishermen and later was photographed
by the local photographer, B. l. Call.
The fish will be mounted by Mr.. Call
and kept as a trophy by Mr.. Swanton.
Mackerel have been so plenty of the
Maine coast that the price reached the