Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-11

| question. Instead Of purchasing the
sawed lumber, they have bought out
right about 10000 feet Of standing lum-
Der and will have it cut and hauled to
the mill, where it will be sawed into
the required dimensions. They figure
that it will give employment for the
town team and employees during the
dull season and also make a decided
saving in the cost, a considerable item,
as the lumber bill is always a heavy
one.
| The Old Post road in Kennebunk-
port, which was built in 1887, under
the direction Of the supreme court. to
facilitate the transportation of the
mails between Boston and Portland,
will not be closed, according to a re-
port filed by the commissioners in the
supreme court in Saco. The COM
missioners state. they do not deem that
public convenience requires that the
road be closed. Early in 1914 the au-
thorities of Kennebunkport petitioned
for the closing Of the Post road. and
the county commissioners, after a
hearing. refused to grant the request.
The selectmen and other petitioners in
Kennebunkport appealed to the SUI
preme court, where the matter was
referred to County Atty. Hiram Will
lard of Sanford, Deputy Sheriff Bod
we'll j. Grant Of Acton and Ex-County
Atty. William S. Mathews of Berwick.
| Portland has a pitiable case of des-
titution and suffering that seems hard
to understand in such a city. Both IA
Their and mother of six children were
| sick and helpless, the father crippled
with rheumatism. But two of the chill
dren, a boy of IL and a girl of IA years.
| were able to work and they We're tired
out. The children had been known to
| seek food in garbage cans. The moth
| er grew worse and kind-hearted
nurse volunteered to go to her assist
ance. staying until the mother passed
away Saturday morning. Several trav-
cling men at one of the hotels heard
Of the family's restitution and at once
began to raise money and provide food
and clothing for the children, their con-
dition quickly being bettered So lit
tie could be found in the house that the
nurse was obliged to take a sheet from
the dead mothers form to keep the lit
tie ones from freezing. She also bought
coal herself. The city authorities were
notified and will care for the family.
| 1t was thought years ago that any
suspected witch should be removed"
and f'real" one had little mercy
shown her, SO, why shouldn't Witch
rock, which keeps in hiding in "a feet
Of water just outside Portland har-
Dor, menacing many vessels and doing
damage to some be removed? That
is what Portland wants Uncle Sam to
do and to do it next summer. 1t is
admittedly difficult proposition, but
by no means impossible. Why not
tackle it?
! The Kelley, Spear Co. has an unusu-
ally large fleet Of craft to build this
year, according to an item which is
! going the rounds of the Maine press. 1t
gives them three big barges and eight
! derrick lighters, which is far from be-
| liiS COIISCt, says Lie lIItS. i lie COIl-
| tracts on hand at present are for one
big coal barge and four derrick light
ers. This, with the three torpedo boat
| destroyers. a yacht and two big car
| floats at the Bath Iron Works, a five
! masted schooner at the G. G. Deering
| Co. yard, a four-masted schooner at
Percy & Small's yard and two three
| masted schooners to be built in Phpps-
| burg by F. s. Bowker & Sons, is a
| pretty good start for 1916 in the ship
building industry along the Kennebec.
| The Bath man who has had series
Of so boils thinks If anyone can beat
that mark his name should be made
public, so that the world at large
might send him the sympathy he
would deserve.
Friends of Pastor Rollins of Harri-
son are congratulating him on a re-
| cent escape from a serious if not fatal
| injury and extending sympathy for
those received. The pastor went rabbit
| hunting with Jack st. John and they
were both chasing the same rabbit,
Mr.. Rollins being on his hands and
knees in the brush. St. John saw his
game and fired. The pastor seemed to
be the game, for he got most Of the
charge in the back Of the neck and
lower down clear to his legs. A doctor
extracted the unwelcome visitors.
The parson preached as usual on the
| following Sabbath. We have not yet
I seen st. Johns explanation Of mistak-
ing the parson for a rabbit.
John Wadsworth of Camden. while
dragging for scallops recently in east
ern Penobscot bay pulled up unique
catch. his drag being loaded with a
quantity of old-fashioned dishes, a
kind of mug with handle, evidently
from some wreck which has been on
the bottom Of the bay for many a year.