Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16

The season of cutting the small
| bushes and trees for the Christmas
| tree market is at hand and many
farmers are already getting out their
supply.
Pressure Isle is quite well satisfied
thank you, with 40 new houses, built
during the past season, adding about
500, 900 to her taxable property.
Brunswick held special townmeet-
ing Friday and voted to accept the be-
quest contained in the will of the late
Miss L. Augusta Curtis of Brunswick
for the benefit of the Captain John
Curtis Memorial Library of that town
The conduit system for telephone
wires having proved satisfactory, the
New England Telephone and Tele-
graph Co. will soon lay conduits be-
tween Portland and Kittery. The
same will also be done between Kittery
and Boston, giving, when completed, a
conduit line from Portland to Boston.
?, Complain was made to the Bangor
CITY fathers that a certain man was
carving on a junk business without a
license and was a nuisance to the
ncighporhod. His lawyers defence was
that be was not a junk dealer, as he
only bought and sold junk!
! Lewiston man who voted for Will
son in 1912, tells the Lewiston Journa
why ne voted for Hughes in 1916. Says
he: I'm 1912, Wilson assured us thai
he would reduce the cost of living. II
1912, I took my pay envelope, $3.50
and went out Saturday to the store.
bought a barrel of flour, a bushel OF
potatoes and a plug Of tobacco. l rode
home on the electric car and had 81 left
This year, Just about the same season
previous to election, I did the same
took my $3.50 to the store; bought
a barrel Of flour. q bushel or potatoes
and a plug Of tobacco. I walked home
and owed the grocer 70 cents. You car
figure 1t to your own satisfaction and
see where we are benefited by viii.
son."
The scallop fishermen have deserted
the Monroe Island beds. and gone te
the Eastern Bay or into other business
The fishermen and dealers are still al
loss to know what has suddenly devas-
tated the beds that once afforded such
rich picking. One theory is that the
damage has been done by star fish. and
there will be some scientific investiga-
ton along that line. The extent of the
disaster which it brings upon Rockland
may be judged from the fact that the
fishermen coming to this port have re-
ceived $660,0OO for their fares in the
past 10 years and very large proper
ton Of that money has been spent
right here in Rockland. One fisherman
who has been compelled to quit the
business. had just expended $500 fol-
gear. The fishermen are said to be
getting some good hauls in the eastern
bay.-Rockland Courier Gazette.
Rockland's morals have been inn
proved under the first months reign OF
the Good Government Association, If
the report of Marshall Wiggin may be
IaCCcpLeu rs cFlUcuCS. 1HiS ACPVA
shows that there were only rs arrests
in October as compared with an aver
age of about 20 for the other months
| Of the year.
One Of the bright and able saleswom-
/ en- who visit Maine cities placing
! orders was in Rockland the otnef
night. This young lady on her short
1 trips over the State, generally travels
with the least personal baggage pos
sible and on this trip had with her
only one pair Of silk stockings and was
wearing those on her feet. 1t was her
custom to wash the hosiery before re-
firing and drying them on the radiator
but on this particular night, on retiring
to her room. she found no heat IN the
radiator. or insufficient warmth to dry
the hose, so she wrung them out ano
y proceeded to drape them over the elec'