Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-06

The concrete foundations for the
towers at Chops point, Kennebec riv-
er. for the Central Maine Power Co.
are erected as soon as the foundations
are properly hardened. The support
ing towers on the river bank will have
a height of 200 feet, and strain towers
about 600 feet from the shore will be
so feet high. The river where the
wires will be stretched has a width of
1880 feet. 1t is expected that the work
will be completed ready for the electric
power to be turned into Bath the last
of September. The new system will
furnish Bath with efficient. ample and
economical electric power.
Sydney NJ. Brown of Webster, Mass.
Bowdoin, 1916, sailed from New York
Saturday for France, where he will
serve in the American ambulance
corps He expects 10 be in France
about a year. Brown completed his
course at Bowdoin in three years.
graduating at the head of a class of so
members and being the only member
of the class to receive summa cum
laude honors.
| most impressive and patriotic fea-
ture Of the annual outing Of the Maine
Commercial Travellers was that which
took place in Monument Square, Port
land, about p M. Saturday, when
the parade was halted in front Of the
Soldiers and Sailors monument for a
hr;4
bearing huge American flag at the
head Of the parade and Immediately in
front Of them stood the members of
the American Cadet band, playing the
Star Spangled Banner" Members of
the parade and men watching the
parade throughout the square stood
with heads bare and those who
were not carrying the big flag of the
parade waived smaller American flags
Some carried signs reading I'VE are
for preparedness" Peace at any price
is indecent" and the like, dealing with
the Mexican events Of today.
A Massachusetts, automobile bearing
the number 217es has recently been
touring the State and attracted much
attention by means Of a banner which
carried the name, said to be that Of a
lake in the Bay state,-Chargoggago
m oggchaubunagun
ugg.
About $500 has already been raised
besides the promise of considerable
work. towards the new athletic
grounds at Wilton Academy.
AT Last" is the heading over the fol-
lowing item in the July issue of the
Houlton Aroostook Times:
On July LIST there was placed in
commission in the town Of Houlton the
famous jag Wagon" bought last
winter from the city Of Bangor and
which has been the subject Of many a
joke. as Bangor thought they had
handed Houlton Lemon" However,
the wagon after a 4 months sojourn in
the repair shop. has come up smiling"
so to speak, spick and span, new
paint, etc, and is now almost a thing
Of beauty, and is all ready for business.
The three-masted schooner Horace
NJ. Bickford, owned in Boston, has
chartered to load general cargo at
New York for West African ports. The
price is $4,000, Of which $4,000 is to be
paid as soon as the vessel Is loaded.
The owners recently refused an offer to
sell the schooner for $4,000. She was
built in Phippsburg in 1907.
e. s. May, postofdce clerk, has read
so much about the sudden fortunes
amassed by amateur farmers, that he
has decided to carry on the poultry
business as side line, says the Rock |
land Cour1er-Gazette. He recently de-
voted his spare moments to the con-
struction Of hen-house, using mater
fals that any respectable hen might ap-
preciate. Getting wise to this pro-
ceedure the other clerks captured some