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

The Maine Jaw court and the Unit
ed State district court will convene
today in Bangor Among the cases to
be argued at the law court term will
be the Joseph Wallace matter. who
was released from Jail on habeas cor
pus hearing on the contention that not
having been in Jail at the time he was
sentenced, the sentence was not legal
and the Garmong case, which was left
to the law court to decide the question
of liability.
The new water works at Washburn
will be supplied from driven wells. One
has already been sunk. 1t is expected
that work on the plant will be started
about July l.
The invention by D. F. Champion Of
Houlton. who is missing and for whom
900 for his invention is awaiting his
return or location is said to be a tele-
phone signal which notifies the eX-
change whenever anyone butts in on
the lire while in use by other parties
No trace is to be found of Champion.
Fort Fairfield is to have municipal
hotel, as the selectmen have been author
lied by vote of the town to convey to
CORPORATION of local men a valuable lot
for the consideration of 81. The deed pro-
vides that the corporation shall at once
erect a hotel of at least 80 rooms. of mod
duct such hotel for at least 10 years.
Otherwise the site will revert to the
town.
At the instigation of a committee Of
Bar Harbor merchants. representatives of
the Besse- Ashworth Co. of Bangor, which
has been holding sales a irregular inter-
walls in Bar Harbor were prosecuted in
court there Friday under the itinerant
vendor act and fined SIS and costs. Sew
eral Bangor department stores have been
holding special sales in Bar Harbor and
the local merchants decided to take ali
legal means to prevent what they term
unfair competition Thursday the sale
was cut short and the goods of the COM
pany attached. The attempt to hold the
sale was given up Friday.
1t was some launching the other day at
Rockland when the municipal woodward
slid into the harbor and some hustling to
rescue the fuel-kennebec Journal.
Fortunately wood will fioat-Boston
Globe.
Some of it did-away, so Capt. Wood,
the rescuer, said.
Pres Robert ]. Alley of the University
of Maine has been notified by Hon. Mar
tin w. Littleton of New York city, who
had been engaged commencement
speaker. that he will not be able to come
to Orono at commencement owing to the
fact that he will be engaged in a criminal
trial. Pres. Alley has not succeeded In
obtaining another speaker as yet.
Gardiner G. Deerng of Bath, the oldest
following interesting story of how the
ship carpenters Of half a century ago used
to collect their wages. 1t was the
practice of the men to draw al the end
of the week only sufficient money for
their actual needs and allow the remain
der to accumulate and when the vessel
was completed to have settlement with
the builders. Mr.. Deering recalls that on
one ship he worked upon in the yard of
the late Albert Hathorn, which was To-
Gated on the present site of the Bath box
factory, he had coming to him nearly
$780, He recalls that when Mr.. Hathorn
finished the account, he remarked, MY
young man, don't know when we will
ever be able to pay you such big sum-,
and then drew a check for the amount.
Mr. Deering remarked that Mr. Hathorn
was an expert builder and frequently
took hold and did all kinds Of work In the
yard. He was especially fond Of a pair
of oxen and took pleasure in handling big
sticks Of timber with them. In those
days oxen were in general use In the local
shipyards and the way they would man
oeuvre amongst the timber was remark
able. Today oxen are unknown in ship
yard work.
Rev. DR.. George w Bicknell. who
died Saturday from heart failure at
bis home in Cambridge, Mass, was
native Of Topsfield, Me. born there 70
years ago. He served in the 5th Me.
Inf, in the Civil War. rising to the
rank of lieutenant and being twice
wounded. After the war he entered
divinity school at Canton, N. Y. being
ordained in 1868, his first pastorates
being at South Stratford and West
FairIee, VT, going then to skowhegan'
Portsmouth, Portland, Philadelphia
and Lowell. He had been for % years
pastor Of the First Universalist church
at Cambridge. The funeral will be heio
there at p. NJ today
II read great deal in your paper ABOUT
freak eggs and such like" said John
Buttomer to The Courier-Gazette re-
porter Tuesday but one Of my hens laid
an egg the other day that puts them all
in the shade" 1t appears from Mr. But
toner's description that the egg was
soft-shelied one. and resembled an ele-