Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-31
MAINE NEWS IN
BRIEF FORM

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Nearly all of the Gloucester mack
erel seiners have hauled out for the
season, and most of the larger vessels
are having their seines replaced by
trawl tubs and their seine boats by
dories. Capt. Lemuel Firth of Glou
cester. stands out as a record high
liner of the New England fleets, his
men having cleared over $1,000 each
for their six months work.
Schooner J. Frank Seavey, from
Gaspe, P. O., for a United States At
lantic port, before reported towed into
Halifax, with loss of all three masts.
was surveyed on Thursday last and
ordered to discharge for repairs. which
Will be done at once, she being booked
for new spars. sails and rigging.
1t has been worked out that the two
billion dollar shipbuilding program of
the United States Shipping Board rep
resents about 100000 tons dead
weight at $3.50 deadweight ton. This
is about equal to the value of the
worlds tonnage in July 1914.
G. E. Merrill one Of the road com
missioners Of Cumberland, had the
misfortune to break his leg while
working on the bridge near his home
In moving a stone with an iron bar
the stone split and struck Mr.. Merrill
on the right leg, breaking one bone
just above the ankle
franc on the Mountain Division of the
maine Central Railroad was DELAYED for
many hours SATURDAY. by a head-on COLI
sion about A. NJ. OF two freight trains
near the South Windham station. Three
locomotives were badly damaged, Is cars
derailed and their contents scattered.
Some Of the cars contained cattle and
horses, but these were not injured.
Henry McPheters, a carpenter. fell, from
the balcony of Dean J. S. Harris house on
Coiese road Orono. Friday afternoon.
the fall was about Is feet to the ground
ana MI McPheters was at once taken TO
MS home. where he is under treatment.
II is feared that the right hip is broken.
The 10th year of Kicker Classical In.
sttute opened last week with a record
attendance of 1879. Only three members OF
last years faculty returned. The new in
structors are Winthrop L. Webb, Colby.
Il; Dorothy N. Webb, Marion II whita
and Roy c. Roix
The Boys and Girls Garden a Gan
ming Clubs Of Knox county will hold an
exhibition next Friday and Saturday in
Rockland under the auspices of the Mer
chants Association, and on one OF the
evenings the youthful agriculturists will
be rendered banquet. with appropriate
exercises. 1t Is expected that the clubs
will be represented by about Is members
Rev. James II Gray. who has Just com
pleted his pastorate at the Rockland
Methodist church, to become superintend-
ent Of the Bangor district. was rendered
farewell reception Wednesday night when
he was presented with a purse OF gold
In the receiving line with him were Supt
and Mrs. Albert E. Luce, Rev and Mrs.
c. L. Kinney OF Thomaston and Mrs.
GRAY.
The Masonic Temple Association Of
Rockland is making elaborate plans for a
food fair which IL to be held early In
February. with the hope Of clearing I'D
teh floating debt OF the new temple.
Herring seiners are making rich hauls
on the Rockland section OF the coast, a
single setting at one OF the islands near
Mussel Ridge Channel having netted the
fishermen $1,000. Herring have found a
ready sale at $3.50 a bushel, and weirs
which have been scarcely more than an
incumbrance to the owners in past years.
have suddenly yielded them a small for
tune.
The evening school opened Monday
night at Biddeford with 40 registered in
the class in typewriting. There are &c in
the mechanical drawing class. There were
IS registered for bookkeeping while q are
studying Spanish.
The Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs
OF Androscoggin county will be enter
tained at Auburn hall under the auspices
OF the Auburn Board Of Trade next Fri
day and Saturday. The members of the
Board Of Trade and other interested citi-
zens will entertain the delegates from
the clubs in their homes and there will
be banquet rendered them Friday eve
ming
The Bath municipal potato commits
sion has given permission for the gen
eral public to dig for themselves all
that they can find on the Kimball Field
in North Bath. While several hundred
bushels were dug by machine there aye
many bushels left in the ground that
the machines did not get, and now
these are offered to the public without
cost.
A wage increase was granted to en-
ployes OF the Bath Iron Works Thurs
day, the announcement made only two
days previous coming as q happy sur
prise to them. The increase was APP
proximately per cent for men on day
pay in the shops and yards.
Miss Beulah Withee. instructor in
Latin and algebra at the Morse High
school, Bath, has resigned and Is To
leave. shortly for Reading. Mass, where
she will teach the same subjects.
There have been more changes in the
teaching force in all schools Of the city
since last June than In any other
period Of school history in Bath.