Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-09


ever lost an opportunity to show its
patriotic spirit in other ways.
A modern frame structure will re-
place the log station at Bemis, which
mas been an unique feature on the
.Rangeley Lakes line. The contract
has been let and the station Is to be
completed IN season for the summer
business, June 1. The old log station
had decayed so badly as to require ex-
tensive repairs, hence it seemed best to
replace it,
Mr.. ard Mrs. Aaron Giberson Of Car
ibou celebrated their birthdays on
Wednesday, Feb. q, Mrs. Giberson be-
ing Sc on the Tuesday preceding and
Mr.. Giberson reaching his S6th mile
stone on Thursday following. The cell
ebration has for years been observed
on the day between.
When the new f1we-storied fish freez-
ing plant is completed at Union wharf,
Portland, it will be one of the largest
of it's kind on the New England coast
and will be a very important factor In
the fish industry Of Portland. Work Is
being kept up night and day.
Bangor Commercial: Speaking of
preparedness, Bangor minister
brought home a couple Of graphic
phone records the other night, and
when his son asked him what he
bought them for. there not being
graphophone in the house, the father
replied These are good records and
thought I'd get them for I'm going to
have a talking machine some day"
GOOD idea" rejcined the son. Guess
III buy pint of gasoline tomorrow"
In less than six weeks the sardine
season ON the Maine coast will open
and it Should be a very busy season as
all of last years pack of fish have been
sold early. Needless to say. the aver
age packer is eager for the annual
opening.
girl who went to Caribou from
across the border the other day in
search of a place to do homework,
made the astonishing condition that
she would not work where there were
no children.
In the class of nuisances which are
continued unmolested, Caribous cur
few has been placed by The Aroostook
Republican, which says that the cur
few's fierce Elowings have no more
effect on keeping children off the street
than our warnings to Germany not to
jeopardize American lives.
Word has been seceived by Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry D. Cole of South Paris that
their son, r. Guy Cole, who is with
Canadian regiment somewhere in
France. was in hospital with a gun
shot wound through his left shoulder.
He had been discharged only about a
month ago from the hospital, where he
had been confined for some weeks with
a wounded knee.
I5oulton is to have it's first automo-
bile show beginning Thursday, March
10. Every kind of an automobile will
be represented in a display that will
aggregate close to s5Oo,10o in value.
The acute shortage of lumber due to
scarcity of cars and railroad embargoes
has seriously handicapped work in the
Maine shipyards on vessels ordered and
already under construction consign-
meut of lumber for a schooner ordered at
.Rockland a year ago by a Boston firm
has only just reached its destination,
with the result that delivery of the vessel
will be delayed months behind contract
time.
The failure of some of the patrons of
the mail route to keep their mail posts
shoveled out so the carrier could reach
them without leaving his sleigh, caused
Calvin Colby of Jackman to be placed in
rather peculiar situation the other
day. AS he was returning from the
boundary line with his mail he was
obliged to get out of his sleigh to take
the bag from the post and at that par
ticular moment his horse took notion to
run. They stopped only when they got
into some deep snow about two miles be-
yond.
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