Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-20


Hung from the branches an festooneG
the trees.
Dish pans an stovelids were scattered for
acres,
Aprons an dish towels swung to the
breeze.
Say" said the boss to the frightened
Enter this note in your old ships log.
If YOU can't find fuse that's faster,
When you want to dynamite, tie you"
dog"
| A record price of $40 a thousand for
spruce has been reached. the Boston
base having advanced 81 a thousand
Last year the price did not exceed $32
or s33. The Bangor News says: The
demand for spruce at the prevailing
! high price is reported as brisk by the
Bangor manufacturers Of lumber. who
regard the advance as merely the nat
ulal result Of the increase in the cost
OF production, due to higher rates Of
stumpage, wages. etc. The outlook at
present is for a continued brisk de-
mand for lumber.
Just as handsome peaches as ever
came from southern New England or
Delaware, came to the Kennebec Journal
office, Wednesday. from the orchard Of
George A. Pike of Winthrop. Mr.. Pike
raised FIVE bushels of this luscious fruit
on his young trees this year, the speci-
mems reaching the Journal editorial
rooms proved "as good as they looked
They were large and perfect in coloring
and bloom.
! Little 8-year- Arlene Holland Of
South Rumford will probably shun all
but savings banks after her experience
of the other day with a sandbank
near her home. She was playing under
! it, when the bank caved, burying her
under about three feet of sand. An
alarm Of playmates brought men who
dug until foot was discovered, when
the bank again caved and again she
was buried. 1t took 20 minutes to lib
crate the child and artificial respr-
alton was necessary to restore con-
seriousness. Nothing but savings banks
for me, says Arlene.
| The recent statement of Mrs. George
F. Earle of Berkeley, Cal, formerly Of
Rockland. Me, that she once went to
and touched the main truck on the
! famous ship Live Yankee having been
politely doubted by a unbelieving man.
she writes the Courier Gazette as fol-
| lows, and now let's see anyone doubt
her:
| I wish to say to DR.. Crockett, re-
ferring to his article in your issue of
Aug. "a, that while he may be the
only man alive" who has personal
acquaintance with the main truck Of
the ship Live Yankee" woman
claims to share the feat-for as a wee
little girl l was there and touched it
and cannot allow anyone to tell me
did not--even though it be done very
"courteously." I'm sorry I cannot de-
scribe the hosting gear which took me
there, but 1 know only this-rny father
| (Capt. Thorndike) and Mr.. Patten
thought out the way.
The recent sale of the four-masted
! schooner Evelyn w. Huxley to New
! York parties takes from Portland the
last of the once numerous and famous
uScL lSluS IHc IiOQSc Ad6 VI Tic D. ..
Winslow Company, the only other ves-
gel of the feet not yet actually sold,
the five-master Oakley c. Curtis now
| on the passage home from South
America, having been sold subject to
inspection upon arrival.
! With one exception, the Percy &
Small feet of Bath also has been dis
posed of at high prices to out-ofthe
State parties for the overseas trade.
It Is likely that new fleets will be built
within a year or two to take the places
| OF the vessels sold, but in all proba-
bility there will be no ix-masters
among the new craft, and not many
/ five masters. the tendency being to
vessels Of moderate size.
| The four masted schooner Jessie G.
Moves will be launched from the old
| Washburn yard in Thomaston Thurs
day afternoon at 1 o'clock. She is an
exact duplicate Of the schooner Joseph
B. Thomas, which the Washburns
| built in the same yard II years ago.
and as rapidly as possible will be fol-
lowed by four more schooners which
will also be counterparts of that fine
craft. The new schooners approx
mate tonnage figures are: Gross. 1900:
net. 14o0. She measures go feet over
all. Is 210 feet on the keel. 80 feet on
the beam and % feet in the hold. She
has two full decks and short poop
deck. The hardwood bottom was cut
In Patten. and the spruce top at st.
Mary's Bay. N. S. The yellow pine
planking is five inches thick, while
the ceiling Of Douglass fir and yellow
pine measures 12x14 inches.
Youthful poker players to the num-
Der Of Is were rounded up by the po-
lice Sunday afternoon, says the Rock
| land Courier Gazette. Seven Of them
were caught in covered advertising
wagon of Park street. and six in a
storehouse at the corner Of LIMERICK
and White streets. In response to
| rigid examination by Judge Miller they