Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-24
Maine GOSSIP

| Fishermen in the vicinity of Portland
report that fish were never scarcer
along shore than at the present time,
and this is proved by the fact that the
catches brought in Of late by the ves-
| sells of that port are unusually small
| for this season of the year. Only one
| of the feet of a dozen gill netting
steamers opera ting around there Is
now engaged in the business, the cap
| tain of that steamer planning to keep
her at work until the herring strike
early in May. 70
The we'll known Calais schooner Mag
gle Todd, which for A years has been
engaged in costwise business. has re-
Gently changed hands and is now ready
to leave for Boston on the longest pas
sage she has ever undertaken. Her
destination is Maracaibo, Venezuela, a
distance of 5000 miles from Boston.
A Bangor man had the temerity the
other day when there was deep snow
about the city everywhere except in the
business section. to mention the fact
that ears ago when bicycling was at
its heisi&sas a popular pastime he and
| two others rode their wheels out to the
farm Of a. friend on the tenth day OF
March, To make it still worse. he said
the dust around the town was deep and
annoying. His statement was substan-
tiated by an entry made in diary at
that time.
1.-THE Story of Steam Cooked Books"
as told in Bangor paper speaks of the
damage which can be wrought to val
liable bound records by unfortunate
! location of a heating plant. This was
! illustrated at the office of the register
! OF deeds in the court house at Bangor,
where many volumes are suffering from
| dry rot on account Of the atmosphere,
the steam plant which heats the court
house and the county Jail being located
directly beneath the registers office.
| In order to segregate the convicts at
fiicted with tuberculosis from the other
prisoners SMALL building outside Of
the State. Prison walls in Thomaston,
which was long used as an engine hall
| by the States fire company, has been
transformed into a hospital. The plan
was inaugurated by Warden Water
house, who last summer erected a tent
on the prison premises for the benefit
Of tubercular patient. The convict
/ showed marked improvement and is
now in charge Of the new hospital The
+ patients are unguarded. day and night.
! The town Of Appleton is entitled to a
| bequest of nearly $4,000 from Helen r.
Wentworth's estate, according to a su-
preme court decision just announced.
= The sum was given by Miss Wentworth
as a memorial to her brother, C. F..
Wentworth. The income is to be used
to purchase fuel and other necessaries
to be given away or sold at low
price to worthy and Industrious per-
sons, not supported wholly or in part
at public expense: mo idler, loafer,
gambler or drunkard shall receive ben
eft from the fund.-" the Eill provides.
! A good story is told at the expense
of State Detective Kalloch of Rock
i land, whose skill. as a sleuth long ago
became known outside of that city. Ac-
customed to finding stolen articles no
larger than pin, he was not ga little
dumbfounded the other night when he
went into his stable, and found that
somebody had stolen his horse. At
least that was his first impression. but
/ when he produced his trusty magnify
ing glass and got his traditional pipe
to pulling well, he found that two
planks in the box stall had given way
ana the animal was in the basement
pretty badly used up. A veterinarian
attended to the horses wounds, but it
is said that the detectives hair has
not yet dropped back into it's &C
chstomed position.