Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-13

of the Maine State Highway Com
mission, who is doing everything in
his power, in connection with the
person who placed it there and to see
that he gets the fun penalty pre-
SCribed by law.
Old Orchard reports the largest
crowds Of the season at that resort,
the noticeable increase being just aft
cl the Sunday nuisances were put out
o. commission by Governor Milliken.
Captain John Reed, the veteran
summer skipper of Boothbay Harbor,
While going from the landing stage at
Capitol Island wharf last Friday to
his boat saw a strange looking fish
swimming near the surface and made
jab at it with his boathook. Very
much to his astonishment, the gait
penetrated the fish and in a second
he had it over the side of his row.
boat. He was then again astonished.
for he had never seen anything like
| it, nor had the scores and scores of
people who in the next few DAYS
viewed it, even the old fishermen of
| that section. Judging from the de-
| scription of the fish given on Sunday
| to an AuguStan who had seen the
/ humpbacked salmon at the museum
! at the State House, it was undoubt-
| odly one of that species which had
! wandered away from it's haunts along
! the eastern Maine coast, where a few
/ years ago several million eggs from
! the Pacific coast were liberated
| Capitol Island has the distinction of
| being the most westerly part of the
! Maine coast where the humpback sal
| n on has been found, proving that the
! fish likes Maine and is visiting all its
/ famous resorts.
Impotence with the local coal sit
uation was very manifest in a reso-
| luton which was passed by the city
sc vernment Monday night, and which
! is generally known, emanated from
the mayors office, says the Globe s
/ Kockland correspondent. This re-
sclve invited the local fuel admins
traitors to explain the unequal prices
| which are now being charged by the
| dealers, also the unequal distribution
I IT. so many words the administrators
were urged to get into the game
The Fuel Administrators, in state
ment issued Friday, explained that
the inequality of prices is due to the
fact that the dealers are permitted a
certain profit. and some are selling
more cheaply than others because
they obtained their supply under
more favorable circumstances. The
administrators say that the present
! supply in Rockland is only about SO
per cent of the requirement for the
balance of the coal year.
]. F. Plummer of South Paris is
Il natural mechanic, who loves to use
tools. At his stable and garage on
Pine street he has a little workshop
which is convenient, and the perfec-
I ton of neatness. His latest addition
lis a Touring mill run by gasoline
! For many years, long before the war
mad discovered the term "wheatless'
Mr.. Plummer has ground rye to use
il, bread, and has also ground wheat
to eat as a cereal. For time he used
small hand mill, and later a larger
enc. Because of advancing years or
some other reason (Mr. Plummer is a
Civil war veteran) he found the mill
turning a little harder than it used
to, so he has rugged it to run by the
oower of his automobile. A piece of
shafting and some stock gear wheels
were picked up, and the mill was set
up at the back side of the garage so
that the shaft would mesh into the
end of the crank shaft on the car
and there you are. The car has to
be set in just the right position on
the floor. for the mill is stationary,
but it works well.
About $4,000 is to be expended
this year in starting the erection of
the Northern Maine Sanatorium at
Pressure Isle. 1t will be remembered
that this is on the north side Of the
A,oostook river. on piece of