Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-04-05

dlOue anu dDOQl IllIIc y CloSh, lISy
start limiting it's time to go home.
Imagine it in few weeks. Starting
home at nine o'clock in broad day
| light and not chance of getting con-
| fidential on the porch until it gets
dark"
| F. Nj. Kinds of Skowhegan, writing
the Kennebec Journal in relation to
the splendid weather of the present
time, speaks OF noting in his diary
the record of the weather Of away
back in 1887. as he recorded it at Ben
ton, where he then resided and when
on April , it showed and b!owed: the
toughest afternoon of the winter.
! April 3, it showed and tlowed very
hard. The roads Were full of snow
and no teams were out. April 4,
Last night was the toughest night
I've ever known. 1t showed and
blowed so hard that Il man walking
could not see to keep in the road.
Cleared about 8 A. NJ. and large
force of men turned out to break out
the roads, which We're utterly i'm
passable. At one place on the River
road and one on the Neck road there
We're two places where the snow was
l'actually more than foot above the
tallest mans head. The night Pull
man for Boston. which should have
left our station at 10 o'clock Satur-
day night did not arrive till =. NJ.
Sunday"
| On March 80 in the sun on Baptist
hill Main street. Skowhegan, the
thermometer registered so; on March
81, SO; April i, l75; April ,. 90.
! Some idea of the business done at
the Houlton Grange store may be
gained from the figures of five days
Of last week, as follows: Monday,
s26S7.75: Tuesday, $4449.71; Wednes-
day. $3s51.97: Thursday. $2955.4O:
Friday, $lS5SS0. Total. $20125.Sc.
AS near as | can figure it | made
something in farming last year,
writes Editor Sanborn Of the Nor
way Advertiser 1t is a perp!eXing
problem to find out the exact amount.
I've been over the figures many
times and have twice settled with
my partners on a different basis
| Cash paid was s69.1S and potatoes
sold brought in s30.25 and then Z
stop as that is all the money I've
seen. I'm told a good profit was real
lied. How, where and when? | don't
know. We had AZ bushels of pota-
toes, 2 IL bushels of beans. 16
squashes and some 'urnips, bects,
pumpkins and the like.
Am TO try it again this year and
have already invested $3125. One
half of this sum is drawing interest
at per cent. and thereby I'm hoping
to get profit on the money invest
ed if not on the crops raised. Funny
world this. Farm for a profit,
| The new president of the American
Railway Engineers Association is a
former Bangor man, c. A. Morse lie
! is now chief engineer OF the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railway. He
was born Jan. /. 1859 in Bangor and
graduated in civil engineering in 1879
from the University of Maine. He
began in May, 1880, to work with the
Chicago, Burlington e Quincy Rail
road, being division engineer of con-
struction in 1881. From November.
1881. to March, 1881. he was with the
Mexican Central Railroad but in May,
1884, returned to his former position
on the Burlington, where he remained
until June, 1885.
On Jan. l. 1885. he entered the ON
ploy of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Ry and in - years service
/ he was succeslively division engineer
on construction, division engineer
in the operating department. aud on
maintenance. resident engineer,
principal assistant engineer asS!sta nj
chief engineer, CHEZ cDl-incer cf The
! A., +. & S. L. rs. proper. anG finally
chief engineer o. the A., I. & :. i.
| Ry. System. On April I. 1913. he be-
came chief engineer Of the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific Ity.. and he
still holds that position. He is a
member of the American Society of
Civil Engineers. and is now on the
nominating committee Of that So
ciety.