Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-17

or France. through the efforts of a
committee from the Searchlight
Club there has been raised nearly
$500. or enough to support Al chill
dren.
\ wireless message has been re-
ceived by Calvert Longbottom to the
effect that his son, Roland and sew
eral Sanford boys were on the
transport Northern Pacific, which
went aground off Fire Island.
Fort. Fairfield takes times by the
forelock. formally announcing that
she intends TO celebrate the Fourth
of July in handsome style. this wear.
Albert Jeffrey Of kennebunkport
, said to be the only man in that part
OF York county who owns q pair of
oxen. In order to have them shod.
he had to drive them to Ogunuuit,
making long days trip afoot, down
and back.
Summer visitors at Popham Beach
this year will find great changes have
taken place there by the curious ac-
ton OF the tides. The famous old
sea wall west of Fox island is no
longer there, having been swept away
largely by the high tides OF some
weeks ago. The tides now make over
the cranberry boys on the land side.
The sea wall has almost entirely
disappeared and in it's place the
beach extends where the sea wall
was, from Morse's river to Fox
island. The sands have washed in
over the former cranberry beds and
the winding station, low hut at
which the coast guards stopped on
Il former point opposite Fox island
has been lost, carried out to sea.
This sea wall was built some 100
years ago but now the marsh where
the berries throve, has been turned
into a sandy waste by the high run
of tides. A1orse's river on the far
west of this south beach has had it's
bed changed 100 yards farther to the
west. 1t is said by some that this
cranberry bed wall was built by the
father of George Oliver. Here and
there on the former bed the trees
looks strangely at high tide appear
ing out of the watery waste. This
wall was originally constructed Of
logs and timbers, from the wreckage
on the beach found there years ago,
to protect the cranberry meadow.
There is no such amount of wreckage
| cast upon the beach now and it will
probably never be rebuilt.
A Bath man is planning a pig
ranch intending to go into the pork
business on a large scale. He says
that he will have 100 pigs on his
place. Inquiry of city officials pro-
duced the information that there is no
| ordinance against the number Of pigs
| a man may raise or own. There is a
law against nuisances under which
action might be taken should the
pig raising proposition cause a nuis-
ance. Years ago the late Charles
Dunning had many pigs on his stable
! property opposite the park and OBJ
tanned garbage from large hotels in
Boston, brought down by Boston
boats. Another pig raiser is said
to have had 200 pigs on the shore
! of Sewall pond at one time and he
also obtained swill from Boston.
Wednesday evening a citizen was
crossing Washington street near the
city park, when an automobile
whizzed by. the side of the car rub
bling against him and throwing him
off to one side. Look out there"
| cried the driver of the machine.
What" responded the assaulted one,
you're not coming back again?"-
Bath Daily Times.
Pleasant Point fishermen are get
/ ting 50 cents a pound for Holsters, but
there is SO much bad weather they