Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-17

One of the largest fish concerns OF
Boston, the William Underwood
Company, has a crew of men at Bel
fast working to fill contract for the
supplying of fish weir brush for its
summer operations. Orrin j. Dickey
of Belfast is experimenting the work.
. A Rumford Falls girl, Miss Evelyn
Melcher, plans to sail from New York
for Spain>the seventeenth of March,
on the Steamship Cretic. She will
make her headquarters in Madrid at
the home of a friend, and plans to
spend the greater part of her time
in studying the Spanish language.
Prices are evidently higher in Cali
fornia than in the home state accord
ing to the information received from
Augustus Maynard, formerly 'em-
ployed at the Texas yard in Bath
who has returned from a stay of
eight months in the west. He was
employed in a store part of the time
while on the coast and in the city
where he was located the rent of
bungalow of four rooms was $50
month, milk was &c cents a quart,
mushrooms, $3.50 a pound and sup
plies of all kinds exorbitant.
A concert in progress in Science
tady, N Y. last Thursday night was
enjoyed by a-wireless operator at
Bath, Edwin H. Lowell, from the
hours of 1O.45 to 11.20. With the use
of one step amplifier the various
solos could be heard all over the
room. and Mr.. Lowell listened to
Love to Be a Sailor" Kipling's
"Gunga Din the dance tune,
broadway Blues" besides several
other selections.
Two hundred sportsmen who are
determined to put an end to the use
of live decoys and blinds in hunting
ducks in Merrymeeting bay, met at
Brunswick Thursday night and or
ganized the Merrymeeting Sports
mems association, after they had
discussed the situation from every
angle. Opinion on the use Of decoys
was divided, some favoring the elm
nation of them, while others wished
simply to get rid of the live ones.
The side in favor of the latter propo-
sition was turned by the stirring ad-
dress of B. E. Smith of Portland.
1t was voted that blinds should not
be used at night, and there was also
an emphatic protest against the
action Of those who set blinds and
leave them out for a year at time.
When this is done, hunter may
come around to favorable location,
find one Of these unused blinds and
leave the place.. taking it for granted
that some one has got ahead of him
and squat" there, so to speak.
Cards have been received in Rock
land announcing the marriage of
Ralph Bartlett Daggett, formerly of
that city. to Viola, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. w. F. Kehm of Allentown,
Penn. The ceremony took place at
the brides home March 3, and the
CarQS announce Iudl Itie Coupic VIII
be "at home" after March Is in Port
jefferson, N. Y. Mr.. Daggett is a
son of Mrs. Lena E. Daggett Of this
city and until recently has been
located in Bangor following a long
period of employment at his trade as
matchmaker in Worcester and other
Massachusetts cities Rockland
friends best wishes follow the young
couple to their new home.
Bangor's music master, the late
Melville H. Andrews. who died last
week, was a noted violin maker. each
being in itself work of
art. Some of the violinists using Mr..
Andrews violins are DIR. Oscar e.
wasgatt of Boston. Horace M.
Pullen and Edward Rice of Bangor.
Mary Chase Weston (now Mrs. Cor
don Noyes) used one Of Mr.. Andrews
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