Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-23
BELFAST

Maine is having bumper crop or
apples this season and large ship
ments are being made to Boston and
points further west. One night the
past week the Eastern Steamship
Lines Inc, carried $50 barrels out of
Belfast alone, while many others
are shipped from Winterport and
other points along the line. The po-
tato crop is also large and many will
be shipped later
The steamers Of the Eastern
Steamship Lines Inc, will go on the
fall schedule next week, the Camden
to be taken off the route at that
time. Steamers will leave Boston
Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
arriving at the Maine ports the fol-
lowing morning and leaving the
same night for the return trip. The
steamer Belfast will remain in com
mission. She is due in Belfast Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday at A.
M, leaving the same day at 3 for
Boston.
The steamers no longer make a
landing at Northport as was done
during the summer months, passen-
gers from that port taking passage
from Belfast.
The story has leaked out in Bel
fast that two slick looking strangers.
posing as electric light men have
visited q number of houses in the
city, asking to go into the cellar TO
look after the wires After their de-
parture it has been found that any
little amount of liquor which the
mouse owner may have had in the
cellar for medicinal purposes had
disappeared. At one house where
woman lived alone and kept a bit of
Whiskey in case of illness, she was
suspicious and went immediately
into the cellar after the departure of
the men, only to find her small stock
intact. Sometime later, having oc-
CASTOR to use it, she found that the
bottle had been emptied of its con-
tents and filled with some non-al-
coholic fluid.
the steamers of the Eastern
Steamship Lines leaving Belfast and
boston Wednesday night were held
up in Rockland and Boston until g
o'clock Thursday morning. making
tho trip both ways in daylight This
was OWING to the severe Southwestern
~ Which ragged during Wednesday
night and which was very severe
While it lasted There was a very
nigh wind and the sea was badly
sufred up for a. few hours The
steamer left Boston but put hack
OWING to the severity of the storm
There were a number of Belfast
people on board.
Cottage owners along the shore in
Belfast and Northport report partial
destruction of their lawns by
skunks. Holes ranging from a few
inches to q foot have been burrowed
all over some of the" lawns and a
number of skunks have been
trapped. There are several theories
as to What causes the skunks to bur
row, one of them that they are after
worms. IF this is so why do they
pick the lawns near the shore, is
asked. One naturalist. citing the
fact that the porcupine In the north
ern woods will eat the canoe paddles
for the salt which clings to the
handles left by the hands which have
used them, believes that it is the salt
that the skunks are after. During
the Summer months bathers coming
out Of the water gather on the lawns
in their dripping suits and in some
places the suits are spread on the
grass to dry. His theory is that the
skunits have discovered this fact and
the damage to the lawns is the re-
suit. 1t is a we'll known fact that
salt ticks are used in the deep woods
to entice deer and there is n law
against it's usage.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day afternoon for Ralph E. Drum
mond, the 15-year-old son of Bert
rand and Sarah tWilliams) Drum
mond of Searsmont, whose death oc-
Cured Tuesday from complications
following rheumatic fever. The
family came to Searsmont from
Salem, N. r.. about two months
ago. The young man was born in
Salem. Rev. George c. Sauer of the
Belfast Baptist church will officiate
at the funeral service and burial will
be made.in Searsmont.
Owing to some, delay in the finish
ing of the new 100000 concrete
bridge in Belfast, the dedication and
unwilling of the memorial tablet to
the Waldo county heros, will not
take place until the Sth. instead Of
the first of October as previously an
nounced. Gov. Baxter, Ex-Governor
Milliken, Commander Anthoine of
the Maine American Legion, Past
Commander Greenlaw, Adiutant
Boyle and a number of other promi-
nent Legionaires will take part in
the nrAgranH which includes n STRAIT