Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-21
BUSY SHIPYARD
AT EAST BOOTHBAY

brothers Corporation al East Booth
bay is now about the busiest ship
yarI along tho coast hey are en-
pioyinS about aixty people and have
four steel beam trawlers IN various
ataEca Of completion, One has just
been finished n second is launched
and at the dock and WILL be complet-
! Cd in a month; a third will be
/ launched inside, Of a month and a
fourth viii be ready for launching
about The first OF the year.
| The company has no difficulty find
ing workers both IN steel and in wood
as so many yards have been shut
( down. They have other work ahead
in steel construction as soon as these
beam trawlers arc completed and he
sides have equipped fully TO build
wooden vessels of any size or de
scription.
! Capt. Emery NJ Thompson is run
ming the 59-foot gasolene steamer
Diana on the run TO Path daily.
leaving here al 80 and aBth at 3
o'clock for the return trip standard
time).
Another house on Mount Pisgah
changed hands when Prof. and Nine
Jules Ruerat nf Providence and
Newport, r. J.. bought the Chalet.
built and owned by Miss Edith C.
: Pinnco. The nwe owners intend to cs-
tablish a summer school which will
he known as Mount Pissah's French
school for American teachers of
French, unable to go abroad every
wear.
This is Prof. Ruerat's fourth sea-
son at the head of the French depart
ment of the Mi. Pisgah Summer col
ony. which, from now on. will he car
ried on independently.
Prof. and Nine. Reurat are leaving
, this week 10 return TO Providence af-
ter one of the pleasantest summers
they ever passed in Maine.
Work on the Wiscasset -Eoothbay
road is still going on. the chief i'm
provement being made at present be
ing near the Philbrick places and
Stones store. Censidera BILE rock fill
is being put in and being covered
fair at Damariscotta this fall is Oct.
4. ), and 6. \ fine racing card hos
been secured A great attraction in
Eairplane fights and stunts is expect
ed. final arrangements to he made
within the next few days. The Park
!. Band Of Rockland has been engaged
TO furnish music throughout the fair,
A reception for the teachers of our
public schools will be given in the
congregational vcstry, $50 Sunday
evening, Sept, %. following the eve
ming service.
Word received from Miss Josephine
Day recently says she is making
prepa rations for her return to Amer
lea in about two months, the time of
her three-year contract with a
wealthy Japanese merchant as tutor
of his children now being near the
end. She plans to return by way of
the Suez Canal and Mediterranean.
thus completing journey around the
world. Miss Day has at least once
been pleasantly reminded of home for
last year Capt. Walker f. Farmer of
/ Southport called on her in Japan, the
visit being a delightful one for both
of them Miss Day and Capt. Farmer
were former school mates in the old
High school at Boothbay Center.
The observatory at Spruce Point
Boothhay Harbor, for years one of the
landmarks of Boothbay Harbor, which
was torn down last summer. will be
! rebuilt this fall h. the owners Of the
property, Irving c. Remission. provid-
ed the project being financed by
popular subscription. A good start
has been made.
The. long continued drought with
practically no rain since last spring
has made deep inroads in ponds and
, lakes but this seems not to be the
case here to any extent Engineer
John Fuller who has charge of the
pumping station nights was speaking
of this matter recently and although
he has lived near Adams Pond for
many years and for a number recent
| " has been an engineer tere he has
never known dry summer when the
supply has kept up az this season. A
F, few days age he counted only three
lengths of pipe out of water whereas
some wears he has seen fourteen
lengths exposed.