Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-19
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES

Knapton Identified
Guy L. Knapton of Bangor, referred
to in press dispatches from Syracuse
as forester returning from trip In
Northern Canada. 800 miles north OF
Moose Factory. is a Lawrence. Mass.
man, and a Massachusetts, Agricultural
College graduate. He Is attached to
the forestry Office of Philip T. Cool
idge of Bangor and is expected in Ban
gor this week.
All Packed-House Burns
The residence in Brewster street,
Rockland. owned by L. A. Weiss and
! occupied by Ex-County Atty. Philip
Howard. was badly damaged Monday
by fire which caught in the basement
Mr.. Towards household goods were
partly packed. as he intended to move
i Monday. Damage to building and con-
tents amounted to about $500, covered
by insurance.
| Portland Dentist Dies
! DR.. George E. Dow, 6S, Oldest dentist
! in Portland. in active practice As years.
/ is dead. He was born in Mechapics
Falls and had lived in Portland from
infancy. He was an old-time Wheel
man. He had served as president of
the Portland Wheel Club. as chief con-
sui for Maine for the L. A. W.. and
: was one of the earliest bicycle riders
J in Maine.
| Values Wrist at $1,000
Alice Griffin of Lewiston asks the
city of Lewiston to pay her $1,000 for
injuries received in fall. The bill
was presented at special meeting
of Board of Mayor and Aldermen
Monday evening, and referred to the
city solicitor for investigation. Miss
Griffin says she fell Dec. 20, by step
ping into a hole in the crossing at
Bates and Oak street, and that both
bones in her right wrist were broken,
causing her great pain and suffering.
The claim of Mrs. A. B. Thompson of
514 Main street, for injuries received
in fall on an icy walk Nov. 20, was
investigated by City Solicitor Des-
pins, who reported no liability. His
/ report was accepted Monday evening.
Portland Boothbay Harbor Line
Daily service in the summer season
and every-other-day service in the win
ter season between Portland and
Boothbay Harbor will be inaugurated
If business outlook warrants. The Cas-
co Bay Lines is interested in the propo.
sition. Winfield S. Hodgdon, manager
of the Casco Bay Line. is in Bothbay
Harbor now. looking over prospects
for business In freight and passenger
lines. finding out what terminal facil
tiles could be made available there ant
in interesting the Boothbay Harbol
people in the project. A meeting OF
the residents is to be called in the i'm
mediate future and Mr.. Hodgdon, who
halls from Boothbay Harbor and know.
the lay of the land there, believe.
there. is good business in the yentur,
of expansion of the Casco Bay Line:
to the port.
Bangor Slant On Wine
The mystery" of what became O
the liquor that disappeared a weel
or two ago from the midst of a car
load of lumber brought to Bango
from somewhere in New Brunswick
is not much of mystery to the win
trade and those who are well in
formed as TO current events. Will
the consignee and the personal con
ductors Of the car, a couple O
F'renchmen, were arguing about a fai
division Of the switching chaees, tn
liquor was distracted from the ca
and carted to the repository of one o
our leading wine magnates, who prob
ably has disposed of it before this
Just how the wine man got it, or from
whom, or how much he paid, are mer
details. That booze is not lost. I
never was. They don't lose cases O
whiskey around here in these dr.
times.-Bangor Daily News.
Biddeford Ice Prospects
B1ddeford ice dealers have starte,
to harvest their first crops from tn
ponds in the vicinity. Gagne broth
ers cut first crop of 500 tons las
week on pond on West street wher
the ice was IA inches thick and O
good quality. David Wilcox planne
10 start operations Tuesday on hi
pond on West street, where the ice /;
now 121-2 inches thick and makin
fast. The dealers who harvest thei
crop from the river report that il
places the river was Skinned over t
depth of six inches and with a fey
more cold nights in succession a larg
crew Of men will be put to work.
Capt. Charles w. Bullock
News has been received of the deaf
in a New York hospital of Capt
Charles w. Bullock, a wetl-know,
Bangor ship master who was in com
mand Of the six masted schoone
wyoming, launched by Percy & Smal
in Bath, Dec. Is, 1909, which recent
arrived in New York from a SoutI
American port. Capt. Bullock wa
stabbed in an ARRAY with sailor
| while in port there and came to hi
/ nome in Bangor apparently recover
ing but was obliged to return to 81
Marks hospital, New York, where hi
death occurred. He was 81 years ole
t a native of Bucksport, the son of
sea captain and had been to sea sine
| lad. He was for some time in tn
! coasting trade. long in the Bango
lumber feet. then master of tn
schooner Normandy and later wit
, the Palmer feet, commanding tn
Dorothy Palmer and others, He
survived by his wife and son, Waite
, Bullock of Bangor, and a daughte
Mrs. Walter Banton Of New York.
Sig Bankruptcy Petitions
Two involuntary and four voluntar
, petitions in bankruptcy fled Monday ;
the United States District court :
> Portland made rather n ,ecord a., .,