Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-13

and vicinity. The Civil War veteran
and philosopher has had setbacks to
his health since his last visit to this
city,. but is his old jolly self, and was
a very welcome visitor at TheCou-
ier-Gazette Office this moring. Talk
about snow up in Aroostook county,"
said Mr.. Mitchell; why you have
more down here than there was at
home when / left. Potatoes? Sell
ing at dollar barrel, and 1t hardly
pays to pick and haul them. The
farmers up there have had three bad
years. and many of them have had
serious losses. I don't ever want. to
see potatoes go to $40 a barrel again,
however It's too hard on the poor
people" Mr.. Mitchell is a great adj
mirer of E. L. Cleveland. formerly of
Knox county. and characterizes him
as solid brainy. prosperous citi-
zen."-Rockland Courier Gazette.
Sometime late in the spring newly
constructed freight boat will be COM
pleted and launched at Eastport
which will be the first to be placed
on the PASSPORT route by the
Eastport Transport Company The
craft is being built this winter at the
Batlzer Boat Work at Salt Works in
the southern part of PASSPORT, and
during the long winter the work can
only be carried on slowly, since the
keel was laid in the yard near the
company's extensive bodybuilding
plant, where many crafts have been
turned out in recent years. The keel
is rs feet long, the entire craft to be
100 feet over all, with beam of 26
feet and 9ls feet (moulding) depth.
If the new line is profitable there
will be three or more similar freight
beats built at the same yard, to be
used principally for carrying sardine
shipments from this far East frontier
coast.
Catholics of Portland Sunday cele-
brated the Tooth anniversary OF the es-
Establishment of the Catholic church in
Portland. A solemn high mass was
sung at the Cathedral of Immaculate
Conception, by Rt. Rev. MgH McDon-
ough of Lewiston. one hundred choir
boys from the Cathedral. Sacred Heart
and st. Dominic churches, and three
adult choirs. Scores of priests assist
ed. At the mass. and at dinner given
to Catholic laymen in the Lafayette
hotel Bishop Walsh reviewed the his
tory of the church during the past 100
years where there were SO Catholics in
Portland in 1922, he said, there are now
$4,000 in that city and 155, 900 in Maine.
Bishop Cheverus, of Boston, preached
the first sermon in Portland in July,
1922. In 1855 Rev. David w. Bacon
was appointed the first bishop of Port
laid and although territory larger
than Ireland, at that time it contained
only six priests and eight churches.
Sundays celebration also marked the
revival of the Maine Catholic Histori-
cal society, whose activities ceased
during the war.
The United States Coast Guard
cutter Ossipee, which arrived in Ban
.gor last Friday afternoon from Bos-
ton for the purpose of keeping the
river open, that the coal barges and
other craft may have free passage,
has been doing good work since her
arrival, blowing the ice between that
city and Bucksport daily, and having
little trouble to break up the hardest
spots. The cutter broke a passage
from the latter town Monday morn
ing and found the ice the thickest it
has been so far, from Crosbys Mar
rows UP the river. At the present
time large cargo of oil is being
transferred from the tank steamer
Eastern Mfg. Co.'S plant at South
Brewer. and that this work may have
no delay in its operations, the river
must necessarily be kept open. Four
coal barges are also due to arrive
this week. The Ossipee is ship
which was built to meet any emer-
gency which may arise and has a
crew Of officers and enlisted men,
capable Of handling any situation
within reason. Her work in past
years, as we'll as all along the Maine
coast, is an example of what can be
done. Commander Ridgely has ex-
pressed his willingness as well as
determination, to keep the passage
clear up the Penohscot as long as
necessary, to get sufficient supply
OF coal in the city.
The Kennebec river can be officially
called closed to navigation above
Bath for the remainder of the win
ter, says the Bath Daily Times. The
light house tender Zizania has re-
turned to Portland after having been
in the river three days, having come
over with the intention Of taking up
the buoys in both the Kennebec and
Sasanoa rivers and breaking ice at
the same time, but was obliged to
abandon both projects. The cold
snap caused the water in both rivers
to freeze too quickly at the points
where there is little tide and the cur
rent runs slowly. Floating ice four
inches or more thick prevented the
tender from proceeding far above
Bath. 1t is said that in case of long
continued thaw another attempt
might be made by the Zizania to
come back to the Kennebec, but the