Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-22

pickles, ii you get 90 cent bOx OF
Stuart's. Tablets today at any drug
store.-Adv. oct11-nov22
nearby. Because of Its location. an
unusual opportunity Is afforded for the
shipping Of pulp wood. which makes
the project highly desirable on this
account. Operations have already been
commenced. When the wood has been
removed and the land cleared. this
property will be one Of the finest sum-
mer locations in this vicinity. 1t is
very near the popular resort Of Ocean
Point.
Officials and employees at the Port
land office are interested in the state
ment by Senator Bert NJ. Fernald, that
he Is thoroughly convinced. after an
examination OF the postoffice building
and it's facilities. that he would favor
an appropriation for new building
for postoffice purposes. The clerks
realize. more than anyone else. that
much better work could be done by
them If there was less overcrowding
and better arrangements Of depart
ments, which can only be accomplished
by giving Portland a new and modern
structure and such building would be
C. source OF delight. 1t will require
much time, however, to get plans under
way after an appropriation is favorably
acted upon by the Senate committee.
There have been numerous efforts to
secure a postoffice building, particular
ly during the war period. but be-
cause of disturbed conditions and the
absence of appropriations of money the
building problem here has not resulted
in definite action.
Prof. D. c. Stanwood of Bowdoin
college in an address, before the State
Street Mems Club at Portland declared
that many valuable Egyptian mummies
were destroyed years ago when the
Taper mills of Maine were importing
rags and papyrus from Egypt. After
the practice of importing rags had
been discontinued because of the dis
ease germs carried in them the ESyp-
tians hit upon the idea of breaking up
ancient mummies and shipping them
to this country as pulp. At the same
time they were using the mummies as
fuel for their locomotives and as re-
suit many valuable records of life in an
cient Egypt were lost forever. Professor
/ Stanwood added that although many
| thousands Of mummies had thus been
| lost, hundreds Of others have been
saved and the papyrus coverings which
correspond to our modern newspapers.
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has in his possession what is believed
to be music and when he has translat-
ed the words he intends to have The
| Bowdoin men sing it in chapel for the
| first time in more than 1000 years.
The Revolutionary history along the
Kennebec never has been fully written
never will be, for the incidents of
those days have been handed down
| largely by tradition. One of the most
authentic Of these concerns the Second
Parish Of Georgetown, otherwise Bath
and originated in quantity of timber
| and its manufacture in the royal navy.
| 1t was stored in Harvards cove, then
called the Kings Dock. When the toe
sin Of war was sounded in 111o, the
men of the parish agreed to do all in
| their power to resist the authority OF
the king Two of the kings ships lay
| in the river at the time waiting Tor
cargoes of masts and about 40 carpen-
! ters were al work hewing and repairing
spars and masts at Kings Dock. The
| inhabitants voted that these masts and
spars should not be carried away, and
thew chose Dumner Sewall a committee
| of one to wait on the kings agent. He
walked up the highway to the Peter
son house close by, walked into the
ward where the men were working,
stood on a cask and proclaimed: In
tie name Of the people of America l
command you not to strike another
blow" TIL. carpenters seemed amazed,
| dropped their tools and retreated to the
ships. Had they not done so there
would have probably been bloodshed
| for a group Of the citizens waited
armed in nearby thicket, awaiting the
result of Sewalls visit.
| Within a few days one Of the his
toric wooden buildings on old Fort
Sullivan. Eastport, built nearly 116
years ago by the U. S. government,
will be removed as Workmen are
now tearing down the dilapidated
structure and the collection of lumber
| will be used for fuel. The ancient
building was once occupied by Amerl-
can and at another time by the Brit
ish soldiers, Other old buildings may
later be removed from the land to
make room for more modern houses.
Built originally in 1907, and first oc-
cupied by L. S. troops the Following
wear and up to 1875 when the fort
was Abandoned as worthless and the
soldiers were sent to Western camps.
| The land and buildings were sold at
nublic auction 40 years ago and since
that time the dilapidated buildings
have been used by private families
of the poorer class. Late in the
war of 1872 a British fleet arrived
in Eastport harbor from Halifax,
and without firing a shot or in
turing a person, took possession or
old Fort Sullivan on the far East
Maine border which they held nearly
two years while the two big countries
were settling the exact boundary line.
United States troops were soon re-
turned to the fort and remained there |
until 1875. In recent years the build
ings had been rapidly decaying. but
there is a powder house; built Of
bricks with a thick coating of broken
stones and lines which may remain
for wears, although in a badly dam