Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-07

ago yesterday there was a heavy
snow storm, and that that many
years ago this morning there was
good sleighing. Shows we have
something to be thankful for.-The
Knox Messenger, Rockland, May 3.
Included in the property destroyed
by the flood in Maine was the oldest
sawmill in the State, known as Ben
Bisbee's fill at East Sumner. The
mill was built about 140 years ago by
Deacon Increase Robinson. 1t had
withstood the great flood of March
-, 1896, and all other freshets until
the one that is now receding. With
the mill was swept away about So
900 feet Of logs.
Bath automobile owners will hope
that the opinion expressed by a
prominent Detroit automobile expert
will turn out true, according to the
Bath Daily Times. He says that in
Sour years automobiles that will not
make 80 miles to "a gallon of gaso-
line will be unpopular and that the
days are not far distant when the
average distance to be travelled by
cars on a single gallon of gas will be
so to 100 miles.
A hearing on the location of the
Wisca ssct -Damariscotta road as to
whether it shall continue as at pres
, ent around the island from the
Edgecomb end of the bridge or shall
extend from the eastern end of the
! i L, 1,.x 20
out at the intersection of the New
castle Edgecomb highway or shall be
continued in a straight line from
the eastern end of the bridge at
Boothbay Harbor road ION top of
the hill, will be heard before the
Governor and Council and the State
Highway Commission on the Wiscas-
set Edgecomb bridge Monday after
noon, May u, and which will prob
ably be adjourned to the Lincoln
county court house.
Adventuring into Maine by auto
mobile is recommended to readers of
the World Traveller, edited by Albert
S. Crockett, in the May issue of that
,, magazine. \ beautiful photograph
of Lake Penneseewassce, on the Nor
way road, calls attention to an arti-
Gle, Motoring Up Into Maine by
Mildred Seitz, in which the writer
tells of driving from New York to
Harrison, Maine, and of numerous
side trips in the White Mountains.
She describes the crossing of the toll
bridge at Portsmouth and the entry
into the Pine Tree state, through
York, Ogunquit. Wells, Kennebunk.
Biddeford and Saco. Lakes and
quaint towns reached by way of
Harrison receive special attention,
and Miss Seitz is liberal in her
praise of the state as Mecca for
pleasure seekers.
When Mrs. Caroline Mitchell, wife
and mother of former Passama-
quoddy chiefs, was laid to rest only
few days ago in the ancient burial
ground of the~t ribe, not only were her
own people present but number
of white ncighbors We're in the con-
gregation. Mrs. Mitchell was the
mother of Sopiel Mitchell, Passama-
uuoddy governor, and she would
have celebrated her 10th birthday
next month had she lived. 1t was
an event to which she had eagerly
looked forward for some time. Dur
ing most of her life, she had worked
at basket making, the chief work OF
the Passamaquoddies, but for the
past few years she had kept mostly
to the house. and was rarely seen by
white visitors. She spoke English
and French as well as the Indian
language: she was familiar with all
the tribal ceremonies and dances and
had in her possession some of the
ancient beaded and fancy colored
costumes.
Memorandum" from Stockton
Springs, Me-: The winter Of 1S34-o
was the coolest ever known by the
oldest inhabitants OF this town. The
bay was frozen over to the outermost
islands. Sleighs and sleds passed
back and forth from the main land to
Long Island in March. The longest
continuance OF severe cold perhaps
ever known in this State by the
white inhabitants. Hay was exceed
ingly scarce, prices from SIS to $50
ton; many cattle persisted. People
in general were obliged to use corn.
grain, oats, potatoes and every
vegetable substance in their posses
sion that cattle could eat to preserve
them alive. On the seaboard the
quantity of snow was not large, but
in the b, elk country, twas said, it
was six feet deep in April. and in
some places four or five feet deep the
last of May or even the first Of June.
The spring following was backward.
cold and wet No very promising
anticipation of abundant crops of
hay now, July 10, -S35."
So wrote Joseph z. Martin in Vol
ume ! of the town records Of Pros
pect, incorporated in 1894. and en-
bracing all of the present town,
Stockton Springs and portion of
Searsport. Squire Martin" was
clerk of his town for n period of %
Years, following service OF % years
by Zaf m E,rannE Iuhn Sllcnoodod