Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-01

An lot of years befor'.
When we feels de desperation
OF de Summer aggravation
You comes smilin'
Singh sof. an low.
Miss September. we-all greet you.
We is sho'ly pleased to meet YOU
VIII de promise new
Autumn brings in view.
Sweeter dan de blushin' roses
Is dat beauty you discloses-
Reedbird nyin',
oyster fryin'.
Washington Star.
The fine flock of sheep from the
Kendall Long Branch farm at
Bowdoinham are now being taken on
the circuit Of Maine fairs.
Belfast seems to be booming just
now and it's chamber Of commerce is
to take means to bring at least 100
more workmen into that city to sup
ply it's industries which are short OF
labor.
With the approach Of the Fall
weather the gunners are commence
ing to turn their thoughts to the
hunting season which will open in a
few weeks. Partridges are said to
be plenty in the neighboring woods
and black duck are more numerous
in adjacent waters than for num-
Der of years.-Bath Times.
State Highway Commissioners Innes
and hurry, State Highway Engineers
Sargent and Edwards. the county
commissioners of Knox and Lincoln
Counties. the selectmen Of Friendship
and Waldoboro and Clerk Of Courts
Griffin assembled on the boundary
line between Friendship and Waldo
boro the other day to investigate the
merits of the Waldoboro selectmens
petition for a concrete bridge. 1t
was decided not to grant the request
as it was found that the Friendship
end of the bridge is in good condi-
ton, while the repairs now being
made on the Waldoboro side will
leave the bridge in tolerably good
condition.
A strange task was added Sunday
to the list of duties" of our oblig-
ing one man car operators. Pas
sengers on the mid-afternoon trolley.
in bound from Winthrop, leaned for
ward curiously as Motorman Sam
Chase brought his car to stop be-
side an open pasture and, followed
by stalwart companion. descended
to the roadbed, crossed the ditch and
climbed the opposite bank. Then
they saw. A COW had thrust its
head through the wire fence and
there remained, trapped. Sam grasp. .
ed the wire, his companion seized
upon the COW. There was a heave,
dusty scuffle, and the animal toss
ed its head in freedom. Now"
directed Motorman Chase with
peremptory wave of his arm Get
out of here. And don't you do that
tail and mournfully eyed the tempt
ing grass which had been the cause
of its imprisonment. The trolley
proceeded upon its way.
Auburn will have a Sky scraper"
the tallest building of it's kind in the
| City, If additions now being made on
| the Eureka apartment block. Court
| and Railroad streets are not en-
joined by Supreme Court from being
completed. The framework now in
process of erection indicates the adj
dition of three more floors to the
| four story structure. The high and
| spacious attic. uninhabited, is being
utilized for the lower of the ap-
! parent three new floors. Work has
been in progress several days. but it
was only day or two ago that the
new timbers began soaring higher
than the buildings original roof. AS
a result the City Council, which had
no knowledge Of the extent of re-
! pairs to be made, instructed Building
| Inspector Libby to petition Supreme
| Court for temporary injunction
restraining Nathan F. Woodbury.
owner, from continuing alteration
work which, in the opinion of the
| City Fathers, violates the city's
building ordinances.
The Maine Historical Society has
been given copy of the Bangor
Weekly Register, dated Saturday
November 16, 1916, and printed by
Peter Edes. This Peter Edes was
a pioneer printer in Maine. He was
born in Boston, December IT, 1856
and learned the printers trade in
the office of his father, who pub
lished the Boston Courier and Coun-
| try Journal. On June 10, 1875, two
days after the battle Of Bunker Hill
he was seized by the British on a
charge of having firearms concealed
in his house and thrust into prison,
where he was kept until October OF
that year. After 20 years passed as
a printer and publisher in NIassa-
chusetts and Rhode Island, Mr..
Edes came to Maine and published
the first number of the Kennebec
Intelligencer in Hallowell, November
IA. 1895. This paper, under differ
ent names, was published by Mr..
Edes until the Autumn Of 1915,
when he moved to Bangor taking
team of six oxen moved the load,
which weighed four tons. The team
was three weeks in going and re-
turning, and the charge was SLAB
At the time of Mr.. Edes' settlement
in Bangor it was a town Of about
1000 inhabitants. There on No
vember 25, 1915. he issued the first
number of the Bangor Weekly Reg
lister, year before the issue of the
copy Of the paper owned by the His
torieal Society. The paper is folio,
the size Of the printed page 16 by
nine inches, width of column 2 IA
inches. In August, 1917, Mr.. Edes
sold the paper to James Burton, Jr.,
of Augusta, by whom it's publication
was continued. The copy of the
Bangor Weekly Register possessed
by the Historical Society contains
articles selected from various num-
| berS of the files for 1915 and 1916.