Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-30

test which was conducted by T.. II.
Souibb & Sons. The contest was
conducted in July and open to babies
all over the United States. and there
were thousands OF contestants,
among them a number from Bath.
Twenty five prizes were offered and
100 received honorable mention. Ed
ward Sewall, Jr.. was the only baby
in New England to receive honor
able mention. Clarence Russell
Jones of Meredith, N. H, was one OF
the 25 prize winners.
The petition addressed to the
Maine State Highway Commission
asking that the State take over the
section Of the Cascade road leading
from the Atlantic highway to a point
lust beyond the Saco and Old Or
chard town line, as signed by Mayor
John G. Smith and the board of al
dermen of Saco, is being readily
signed by residents of Saco and Old
Orchard, who have occasion to travel
much over this piece of road. The
highway has been in bad condition
for a long while as the result OF
heavy traffic. 1t is considered one OF
the leading highways, used by auto
mobilists coming from Portland TO
Old Orchard and in the opposite d.
rection. The city of Saco has receiv-
ed very little benefit from the road
and finds 1t very expensive to keep
in repair, and If it is possible to get
the state to take charge Of 1t, I'M
provements, no doubt, would be made
to the advantage or comfort of per-
sons riding over it.
Climbing a tree to avoid meeting
with a moose, only to hit his head
against a swinging bees nest and
then in the attempt to draw back
from the hive, falling from his perch
to the ground and spraining his ankle
was the experience of a Bangor hun
ter during a recent excursion into
the region on st. Adams mountain.
The Queen City hunter and other
sportsmen from Bangor sighted a
COW moose and her calf In the area
between Devils Head and Moose
Pond. When the mother turned
toward the members of the party
the Bangor hunter in question hur-
ried into the upper sections of a stout
birch tree, which handily was close
by. There he went through the per-
Torrance of connecting with the bee
hive and then, in effecting an escape
from the fury of it's inmates, came
tumbling out of the tree to land on
terra firma with sprained ankle.
By that time the moose, her bessie
and his companions of the chase had
disappeared.
Among the Maine yards at the
eastward which have contracts for
yacht building during the coming
Winter is that of F. F. Pendleton, at
Wiscasset, where work will soon be
started on a 65-foot over all auxiliary
schooner for Charles Lee Andrews.
of the New York Yacht Club. Two
slightly smaller schooners are under
construction at Morses yard, Thorn
aston. The first of these is for Harry
B. Anderson, of the New York Yacht
Club, which will be 81 feet over all.
The Reed Cook Co., Of Boothbay, are
building two knockabout ketches to
have 5ig-handled rigs, 81 feet over
all. Likewise, Hodgdon Brothers, at
East Boothbay, have under oonstruc-
ton two sister schooners to the we'll
known -Malabar vi, 523 feet over all.
At the Harvey A. Carnage yard,
South Bristol, half dozen 43-foot
over all 'Maiconi" schooners are
under construction from Alden de-
signs, while there are building at
Woolwich eight Malabar juniors 30
feet over all. And these are only a
few of the more than SO yachts and
fishing crafts that will be built at
Maine yards during the coming Win
ter, a majority Of them for Massa-
chusetts parties.