Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-12

Maine uay.
If we would praise Maine, her sons
and daughters fair,
And talk about her colleges, her
schools and churches, where
She leads the minds of millions, the
world would shout Murray!
And celebrate Maine in verses, songs
and lay!
So let us praise each other, and buy
each others wares,
And fill our lives with sunshine ana
smiles instead of glares,
And let us pull together land all unit
ed seek
To put the best place in the world
right on it's feet.
BY M. w. Buriingame and A. w.
Pulsifer in EastporS Sentinel.
The October term Of supreme judi
cial court for Oxford county will open
at South Paris on Tuesday, the 18th,
with Justice Guy H. Sturgis presid-
ing. This will be Justice Sturgis
first term in that county.
The work of canning corn at the
Burnham & Morrill, Co. factory at
South Paris was finished recently.
The seasons pack, 100000 cans, is
a record for this factory If not Tor
the state. The company will also
have about five hundred bushels OIL
seed corn which is pronounced the
best they have ever had.
Co. L 103rd. Infantry, which has
consisted Of two platoons, one at
Milo and the other at Dover-Fox-
croft. has been changed over some
what, The Milo platoon has been
disbanded and headquarters made at
Dover Foxcroft where all property
and records will be kept. The COM
pany will be recruited as 1ast as
possible UP to the minimum peace
strength which is 60.
Old Town Enterprise: The long
est freight train that ever passed
through Old Town passed through
here on the Maine Central Railroad
last Sunday. 1t was made up OF luz
cars and was drawn by one of their
new freight engines. 1t takes one
hundred cars to make a train mile
long. 1t would reach from Great
Works station to Old Town station.
This would have made two or three
trains twenty-five years ago.
On an r. F. D. route at Meredith,
New Hampshire, there is an ingen-
ious travelling mail box that runs on
wires, through the woods, the trees
having been trimmed to allow its
progress from the highway to the
farmhouse. When the carrier places
the mail in the box he gives the wire
a jerk, and a member Of the house
hold perched on a stationary bicycle
three quarters of a mile away, pedals
the machine and draws the box to
it's destination. Here is a suggestion
that might help some Maine farmers!
Changers of Hancock county are
planning for a big gathering at
Ellsworth this Monday evening. when
the sixth degree will be worked by
State grange officers. 1t Is expected
that there will be a class of from
$50 to 200 candidates. Hancock
county furnished the largest class at
any of these county meetings last
year, and it is hoped may do SO
again this year. The state grange
officers who will be there are State
Master John z. Abbott Of North
Berwick, with Mrs. Abbott; Secre-
tary Z. H. Libby of Charleston. with
Mrs Libby; Steward C. 7. Hodgkins
of Brewer; Assistant Steward Field
of Lewiston, with Mrs. Field, lady
assistant steward, and Lecturer Merle
Hartman of Readfield.
Maine sardine Gamers are closely
cooperating with the government
this season with the object of improv-
ing the quality Of Maine sardines,
which object has already been at
tanned to a marked degree. Since
the opening of the sardlne canning
season last April Maine Gamers have
worked in closest cooperation with
the United States Bureau Of Chem
istry and aided in every way posi-
BILE to better THE quality of the pack.
The Gamers fully expressed to the
representatives Of the Bureau OF
Chemistry their ideas upon how to
better the quality of the pack, and
they also were prompt to adopt the
suggestions Of the Bureau to the
same end. The result of this policy
of corporation has been that only
the finest fresh fish have been packed
on the Maine coast this season, and,
in general, the methods Of handling
them have been decidedly improved.
With the passing of the Maine Po-
tato Growers Assn. better known as
the Co-ops, there has been a new
concern, The American Fruit Grow
ers Inc, which has been dealing in
Citrus Fruits for a number of years
and has high standing in all the
leading markets which has entered
the Aroostook market and already
they have buyers in many of the
large shipping stations in the coun-
ty. Another concern which is also
doing business in the county is the
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co,
handling thousands of bushels of po-
tatoes and doing most of their buy
ing in the north part of the county
for their many stores. The Fedora
ton of Farmers Is also taking
prominent part in the potato buying
and such stimulation as this COM
petition, has a tendency to give those
selling the highest market price and
at times even more than the market
will stand. The effect of this COM
petition among the independent buy
ers was shown last week when in
completing loading cars at one or
two stations near Houlton the price
in competition went away above the
daily price, all of which gives more
money to the growers and farmers.
-Houlton Times.
The white porcupine. which was
captured in Elliottsville by Leroy
Dow and which was on exhibition in
the windows of A. l.. Hoyt's store and
of the Central Maine Power Co., last
week, met an untimely and hot end
Friday morning. The first night the
animal was in the Central Maine
Power Cos store it escaped from