Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-17

Old Home weeks are getting ahead
Of the early frosts.
Haying is late this year but don't
forget to listen in" on the whirI-
wind tours.
There's one Maine pugilist appar-
emily in sore need Of a job. 1t might
keep him out Of marital troubles If
not out Of mischief
The towers Of political strength
are now being lighted. Grand illum-
ination Sept. 13- an unlucky day for
some Of them.
The will Of Clara Neptune, an Old
Town Indian, was filed for probate
at Bangor on Friday, the second will
of an Indian to be filed here in re-
cent years. All her estate is given
to her sister, Katherine Pond, who is
appointed executrix. The will is
dated April q. 1923. The estate is
valued at $500.
The International Manufacturing
Co., of Phillips. sent to the Maine
Hard-Woods Assn, Augusta. last
week an exhibit for display at the
Springfield, Mass, fair to be held
soon. The exhibit was intended to
show different processes in making
spools as follows: the rough square,
spool bar, bar turned and bored,
turning cut to spool length, turned
Statistics compiled by the New
England Crop Reporting Service,
Wakefield, Mass, show that in Maine
1877 acres of land were planted to
corn this year as compared with TO-
62S acres in 1925.
The season to date has been I'M
favorable to corn in Maine due prin-
cipally to low temperatures during
May, June and July, but conditions
are now more favorable and a fair
Weld may be expected IL severe
frosts do not occur early in Septem-
Der.
A flying squirrel was seen Sunday
! morning on Charles street, Water
Vile. opposite the Franklin Service
station, The animal which looked
| like a small gray squirrel. climbed to
| the top of an electric light pole and
then leaped off and scared a dis
| lance of fifty feet or more. II tnen
/ went up the corner Of a house ana
| flew again. The second time II
landed a cat bounced on 1t but the
cat was driven away by those watch
| ing the squirrel and 1t disappeared
| through a hole in the fence.
Miss NJ. Estelle Ramsdell of East
port. a teacher in the public schools
in recent years in Massachusetts and
now masters assistant at the Web
ster Grammar School in Cambridge
| Mass. received notification a Few
| DAYS ago from Portland that she
had passed the Maine Bar Examina =
| tion conducted on August ana .
in that city.
Thirty-six had taken the examin.
| .tion. of which IS were men, ano
those who received the required rank
! are eligible to practice law IN state
~ Maine when later admitted to the
har through the regular channels
| Mis-. Ramsdell had completed four
Years course of law at Portia Law
| school in Boston.
washington County BURBERRY
growers will receive more for their
berries this year than they have for
several years, although the crop Is
considerably less, said William G.
Hunton, industrial agent Of the
Maine Central railroad. Mr. Hunton
has just returned from a trip through
Washington County and bases his
| observations upon personal inspec-
! ton of the fields in the section
around Machias and reports from
Cherryfield and other localities.
Except on the coast, the BURBERRY
crop will be considerably behind
/ that Of last year and the berries
generally are not running so large.
said Mr.. Hunton. ION the other
hand. the prices which are being
| paid for the crop are much above
| that which prevailed last year."
There Is prospect Of q busy Fall
on the Penobscot River q short dis
lance above the mouth Of the
| Piscataquis River. Here the Ban
gor Hydro Electric Co., has bought
a power site and dam and will
| set about development with the in
| tention of increasing its water
| power holdings by $4,000 horse
| power. This company plans. it is
/ said, to expend two million dollars
on this development. At first q $500
horse power water wheel and gen.
| orator will be installed. The prin-
/ cipal power plants Of the Bangor
| Hydro Electric Company are located
| at Milford, Veazie ana Ellsworth.
The Company is now constructing a
hydro electric plant at East Ma
chias, Maine, with an initial ca
pacity Of 1000 horsepower. The
| generating capacity Of the present
| plants and the site now owned can
| be increased from $4,000 horsepower
| to approximately $4,000 horsepower,
| thus insuring to the communities
| served by the Bangor Hydro
| Electric Company. ample hydro
| electric power to take care OF future
requirements for many years.
Another school Of huge fish, which
| is said to be the largest ever seen in
the York Harbor section Of the At
| lantic seaboard, has invaded the
| waters around Boone Island, six
miles off shore, Keeper Harold
Hutchins reported to York Harbor by
| telephone. Thursday night.
He said that one Of the fish meas
used at least 20 feet in length and
| has n An 3 feet long. The other ash