Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-28

has been built close by. The beautiful
spiral staircase which led from the
ground floor to the cupola and which
created SO many EXPLANATIONS of de-
light from those who saw it, has been
kept intact but reversed.
Plans for the observance of Mil
linockets first Old Home Week,
Aug. to IA, are developing salts
factorily, with the various commit
tees hard at work to make the event
a success. The weeks program will
include baseball, games, carnival at
fractions, rides, free street attrac-
tions, sham battle and children's day
with pageant, and the biggest parade
in the history of the town will be
staged under the direction of the
chief of police. The sham battle will
be staged by Co. l, 103rd Infantry
aiding the Donald V. Henry Post of
the American Legion, and aided by
other units of the Maine National
Guard, if such arrangements can be
made. The celebration will COM
memorate the 25th anniversary of
the town of Millinocket.
The work of loading upward of ten
thousand cords of pulpwood from the
st. John river was started last week
by a contractor for the Madawaska
Company of Van Buren,. The pulp
wood will be shipped to the Great
Northern Paper Company at MILL
nocket. The contract has been
awarded Louis Madore of Van Buren,.
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about fifteen men will be required to
load approximately two hundred
cords per day. It is estimated that
it will take all summer and late into
the fall to clear the river. The
pulpwood was cut in the headwaters
Of the ST. John and Allagash rivers
and fioated down to Van Buren, in
the wake of the lumber drive for
loading at that town.
About 1000 people have visited
Sieur de Monts Spring the Bar Har-
Dor entrance to Lafayette National
Park since the new seasons register
book was started and something over
a third of these have registered.
California, Florida, Japan and the
Philippine Islands show in the
regstries, as do Massachusetts,
Virginia, New York, Illinois, Iowa,
Connecticut. Rhode Island. New
Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, New
York and Canada. The spring
grounds had a considerable addition
to their wild life inhabitants, for
recently. P. F. Lane, who is assistant
to grounds superintendent Charles
Hass, discovered a hedgehog, who
with seven little ones. has establish
ed a home there. The grounds are
exceedingly attractive this year, the
flowers at the open source of the
spring. of rock garden and other
varieties having wintered we'll. while
ferns. paths. shrubbery and the var
ious other details which go to make
this now well known point of ex-
cursion for motorists, far and near, as
well as those who travel the paths,
level or mountainous. one Of the
most attractive.
The Ellsworth Chamber of Com
merce at it's last meeting voted to
hold an afternoon and evening outing
July Is at "Sherm" Douglas Lamoine
Beach dining pavilion and hotel. This
will be ladies' day meeting. Benja-
min l.. Hadley, chief ranger of the
Lafayette National Park, was a speak
er at the session of the Chamber last
week, giving an interesting address in
which he reviewed the romantic his
tory of Mt. Desert island, and the
creation of Lafayette Park. He ex-
planned briefly the difference between
national monument and a national
park-the first to preserve, in its nat
ural state. some place of natural or
historical interest, the second to de-
velop. for the interest Of visitors,
some tract Of natural beauty. This
fact Ia OF significance there, as It
means that the government will an
nually appropriate large sums for the
development OF Lafayette National
Park for the attraction of increasing
numbers Of visitors. He told what was
now being done in ths way of road
building.
"A peculiar situation exists in re-
gard to potatoes in this section" says
the Lubec correspondent In the Ban
gor News. Last fall a buyer from up
country contracted potatoes here at
around IS. but was unable to take
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of the price at the westward prom
ised to cause heavy losses to the
farmers who held their stock and to
the buyer who could not get as much
as he had offered last year. But the
buyer. holding to his contract, Is talk
ing the potatoes at the agreed price,
and instead of shipping them at a
loss, Is selling them in Job lots to the
store-keepers of the county, as there
Is a scarcity of old potatoes here
abouts. getting his profit and letting
the farmers get theirs without going
outside Of the county for market.
This is the first time. as far as Is
known when buyer has bought and
sold potatoes in the same locality.
Unreasonable weather has retarded
the growth Of crops lately. and some
report the loss of garden seed planted
too early. Hay Is surviving the cold
spell and late season well and the
wild berry crop, especially the million
% aellar' BURBERRY crop are setting