Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-08

reclaim it and convert 1t to useful
purposes.
The Aroostook County Farm Bu-
reau will hold it's annual meeting on
Friday evening Oct. %, in Pressure
Isle. There will be moving pictures
at 1890 am. At 1870 there will be
a business meeting for men, and at
the same hour q demonstration on
Proper Footwear for the women.
There will be reports on, projects and
ample time will be taken for discus
sions of the following subjects:
Alfalfa self-feeder for hogs; inocu-
lated sulphur: seed plots; lime; bin
construction, accounts and any other
interests of the Aroostook farmer ne
may see fit to bring up for discus
sion.
The case of the towboat King
fisher, seized by the Government in
connection with liquor transporta-
ton and later burned, will be heard
before Judge John A. Peters in the
United States District Court at Port
land, Oct. 10. The. Government con-
tends that there is bond for security
which holds even though the craft
no longer is afloat. The Government
alleges that the Kingfisher towed a
Smith line barge into Rockland har-
Dor and there anchored 1t because of
engine trouble. The barge was
found to contain 1000 cases of liquor
as a cargo instead of empty barrels.
After the barge was anchored. the
fnxyhnot No ~ found The
Kingfsher finally was located at a
wharf in Portland, the crew arrested
and the boat released on a bond
which still. holds good, the Goveri.-
ment insists, although the boat was
burned after it was seized.
MAINE is facing continually in
creasing competition in the tourist
business and must fight hard to keep
that which she already has along
these lines to say nothing of getting
new business declared Harrie B.
| Coe, manager Of the Maine Publicity
Bureau at Portland. Much larger
publicity appropriations must be
| made and our work must be greatly
broadened within the next five or 10
years If Maine Is to hold her own in
| the tourist business in the face OF
the keen competition which Is going
/ on all over the country for this
| business" These remarks of Mr.
| Coe were inspired by letter which
| he had received Wednesday from
| Gov. Charles c. Moore of Idaho, an
nouncing that this Western State
was making an investigation looking
! to the adoption of publicity an6
advertising program for exploiting
it's tourists resources. Asserting tina
Maine had been pointed out to hin
as one of the pioneer states in ad
| vertising its tourist resources ant
| one which had accomplished excel
lent results in that line. Governol
Moore asked for data as to the plac
ing of advertising by the Maine Pub
licity Bureau and the results which
had been obtained from it.
Up in Aroostook. greatest agricul
tural county in all America. the,
take pains to impress upon tn
visitor that you can travel two hun
bred miles up here and not get ou
of sight of Gould's lights" And it
a fact. The Gould who lit the light
is Hon. Arthur r. Gould of Presqu
Isle, wizard of Aroostook and candi
date for the Republican nomination
| for the United States senate in tn
special primary to be held on Nov
/. 1t came about in this way: Il
his search for more timber lands t
cut, Mr. Gould came upon the ARGOS
took falls in the Aroostook river. H
saw the advantages of developin!
these hydro electrically. But tn
falls were on the New Brunswick
side of the line. However. Nh
Gould got his charter from Main
and also got a charter from New
Brunswick and he built his hydro
electric plant. But this hydro cleo
trio plant that Mr.. Gould startet
has grown and grown and grown
New work was taken on, addition
made and engagements perfected
Now it has over 200 miles of trans
mission line and electricity is whole
sailed to every community in ARGOS
took county. The whole plant Will
additions, originally cost $500 900.