Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-04

of these days the State will have to
do something on the road betwees
Brunswick and Bath. 1t is rough in
many spots and is too narrow for
the heavy traffic which will be 60
ing over it when the Kennebec
bridge is completed. 1t would be a
fine thing if this could be done so
that it would be ready for traffic
when the bridge is opened.
As the result OF the recent inspec-
ton of gasoline pumps in Portland. in
which So of the 322 pumps tested
were found to be incorrect. c. V.
Pickett, sealer of weights and meas
ures in that city. has issued letter of
instruction to sellers and purchasers of
gasoline. Few people who buy gaso-
line realize the loss to themselves if
an incorrect pump is used for a long
period of time. Operators of gasoline
pumps should test them every morn
ing, and if found incorrect the COM
pany owning the pump should be
notified" said Mr. Pickett. The
practice of selling gasoline in the
morning before n pump has ~ On test
ed is resulting in a big loss to pur-
chasers. The gasoline in any pump
runh back to certain extent while
resting idle all night, and for this
reason daily test is necessary"
THE first hotel in Maine was
opened near Ferry Beach in 1854"
Almon S. Bisbee told the Portland
Civilian Club at it's luncheon meet
ing Monday at the Falmouth Hotel
"As settlements were established
along the coast" said Mr.. Bisbee,
land a highway was constructed to
connect them. the need of public
house or ordinary was felt. To
meet this need the court, in 1854,
granted a license to Henry Wad-
dock, to keep an ordinary, to en-
terrain strangers for their money.
This was the beginning of the hotel
business that has assumed its pres
ent day proportions along the Maine
coast. Waddock also was granted a
license to operate a ferry and was
authorized to receive two pence for
everyone that he set over the river.
Waddock kept this public house %
years"
The young moose which came into
Bangor on Sunday night, as told in
The News, evidently covered con-
siderable area of the city in his pur-
suit of the source of that famous
moose call otherwise known as the
Brewer fire alarm horn, which can be
heard for miles around. On Monday
a resident of Hammond street near
West Broadway said that he saw the
moose going along Hammond street
and disappear in Seventh street at
about 9.45 p. m. 1t is suggested that
in the fall the employment of the
Brewer fire horn at night might re-
suit in making Bangor and Brewer
happy hunting grounds. with hunters
sitting on their own front porches
while the moose trot into town to
answer the call. This would be
unique and should give Bangor
front page stuff in the big metro
politan dailies.-Bangor News.
Germany, in spite of its vast
armies of unemployed, is in much
better condition today than it was
four years ago, according to John A.
Folwartschny, Portland locksmith,
who returned Monday after passing
countries. Mr.. Folwartschny, a ma
tive of Silesia, Austria, but a resi-
dent of Portland for the past SO
years, stated that the lack of raw
materials, causing great armies of
unemployed, and lack of housing IA
cilities were the great drawbacks in
Germany today. In spite of this.
however. he states that German