Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-03

EOr with our IlSefl SDTISL 10 COulc
All hopes anew this Easter morn.
-Addie Dana Hanks.
Augusta, Maine.
The salmon season In the Penob-
scot opened April 1, but it does not
mean much to anxious fishermen.
There Is hardly enough open water
in the Bangor Pool to hold a catch,
and the river Is so checked with ice
that it is doubtful If many fish have
come up from the sea.
South Bristol has a tax collector
who for four years has collected
every dollar of the taxes committed
to him. Not even a poll tax has es-
capped. Summer people, non-resi-
dents own much property and are
name is Vinal Kelsey. He belongs
in the Haul of Fame
In an old newspaper, The Lincoln
Intelligencer printed in Wiscasset
in 1926, the population of Bath is
given at 3,629, the census being
| taken on the Legislature passing a
| law to have the number of all inhab-
| itance between and 81. This year
there We're 423 children under four
years old.
! Several stories in regard to the
ravages OF woodpeckers have APP
peared in the Portland papers the
last day or so, and Camden adds this
one to the list. An enterprising and
persistent woodpecker has succeeded
in drilling a hole through the resi-
dence of Major z. B.. Clark on High
street.
| The Rockland e Roclport Lime
Corporation has 81 kilns afire, in
Guiding the gas bilns. which is a
| better condition of affairs than Is
commonly found at this season. The
outlook for spring activities is
! further augmented by the near COM
pletion of the new fiuX stone plant,
which is destined to give much ad-
ditional employment.
| The Waldoboro post Office will be
advanced to second class July /.
The required business in postal re-
ceipts to advance from third to
| second class is $4,000 a year and the
local office has a good margin over
that sum the past year. The same
clerks will be retained with sal
airy increase William C. Flint, the
postmaster is receiving congratula-
lions.
Signs OF spring continue to multi
ply. The first flocks of geese have
gone honking orth to their summer
quarters on HudSons Bay, load or
two of wood has been brought in
from the country. 1t begins to look
as if the dandelions might bloom
again, and on schedule time after
all. in spite of the predictions that
1926 is TO be a year without d sum-
mer."
Mrs. Luther McComiskey OF
Boothbay, who has been stu yins at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Frank Dunton, at Trevett, Boothba Y
this winter, received news last week,
of the death of her mother, Mrs.
Liza Ross, at her home, Cape Sable
Island, n. S. Mrs. Ross represented
one of five generations and her death
makes the 4th in this long line of
descendants. She was the mother of
. children, all of whom are now liv-
ing; she had so grandchildren, Al
great grandchildren anu 10 great
great grandchildren. 1t seems that
this must be record seldom equalled
in any country, with only four deaths
out of 102 lives within a span of Sc
years.
George Savage of Ellsworth. While
working in camp on the old Ban
gor road was taken ill, too i'll to
leave camp. Writing a note. he
fastened it to the dog and told him
to go home. 1t is not always an
easy matter to drive a dog home,
especially from warm camp away
four or five miles out jim the woods,
but the dog seemed to sense trouble.
He started for home without any
hesitation. On the road he met a
man who had been in camp with
him. and with whom he had been
great chums. The man tried to
stop him, but the dog would not
allow him to touch him, and lodged
by. Arrived at the home in Ellis
worth, he scratched at the door, and
forced himself into attention until
the note was discovered. Assistance
was sent to the camp, and the young
man was brought home. He is quite
| i'll, threatened with pneumonia.