Houlton Times, May 30, 1923

..................................itmiHiMimmuij; 'Miiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiijmif^ IT ( AROOSTOOK ■ TIMES SHIRE TOWN OF , u b r * , " i April 13, 1860 to \ AROOSTOOK COUNTY | | December 27, 1916 | E 3 ntmtiiHtwiHf»mttyiimill»limi>ll>... TIMES riiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiimiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiitii? VOLUME LXIII HOULTON, MAINE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30. 1923 NUMBER TWENTY-TWO RADIO PROGRAM NEW COUNTY AGENT Station WLAN (285 Meters) Putnam A now county agent, to take charge HOULTON-BANCROFT MAINE & QUEBEC Hardware Co., Houlton, Maine of agricultural extension work in Saturday, June 2nd, 7.30 p. m. Aroostook, under the auspices of the RAILR0AD0UTL00K New England Crop Reporting Ser College of Agriculture, the United LINE PLANNED vice, as prepared by the United States State's Department of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture. the Aroostook Farm Bureau, has been hdicatioiis Point to Its Being 7.45 p. m. selected in succession to Edward \V. Eastern Me. Directors Discuss Public Health by Radio, as prepar Morton, who has resigned to become Built in the Near ed under the direction of the Surgeon field agent, for the Maine Potato Grow Financial Arrangements- General, United States Public Health ers' Exchange. Future Service. Verne C. Beverly, the recommenda Pres Maxfield Resigns Sunday, June 3rd, 10.30 a. m. tion of whom has been sent to Wash Services will be broadcasted from ington for appointment as county At a meeting of the hoard of direc For the last five years the people , the Methodist Episcopal church, Mili agent, has for three years been teach tors of the Eastern Maine Railroad of Aroostook county have heard more tary street, Houlton, Me., the Rev. er of agriculture at Patten Academy in Houlton Friday plans were laid or less about the railroad which Albert E. Luce officiating. Mrs. Hor and has been very successful in that to finance the building of the road Arthur Gould was planning to build ace Hughes, Soloist and Musical Di work. He was horn in Calais, work- from Houlton to Bancroft. across the state towards Quebec and rector, Miss Louise Puzzell, Organist. ed his way through Bangor High J. B. Stewart of Elmira. N. Y., a for which he has a charter within the Wednesday, June 6th, 7.30 p. m. School and the University of Maine former official of the Bangor & Aroos boundaries of the State of Maine. Musical program will be broadcast by summer employment on large took Railroad, was elected president A recent issue of the Press-Herald ed from the Temple Theatre. Music Maim; farms, his last two summers to succeed George W. Maxfield of had an article regarding this new rail will be furnished by the Temple Thea in that service; being on the Summit Bangor, resigned. Vice Pies.. A. G. road and the 7IMES has it on pretty tre Orchestra. farms at Davidson. In college he was Chambers, Haynesville; Clerk, W. S. good authority that the prospects for 8.15 p. m. a star football end, a member of the Lcwin; Directors, officers, George H. this road being built in the near future Public Health by Radio, as prepar Junior Masks, the Senior Skulls and Bonn. Geo. W. Maxfield. seem to be promising. Arrangements ed under the direction of the Surgeon the M Club and was treasurer of the The proposed line to Bancroft it were practically completed with the General, United States Public Health class in his senior year. He served will be remembered will be 32 miles financial backers of Mr. Gould in Eng Service. a year in the armv. long and when built will connect at land at the time the war broke out, the latter point with the Maine Cen but necessarily were dropped and tral Railroad. The company holds a since that time Mr. Gould has con PUBLICITY BUREAU BRYSON’S MILL Maine charter covering the route. tinued to do work on the right of way J. B. Stewart was for a number of and the charter is still in effect. His ISSUES BOOKLET DESTROYED SUNDAY years connected with the Bangor and annual trip on runners during the Aroostook railroad leaving this com winter over the right of way is now Giving Many Points of Interest for Great Less to the Town But May pany in January 1919. He went with an established event and never for the Vacationist Be Rebuilt the Great Northern Paper Co. and a minute has this broad minded man built a logging railroad for them from An alarm of fir** at 12.45 a. m. wa given up the idea of constructing this A beautiful It'S page booklet on Seboomic north, after which he went ning in on Sunday morning and th* road, which will mean the opening up Maine and its attractions as a vaca with a rubber company in New Jer- of a vast wilderness which consists tion land has just been issued by ; *‘ro destroyed tin* Lumber mill known SPy anq jias n()\V gotten back to Aroos- of a wealth of water power and lum the State of Maine Publicity Bureau j as the Bryson mill otf from Smyrna and is working to make arrange- ber and where the land is very fertile whose headquarters are located at | ^rect, together with quite an amount niPn(s for the building of the Eastern after the lumber has been removed, Portland. The booklet, which is of I ot finished lumber which was in the yiaine from Houlton to Bancroft, there mill. in short the development of this sec the convenient pocket folder type, en to connect with the Maine Central Tile loss <m the mill and lumber tion of Aroostook county when the deavors to tell the story of Maine and railroad. contained (heroin is estimated a t road is built will open up a country what it has to offer to tourists. (’has. Murray of Bangor was in at :f25,OO0 with an insurance of $10,000. similar to that through which the The text of the book has been great tendance at the meeting of the stock MR. AND MRS. BURLEIGH R. W ATERMAN The cause of the fir** is unknown and Bangor and Aroostook built in 1S92. ly condensed so as to give only the holders and is interested from the There has been much interest in the announcement of tin1 marriage in Mr. Bryson stated that there had been The road as planned will start from essential details, and also to proviu- standpoint of the building end, and Kalamazoo, Michigan, of Miss Mabel (). Thompson of Houlton and Burleigh no fire in tin* boilers sine*' Saturday Washburn, which is no.v reached by room for a large number of wonde - while much has been said about build R. Waterman formerly of this City which took place May 1(5. The bride is the Gould electric road, and go west noon. ing this road for the past ten years, fully fine pictures of Maine scenery the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Thompson of Houlton,and attended crossing south of Portage Lake along The wind was blowing towards the nothing material excepting getting the showing its remarkable coast, its the University of Maine, from which Me. Waterman also graduated. He is the waterway of the Little Machias plant of tin; Bangor &. Aroostook rail rights of way and some clearing has superb lakes, its mountains, its riv the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Waterman of (57 Stevens avenue and is river continuing between Clayton road and it was necessary for Chief been done. ers, and all of its other striking now assistant manager of the W. T. Grant storein Kalamazoo. He is a Lake and Mud Pond, directly south features, Clark to send a number of men to wet The resignation of Mr. Maxfield, graduate of peering High School. Kxpn -Advert iser) tlie Coal sheds which caught fire. Tie* of Big Fish Lake, turning southwest The booklet is sub-divided into var who has devoted a great deal of time and across the AUegash river, then ious sections including an introduc reflection lit the town, making it as an(j money on the proposed road, was going northeast and north to a point tion, the story of 100 harbored Maine', RICKER PAGEANT RICH FOR TRAVELERS light as day. rim all out was sound- reluctantly accepted, but he will still ed at 7.30 and was tin* hardest fire to on the Canadian border above Ludwig from the New Hampshire border line' remain on the Board and give the HISTORICAL DISPLAY fight that th*' Department has had for pond, while the proposed Canadian at Kittery to Cape Elizabeth; Casco FROM CANADA organization the benefit of his ex soin*' time. branch railroad to connect with the Bay, Eastward from Bath, Penobscot Among the many beautiful pictures In connection with the information perience. Mr. Bryson has not decided whether Gould line will run directly from Bay to Frenchman's Bay, Mt. Desert which will be presented on the days contained in last week's TIMES. .Mr. Those interested seem to have a LaFoptaine due east from Quebec to Islaml and the Lafayette' National of the Rickey Pageant, will lie (he r Finnegan, Deputy Collector of Intern lm will rebuild permanently, hut will great deal of confidence in Mr. Stew the point where the proposed Gould park, from Frenchman's Bay to Grand resentation of the Flight of Time. al Keumue, lias made arrangements make arrangements to saw his logs art's ability to finance and construct line will strike the Canadian bound- Manan> an«i Passamaquoddv Bav. The Years, since lMs will approach so that those wishing to report <m with a portable mill and then decide the road, although what he can ac about rebuilding later.

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