Show LOW WATER MAY CLOSE MANY MILLS LOWELL Mass Au Aug 17 An An unusual unusual un un- usual lowering of the water in Lake Winnipesaukee one of the principal sources of the Merrimac l river threatens to tie up millions of spindles in the textile textile tex tex- tile tHe cities alon along the tho Merrimac in Massachusetts Massachusetts Massa Massa- and New Hampshire On tho the called so-called c locks locks and canals scale scalo the lake when at its greatest height re registers forty four forty four inches At present it shows but 10 inches a lower low low- er or figure than ever before record record- ed cd The lack of water is is attributed to the se severe seere ere drought of 1908 and 1909 and the small amount of snow last win tor ter in New Hampshire |