Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-04

people down there are still enjoying
ocean baths and find the water as warm
as midsummer.
Some cities are getting an unusual
record of contagious diseases, this fall
but fortunate Portland reports that it
was never more free from them.
Names oldest typesetter, Martin c.
Dilworth of Belfast. who has had 60
years of active service at the cases has
retired. He is rs years DID, and though
he is still able to do good days work
with the best of them he thinks he has
earned vacation.
Maine is glad to have Holman F. Day
back at home again. He has severed
his connection with the Boston Journal,
and with his bride will come home to
Auburn to live.
The death of Major Rowell of Halo
well leaves only three of the men who
founded the Maine Press association in
1864 still living. They are Joseph A.
Homan of Augusta, Frank G. Rich of
Bangor and Hiram X. Morrell of Gard-
ner.
Winthrop man, Everett Webb, has
received returns from carload of APP
pies shipped to England, which sold at
$3.75 a barrel, netting somewhere about
1915.
The slaughter of porcupines still goes
on down in Washington county, and
neither the zeal of the hunters nor the
supply of porcupines is exhausted
though the treasury of the State pro-
misses to be. Willard Andrews of
Mortified probably has the record for
the largest number in one week, his
best week being 70 of these animals
and it will be readily seen that at %
cents each, it made very good weeks
work. His second best week was 81 of
these animals. Fred Colson of Wesley
comes close second, with 66 as his best
week but as he killed two bears during
the week his total bounty money for the
week will exceed that of Mr. Andrews.
Fort Fairfield Review: Aroostook
young men born and reared on farms
| are displaying their good sense more
strongly each year by staying more
| closely on the farm than formerly.
They are learning to know a good thing
when they see it and have it,
Speaking of the terrible railroad dis
asters in Indiana in which members of
the Perdue University football team
and many students were killed and in
Jured while going by special train to
/ indianapolis to play the Indiana State
| University for the state championship.
| it is of interest to note that the head
coaches of both elevens We're former
Maine college athletes. Cults, who
| played on Bates, years ago and later
won fame in the Harvard rush line has
been coaching the Perdue eleven. this
/ fall, as was stated in the account of the
accident: and the athletic director of
Indiana State University and the head
coach of it's eleven is James H. Horne.
who graduated from Bowdoin in '97
While in college. Horne was not only q
football star, but was also one of the
best track athletes in the State, being
captain of the Bowdoin track team. and
winning for several years the hurdle
races at the New England college field
day at Worcester. AS junior at Bow
doin. Horne was voted the wooden
spoon as popular man by his class
mates, perhaps the most coveted un-
ldergraduate honor of the college. He
has been the successful head of the
athletic interests of the Indiana uni
Iversity for several years.
The new Zeta Psi chapter house al
Bowdoin College is fast nearing COM
pletion, and soon the work of the build
mig committee, of which Hon. William
1T. Cobb, III. of Rockland and Hon.
Herbert M. Heath, 70 of Augusta are
the most prominent members, will be at
an end, and the beautiful fraternity
home will be turned over to the under
graduate chapter. The house is on Cot
llege street facing the campus. with
pines all around it, and it's most strik-
ling characteristics are the great fire.
places, with arches. mantels and dec
orations of rough stone, in the main hall