The Republican journal., 1905-06-15
MAINE NEWS ITEMS.

MAINE NEWS ITEMS.
The Mount kineo House is to open
June 20.
Aroostook potato men are predicting
a crop of 100000 bushels next fall,
the largest ever raised in the county.
Miss katherine Reed, daughter of
the late Hon. Thomas B. Reed, and
Lieutenant Arthur Balentine, |. S. A,
are to be married June ~.
There are II Maine girls in vassar.
of whom four are i'll the graduating
class, this year. They are Louise f.
Dutton, Ellsworth; Evelyn NJ. Lane
Westbrook; Ruth z. Smith, Portland
and Kate z. Wheeler, Portland
That portion of Penobscot bay di-
rectly in trout of the Samoset hotel
Rockland Breakwater, will be the
rendezvous of the Practice Squadron
of the United States navy from July
1st to August 18th.
Governor Cobb and his staff will be
in Portland June sd to assist in the
welcome to the SD Canadian regiment.
which will arrive from Sherbrooke
that day to Join the Portland battalion
and the Naval reserves in their military
carnival.
Arrangements are now being made
for the 18th Good Will assembly and
boys encampment which is held an
nuaIly i'll the pines across the kenne-
bee river from the Good Will farm at
HlnckIey. This years dates are July
~ to Aug. 16.
President William Dewitt Hyde of
Bowdoln College, in his annual report,
acknowledged gifts as follows: Garcelon
bequest, $40, 394: Mary Sophia Walker
bequeSt $4,000; ID. F. FairWeather
estate, S3745; Franklin A. Wilson,
$500; several smaller amounts, S1244.
The shipments of potatoes over the
Bangor Il ArooStook railroad for the
month of May amounted to III, 467
bushels, making total from the 1904
crop up to and including May, 1909 of
8, 4133, 81 bushels. This is an increase
OF ,24l, 5SI bushels over the shipments
at the same time a year ago.
Mark Patterson and John Ridlon,
two civil war veterans, died June 9th,
the former at his home in Saco aud the
latter at the soldiers Home at ToguS
Both were - years old, belonged to the
Goth Maine regiment, We're neighbors
for thirty years and passed away about
the same time. They had interesting
war records. Their funerals were held
on the same day.
Prof. Karl p. Harrington, professor
of Latin at the University of Maine,
has accepted the Latin professorship at
the Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Ct, and will sever his connection with
the former institution at the close of
this present term. Prof. HarringtOn'S
new position is the same one which his
father filled for 25 years.
To rank first in scholarship among a
class of 260 cadets at the L. S. naval
academy at Annapolis is the honor that
Norton, Portland boy and a graduate
on the completion of his first academl-
the year which was very high, places
him above his nearest competitor by
large margin.
Mrs. F. A. Jones of Lewiston has
been appointed by the State Regent of
the ID. A. r. to serve as chairman of
the ways and means committee to raise
money in this section of the State for
Continental Hall, now being built in
Washington. The lot for this building
cost $50, 900, and the entire cost of the
building will be about half million
dollars. The lower story is already
erected but the building will not be
finished until the money for it has been
raised.
The Hallowell Granite Works have
secured the contract for the Suffolk
Savings Bank building, Boston, and
work will commence on it shortly
About 5000 is involved in the con
tract. The building will be Ionic in de
sign and similar to plans adopted by
banking houses. Orders have been re
ceived for large groups of heroic size
figures for the New York Hall of
Records-in addition to the large num-
Der already completed and delivered.
Among the representatives of the
Maine press to attend the goth annual
convention Of the National Editorial
to be held in Guthrie,
Oklahoma, are Mr.. and Mrs. c. w.
Robbins of the Old Town Enterprise,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. S. Haskell, Pittsfeld
Advertiser, and Gen. and Mrs. J. p.
Cilley of Rockland. After adjourn
ment the association will visit the
larger cities of Texas and southern
and the Lewis and Clark ex-
position at Portland, Oregon.
It's mistake to imagine that itching
piles can't be cured; mistake to suffer g