Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-13
Fish and Game Commits
sioners Order Hearings.
Governor May Appoint Member
Of State Survey Commission.
Arrangement Of Flower Beds al
Capitol Completed.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, Juno %, at 10 A. NJ.

will announce, next Tuesday, the ap-
nointment of a member of the State
survey Commission to fill the. vacancy
now existing in that body by reason of
the death of the late Prof. Leslie A.
Lee of Bowdoin College. The law
stimulates that this commission shall
consist of three members and that the
chairman thereof shall be geologist.
PAPERS are on file at the executive
department announcing the candidacy
of Prof. Ora w. Knight and Prof. II. S.
Boardman of the University of Maine
The chairman of the commission
gets a salary of 5000 per year and the
other two members one of 5000 per year.
The other members of the commission
are Hon. Charles S Hichborn of Au-
eusta and Hon Nathaniel NJ. Jones of
Bangor.
The Commissioners of Inland
Fisheries and Game have ordered
nublic hearings on two petitions, both
of which hearings will be held at the
Shaw House in Newport as 8 o'clock
Thursday morning, June IS. The first
petition is that of w. A. Bumps and
six others, all residents of the town
prays that the stream in Dexter
village, from the railroad bridge to The
mill, including the two artificial ponds
formed by the dam, be closed to all
fishing.
The second petition is that of ]. G.
Waters and II others, residents of the
town Of Newport. in Penobscot county,
and prays that additional close time
may be placed on Lake SebaSticOok for
white perch fishing, to wit. to close
this lake to all white perch fishing
during the month of June of each year.
With the setting out of the Towering
and foliage plants in the circular beds
on the upper terrace and at each side
of the front entrance of the Capitol,
which was completed yesterday, the
decorations of the grounds around the
building are finished for the summer.
The arrangement of the beds is very
tasteful, and when the different plants
come to maturity they will present a
spectacle of much beauty. In the GEN.
ter of each bed is a palm-like plant
called a drlcena Australis. and around
it a circle of five saliva: then comes
another circle Of u SALIVA, and third
circle of 40 saliva, eQui distance IN thus
circle being six rubber plants. The
next circle contains margucritcS, ~ III
all, of the Queen Alexander variety,
and outside of this circle are six fig
ures ui-diStance part, each contain
ing II heIiOtropeS Surrounding this
is a Huted circle of yellow altcrnan-
thera, $50 in all. Then come six cir
cles, in each of which is dracena sur
rounded by seven yellow alternanthera
surrounded by q row OF red althernan-
thera and on the outer edge Of the bed
is another circle of ia of the same
plants. A circular bed has also been
laid out this spring at the right Of the
driveway, in the center of which is "A
red Gamma surrounded by three rubber
plants. bortlered bv circle Of geran-
NUNS Outside this is circle of col
Gus, with some heliotrope. Then come
six rubber plants, with a circle OF red
and yellow altcrnanthera.
The State Board of Registration of
Medicine and Surgery, the members of
which are John l.. NJ Willis of Eliot.
chairman; William ]. Maybury or Sa-
co. secretary; 7. A. Harvey of Bangor.
-.
Woodcock of Bangor and William II.
Harris of Augusta, will hold a meeting
in Representatives. hall at the State
House on Tuesday and Wednesday,
July and s, for the examination OF
candidates. The class is expected to
be a large one.
The Maine Federation of WomenS
Clubs has been granted permission to
take the banner which was presented
by the federation to the State and
which hangs at the left of the elevator
entrance in the rotunda, during the
coming biennial convention of Women's
Clubs to be held in Boston from June
% to July l. The banner will be hung
in the headquarters of the Maine Fed
Grafton.
Adjutant General Farnham. VINO had
been in attendance at the Grand Army
encampment at Auburn, arrived home
Friday