Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-28

The first thunder shower was
enough to supply the demand for the
whole season.
The Bath schools will have Memorial
day exercises Friday with an address
by Past Department Commander
Snpe.
Rev. C. D. Boothby, the Congrega-
tional pastor at Madison, has been
elected president of Parchment College
down in Georgia.
Twice within year the Grange at
Lincolnville Center has lost its hall and
a grand fire bug hunt is now in pro-
gress.
The first of the college commence
ments will be that at Orono June 40
The others will all occur two weeks
later.
The work of excavation for the
foundation of the new Shrine building
over in Lewiston has begun this week.
Portland Express: Pretty nearly
time for June brides. And the June
grooms are already figuring out the
answer to the old query as to whether
two can live as chcaply as one.
al hn
outlook for the summer travel is good.
believe that this coming season will
be the most successful season that we
have had At the present time a larger
number of fishermen are in the state
than ever before and the hotels are en-
joying an excellent business. How far
the business depression viii affect the
people is difficult to estimate but
believe that all who in the past have
made Maine their vacation home, VIII
return with us for another year and
that the usual increase in new arri-
walls will add to the number. No one
here anticipates a dull season and In
comparison with past seasons, the
travel up to the present time is OK
ceptionally good"
Walter W. Crosby, formerly Of Ban
ger, now resident of Maryland, has
been chosen chief engineer of the Good
Roads Co Mission Of that state.
The position is an important one and
Mr.. Crosby is receiving many congrat
ulations upon his election to an Of
fee, for which ability of high order is
necessary.
Oxford Democrats Now that County
Attorney Barnes of oxford county has
blazed the way, the injunction process
seems likely to cut quite Il figure in the
restriction of the liquor traffic in this
State. The penalty recently imposed by
Judge Savage upon Fred e. Tucker of
Rumford Falls for violation IF the in
junction was the first case in the state
where such a penalty had been put i'll
force. With that example before them,
the officers in York county have served
papers in injunction proceedings on
the proprietors of several buildings in
Biddcford, and a hearing is now pend
ing The owners of saloon property
are said to be "thunderstruck."
Cast away on desert island in mid
Pacific. subsisting upon whatever they
can pick up from the sea and the scan
ty land around them and waiting for
help to come, the crew of the Bath
ship Arthur Sewall are supposed to be
leading the lives of modern Robinson
Crusoes. News of the supposed plight
of the So members of the crew of the
Sewall, which has been posted as miss
ing at Lloyds and by the insurance
in New York has reached
the New York maritime Exchange in a
report from Capt. Hill, master of the
British steamship Hampstead, which
recently arrived at Sydney, New
South Wales, from the Hawaiian Is
lands. Capt. Hill states that upon
passing Middleton reef the latter part
of April he saw lead painted ship of
about $500 tons high and dry on the
north side of the reef with sails care
fully slowed along the yards. The YES
50. was undoubtedly American. ac-
corGing to the master of the Hamp-
stead. who However, was not aware at
that time the Arthur Sewall was over
dle. Hence the failure to stop ana
learn details of the crew. The news
brought by the Hampstead is so con-
vincing that Arthur Sewall & Co. of
Bath. the owners of the ship, have
taken steps to learn whether the
stranded ship is the Sewall and how
many of her crew are marooned on the
little Pacific reef.
According to official returns the