The Republican journal., 1908-01-23
MAINE NEW, ITEMS.

The Portland Board of Trade, as shown
at its both annual meeting, has member
ship of 6S3. Its receipts for 1907 were 1854.
the accounts of the Portland liquor agent
whom the Democratic city administration
forgot to put under bonds
Half of Names counties, AndroScoggin,
Hancock, Kennebec, Piscataquis, Somerset,
Waldo, Washington and York, did not have
an arrest for homicide in 1907
The parcels post as outlined by Pres.
Roosevelt in Il message to Congress was
endorsed at the annual meeting of the lea
que of poStnasterS of the fourth class OF
Maine held last week in Augusta.
Beverly Corneilson, John McLain and
Samuel Mcintyre, all OF Houton, have
been committed to the county jail in Bangor
to await sentence in the U. ). district court
on the charge OF smuggling liquor, to which
all pleaded guilty.
John II. Gibson, proprietor of Moosehead
lnn at Greenville, summer hotel well
known to sporting men, has hled petition
in bankruptcy in the United States district
court. His liabilities are $4,000. with 3d.
600 of unsecured claims.
The first large failure of the new year in
Maine was that of John II. Gibson of Clln-
ton. L lie lOIdl lldUllIbieS al Z ~lo,Jut.Si, VI
which Sl2 taxes and SOS wages are prelerr-
ed claims and $500 are secured claims.
The unmoltgageu assets are given as Sl3O4.-
IS.
A man who has lumber interests in the
State says the timber cut in Maine this
year will fall behind the cut of other years
by millions of fe t and the lumber men OF
the State will lose thousands Of dollars as
the result of the open winter and the alb
Sence of snow.
The new hardwood floor for Colby col
lege gymnasium is finished and the surface
is one of the very best. New lockers to
the disrobing room and additional baths OF
the shower class will be installed before
the improvements are complete.
Asher C. Kinds of Portland, parliamentary
clerk to the lower branch of Congress. Will
be permanent chairman of the Republican
State convention at Portland, April 30, to
nominate six Presidential electors and dele
gates to the National convention in Chicago
in June, if he is able to leave Washington.
Information that Andrew Carnegie will
erect a $4,000 building for Bates College
for the study of science, providing d similar
sum is raised to support the science de-
partment, was received py freslueht ohase
of Bates Jan. 1Oh. Subscriptions for the
required amount will be solicited at once.
OF total of 2139 cases prosecuted by the
10 County attorneys Of Maine the past year
1914 were for violation of the prohlbltory
liquor law, according to- the annual reports
filed at the attorney geheraPS office. Con-
yictions were obtained and sentences i'm
posed in 811 cases. AndrOscoggIn county
leads the list.
John E. Loring, aged 60, who was with
Farragut at the storming of New Orleans
and served three years under Dewey when
he was lieutenant with Farragut on the
flagship Hartford, died in Portland, Jan.
10Th. lie was born in Portland. A widow
and 10 children survive. His occupation
was that of a teamster.
A. 1t. Cummings when he accepted the
position of city clerk of Portland did so
with an understanding with Mayor Leigh
ton that he should accept salary OF S2OOO
and turn all fees into the city treasurer: He
paid Treas. Gilbert, Jan. 18Th, $l9S74 the
fees to date. The city will, it is expected,
save $4,000 year by the arrangement.
Mrs. Elizabeth Is. Colley of Old Orchard
has ma lie application to the State board of
bar examiners ior examination for admls-
sion to the bar at the next session OF the
board; to be held at Bangor ON the hrst
Tuesday in February. Mrs. ColIey is the
wife of Judge F. Il. Colley, who now has a
law practice in Manchester, n. Ii.
BlddefOrd is the most Cosmopolitan city
of Maine. Here is the birth record by
nationaIities for the past year: French, 45S );
American, 40; Irish, So; English, 10; Italian,
6; Jew, 5; Greek, 3; Swede, l. The death
record was: French, POI; American, 90 {;
Irish, "A; English, 9; Scotch, 8; Jew, q;
Greek, q Swede, 1; German, l; Turk, |;
A lbanian, l.
The Knox county ministerial association
formed permanent organization in Rock
land, Jan. 18th, wi hen officers were elected as
follows: Rev. E. NJ. Cousins, ThomastOn,
moderator; Rev. Robert Sutcliffe, Rock
land, sec. Rev. H. s. Killburne, Warren,
treas Rev. Henry Jones, Camden, member
of executive committee A paper ON "Tur-
kish Missions was read by Rev. il. W..
Webb of Warren. Meetings will be held in
Rockland the second Monday of each month.