Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

| to be cheerful over it,
| The resignation of President White
| of Colby is much to be regretted. HI
has been a capable and popular execu-
| tive and his seven years at the head
| OF the college have done much Tor the
| institution.
Shiloh's golden harp, with the pros
pect of being held for a customs duty
of $3.50, is giving discordaEt notes
from the very first.
Pari; Hill schools are suffering from
an epidemic of matrimony Two
school teachers have wed within the
week and the end is not yet. judging
from appearances. The superin-
tendent of schools now threatens to
hitch a bulldog at the schoolhouse
door. ,..x.sh'f anaj
The Bar Harbor board of trade has
been partially successful in it's efforts
to have the Maine Central run a night
ppIt Oul VI 11oA AAoi DOI uuI liiC
winter months. The company says it
will not risk it's boats for the night
trip during the mid-winter months,
but will put the boat on this year
April l, which is six weeks earlier than
usual.
Last week 10,046 barrels of apples
were shipped from Portland to Eng
land, making total of 270, 403 barrels
thus far this season, as compared with
253,1 for the same period last year.
The total shipments of American APP
pies 10 Europe to date are 1876, 399
barrels as compared with 1,967,216 for
the same period last season.
Next Tuesday Feb. 1S, will be a
rcd-letter day for Ellsworth and Han
cock county people in Boston and
vicinity. The annual reunion is to
take place in Paul Revere hall, in
Mechanics building. Huntington
avenue. AS opportunities for renew
ing old associations and forming new
ones, these gatherings have proven of
great benefit. Love for the old home,
for the county and for the State is
thus happily manifested. May they
long CONTINUED!
AS an illustration of the unsectarian
outcome of the religious teachings at
Good Will Farm it is noted by the
Good vii! Record that the last reports
received of Good Will boys uniting
with churches are as follows: One with
a Congregational Church in Spring.
field, Mass: two with a Dutch Re
formed Church in New York City; one
with Baptist Church in Rochester,
New York; and one with q Presbyter-
ian Church in SteubenVille, Ohio.
Reported compilation. of figures at
Lewiston postotfice show that he sale
of one cent stamps for use in mailing
picture postal cards reaches an average
of 600 day for the working days in the
week or an aggregate of $4,000 revenue
annually. from this source alone.
When a proportional sale is reckoned in
the cities and towns of the State and
the country oyer-for the picture card
habit knows no state and scarcely
national boundary lines-the aggregate
revenue to the Post Office Department
from this source is Of an importance
not generally suspected. In like
ratio the cards themselves, reckoned
on a good margin of profit basis,
represent commercial item of no
mean magnitude.
The General Federation of Women's
Clubs, which numbers eight hundred
thousand members. has launched itself
into the fight against tuberculosis. This
Is the best news which has been
chronicled in the campaign against
this disease for many months. When
the women Of the Nation take up the
cudgel in behalf of any work, that
work is far on the road to accmopliSh-
ment Without their assistance, any
civic movement is seriously handi-
capped. With their assistance. pro-
gress is always much more rapid and
results much more certain. 1t is in
the homes. after all. that the real work
in the prevention of tuberculosis must
be done and it is the woman who rules
TIE UOlIlt. lue WOTk unueTldktH ny
the General Federation is being
directed by Mrs. Rufus E. Williams of
the Massachusetts State Federation.
Mrs. Williams has evidently devoted
much time and study to the tuber-
culosis question and the preliminary
work she is doing is most excellent.
In every state organization is being
effected along most sensible lines and
splendid results are sure to come.
The Journal of the Outdoor Life hopes
from time to time to chronicle pro-
gress made by the women of the
General Federation in this field. Ar
engagements are being under way to
secure reports from the different
states. We congratulate the General
Federation upon this decision to labor
in this fruitful vineyard, and We
congratulate the Nation that the
Federation has decided to lend as
sistance which promises so much. r=
One Of the interesting features Of the