Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-19
Try-0uts For State Rifle
Team, July 3 and 4.
Commissioner Sargent 10 Hold
Hearing atPort|and Saturday.
First Shipment Of krag Rifles Sent
to Springfield, Mass.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Tuesday, June %, at 10 A. M.


Announcement is made from the Of
fee of the adjutant general of the is
suance of General orders No IA gov
erning the coming try-outs for places
on the State rifle team which will be
held in this city July 3 and 4. The text
of the orders is as follows:
Augusta. June IS, 1908.
General Orders No. IA.
T. The try-out for places on the
state rifle team will be held on the
state range at Augusta, Friday and
Saturday, July Sd and All, 1908, COM
mencing at A. NJ, July Sd.
H. Competitors will leave their
home stations so as to reach Augusta
during the afternoon or evening pre-
ceding the try-out, reporting to the
Chief of Ornance, who is detailed as
Executive officer. Transportation will
be furnished to all enlisted men recon-
mended by their commanding officers
in response to the notification from the
office of the Chief of Ordnance under
date of June 9Th, 1908, and to all Of
tcers so recommended, who are not on
duty at the school of instruction in
accordance with G. o. No. 10. State of
Maine A. G.. o. c. S. Quarters and
subsistence will be furnished at the
state camp ground. Augusta. All com
petitors will bring blankets and
ronchos,
III. The first day will be devoted
TO slow-frc at 200 and 500 yards and
rapid-tirc at 200 yards; the second
day, to skirmish fire. Targets will be
drawn by lot for the first days shooting
but on the second day the relays will
be made up in the ranking order of
aggregate scores in the first day.
shooting.
". Competitors may withdraw at
he conclusion of any stage of the
match and will be excused by the
Executive officer, but no competitor
will be ruled out unless the maximum
of his remaining scores would be in
sufficient to give him a place among
the first twelve competitors.
" The twelve competitors making
the highest aggregate scores for the
two days Of the try-out, together with
three officers or men to be named by
the Chief of Ordnance, will constitute
the State Rifle Team for 1908 and from
these fifteen the twelve to fire in the
selected by the Chief of Ordnance af-
ter preliminary practice at Camp Per-
ry, Ohio.
vi. Special rifles will be issued to
the team for practice and for use in
the National Team Match. such rifles
to be returned to the State storehouse
by the Chief of Ordnance at the con-
clusion of the Ohio tour of duty.
Ammunition for practice will be issued
direct to team members and prac-
tce will he conducted in accordance
with the suggestions of the Chief OF
Ordnance
VII The Chief of Ordnance VIII
seasonably inform this office in regard
to detail of range officers and statistical
officers employment of civilian labor
ers and otter matters necessary to the
proper conduct of the try-out.
BY Order of the Commander Chief:
AUGUSTUS B. FARNHAM.
Adiutant General.
Paul D. Sargent, State commissioner
OF highways. who is holding a series OF
meetings this week on State ROAD mat
ters. was at Boothbay Harbor Thurs
day and will be at Damariscotta TO-
day on Saturday Commissioner Sar-
gent will go to Portland where at ~
o'clock in the forenoon he VIII hol"
hearing on a petition of the munici-
pal officers of that city asking for a
change of the location of the state
.oad as laid out by the county comhliS-
soners The petitioners state that III
their Judgment the State road as now
designated by the county COMMISSION
ers is not the main travelled thorough
fare in that city and that public con-
venenca would be better served by the
designation of the following named
road as State road to wit: the road be-
ginning at the intersection of Danforth
street and West Commercial street
thence casterly through Danforth
street to Vaughn street; thence
northerly through Vaughn street to
Cumberland avenue: thence easterly
through Cumberland avenue TO WASH
ington avenue: thence through
Washington avenue across 1ukey :
bridge through Lunt's Corner anu Az
lens Corner to Auburn street; thei,ce
northerly by Auburn street 10 'he VI
vision line between the city Oh r"''
land and the town of Falmouth. 1o'"'
distance about five miles.
Commissioner of Labor Lyons has
returned from a visit to VinalhaNeh
where he has been investigating tne
trouble that exists between the boo
well Granite Co. and the granlte cu'-
tiers and quarrymen who were former
ly in its employ. The agreement WHO.
has been in existence since Marcn
1905, expired March /, 1908. Previous -
this time the unions gave notlce VI
request for an increase in the MINI
mum wage rate and for better working
conditions. The employers proposed
reduction in the wage rate OF soih'
employees and other changes that tll'
union considered detrimental to thel'
Interests. March / all work under thf
hammer was completed and the mel
discharged so that there was no ON
Obliged to suspend work, but as NJ
agreement had been arrived at, th'
general officers of the union declde'
mat the men were resisting the pro