Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-02

These are the times when the country
doctor rather more than earns his fee.
The selection of young man for ap-
pointment to West Point by popular
vote, as was done at West Paris, is
out of the ordinary to say the least.
The arrests in Portland in 1908 were
4,361 as compared with 4,495 in 1907.
Does this mean better behavior on the
part of the people or failing eyesIght
among the cops?
Portland and Westbrook were very
hcspitable to the hoboes last year. The
| former city entertained 2,640 OF them at
police headquarters and the latter city
53l more.
The 18th and 18th of March have been
determined as the dates of the dedlca-
ton of the new Kora Temple of the
Mystic Shrine at Lewiston. If the 1000
( members of Kora Temple have any
thing to say about it this will be the
biggest gathering that the hot sands OF
New England ever saw, and will be the
greatest ceremonial tribute ever paid
| to the mysteries of the sanctuary that
i surrounds Kaaba, the black stone.
| Mrs. Lillian Brown, wife of Capt.
Hiram Brown of West Bath on the
Fosters Point road, is probably one Of
the few women in the State who has
passed an examination before the in
spectors at Portland to run motor
boat. She recently went to Portland
and took the examination. One or two
| other women IN that vicinity have TAX
ell the examination, but failed to pass.
Within two miles, as the crow flies,
from the center of Portland's business
section there is a numbering operation
in progress this winter which has al
ready cut and sawed more than 100000
feet of lumber. and where the total
output for the winter will be more than
Il million feet. The stroke of II which
sounds on the city re-alarm is the Sig
nal for more than score of hardy
| choppers and transfers to ''hike' for
the camp where the cook has ready for
tltcm bill-of-fare exactly identical
with that served in the camps of the
big woods: and seated on benches along
the sides of oi]-cloth-covered tables
they wash down the regular camp fare
of beef-stew, cold boiled beef and pota-
toes, beans, biscuits and gingerbread
with oceans of hot tea sweetened with
molasses. And yet, such is the lay of
the land on the Cape, just beyond
Mountain View Park, where this tint
Der enterprise is going on, that it IS en-
tirely concealed from the casual pass
er-by, and it is not probable that doz-
EN- people within the city limits have
| ever dreamed that they could see the
interesting operation of numbering by
walking a few steps beyond the five
cent limit.
Thomas E. Dinsmore of Belfast has
an interesting article in the February
der the caption of Shall we change
the calendar?' Mr.. Dinsmore after re
citing seme of the perpleXities of the
present calendar advocates having 73
weeks, 5 days in q week, weeks or 80
days in a month, and II months in a
year. "'The I'D week would not
be reckoned in any month but
would occur at the end of the 18th
month and Ic called, and lightly OBJ
served, as Holiday or Christmas or
| Year End week. The extra day in
Leap Year would be added to this week
The new year would begin on Monday,
January 1st, and would occur on what
is now December 21st. Then the winter
| season would be of the full and exact
months OF January, February and
March. Spring would be April, May
and June, etc. Every month and week
would begin with Monday as the first
day, Tuesday the End, Friday the sd
eliminating Wednesday and Thurs
| day., Saturday the 4th and the 9Th,
| Sunday. The next week would be the
same, except that the 10th day would
be holiday. This notation would con-
tinue through every week, month and
year." Mr.. Dinsmore then at some
lengths points out the advantages of
this proposes change and makes a
strong argument in it's favor.
A Maine man who comes back here
each summer, Col. Thorn. S. Hopkins
IF Washington, d. c., has been made
chairman Of the subcommittee which
has charge Of the arrangements for The
participation of veterans in the inau-
gural parade March 4. Says the Ma
tional Gazette, published at Washing
ton: "Comrade Hopkins has long been
prominent and effective in >. A. p.
work, and occupies an enviable position
in professional and social circles. Thos
$. Hopkins was born in Mount Vernon.
Me-, April %, 1S45. He is descendant of
Stephan Hopkins and of Elder William
Brewster and two others OF these who
came over on the Mayflower ill 1920 He
was educated at the common schools
and at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary,
kent's Hill. Me. In June. 1862. at the
age of II years, he enlisted in the 18th
Me-, and served until the cloye of the
war. He was wounded at the battle Of
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