Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-13


(They will take your faded place.;
Yet-sometimes a new-blown joy
Thrills not like bygone grace.
Edith Livingston Smith
About every hall with a floor for
dancing had an Easter ball last night
Names 1909 murderers are obliging
enough to save the counties the ex-
pense of trials.
Falmouth Foreside proudly takes its
place among those places mentioned
as the possible summer home of Presl-
dent Taft and family
The rumor that the Chief executive
may visit Falmouth brings out the
nervous suggestion that Tukey's
bridge will have to be strengthened at
once.
With the opening of The Samoset
actually fixed for June II the first real
| note of the Knox county summer is
sounded. And indications point to a
prosperous one.
AS preliminary training for the
summer automobile season the horses
| are now up against the proposition of
those weird and wonderful spring
| hats on the sidewalks
With ia prisoners in it's As cells the
Bangor jailsis very much over crowded
just now. Sheriff White believes that
too long sentences are given in cases
| of drunkenness.
BOWdOln men are much pleased at
the announcement that Ross McCldve
| of Princeton will again be the foot
ball coach at Brunswick next fall. In
! each of his three seasons there he has
| turned out a championship eleven, and
his personality as we'll as his football
games has made him very popular
| with students and alumni
Red Beach, part Of Calais, is proud
| of having as a resident, one Of the
| oldest ladies in Eastern Maine, and
about one of the smartest for her
years. They lady is Mrs. Martha
| Calkins, known to all as Ceramic"
| Calkins. She has knit seven pairs of
| mittens and four pairs of stockings
and braided and seWed mat this
winter. Last winter she made silk
| crazy quilt and put it together. She
has good memory and can hear as
well as ever. Mrs. Calkins will be 95
on the 18th Of June. She boasts of the
best of health.
Yarmouth academy will have the
| most distinguished speaker who will
be heard at Maine preparatory
school in June. This is General O. O.
Howard. the academy's oldest living
graduate He was a student at Var
mouth in the early 40's. fitting for
Bowdon which he entered in 1916,
graduating in 1850.
Two barrels of Maine phosphate,
shipped to New Hampshire, have
proved of wonderful health giving
properties to a young man supposed to
be suffering with serious lung trouble,
writes a Bowdoinham correspondent.
The phosphate is turnedl little at Il
time, into receptacles placed in the
sick room. and the invalid inhales
the fumes. This novel medicine was
tried first in Bowdoinham where it has
been used with great success the past
winter for colds and grip. Not only
colds but grave troubles of the lungs
have been helped and in many in
stances cured by this simple remedy
Says the Lewiston correspondent Of
the Bangor Commercial: Lewiston
is booming Dennis j. Callahan as the
next president of the State Board Of
Trade. For long while he has been
interested in the local organization
and has been the president of the
Lewiston board. He has attende1
many of the meetings of the state
board and has otter been one of the
speakers upon important subjects. He
is so situated that he can give time to
the work which devolves upon the
president of the state board and it is
felt here that he is the right man for
the place He takes a conservative
and safe view of the big questions
which interest Maine and would be
certain to advocate no scheme which
did not meet the approval of the best
Judgment of the ablest men in the
state organization. 1t is felt that he
will be a worthy successor to Presi-
dent Hichborn of Augnusta. who has
so we'll looked after the interests Of
this state organization
Samuel Shaw Brown, who died in