Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-23

league baseball The several hundred
semi professional and amateur teams
now in existence are putting up gilt
edged sport which is whettlng the ap-
petite of the fans for the real article
Next season, perhaps, but if not, then
in 1911.
Capt. Enoch M. Reed Of Bath was
initiated into the mysteries of Mason
nv in the Rock of Gibraltar.
Henry j. Holmes of Glenwood
Springs, Col, is passing the season at
BAILEY Island. He is the editor and
owner of the first newspaper in his.
county and is prominent in the farm
ers' educational movement.
Pickpockets continue to operate on
the unwary traveller through Maine.
An efficient force of train detectives
would rid the State of this vermin.
The storm of last week greatly de-
layed the coastwise steamers, especial
" those between Boston and Bangor.
Charles F. Libby of Lowell, Mass, re-
Gently called on Mayor Leighton of
Portland and the two snapped yarns
of their days as star performers on the
baseball diamond
A fresh youth from Boston, who at
tempted to demonstrate with Recorder
Whelden of the Portland municipal
court, after getting 10 days for drunk
enness, was given 10 days additional,
Later he had still more to say and got
10 days more Then he tried to run the
Jail and was put in the dog hole. He's
more respectful now.
The Portland fat mems convention
must have made the football captains
turn green with envy My, but there is
lots of good material going to waste.
Lewiston and Auburn claim excel
lent results from the work of their
point publicity bureau.
Portland baseball fans Mge to.
enjoy Sunday games in spites'of the
State laws to the contrary, as the
State law does not reach the UniteA@
States military reservation.
Beginning with the ensuing academic
year at the East Corinth Academy
course in agriculture will be introduced,
dealing with soils and fertilizers, plant
life and plant disease, field crops and
vegetable gardening, economic ento-
mOlogy and farm Management.
Portland Argus: The flight of up
land plover to the South has begun
and every night now the peeping of
the little birds can be heard as they
wend their way in fiocks to the rice
fields of old Carolina and elsewhere,
where they find it more to their taste
to stay until early next spring.
A young resident of Long Island in
Casco Bay, who set out from Long
for Peaks Island, nearly lost his life
when the motor went wrong and he
drifted seward His cries for help
attracted the attention of people ON
shore and he was finally rescued from
his perilOus position.
Men who fought the forest fires last
week in the vicinity Of Biddeford re-
port that they saw more small game
than they ever saw in the woods be-
fore An unusually large number Of
snakes We're seen, though everyone
vouches for the sobriety of the MARIA
tors.
Bangor News: Patrolman Fred H.
Bean of Captain Clark's night squad
was the recipient of a very handsome
patrolman's badge at the hands of his
friends Friday night. The badge was
of gold and Mr.. Beams number. q,
was inscribed on it. On the back of the
badge was the inscription: presented
to Fred Fl. Bean by his Friends, 1909"
The annual campmeeting of the
Methodist Society will open at the
Jacksonville campgrounds Monday,
Aug. 80, and the Epworth League con-
vention will precede the opening of the
campmeeting, Saturday, Aug. q and
2S. Rev. H. G. McGlaufiin will be in
charge.
Lewiston Sun-Prof. r. H. Turkey,
who had charge of the department of
Latin at Bates College several years
ago in the absence of Prof. Knapp, for
two years, has just been elected pro-
lessor of Greek at William Jewell Col
lege, Liberty, Missouri. This institu-
ton is one of the strongest Baptist
colleges in the middle West, having
about 600 students, all men, The col
lege has just completed the raising OF
an additional half million to it's en-
dowment funds and is doing valu-
able work in that section of our coun-
try. Prof. Turkey, who is a native Of
South Windham, Me-, and a graduate
of Bates College in the Glass of '9S,
has taken the A. M. degree at Harvard
and Phi. d more recently at Yale. At
both institutions he specialized in
Greek, and is probably one of the best
prepared men in Greek that ever grad