Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-27

Many cities and towns of Maine will.
slightly increase their revenue this
residents.
Lewiston has remodelled the chemi-
cal laboratory in the old High school
building into a kitchen where cooking
may be taught.
Walter Fl. Boynton of Biddeford
whose orchard has often been raided
by the boys, is seeking for species OF
apple tree which also bears six inch
thorns
Men in the yard barracks at Kittery
Navy Yard have purchased large st.
Bernard dog to take the place of a
mascot that died recently.
Surgeon Charles E. Banks of the
United States Marine hospital at Key
West, has been ordered back to Maine,
where he was formerly stationed and
where he has a host of friends.
The DamariScOtta Herald is Informed
that zone Waldoboro man takes a shot
gun when he drives out and when an
auto tries to crowd him, he stops and
makes the enemy turn out. No more
alders for him.
John Whittier of North Cornville will
be SO years of age next January. He
has helped his folkes get in the hay
this season, opening two or three loads
and turning it in the forenoon. IN the
afternoon he raked by hand and drove
the oxen on the unloading fork.
Two Hampden men who recently re-
turned to Bangor with a collection of
pearls worth several hundred dollars,
have thereby called attention to Il
Maine product concerning which little
has been written. The fresh water
CLANS of Maine streams yield pearls of
great value to the man who is lucky
enough to find them.
Hartman might have enjoyed one
CT his famous champagne baths if he
had called at the Portland police sta
ton Wednesday night. The old SWIM
ming pool in the Workingmen's Club
building where the police are tenn
rorarily quartered, was well nigh filled
with the contraband
Word has been received in Maine
that a large manufacturer of clothes
pins who is at present located in Mich
igan has decided to move to Maine.
The reason for the change is the de-
sire of the manufacturer to get his
plant and raw materials nearer to-
gether.
II. G. Russell and P. D. Holmes of
the Washington, D. c. police bicycle
squad are in Bangor for short visit
after having completed one of the most
strenuous bicycle rides in recent years.
They pushed their wheels from Wash
ington to Boston in six days.
From every point of view the taking
of a general referendum upon the Port
land Bridge question and the act for
the division of the town of York is to
be deplored. Both of these are dis
tinctly local matters in which the Vot-
ers OF the State have little interest,
and with the merits of which they do
not and, in the very nature Of things,
will not have any special knowledge.
II was never contemplated that the
referendum should be invoked on
questions like these; but only on mat
tiers of Statewide interest and i'm
portance.
In q communication to Governor Fer
maid, A. l.. r. Cummings, city clerk of
Portland refutes the idea that the
petitions from Portland asking for
referendum on the act dividing the
town of York We're not properly certi-
fed. Mr.. Cummings says that every
petition that came before him was
submitted to the Portland Board CT
compared with their office list, and if
the person was a qualified voter his
name was checked-if not it was mark
ed out.
I'm certification of official documents
passing through his hands," says Mr..
Cummings, "a city clerk must neces-
sarily, at times. rely on the informa-
ton furnished him by sworn officials
connected with other municipal depart
ments. A declaration that the city
clerk of Portland should have person.
ally checked up $4,000 names on refer
endum petitions, and compared them
with the voting lists, instead of rely
ing on the assistance and information
of board of officials whose sole duty
is to keep an accurate account of the
qualified voters of the city, seems in
compatible with the usual good judg-
ment and sound doctrines proclaimed
by DR.. Stewart of York.
For one official to have looked up
and accurately compared within the
allotted period, $4,000 names would have
been a physical impossibility, even il
he had nothing else to do-and there
are a number of things, beside exam
lining voting lists, that are scheduled
among the official duties of a city
clerk in Maine