Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-25

Accosted a friend:
you are clever and canny;
Now, pray you, attend
I'll ask in a semi
COnundrummy plan:
Now, which is the pemml
And which is the can?
| The old First Congregational church
at Wells is being thoroughly repaired,
the building shingled, steel ceiling put
in and the interior painted. There is
only one older church in the State and
that is at York. Wells celebrated it's
25Oth anniversary several years ago,
and while this church now standing is
not the first church building in the
town, it stands on the same spot, and
the present building is itself very Old.
| It is understood that Miss Corneila
Warren is planning a gymnasium and
library for the operatives in the large
Warren paper mills of Westbrook
Plans have not been definitely made
but it is thought that the gymnasium
will be equipped with running track,
swimming tank etc, in addition TO the
gymnasium apparatus.
| Bath Times-The scores of Bath
people who remember Mexican joe
VINO made Bath his home for about two
years will be interested to learn that
he is now Chief OF the Cherokee Tribe
of the Cherokee Nation and is on the
stage with members of his tribe, at
the present time appearing through
Ohio. Mexican joe will be remem-
bered here, especially by the police offl-
GERS who We're on duty at the time. He
haG a habit of getting gloriously drunk
every little while and starting some
thing. One day he got filled with Q. Is.
| J. and was horseback riding. Joe
could ride horse better than anybody
else in the city and on that particular
| day drove into stores and did mischief
enough to start a small riot 1t re-
quired several police officers to make
| the arrest and Joe was most penitent
next morning. Joe arrived in Bath with
| a Wild West show, skipped them here
and worked at various jobs, always be-
| ing found a willing worker but lit
tie wild. He ran away with an Ameri-
can girl whom he married.
The first clearing of the filters
through which the air passes as it en-
tars the new Cumberland County Court
house took place day or two ago. The
incident is described by the Portland
Press as follows: Folks in the county
court house are breathing pure air any
way as was shown yesterday when
Janitor OBrien removed the filtration
bags through which the air from the
outside has to pass before 1t enters
the ventilation chamber and is heated
by the steam coils. There are 81 of
these bags made of closely woven ia
brio each about eight feet long and
when distended by the sucking in of
the outside air resembling grain bags
set up on end The bags when taken
down We're found to be black with the
impuritiesRWhich without this filtration
would have passed into the court house.
The bags We're replaced by new ones
and those which have been soiled in a
few weeks of service We're sent to be
Numbered. The county officials We're
greatly impressed with the examination
of these bags, and congratulated one
another on wlssNey had escaped
breathing. III
The Bangor l-AssA<sb., one of the larg-
est harvesters of. ice in Bangor, has
finished it's cut for the season and stored
$1,000 tons of good clear ice. Getchell
Bros. have put in between 5000 and
10000 tons. the Citizens Ice Co, 1000,
besides 600 tons for the Eastern Maine
Insane hospital, and the Eastern
Steamship Co.. 800 tons.
Names lumbermen who have stand
ing oak timber are finding a ready
market for it among the automobile
men. Little wood enters into the mo-
dern machine, but whatever rs used
must be of the best quality.
The little water boat, Ben Huf, famil-
lar on the Portland water front for
over 20 years, is to be converted from
a steam to gasoline driven craft.
The owner, Eugene Thompson, believes
that the cost of running the boat Will
be a great deal cheaper as he has al
ways had to hire a skipper and has
bad to keep steam up every hour or
the day and night in case of an emery
Waterfront man receives many. With
ency call, of which the towboat and
the gas engine it will not be necessary
to burn coal while tied up at the
wharf and it will take less time to get
under way.
An Ungrateful Dominic.
A Scotch preacher had in his con-