Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-28

X. II. Commandery, present at the
launching and one of whose ladies'
named the vessel for |. l.. Snow and Co.
The uncertainty of the weather pre-
dictions of some weather prophets is
illustrated by the Bath Times item
which says The hest stony Ct the
weather for the past month i'll this
vicinity is told by Capt. Cook of Bax-
ters yacht KanaWha. -Four weeks ago
he started in on the annual job of
painting ships, and three times his
work has been ruined by the rain, al
thought the captain is somewhat of a
weather prophet.
While the crop of 1909 potatoes
grown in Aroostook county. must be
nearly exhausted, shipments on the
Bangor & Aroostook continue to be
made in large amounts and an av-
erage of Is or 80 carloads are moved
every day. For the present month &c
date, 400 carloads have been moved,
while for the corresponding time last
) year the shipments were 433 carloads
According to all accounts Aroostook
planters viii put III about the same
acreage of potatoes this year as last
Commander Gabriel Diaz Qnibus and
the officers of the Cuban gunboat Hat
uev gave a charming dinner party on
board one evening last week and the
event was very pleasant for the guests
and especially for Mrs QuibuS, as 1t
was the first time she had been on
board the boat She is an Invalid but
during Ter brief stay in Bath her
health has greatly improved. An eleV-
EN- course dinner was served and il was
followed by music and dancing. Among
those present We're Mrs. Quibus and
her brother, Pedro Quibus Mrs. Anto-
MO Rancel, wife of Captain Rancel;
Mrs Ramon Diaz, wife of Lieut. Diaz;
Mr.. and Mrs. r. P. Ham and Miss Vir-
ginia and Roscoe H. Shaw.
On the Mallory line Of steamships
they have a way of quite frequently
changing officers from one boat to an
other. In this manner First officer
Albert r. Thompson of Bath who has
been nine years on the Mallory steam
ships has been transferred during the
past year five times. going from the
smallest to the largest vessel He is
now First officer of the LampaSaS
which runs between New York, Key
West and Mobile. The Lampasas is a
5000 ton freight and passenger steamer
For the last month she has been locked
in New York for repairs. Mr.. Thomp
son. who has been visiting his parents
Captain and Mrs. Joseph l.. Thompson
in Bath, returned to New York Mon
day to go on duty.
Work was started Tuesday at the
Bath Iron Works in Bath. on the ex-
tensive repair job on the Cuban coast
guard ship Hatuey. The work will re-
quire about three months and when
finished the ship will be as good as
new. The officers and crew will re-
main in Bath until the repairs and al
terations are completed. Her COM
mander has taken the John S. Lowell
mansion on High street in the Ship
ping city and furnished it largely
from the Hatuey's cabin. His two
cute little children. a boy and a girl,
are rapidly acquiring command of
English from their little playmates
and the officers and men are also
learning the Yankee talk" bv chum-
ming with Bath citizens. The Gu
bans are very popular in Bath and the
repairs on the boat will leave nearly
100000 in the Shipping town.
Modern lily screens. at least many OF
them. are made to sell but soon grow
rotten from the weather when it is
easy to punch noles in them with ones
finger The following accident sug-
gests to parents the need of testing
screens of up stair rooms where chill
dren are left alone. Says the Freeport
correspondent of the Portland Press:
ON Friday afternoon. Mary, the little
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. II. A.
SpauldiEg while trying to close a win
dow in an attic chamber lost her bal
ance and tumbled out Her mother
had sent her to the room to fetch
something and when she did not return
the mother went to look for her and
found a large hole in the fly screen
which told its own story. The horror
stricken mother rushed down stairs
and met the child coming in the front
door apparently none the worse for her
fall. The little girl is but three years
old.
Neil F.. Stevens of Auburn has been
awarded fellowship at Yale Univer-
sitv. which carries with 1t a cash prize
OF $500. He was graduated from Ed
ward Little High school, Auburn, in
the class of '04, got his A. B. with hon
orc at Bates College, 'OS, and his A. M.
at Yale '09, He has been teaching and
doing graduate work at the latter in
stitution for the past two years. The
fellowship came to him in recognition
of his ability to do original research
work. Neil win spend his summer va
cation in the Catskill mountains as a
teacher in nature studies, in a COLONY
of New York city people, who have
their summer homes there. He intends
to return to Yale in the fall and de-
vote his time and energy to original
research, in botany, for the next wear.
which subject he intends 10 follow for
his life-work.