Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-30

This weeks showers fine for crops
and flowers.
Mrs Gilman P. Smith of Bangor has
received from Charles d. Norton, sec
| rotary to President Taft, letter ac-
knoWledging receipt of some very
pretty buttonhole bouquets that We're
sent to the Bangor House during the
Presidents stop in Bangor. The let
| ter was dated on board the U. S. A.
| Maytiower July % and speaks in nigh
appreciation of the gift.
Cuban gunboat Hatuey is being
painted white above the water line
low. She has received new boilers.
| new searchlight, wireless station and
| new cabin for the commander. She
also will have mahogany finished
gasoline launch. Repaired in Bath
| she was painted in Portland and is
again at the Bath Iron Works for
| the completion of the work and re-
ception of armament.
Accompanied by Col Fred Hale and
several army officers and lady friends
Mrs. Taft visited the Longfellow
Mansion in Portland. Mrs. Taft was
| gowned in white with white shoes and
gloves, a Panama hat, with white lace
veil over the hat and drawn close
about her face. She is small wo-
man, quiet in manner, of a very deli
cate type and made almost no COM
,,,a ,ha OH no
house.
Bath automobile owners feel CRATE
ST. Ry. When a motor car is run
ming at night and meets big electric
| with search light POINTED towards
them it is impossible to see the road
| ana many accidents have happened iii
other sections of the state because of
this trouble. The motormen on the
L. A. & w. shut off their search
lights when meeting a car. trick
| greatly appreciated and much re-
| marked upon by local car owners.
George Matthews. 14-yearold
| Eastport lad rescued Henry Brooks of
Lawrence, Mass, a 10-yearold play
mate from drowning in the Merrmac
river by plunging in and dragging
ashore the younger lad who was
sinking for the third time.
Eastport smiles because she is to
have line of 10 taxicabs. Better
| make it IA, sister.
VlI 1a~ 81, af<
Tuesday last. s. w Hill of Machias
| received a fright. Placing a ladder
against the gutter of his residence he
| assembled and climbing the roof was
soon engaged in putting lead about
| the chimney. Looking down in the di-
rection of the ladder he saw the little
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
| Schoppee, who occupy a part of his
| house. sitting on the edge of the roof.
Fearing that the little one might fall
from her perilous position, MIR. Hill
hurriedly descended the roof and soon
| had her safe in his grasp and took her
carefully down the ladder. This little
girl had only passed her second birth
day last month.
President Taft has been made an
Abenakee at Riddeford Pool.
Waldo is awake and has formed
| the Waldo County Republican Club at
Belfast, it's president being Orlando
E. Frost, vice presidents, George r.
Doak, Arthur Richie, DR. Orris S.
Vickery. Willis S. Hatch, J. H. Stin-
| son; secretary, Ralph B. Southworth;
| treasurer. Herbert T. Field. Hon.
VIM T.. Haines has eloquently adj
dressed the club and Judge Maher of
Augusta is booked for an address there
next Monday evening. 20.
Things are happening at Paris, Me.
The birthplace of Vice President Ham
nibal Hamlin, in front of which the
Maine Commandery of the Loyal Lee
giOn erected last summer a monument
IN memory of the statesman was pur
chased by kimball G. Atwood eff New
York. Mr. Atwood is a native of OK
ford County. The organ loft of the
old Methodist church, now being torn
down at South Paris is being trans
formed into garage.
Rough is the road or the liquor
deputy in Maine, n G. McCausland,
deputy collector of internal revenue
at the Portsmouth, n. H.. office, has
issued ukase to Maine liquor dealers.
This is it, Retail liquor and retail malt |
liquor dealers who fail to pay their |
special liquor taxes. which are due
on July /, before Aug. l will be sum-
marily arrested and prosecuted to the |
fullest extent ot the law. Excuses will |
no longer he accepted. 1t is a plain
case of pay, and pay promptly, or go
to Jail"
Names State Fruit Farm at Mon |
mouth for experimenting in fruits and |
crops is doing excellent work on po-
tato corn. and other crops and on the
orchard of 1000 appletrees set out by |
its former owner, Chancellor ]. r.
DAY of Syracuse who bough. High |
moor 90 years ago for a stock raising |
place.
Robert r. Pease of Bangor in No |