Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-10

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Baths tEiest buds have formed a
Cooking Club. The course will consist
of weekly Lessons given at the homes of
the various members by Miss Grace l..
Coombs, who has specialized in do
nestle science at Simmons College.
Baths girls viii be taught not only
how to enok, but also how to serve and
prepare luncheons.
Great opposition is shown in the
town of Boothbay To the proposed di-
vision If the town and formation OF
the town of East Boothbay. 1t was
the unanimous expression OF town
meeting recently held At Boothhay thar
the proposed division would be unjust,
unrt ascnatle and entirely uncalled for.
Committees have been appointed TO as
sist in the opposition to the proposed
division.
Joseph Fournitr, a l0-year old Bid
deford boy had carried for over two
months embedded in the tiesl, of his
right arm on the underside a splinter
of wood two and one-half inches long
and about on eighth of an inch in di-
ameter. A large bunch appeared
where the splinter was located and it
was at first thought that tunlor was
growing there. An operation was fl
nally decided upon and thus the splin-
ter was revealed.
Two brothers named Treadwell from
Naples appeared in an alleged intoxi-
Gated condition one day recently before
the Cumberland county grand jury at
Portland and we're taken from the jury
room by the order of County Attorney
Connolly, who at once ordered their
commitment to Jail. One OF the men
was asked if he Lad been drinking and
how much, and his reply was, "eh. not
much Not more than a gallon.
Washington county has $50 aban-
doned farms. Nest of them are very
undesirable st present and would be
extremely costly to re- establish. mas
much as the houses and outbuildingS
are now in an extreme state OF decay.
Bushes and trees on d stunted nature
are now growing in the fields and pas
lures. On some of these farms, how
ever. nay be found fairly well pre-
served farm buildings. The soil is
tired and poisoned, but there are near
by available facilities at very low COST
for producing a quick recovery, such
as lime rock, sea weed and hsll pom
ace.
The Knox county grand jury failed
to find an indictment against Nilliar,
Walker, who was charged by the cor
oner's jury with negligence in connec-
ton with the collapse of a coal staging
at Glencove, which resulted in the
death of a Greek laborer.
The resignation of County Attorney
Joseph E. f. Connolly of Cumberland
county will be presented to Governor
Plaisted within a few weeks to take ef-
feet late III April. The Gossiper hears
that either Michael T. O'Brien or John
F. A. Merrill will be appointed as his
successor. These lawyers are candi-
dates for the Portland municipal court
Plaisted will be asked to name one of
them for the bench and the other as
successor to Mr. Connolly.
Dr. Robert J. Alley, the new presi-
dent of the University of Maine. is in
teresting himself in a new building for
| the college of law of the University of
Maine, which is located in Bangor.
The university has standing offer Of
a valuable and suitable site and $1,000
| in cash from Mr.. Thomas L. Gee, e
| wealthy and philanthropic Bangor cit
| izen. 1t is thought that suitable
| building could be erected for $4,000. 1t
will probably not be thought advisa :
BILE to apply to the present Legislature
| for aid and it is suggested that the
amount might be raised by subscrip-
ton of the alumni.
-Four young people were injured Fri
day in a sliding accident at Norway.
| The accident was due to a loose steer
| ing arrangement in the shape Of Il
wheel attached to the front runner,
| which resulted in the sled becoming
unlnanageable and dashing through a
fence and landing on a pile of rocks.
All of those injured will recover.
| Llewellyn b. Trafton. a GuilfOrd con-
tractor and builder, was seriously in.
jured last Friday by the bursting of a
rotary saw. a large piece of the saw
struck Mr.. Trafton upon the right arm,
near the shoul1 Ter. smashing the bone
and tearing the flesh in a frightfui
manner. The outcome Of the accident
is uncertain and it Is feared that the
arm may have to be amputated.
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