Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-01-30


night when they We're caught in leo
that ehoked the Mississippi river,
landed, early Monday. at WiclsIlffe,
/ Ky, and were returned to Birds
Point, Mo. t.~s
With the object of rendering the
I present Sunday observance laws so
obnoxious to the people of the state
that the next General Assembly will
be asked TO repeal them, the Gaelic
Association Of Athletic Clubs of Con-
necticut, in convention at Bridgeport
CT, has endorsed the movement look
ing to a rigid enforcement of the
laws. Organizations are to be formed
in every city and town to see that on
Sunday everything is closed tight
and that none of the so-called blue
laws are violated.
The work of examination OF the
books Of the Windsor Locks Savings
Bank at Windsor Locks. CT, re-
strained by court order, issued, last
Saturday, from receiving or paying
/ out deposits for a period of three
months, was continued Monday. The
banks doors We're opened, Monday
/ morning, but it was only for the pur-
pose of receiving the passbooks of de-
! positors which have been called in to
assist the examiners in their scrutiny
! of the banks affairs.
The Danish steamer Kentucky,
which arrived at Boston, Sunday, 21
| days out from Copenhagen, passed
| through a storm, on Jan. Is, which
smashed a port lifeboat and broke
| down a lot of doors. Jan. 15,'' said
| one of the crew, "the wind was blow
! ing hard and the water was a foot
| deep on deck, when along comes an
! extra big wave and smashed down Il
! companlonway door, flooding the
whole place with water. A lot Of us
fellows were asleep inside. Another
sea and away went the ventilators.
| a third and our port lifeboat was a
mass of kinding wood"
! John II. Dingman of New York, for
almost so years connected with the
| publishing house of Charles Scribner's
Sons, having entered its employ in
I 1866, when II Years old, died, Satur-
day night, at his home, No $40 East
| 18th street. Flatbush. His death was
the result of exhaustion following an
| operation. about week ago Mr..
| Dingman was descended from Huge
| not and Holland Dutch ancestry.
| When he went with Charles Scribner,
| Sr the store was at No. 36 Park Row.
In the Civil War he was a lieutenant
! in Co. K, 37th Regiment, N G.. n. Y.
His second wife survives him. Two
| children by his first wife also survive
| Maybe old Mrs. Hen will forget how to
| lay if the incubator method of hatch
| ing chickens is continued. This at any
| rate, is the belief of Prof. NJ NJ. Cur
| tis, head of the department of psy
| chclogy and philosophy at Western
| University at Cleveland. The maternal
| instincts of hens artificially bred show
| decline, says Prof. Curtis. IF permit
| ted to return to the oldfashioned
method of raising chickens by means
of setting hens, the hen will come into
| her own again. Hens showing a de-
| cline in maternal instincts should be
made to hustle for their livelihood.
/ They may thus regain their powers of
reproducing their kind"
| Vandalism in tile Cornell Univer-
| sity library has caused the librarian
| to serd out notices protesting against
/ the mntIlation of books there 1t has
{ been discovered that n number of
/ choice books are minus their frontis-
+ pieces and other valuable illustrations.
The innovation of a graduation i'll
I February, instead of June, win be tried
/ in part at Cornell University, this
year. under new ruling. Degrees will
! be granted, next month, to about 100
! students who have finished their
work and obtained the necessary
credits. The arrangements make ii
Z possible for students who are gradu-
I ated from preparatory schools in June
, to come directly to college in the sum-
mer and to complete their college
| course in February, four years hence.
Albert Tams. Jr., 1e. of Trenton, n.
j., who eloped with Frances May
Leckman, Is, his school chum, last
week. were returned 10 their respec-
tive homes. Sunday. after being APP
pretended by the police of New Bruins
| wick. The boys parents said the lad
would not be permitted TO marry the
girl, but would be sent back to school.
The girl Is to be sent to the country
Her parents said she would not be al
lowed to marry her by sweetheart. as
she was entirely too young for the re-
| sponsibIlities and cares of matrimony.
| We will not allow our girl to marry
ut her age said her mother. she is
just 10; we are going to send her out
in the country, Monday, where she
can have a rest from the excitement
| she has just passed through. May is
q good child and she is nothing but Il
little schoolgirl
Thomas Morris, who had many
| friends among the lawyers and at
| taches of the West Side court shot
! and killed himself instantly in his sa-
! loon at Eighth avenue and 54th street,
j New York, early Sunday Four GUS
] toners and Morris bartendc were in
the saloon Patrick Gargan, the bar
I tender, who has rooms over the sa-
+ loon, told the police his employer had
been cheerful all night. At midnight
Morris counted the cash receipts. jok-
ing about his wealth" as he did So,
| Gafgan said and, as "a final act in
| closing the saloon for the nipht. sent
I dozen bottles of beer as . present
J TO family that lived up stairs. Nor
ris then went into a rear room and
/ sat down in one of the lunch booths.
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