Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-20

Come out in the garden. Maud
And feel tie coid blasts blow,
And breathe the balmy breezes,
And watch the tulips grow.
And see the hail and sunshine
And rain and mud and snow,
From Judge.
1t is reported as current talk in Lew
iston that the liquor raids of the past
few days have been made for the pur
pose of securing a large number of re-
spondents for fining, so that, Il neces-
sary, the county revenues may be re-
plenished. There were a large number
of eases for disposition at the January
term, but after Judge Spear had tack
ed gail sentence on To the first TWO
sentences imposed by him there WAS a
scarcity OF respondents to receive SEN
fences after that. There We're large
number of appealed cases from the
Municipal Court on which the judgment
was affirmed, and on those several
Thousand dollars has been collected
since the term adjourned. but the
financial receipts of the term itself
were exceedingly small Judge Corn
ish has a reputation of being fully as
stir in his treatment OF liquor dealers
as any judge on the bench, and it is
considered that the course he will
adopt will not differ widely from that
of Judge Spear in January.
Bangor correspondence informs US
that work is under way on the Si50.000
Job at Veazie. the building of a con-
crete dam To replace the antique wood
.l,,tx Tnr
over 60 years. This furnishes power
for the principal power plant of the
Bangor Railway IL Electric Company,
which operates all Of the local and
suburban trolleYs. also d general light
and power service. The new dam will
be. about 700 feet long and built with
buttresses and a long slope so that ice
VIII have. but little effect upon it. The
new dam will conserve very much
power now wasted by the old dam.
Surrounded by her children. grand
children. great grandchildren and
great-great- grandchildren Mrs. Eliza
beth Edwards celebrated her S9th birth
day anniversary at her South Bidde-
ford home. last week. All of her chill
George II. Edwards, an engineer on
the Fitchburg division of the Boston
4 Maine, and living in Somerville,
Mass. coming down for few days
visit. and the only child not near
enough to walk to the Edwards home.
Mrs. Edwards was born in Cambridge,
Mass, in 1872: her father was Isaac
Page and the mother Annie Hill Page.
The father dying while she was but
child, the mother. who was of the Bid
defoFd house of Hills. came back home
and here much of Mrs. Edwards life
has been passed. She married when
very young. Joseph Edwards, Jr., for
many Years an engineer on the old
Fitchburg road, in 1851 foreman of en-
gineers, holding the position of master
mechanic. At railroad man he trav-
elled in the West for time and Mrs.
Edwards accompanied him. Mrs. Ed
wards has 10 grandchildren, II great
grandchildren and two great-great-
grandchildren.
The report of the temperance COM
mittee of the East Maine NJ l.. con-
ference at Rockland charged Sheriff
CnafleS NJ. RICHARDSON OIL henheDeC
county and the mayor. William Il.
Pattangall of Waterville. who also is
attorney general of Maine. and the po-
lice force Of Waterviile, with nullifi-
cation of the laws which made possible
the mob violence upon Rev. Henry \.
Pringle at Waterville, repudiated as
untrue the sentiments contained in
Governor Plaisted's message to the
special session of the Legislature, and
endorsed the work of enforcement sher-
ifs The report was received with
great enthusiasm by the 200 ministers
and 1aymen and unanimously adopted.