Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-14


| Il 10 ., in scrub game
Deacon and Mrs. Ii. y. Murch ceIe-
| brateG their Golden wedding at West
brook. Monday. \ special feature was
& reception in the eveEing at The West
brook Congregational church, of which
MIR. Murch has been for AZ years one
of the deaeons Mrs. Alice Springer
of Boston sang and Deacon and Mrs.
Nun CHI were presented $50 in gold by
their friends.
Mrs. John f. Thompson of Port
land. Monday. collected $1,000 for the
100000 fund for the Young Women'J
Christian Association, and the total
amount raised is now $31,S34. At a
meeting of the association, Monday
evening, the following were chosen di-
reetors Mrs :. :. Eaton, Miss Julia
Griffin, Mrs. Howard Lee Berry, Mrs.
II. Wallace Noyes and Mrs Ann Saw
yer.
Wtva Tribe of Red Men of Kenne-
BUNK rendered "A reception to Angus
tGs =. Jacquemin, newly elected great
keeper of Wampum of the Great Coun-
Gil ii Maine, Monday evening. After
q Chicken supper Fred L. Titcomb,
acting as POSTMASTER introduced j.
Frank Warren. who led the speaking.
There were songs by Edward II. Lahar,
Maurice 5. Costello, William Fl. Coz
doh and Hermon Lombard.
Machias will celebrate its 150th an
niversary, August %, with an histeri-
cal pa geant. in which 500 people will
participate. Machias proposes To d
, it right up brown, too. regardless o.
expense, and at a business meeting
held. last week, it WAS decided to get
int commune cation with Mi W. e.
Larsdor, pageant master. and STE il
his services eouid be procured l1C
Will write the story of The pageant.
1t is estimated that the pageant Wi
cost $40n0
Mrs. Ada f. Brown of Auburn wa:
granted Il divorce from David Brown.
formerly 4 cattle dealer il Auburn.
but now of parts unknown, in the su-
preme court at Auburn. Monday. In
the writ $4,000 attachment on the
'real estate of the libclce was made.
The libelant was awarded $4,000 BIZ.
side the third of certain properties
which brought the total up to about
S15.00o. The ground for the decree il
adultery.
Chief of Police Thomas Stone of
Biddeford was asked. Monday after
noon, to assist in the search being
made by the kennehunkport authori-
ties for Mitchell Gendron, q. of that
town, missing since, early Sunday. He
was employed as m&chinist in tie
Saco-Lowell Co. shops in Biddeford
until the working force was reduced
several weeks ago. Since then he had
been working around his home. He
left home. early Sunday. without say
ing where he WAS going. and his rel5,-
tives fear for his safety. as they say
he has been acting peculiarly Of late
chief of Police L. w Gilman of Ban
eoH has opened Il campaign against
reckless automobile driving and has
instructed all of his force to arrest
those driving beyond the speed limit
and all whose ears are not properly
equipped with number plates. In tho
police court, Monday morning. john
". Norris WAS fined $50 and costs oil
- charge Of oVerspeeding. Augustus
Aucon, with whom the police claim
Norris was racing. was later injured
when his car turned turtle in Brewer,
is now in the hospital, but the police
say will be arrested when able to APP
pe,I
Inspection week in the public
schools of Yarmouth began, Monday
under the supervision of Supt. ". IL
Holmes, and a large number of par
cnts and friends visited the school.
Throughout the week the schools NH
be. open to the public. Friday, at
o'clock, special exercises will be held
in Memorial hail. special attrac-
ton of the week is the domestic
science department, in charge OF Miss
Edith Collins, where refreshments Will
be served each day.
The two-masted schooner Eva -
Thompson own "a by Herbert Brown
of New York. which was toWcd t.
Portland Saturday, from Sebaseo
| where she had been hauled UP for the
winter, sans in the harbor opposite
the marine railway, Monday morning
at about o'clock. She sprang a leak
and soon filled with water. and at high
tide only her topmasts were out, Capt
Abner Johnson repre- sents the owner
land SAYS that the vessel will be float
ed aud placed on the railway for re-
pairs. The sunkcn vessel is of q
gross tons burden and is valued at
I$150O
When Ethel Sargent, aged 49, of
lClifton street. became confused as she
Twas attempting to cross Congress
lstroet in front of the Lafayette hotel
portland late Monday afternoon, she
Twas struck by an automobile which
Twas backing up to turn around and
was thrown to the ground. Those
Iwho saw the accident carried the lit
tie girl into the Lafayette hotel and
called DR. H. \. Pingree who found
That there were no indications OF brok-
ZEN bones There were skin bruises
but other than that it is believed that
There are no injuries. The little girl
Twas later taken to the Maine Eye and
Ear infitmary in company with her
mother whore she passed the night
land was carefully cared for.