Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-17


Now no flowers are springin'
An the birds have flown away,
But the fire is singin!
Atlanta Constitution.
1t was so years ago that Charles
Bennett of Bridgton, a graduate of
Bowdoin ga, and drafted, was ap-
pointed second lieutenant of the 5th
unassigned Infantry. Rev. w. W.
Haywood, a former pastor of the Ken
dalls Mills Universalist Society, was
appointed chaplain of the 18th Me.
Reg.
The school boards of Wayne and
East Livermore at a meeting held
Tuesday elected Elmer Weber of
Lewiston, superintendent of schools
for these towns. Mr.. Weber had
two years in Bates and one in Univer-
sity of Maine and has taught in sew
eral grades.
Portland wholesale grocers report
that molasses is considerably higher
than it has been for some time. While
it can not be said that the product
is particularly scarce it is announced
from producing points that the heavy
and best grades are higher, with the
outlook that the prices will be main
tanned for some time.
The postoffice department has aban-
doned the idea of making Portland a
terminal railway post office station,
says the Portland Express. 1t Thurs
day made an authoritative statement
to that effect to the Express Adver-
tiser correspondent. With the advent
of additional facilities at Boston it is
not deemed of advantage to the service
to establish separate terminal at
Portland. The proposed terminal ser
vice for Concord. N. H., has also been
abandoned.
Two very serious accidents have
happened this week at Summit. one
being fatal. Tuesday night about six
o'clock as Mervin Morgan had finished
loading potatoes into a car at Milo
Junction and had got onto the seat to
turn the horses for home. an engine
on the road just the other side of the
car very suddenly began to blow off
steam which frightened the horses.
They ran a few rods and brought up
in wire fence with such force as to
throw both, breaking the pole yoke
and threw Mervin over their heads
and had it not been for the timely as
sistance of two young men who were
waiting to ride home with him he
would undoubtedly have been killed.
He was unconscious when taken from
under the horses feet and it was some
minutes before he came to his senses.
No bones were broken but his face
was considerably bruised and his
neck was wrenched SO badly that IT
has been almost impossible for him to
move it. He is better and bids fair to
come out all right but will not feel like
picking potatoes for some time.
Wednesday afternoon Fred Herbest of
Orneville bought a horse in Bangor
warranted to be safe for a woman to
drive Thursday morning he harnessed
him into wagon and his wife got In
with four children to take them to
school and before they had gone 1Oo
rods they were all on the ground and
hurt more or less, and Mrs. Herbest
so badly that she died before noon
Much sympathy is felt for Mr.. Herbest
as he is left with five children, the
youngest some two years of age.
Judge William III. Newell was in his
office at Lewiston again Thursday for
the first time since last May when he
was taken sick. Though it was not
generally known that he was back on
the job there was a sort of informal
reception going on most of the
time Associates and friends were
constantly dropping in to shake hands
and congratulate him on his fine re-
covery from a long and dangerous
sickness. The doctors have told hir
that he is sound and ready for work
but that he must break in carefully
In answer to an inquiry as to his eu-
ture law partner the Judge confirmed
the rumor that 1t would be Tileston z
Woodside, one of Lewiston's younger
attorneys.
Roscoe G. Emery, one of the we'll