Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-05

| has been small, even for this part of
the season. The Saturday payrolls in
the several plants amounted to nearly
| $4,000 for the work of the previous
week, but will not be as large next
| Saturday. Herring seem to be scarce
all along the eastern Maine coast and
about the Bay of Fundy, also Passa-
naquoddy bay, where so many fish
wetrs are located and from present in
dications small pack OF sardines is
predicted this season by the veteran
packers of the fish in PASSPORT and
neighboring coast towns.
| DR.. Fred M. Preble Sunday quietly
observed his 10th anniversary as
pastor of the Court Street Baptist
| church. Auburn. AT the morning SER
vice, he alluded to his long pastorate
and the pleasant relations which have
always existed between the pastor and
his parishioners. During his pastor
ate there. the Court street church has
prospered, spiritually and financially.
The membership has largely in
creased. The church stands today
free from debt. The benevolences
of the church for the last year were
four times what they were the first
year Dr. Preble occupied the pulpit.
The 25th marriage anniversary of
DIR. Preble falls on next Saturday and
on Friday evening of this week, he
and Mrs Preble will celebrate the
event by a reception at the church
vestry.
George McG. Presson of Pennington
has been chosen by the Maine AS
ISOLATION of Optometrists to represent
the society at the annual national
convention of the American Associa-
ton of Optometrists to be held at st.
Louis. Mo, for a week beginning July
Is. He has also been invited by the
National Society to deliver an address
before that body on some technical
subject.
The Bluehill library has received a
beuuest of $1,000 through the will OF
the late William Paris Tenney of Bos-
ton. native of Bluehill. Many of the
Library Association hope that the sum
will be made the nucleus of build
ing fund. The library rooms in the
Town hall are handsomely furnlsheo
and are certainly attractive, but each
year more and more shelf room Is
required as additional volumes are
purchased and some presented ana
the library has come to be one or the
necessities of the town. The credit
of its permanency and growth Is all
due to the ladies who have constantly
worked for its success.
A powerful temperance lesson was
seen in the stuff seized Tuesday in
Portland, the liquor being of such vile
nature that it had turned the sides
of an ordinary galvanized iron tub,
into which some had been poured
from the keg for convenience IN
bottling. almost robins egg blue and
the mess of filth and culch in and
around it was enough to disgust even
the men accustomed to finding the
business carried on amidst foul sur
roundings. The stuff called whiskey
contained-probably to improve the
ffavoring-a number of cork shoppers,
a broken cigar box and quantity of
plain dirt, which seemed the clean
est of the lot.
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It may be an old saying, coming
natural to US year after year, but the
foliage and wild flowers are certainly
as handsome as we have ever seen.
if not more so.
The engagement was announced
Tuesday at Baltimore, Md. of Miss
Alice Blaine Damrosch, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch of
New York, to Mr. Hall Peasants Pen
nington, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah
Pennington of Baltimore. Miss Dam
rosch is a granddaughter of the late
James c. Blaine. Mr. Peasants Pen
nington, through both parents, is re-
lated to many of the most distinguish
ed families in Maryland. He was
graduated from Princeton University
in the class of 1910 and is now COM
pleting a course of architecture at
L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, in Paris,
where he has been for some years.
He will return to America in August.
No date has been fixed for the we'd
ding.
The Maine delegation or club Wo-
men will soon leave for Chicago to
attend the biennial of the General
Federation of Women's clubs, June g.
10. Mrs. F. P. Abbott OF So CO, presi-
dent of the Maine Federation, and
other delegates from the Pine Tree
State will leave Boston at 2 P. M,
Monday, June s, this being the regu-
lar train and tickets good. Unless the
Eastern delegation warrants special
train, special cars will be run On this.
Owing to the fact that many of the
Maine delegation were 10 be enter
tanned by friends, and further, that
more favorable accommodations were
to be had at Hotel Del Pr ado, 59th
street and Blackstone, avenue, Mrs.
Abbott has made this hotel headquar-
tiers. After June mail will be sent
to the Auditorium theatre, Chicago.