Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-26
Maine Gossip

| Geo. W. Bracket of Belfast writes
the Journal that he has kept a record
for over 40 years of the thermometer.
barometer, storms, snow, etc. and
after enjoying % to the utmost the
hot spell of the past few days look
ed up the figures for the past 10 years
and found the hottest days to have
| been as follows: 1914, Sept. %, noon,
Sc degrees; 1913, Aug. II, noon, Sc;
1912, July. 10, noon, "a: 1911, July 8,
noon, 81. 1910, Aug. II, noon, 81; 1909,
Aug. 90. IS; 1908, July II, noon, go;
1907, Aug. II, noon, Sc; 1906. Aug. 10,
noon, 90; 1905, July 9, noon, SO.
Old Town is much pleased over the
fact that Friday for the first time
the people were able to call for their
mail at the new post office. Work on
the building was begun April 2, 1913
and the effects of the old office were
moved in during Thursday night The
building Is two stories high. texas it,
10 in. of Colonial style, built of Con-
cord granite to the first floor and from
there TO the cornice of Indiana lime
stone. The post Office has the first
ternal revenue officers offices and a
large room where civil service examin-
atoms may be held. The postmaster
has a handsome suite of offices and the
clerks have toilets, recreation rooms
and baths and the rest of the space is
given up TO the janitor, boiler. fuel
and store rooms. A lookout gallery
runs the entire length of the operating
room. place to which only the in
spectors have keys. The building cost
$4,000 1t was built by the Interurban t
General Contracting Co. of New York, /
with Foreman VIM. Baxendale in
charge. Sid H. Nealy was the super
intendent of construction.
1t has been suggested by a Bath /
man, for something of a pleasant ma
ture to think about during the long I
winter months. that while this year /
there was certainly a great diminution T
in the flights of the brown tail moths T
and while there may be no trouble |
with them for some years to come, T
they will return after a series of +
years, even as do the caterpillers, +
beetles and grasshoppers.
Calais was visited Tuesday and !!
Wednesday by two scorchers. the first
being an auto with a party of four /
JOY riders, two men and two women, I
who drove into and broke off a tele- |
phone pole. but without enough dam
age to the machine to keep them from +
proceeding ON their trip, and the sec |
ond a record of so in the shade at /
several points.
Some different from a year ago"
remarked Lewiston man, Wednesday |
morning. Last wear, l started my fur /
mace on the 18th day of September I
The weather was so cold l had to do I
1t. From that date until the middle of I
May I had fire in the furnace all !
the time. Between the middle of May t
and the Fourth Of July l was obliged |
to have fire in the furnace two or I
three days each week. So far the pres
ent fall have been obliged to start fire |
in the furnace but once, and that only /
on one morning when it was quite |
chilly"
Minot st. Clair Francis has written |
to a Portland lawyer in an endeavor |
TO have such assistance as may result |
in getting time off for good behavior |
at Atlanta penitentiaYy where he is
serving a long sentence. Francis came |
to Maine from Bay Stote sanitarium |
and was located after he had broken |
into the Red Beach post office and |
shot the Waterman. He made lots of
trouble at Thomaston after being con-
victed and given a sentence of Is |
years. He escaped and was recap
tured.
The Portland municipal court had
a peculiar situation Thursday. when |
the deputy who had arrested a man
was unable to identify the prisoner, |
leading the court and others to believe |
that a substitution had been made. |
The court gave warning that no such |
actions would be tolerated and If such |
suspicion again arises he will eau the
attention OF the grand jury to the
matter.
An interesting event took place |
Thursday morning in the Portland |
High school, when the Purina -Ralston |
medal was awarded to Lawrence M.
Burke. son of Mr.. and Mrs. John o.
Burke, for recently saving the life Of |
Jens Peterson at Trefethen landing. |
The Petersen lad rode off the wharf |
on his bicycle and the Burke boy dove |
overheard to the rescue
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