Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-23

edge that comes with membership in
COW testing association but are so SIT
uated they cannot join one.
Houlton farmers are making predic-
tons that this years hay crop Will be
the biggest in that. section for many
years, unless there is a drouth during
the next few weeks The grass Sc
cured its start during the warm spell
early in the spring and has kept up a
rapid growth since under the frequent
and heavy rains.
Portland has put the ban on hand
organ men accompanied by monkeys
and officers are instructed to send all
such from the city. Several have
within the past few days been deport-
ed
Small, but notable, will be the gath
ering in Thatcher Post hall. Portland,
next Thursday when the survivors of
Co. E, 18th Maine Regiment, will gath
er for their annual reunion. When
this company was mustered into SER
visce it numbered 10, At the pres
ent time, there are only Is of the old
members known to be alive. They
will gather at the hall in the forenoon,
have dinner at noon and will hold
their annual business session in the
afternoon. Responses have been re-
ceived from most of the members and
they will be present with their wives
and families. Col. George Q. d. Souie,
the secretary of the association, is
making the arrangements for the
gathering
Many Maine automobilists are plan
ming TO attend the midsummer meet
ing IF the American Automobile Asso-
citation July 6 at Hotel Maplewood,
Bethlehem. N. H, when good roads
and fair automobile laws will be thor
ough,y discussed. The good roads
meeting, which will be held in the aft
ernoon of July 6, will be in charge of
George C. Diehl, of Buffalo. Chairman
of the A. A. A Good Roads Board,
and the speakers will include Govern
or Felker and State Highway Com
missioner Hooker of New Hampshire:
Commissioners Lyman H. Nelson of
Maine and Charles w. Gates of Yer
mont, and the well-known automobile
enthusiast, Charles J. Glidden of Bos-
ton, donor of the famous Glidden tro-
ply. The heads of the Highway Com
missions of other New England States
have also been invited to speak
1t is believed that the record for
constant school attendance is held by
Miss Esther Menish of Portland, a
graduate of the High school. She at
tended for II years the Monument
street and Emerson and the High
schools without being absent late or
dismissed.
A movement is on foot, headed by
David W. Snow of Portland. to have
memorial to Rev Elijah kellogg placed
on the wall of some one of the build
ings at Bowdoin college to be similar
in character to the memorial to James
Russell Lowell which is in the wall of
Massachusetts Hall at Harvard. APP
plication has been made to Miss Lee
LA Usher of Boston, an artist of con-
siderable repute, to prepare for exam
ination and approval The plaster
cast is now ready for examination and
criticism and so far as it has been
examined has proved satisfactory.
The memorial will cost in bronze
and in place something more than
$1,000. To Bowdoin graduates who as
boys were thrilled with the challenge
of Spartacus and the defiance of Reg
illus and who have rejoiced in the
story of Elm Island. with its healthful
and hopeful spirit and who later learn
ed the life of self sacrifice of this
man no introduction of Elijah Kellogg
is necessary. AS is generally known
he was born in Portland, May 20, 1913,
was graduated from Bowdoin in the
class of 1910 and died March II, 1901.
The work he did and the life he lived
have left their impress upon genera
tions of boys and men all over New
England as well as elsewhere.