Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Maine Gossip
Birds.


many keys,
Sweeter than instruments of man e'er
caught!
Whose habitations in the tree tops even
Are halfway houses on the. road to
heaveni
Think every morning when the sun peeps
through
The dim leaf-Iatticed windows of the
grove,
How jubilant the happy birds renew
Their old, melodious madrigals of love!
And when you think of this, remember,
'Tis always morning somewhere, and
above
The awakening continents, from shore to
Somewhere the birds are singing ever
more.
H. w. Longfellow
Clifford E. Wass of Greenville Me,
has been elected superintendent of
schools of Freeport and Yarmouth.
For the past seven years he has been
superintendent of schools of Green
vile, Sangerville. Jackman and Moose
River. He is about 40 years old and
unmarried At recent meeting OF
the Freeport School Board it was re-
organized with DR.. George Bates OF
Yarmouth chairman and Miss Z. Belle
Stanwood of Freeport secretary.
The case, State of Maine by indict-
ment, against Wilbur F. Berry, has
been printed and is now ready for
argument before the law court. Inc
respondent took exceptions to some
rulings of the court, and is taking MS
case TO the law court on these excep-
tons, and on alleged technical errors
in the indictment. County Attorney
Samuel L. Bates of Portland VIII han
die the case for the State, and II. a. w.
J. Knowlton and William B. Skelton
will represent the respondent, Mr..
Berry. The respondent was found
guilty of criminal libel after jury
trial at the January term of the SUI
perior court for Cumberland county
That Bangor's fire department, which
Mayor TJtterback says is the most eX-
pensive in New England per capita,
cannot have $500 auto truck, raise
in pay for the permanent men ana Keep
all the call men, all at once, is the de-
cision of the mayor, who THURSDAY
vetoed an order for raise IN pay Ior
the permanent men. The mayor de-
clares that the aldermen favored the
auto apparatus, provided that the call
force was reduced by 10 men. NOW
the municipal officers decline to con-
firm the fire roll without the 10 men,
and the council has voted to increase
the nav of the permanent men from
s2.25 to $3.50 per day. The contract
has already been placed for a new
motor truck.
The Maine Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution Thursday afternoon
unveiled a bronze tablet at the birth
place of Gen. William Whipple, one OF
the signers of the Declaration OF IN
dependence from New Hampshire, at
Locke's Cove, Kittery. The lnscrlp-
ton on the tablet is as follows: Gen.
William Whipple, one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, was
born in this house, June IA, Ifoo.
This tablet was placed in 1914 by
Maine Daughters of the American
Revolution" The exercises were IN
charge of Old York Chapter, d. A. X.
of York. and were as follows: Selec-
tion. orchestra; prayer. Rev. A. j.
HAYES: address, Mrs. William Robin
son of North Arson, State regent of
Maine D. A. r.; address, CALVIN Il.
Hayes; singing, America
The manv friends of Mrs. Walter
Canham of Pennington will be glad to
learn that she returned home Friday
from Portland. where she has been i'll
since the Methodist conference.
Members of the First Baptist church
of Bangor have been engaged this week
in a campaign to reduce the debt on
the church building. Last Sunday II
was announced that an effort would be
made to secure $1,000 during the week,
but so gratifying has been the re-
Spouse that 1t is now the aim to raise
$1,000 by next Sunday. The amount
raised Wednesday was $3.50. 1t is
expected that one or two mortgage
notes will be burned at the church
Sunday.
A very busy life was ended in the
death of James F. Kimball of Milf
nocket, for Mr.. Kimball for over so
years was in some enterprise. His
father was one of the pioneer COM
mission merchants of Bangor, and
the son early took up business. one
of his most important ventures was
the sawmill at saltwater. under the
firm name of Kimball, Adams Com
pany, which was put out of business
by the general confiagration which
swept that place about Is years ago.
The new town of Millinocket was just
about starting and Mr.. Kimball saw
an opportunity. He opened the first
store there, in a freight car. Then
he built shack store and later the
first permanent store. He remained
there until the time of his death, see
ing the town grow from mere clear
ing in the forest to a hustling village
of 1000 people and with all modern
improvements.
The women of the Literary union In
Lewiston and Auburn are interesting
themselves in the problem of estab-
fishing a milk station for the babies of
the down town district, run under the