Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-27

Rockland Lodge. B. P. o. E., has ev-
cry right to feel pretty good-thank
you--over the burning Friday night of
the mortgage which had been upon the
Elks Home in that Sity. The ceremony
took place in a vacant lot in front of
the Home and in the presence of big
crowd. A social session followed in
the lodge rooms. The Home was dedi-
Gated on Oct. 20, 1907 and represents a
cost of about $4,000.
| Gilmore Bowman, who is now in Au
burn Jail to await the action of the
grand jury on the charge Of having
caused the death of Hugh Clark by the
use of a knife recently at East Jeffer-
son has retained the services of Hon.
L. NJ. Staples of Washington to defend
him. Bowman pleaded not guilty at
the hearing. The grand jury of Lin
coin county will hear the evidence in
the case at the session of court which
will begin today, Oct. q, at Wiscasset.
In regard to rumors of a return of
the Bangor & Aroostook employees
Todd said I'VE haven't asked the
strikers to return; they haven't asked
to return; we have opened no negotia-
tions with them, nor they with US;
the rumor is absolutely unfounded
and there Is positively nothing doing
Ex-Chief Justice Emery left Els
worth Wednesday for New Haven,
Conn, for the winter. He will make
short stops en- route at Brunswick,
Portland and Providence. His address
In New Haven will be Hotel Taft.
One of the features of the State
Teachers convention of especial in
terest to the graduates Of the Gorham
Normal school is the social gathering
and banquet to be held in Pythian
Temple at $50 in afternoon of Thurs
day, Oct 20.
Orders are being issued in several
all chimneys are put in a safe condi-
ton before Nov. / next the work will
be done by the town or city officials at
the expense of the property owners.
Many inspections have shown chim-
neys very much in need of immediate
attention.
Charge this one to the Camden Her
aid:
Arthur Hart while digging potatoes
for Herbert Simmons at Hope found in
hill, potato, IL by Is inches. in
which was a mouse nest with one old
one and four little ones. The skin was,
trap door.
1t is not probably known to many
of the great army Of admirers Of the
late Judge Peters that he was very
retiring man, adverse to personal
publicity and attention. Upon the
occasion of planting in his honor, a
tree in front OF the Court House in
Wiscasset, which was to be and is
still known as his tree, the lawyers
at that session Of court assembled
for the exercises, in which they ex-
pected to enjoy some Of the noted
Judges inimitable wit. But they
planted the tree all by themselves.
Judge Peters remained hidden away
in the room he was occupying at the
hotel. This tree. however Is not the
Peters Oak in Edgecomb, across the
bridge. This oak was the shrine to
which Judge Peters used to go as the
limit of his long after dinner walks
from Wiscasset. Arriving at the oak
he would often address to 1t an cru
dite grafton. which was often enjoyed
by legal friends who accompanied
the former chief justice of the Su-
preme Bench to the Edgecomb shore
William Henry Harrison Seeley,
who recently died at the home Of his
son, George d. Seeley. in Dedham,
American, Of receiving the Victoria
Cross. He was born in Topsham on
May 20, 1910, and at the age Of IA went
to sea on his uncle's vessel. On this
voyage they were in Chinese waters
on the Fourth OF July and young See
ley, in his American patriotism, wished
to go ashore to celebrate. His uncle
refused him PERMISSION, so he jumped
to return to his uncle's ship Mr.. Seeley
enlisted In the British navy On Sept.
8, 1864. he ventured ashore alone, und-
er the enemy's batteries at Shiminosa-
XII, Japan, to reconnoitre. Later he
led charge there and while in a
wounded condition carried back to his
vessel, H. M. s. Buryalus, a wounded
companion, doing SO while they were
under fire. 1t was for this act Of brav-
cry that he received the Victoria Cross
He later returned to Massachusetts,
and for some years conducted a small
farm on the line between Sharon and
Stoughton, before removing to Ded-
ham after the death OF his wife at the
farm.
At 4east six prisoners at the county