Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-21

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! Captain George A. Carlisle of Booth
bay Harbor, who has for many years
carefully observed the barometer,
says that the reading of Monday, Dec.
Is, before the big storm was the low
est he has seen, going to 2S.3. He said
| that since 1898 he had not seen the
| indicator go below 2S.S and reached
that but once.
| Edward A. Moves of Portland, who
last week retired as treasurer of the
Portland Savings Bank. completed 80
years of service with that institution,
81 years Of which was as treasurer.
| The Maine Central in response to a
request from the people of Old Town
! for better train service between that
city and Bangor will on Dec. % add a
train to the present schedule. to leave
Bangor at 4.30 P. NJ. for Old Town and
leave Old Town at $50 P. NJ. for Ban
gor. carrying mail and express.
! The third voluntary increase in pay
in few years will so into effect on
Jan. l with the employees of the Ban
7 gor Railway and Electric Co. The
first and second year men receive S2.15
a day; the third and fourth year men
s2oo5 and all above that $3.50 a day.
/ Deputy United States Marshal
James Cleary on Saturday night COM
pleted q busy l0-days trip around the
State summoning witnesses to appear
at the present term of the district
: court at Portland. He had travelled
I 112o miles and visited about every part
Of Maine and used about every kind
I of a conveyance. One place was
found. in the woods near Van Buren,.
where the horse sank to his body III
the mud and three hours We're taken
in covering eight miles.
/ Ellsworth has five candidates for
the postmastership and the appoint
ment hangs fire, because some want
the matter settled by primary and
others DO not.
I Chester A. Brown of Durham and
Bessie a. Snow, youngest daughter of
I've Of
port. and both seniors in the Freeport
High. school, surprised their class
mates Sunday by announcing that
! they had been married Saturday eve
ming at the Baptist parsonage by the
/ brides father. Mr.. Brown is captain
I and manager of the High School
/ basketball team and president of the
High School Assembly Association
Mrs. Brown is secretary of the as
sociation.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo \. Hasty OF
Saco had planned TO celebrate the
seth anniversary of their marriage
which occurred on Saturday, Dec. IS,
but owing to Mrs. Hasty's poor health
no formal observance was made. y
number Of intimate friends called and
numerous presents were received.
! A movement has been started at
! Portland to raise fund for the fami-
lies of Patrolman Mcintosh and Sta
ton Agent Winslow. who We're shot
and killed last week by two Greeks.
| Two children of Loyal Alden of
Portland were christened Sunday at
the Universalist church at Woodfords,
receiving the names John and Pris-
ella Alden. They are direct descen-
dants in the 10th generation of John
and Priscilla Alden of Maytiower
! fame.
| West Baldwin special to Sanford
! Tribune: c. A. Mason recently en-
tered a complaint against his house
keeper claiming that she had struck
him. The woman was before j. s
Chase and found guilty. She was
given the alternative of leaving town
or serving so days in Jail and she
chose the former. Mr.. Mason will now
keep house for himself.
Oquossoc people are to have a log
cabin church. They got together re-
Gently to discuss the situation and
decided to build. One of the lumber
companies has given the logs and the
spot near the Station where the river
drivers have tented has been leased
and next seasons visitors will find a
pretty Union church thereon. A Sun
day school was organized there last
summer. holding its meetings in the
schoolhouse. With the coming of cold
weather Mr.. and Mrs. Bowley invited
the Sunday school to meet in their
private cottage at Mountain View
The school has invited the Quimby
school to meet with it and both are
working with the older people for the
new church.
The Richmond Library Association
will meet next Friday evening to ar
range for carrying on the work of the
| institution, which for years had been