Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-20

w nile lrsIl 10 act wise,
Dem 1915 clothes don't beat
De 1914 style.
De way dat teller tries to cheat
1t simply makes Us smile.
Presiden. John s. Hyde Of the Bath
Iron Works stated this morning that he
regretted to say that the report that
the Iron WORKS had received a contract
TO build steam yacht was not true
Bath Times, Feb. IS.
II was cool trek that a fisherman
tried to put over on a Portland dealer
when he insisted tina, a young shark
was a sword fish Tie fisherman had
been in the business long enough to
know the difference and SO had the deal
er, so the attempted bunco didn't work
February IS. lss-Reoel papers were
admitting that Gen. she-man's advance
could not be checked and that he would
go through in a short time on Charles
ton. Augusta, Columbia and Raleigh
- hospital to accommodate 100
colored soldiers had just been built at
in such great fear OF capture that the
guards around his house had been coub-
led.
Saco was more or less excited Wednes-
day evening over a report that an at
tempt had been made to wreck the even
ing mail train. but investigation showed
ynr1iru SSrin1S than q stake hay.
ing fallen from freight train onto the
bridge over Beech street.
The following from the ST. John,
y. B., Standard Of Feb. Is viii be .:
interest to Maine lumbermen:
Our firm has entered into contracts
for the shipment Of s,0o0.019 feet OF
deals, which will mostly go through
ST. John" said j. I, Bennett Of Charles
Boss & Co. Of London, England, who
is at the Royal. We have let some
contracts in Maine, but our business
will be mainly through ST. John. One
difficulty now is getting ships. II is
hard to tell how the market IS going
TO shape up in Great Britain. Govern
ment orders have recently slackened
off, but the feeling among business
men is one Of confidence in The fu-
ture."
a Bangor man who returned on
Wednesday from a trip into Aroos-
took county. visiting number OF
leading towns, stated that it was esti-
mated by some Of the men who claim
TO be possessed of fairly accurate in
formation on the subject that the loss
10 Aroostook county this year by the
low prices on potatoes will reach
three million dollars, says the News
Potatoes are selling there for IS AMI
40 cents a barrel, the starch factories
paying q cents. Naturally there is
no profit in selling at these prices but
IT appears to be case at present Of
accepting that or nothing
Accompanied BY their nurse. Angina
Rompeay. age s and Andre Romoeay,
age 5. the youngest Belgian refugees ar
irving AZ Portland since the Opening OF
the Euro can war. came ashore from
TIE steamship Vaderland which arrived
Wednesday from Liverpool, Eng, after
an ordinary winter passage. The two
little Beigi2ns do not know wh.-e their
parents are as they were in Antwerp
when the German army entered the
city. Angina and her tiny brother were
taken to town in Holland and finally
they were taken in charge OF Clerentine
Rottier, pretty Dutch girl % years OF
age, who is accompanying them to rel
at!ves in Montreal. Through an inter-
prefer Miss Rottier said that the two
belgian children were going to their
aunt and uncle in Canada and said that
the children dill not know what had be-
come OF their parents. Two other Bel
gian refugees arriving on the vaderland
were Theofil Fengard and Emil Gand-
eneyude who are going to join their
aunt, Mrs. Jane Harry. in Lewiston
Capt. Daniel W. Wentworth Of San
ford, ordinance officer Of the Coast Ar
ti.lery Reserve since the First Regiment
became coast artillery January ]. 1910,
has been placed upon the retired list
with the present rank, the retirement
dating from February S. He had been
a member Of the National Guard for
nearly u years, enlisting first as pri-
yate in Co. 2, LIST Infantry, Of Sanford,
March 9, 1903. He served in the success
sive ranks OF corporal, Quartermaster
sergeant, and sergeant OF that company
until Jan. 5. 1896. when he was promoted
to LIST lieutenant and appointed hospital
steward OF the LIST Infantry. After a
year in that position he returned to the
Sanford Company, Co. F. as first lieu
tenant. He was again assigned to the
staff Of the regiment in 1909, when Feb.
5. of that year he was promoted to cap
tain and made assistant inspector OF
Small Arms Practice He held this po-
si,ion until Jan /, 1916, when with the
change from infantry to coast artillery
organization he became ordinate off1cer
with the rank Of captain.
You don't even have to go hunting in
some places, the game hobs up right in
front of you, waiting TO be gathered In.
Frank Morse OF Hope while riding on
his wheel the other day saw coon climb
a. tree, so dismounted, got a club, also
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