Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-05
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES
Erring HouIton Druggists Settle.

.''"9 T7outton druggists Settie.
There was considerable excitement
in the supreme judicial court at
Houlton Saturday when practically all
the local druggists and local clubs
were called before Judge Philbrooh
on liquor charges. All pleaded guilty
to single sales and nuisances. The
county attorney has seized the books
at the Bangor & Aroostook freight
office showing large shipments re-
ceived by these firms of alcohol and
Whiskey The county attorney did not
urge Jail sentence but recommended
a fine on nuisance sales and single
sales to be placed on file. About
$500 was paid the county treasury
in fines, as follows: Ernest B. Leigh
ton and J. Chester Feeley of Leighton
& Feeley; Oscar F. French and Leroy
B. French of o. F. French & Son: A.
G. Munroe, proprietor of the Wess
End Drug Store. All were fined $500
and costs in default of five months Il
Jail. The case Of Charles Wyer on
charges of nuisance was mol pressed
on payment of 800 and costs. The
Elks, Eagles and Moose clubs We're
fined $500 and costs.
Delegate to Sigma Chi Convention.
Basil E. Barrett of Blue Hill, Uni.
versity of Maine, '16, was elected
delegate to the San Francisco conven-
| ton of the Sigma Chi Fraternity at
the annual convention of the Ninth
Province, which concluded a two dar
session at the University Of Maine
and Bangor with banquet Saturday
night in Bangor. E. L. Smith, presi
dent of the Troy Alumni Chapter,
presided at the sessions and was
POSTMASTER. The principal speaker
was Prof. John H. Huddilston of the
university faculty. Delegates were
there representing the chapter ut
Brown, Columbia, Massa chusetts In
stitute of Technology Hobart,
Cornell Syracuse and Dartmouth.
Maine Chemists in Convention.
The Maine branch Of the American
Chemical Society held its annual SEES
sion Saturday at Auburn, about Is of
the members attending. In the af-
ternoon some of the members visited
the Lewiston Bleachery and Dye
Works, others the Turner City
Creamery and still others the tourma-
line mines at Mt. Appetite At 6.15
the delegates dined at the DeWit:
Hotel in Lewiston, returning in a
special car to the Auburn Public Lii
brary for the chief session. Papers
were read by Warren N. Watson, in.
structor in chemistry at Bates Col
lege; H. F. Ryder. Perry Barker, ].
N. Stephenson, instructor of chemis
try, University of Maine, and Henry
Higgins Of Auburn.
Henry J. Hosmer Of Bangor.
The funeral of the late Henry J.
Hosmer of 81 Division street, Bangor,
was held Sunday. He died Friday a.
the age Of IS years. He was a ma
tive of Dexter, but moved at an early
age to Massachusetts and at the out
break of the Civil War enlisted in the
18th Mass. He was captured and
served nine months in Libby prison.
He was exchanged and so bad was his
condition that he was taken to a hos
pital, where he remained until the
end of the war. He returned to Mas
sachuestts and soon to Bangor, where
he had since resided. He was q
steamfitter by trade. A widow sur
wives.
Aroostook Potato Meeting Wednesday
The Aroostook Potato Shippers AS
ISOLATION will meet Wednesday at
Caribou, following public meeting,
at which everyone. especially the
farmers, will have opportunity to give
their opinion for or against the re-
tention Of the embargo on Aroostoot
potatoes so far as the powdery scai
goes. This expression is to obtain
the feeling among the farmers and is
not in any way binding.
Deserted on Wedding Night.
Margerita Agreaneotis. a pretty
Greek woman Of Is. employed in the
plant Of the York Manufacturing Co..
in Saco, who was deserted by her hus-
band. George Agreaneotis. in Greece
an hour after they were married.
March Is, 1908, will seek divorce at
the May term Of the supreme court at
Alfred. Her husband. who fed to this
country, is living in Chicago. She has
never seen him since the night Of the
wedding. In 1912 she came herefs The
papers in the divorces proceedings were
served On the Husband ApEl 81. IT,