Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-15

aCnC CiuD OF baIn was IOTEldfly
opened Thursday evening for the sea-
son Of 1915, Commodore ]. P. Ledyard
rendering banquet to the members
and invited guests. About $50 were
present and several new members
were admitted. The membership is
now 23S. the largest in the history of
the club. which Is also practically out
of debt. A vaudeville program by
local talent was presented after the
club meeting.
The earning statement for January
of the Bangor & Aroostook r. r. was
made public Wednesday. The gross
operating revenue was s335,90s, net
was s137,002 and surplus after all
charges was s36.760, which is the best
in recent years.
If anyone doubts that spring is near
ly if not quite with us let him think
Of the already fairly large number of
buildings destroyed by fire, which
communicated from brush and grass
fires.
Brunswick for several years has
been awakening to the need of better
sidewalks and this season is opening
with numerous requests from mer-
chants and property owners who wish
granolithic walks, in accordance with
the arrangements whereby they may
be put down, the abuttor paying half
the expense.
Former Sheriff A. J. Tolman of Knox
county emphatically denies that he has
in any way been a candidate for the
position of municipal judge of that
city, realizing. doubtless. that with
four Knox county lawyers in the field
he would stand but little show. He
evidently admires each of them for he
says: And whichever one is selected
l have no doubt will prove to be a
most honorable, most righteous
judge
\ Chicago restaurant has an electric
pie making machine with a capacity
of $4,000 pies day. 1t is driven by
2h. p. motor and operated by six girls.
Electric News.
Yes, but we've got some one-girl-
power pie makers down East that turn
out only enough pies in a couple of
hours to keep a healthy family happy
for week,-and we wouldn't swap
one pie for the whole $4,000 of those
Chicago Observation-Disclosures Senti-
mel.
Yea, Maine girls can't be beaten for
pie. One OF the girls in the job room
just over the editorial room. just made
a pie-out of a stick of two column
IS point lowercase condensed Gothic.
Some of the shortening must have
been left out, however, for it struck
heavily. The foreman soon supplied
the real crust-iness.
The United States Public Health
Service has just made public the Va
rious places in the country where civ
il employees Of the government, whose
duties require them to perform inter-
state travel or who are regularly en-
gagged in the handling OF mail or other
material TO be carried in interstate
traffic, may receive, without cost, vac
cination against smallpox or typhoid
fever, or both, upon applying in per-
son at those places and presenting a
certificate from their immediate chief
showing the nature of their employ
ment. The places in Maine are: Ban
gor, DR.. w. c. Mason. 20 Main street;
Eoothbay Harbor. DR.. G. A. Gregory;
Calais, DR.. w. Fl. Bunker; Eastport,
DR.. }. Z. Brooks: Houlton, Dr. T.. c..
Kates: Machias, DR.. A. 1. Smith; Port
land, outpatient office, United States
Public Health Service, custom house.;
Eockland, Dr. +. 3. Adams
The coal business done in Portland
during the year 1914 will stagger most
people by it's magnitude, 1,454, 900 tons
have been handled. OF this amount
100000 tons were used in that city, the
balance being shipped to points all
over the State. The amount in 1915
is expected to exceed last years ship
ments by many thousands Of tons.
Fifty years ago saw a similar early
approach Of spring. The steamer
Queen began at this time running be-
tween Calais and Eastport, fully two
months earlier than usual.
The first consignment Of the new
siege guns to be mounted at Fort Will
liams in Portland harbor arrived Fri
day and will at once be mounted for
the practice Of the troops, which will
begin early in April. They are Of AZ
calibre, four in number and of the
very latest type Of siege guns. They
are sent to the various posts for out
door practice.
The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
during the month Of February de-
livered to it's connecting lines 1,679,-
81 bushels Of potatoes.
The twenty fourth annual reunion
and banquet of the Boston Kent's Hill
Alumni Association will be Friday
evening, March 10, at Young's Hotel,
Boston. Reception at 6. Dinner at
6.45. Professor Newton will be pres