Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-09

! More and E5Cye.
4. For the echo Of his foot-tali
I On the floor.
| Just awaiting and z-praying.
| I'll. see the Light Of Heaven
/ And his smile
/ Rscking, knitting. dreaming.
Watching longing aor:zg.
: -goszrrood Reed
Two Eid1efo-d business men. who
have zach f.cn n active life for over
hall century. retired ,eE. week, VIM
! J. Bradford. whn for Il years has
been the live head Of the VIM. j.
: Bradford Cigar Co, me oldest cigar
manufacturing company il Maine, and
A. \. Norwood. who has been
barber for a similar time
I The President will now have an OPP
portuni,y to sink MS teeth into real
apple, the Maine Pathological Society
having sent him two barrels of the
{ Mcintosh Reds on exhibition al the
show just held in Portland. They are
Handsome apples and the variety can
Eos be beaten for eating.
Principal Poole of the Abraham
! Lincoln school at Bangor thinks it
would be wise idea to have the his
! tory Of the city OF Bangor taught in
! the public schools Of that city and
accordingly will introduce the plan in
Grades VIII and TX Of his school and
+ it will probably become general.
Not many peat boys are worked in
Maine, though several valuable ones
exist. One that has been probably
worked is on the Farwell farm Of
bout 131 acres on Webster street in
the suburbs Of Lewiston. Ii has re-
Gently been purcha sed by Orland s.
Ham Of Lewiston, who proposes TO de-
yelop il extensively in the spring.
! The hardy fisherman who gets but
$3.50 per gallon for the scoIlops which
he has dredged out Of the depths OF
the Monroe Island beds stares some
when he visits town and sees the
price there asked. running as high as
40 cents the pint.
! Some Of the enterprising Bath citi-
zens who have seen the handsome
street lighting systems in augusta and
adoption Of like plan for lighting the
principal business section of the Ship
ping City.
! The story is told as occurring not
over thousand miles from the Capt.
tai City Of Maine something as fol-
lows:
The leader Of a Sunday School class
recently suggested to the class mem
bers that ii would be a fine idea for
| each member to bring in a new pupil
An earnest member thought so highly
! Of the plan that he Immediately went
! after his neighbors. soliciting their at
| tendance. From one to another he
| went, his invitations and arguments
/ falling to secure any recruits. His last
attempt wound up about as follows
| The neiahbor, after listening to a some
what extended presentation of the rea-
Sons why he should attend the mans
Sunday School. finally. to gain
! chance to return to his own business,
said he guessed he wouldn't promise
| just now and added: "And you know
! am a Democrat" That was stick
er for the solicitor for a while but he
, finally saw the point. HIN. yes.
| see. That would bar you. that's a
fact" And. thoroughly discouraged.
he gave up and carried no new pupil
to his Sunday school,
| The Maine Methodist Conference
for 1916 will be held at Rumford
Falls beginning April IL with Bishop
Cook presiding. The East Maine
Conference will be held at Camden,
April 5. with Bishop Hamilton in
the chair. Bishop Hamilton will also
preside over the New England Con-
ference at Worcester the same time
the Maine Conference is in session,
and over the Vermont Conference the
week of March 20. Bishop Cook will
come to Maine from Manchester, -.
H.. where he will hold the session Of
the New Hampshire Conference be-
ginning April 5. Bishop Quayle is
to preside over the New England
| Southern at Norwich. Conn.,, March
% and Bishop Luccock will be the
presiding officer for the Troy Con-
ference at Saratoga. April IL. These
| various gatherings are all Of the gen.
| erai conference in May which meets
at Saratoga.
Lucius p. Stevens of Exeter. a
grandson Of Levi Stevens, who built
sawmill on the Kenduskeag stream in