Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-30

AS tney take short repoSe.
mat twas only the minority
That voted for the Rose.
n. y. B.
Tho Reasy Why
It's tough old proposition
Ihat the women of the State
Must get two-thirds majority
Fer they can legislate.
The cards are stacked against them
AS everybody knows;
And that is why the ants
WIN some voters for the Rose.
A VOTER.
The thousands of ducks which for
months have been stopping at the
mouth Of the Kennebec have departed
on their northern fight.
The pleasure of having attended
school with Nine. Schumann- Heink
When children together is treasured
by Mrs. John B. Perry of Gouldsboro.
Inc two girls lived in Mainz, Ger
many and 1t is said that Ernistine
Schemann and Marguerite Trimboln
mad the sweetest voices in the school.
Several Great Lakes steamers have
been chartered to carry coal from
Southern ports to Portland, owing 10
deep sea charters having taken so
many of the Golfers from their for
mer runs
Mrs. Sarah Coolidge of Dayton will
today celebrate her SD birthday. Mrs.
Lowell was born in Portland Marcn
30, 1888, the daughter OF William and
Priscilla Griffin Sylvester Coolidge.
Her grandfather sylvester served
with honor in the Revolutionary war,
her father served as captain in the
war of 1872, her brothers served il
the Civil war and she had nephews
in the Spanish American war. Her
mother was born in Freeport Me- her
father in Cambridge. Mass. They had
Is children, of which she is the 14th.
She is very active and retains all her
business ability.
Aunt" Harriet Twitchell of Paris
is another remarkably we'll preserves
old lady, having been we'll able to
care for herself up to few days ago,
when she fell and broke one arm. She
was even then so plucky and full Of
grit that she refused an anaesthetic
and stood we'll the operation of having
the fracture reduced.
Mayor-City Marshal Harbor Mas
ter-etcetera Small of Bath is begin
ming to find a few OF the troubles that
bestrew his path. His list of sub
ordinate officers was quickly turned
down by the School Board, a list pre-
pared by Vice Chairman Hyde being
substituted, and the aldermen have
refused to confirm the police and con-
stable lists as prepared by him, SO
that the old force is still on duty
The defeat of a popular constable
of the town of Sanford two years agn
was understood to have been due to
his activity in enforcing the automo-
bile law in regard to the license plates,
but in spite of that, Constable Joseph
E. Weston has begun a campaign
against the negligent owners of ma
chimes, several arrests having already
been made and the parties hailed into
court and fined for not having the
1915 plate. The constable thinks that
about so citizens of his town have not
complied with the law and announces
that unless they do so at once they
will also make their appearance in the
same court.
The late VIM. S. O'Brien Of Port
land. whose funeral was held last Sat
urday at the cathedral Of the Immac-
ulate Conception. had the distinction
Of having served the Grand Trunk for
half a century in various capacities.
The torpedo boat destroyer Wads-
worth. to be launched in April at Bath,
will be christened by Miss Juanita
Doane Wells, Cambridge, Mass, her
selection being announced by the sec
rotary of the navy. Miss Wells is the
daughter of the late John Doane
Wells, former secretary Of the State
Board of Charity. She is a graduate
Of Radcliffe. '01. She lives with her
mother, Mrs. Annie Wadsworth Wells,
at q Everett street, Cambridge. Mrs.
Wells is the daughter of Commodore
Alexander S. Wadsworth, who saw
service in the war of 1912, and was
connected with the navy for more
than 40 years. The destroyer is named
for him.
A lodge of Knights of Pythias will
soon be instituted at Charleston, Me,
already having IS names on the char
ter list.
Thrifty housewives are said to be
laying down" thousands Of eggs in
the sections of Maine where the price
is IS to 20 cents per dozen-but that
is not the Capital City, where we are
still paying % cents per.
Saco felt pretty sore over the fact
that United States official who was
in town about the selection of lot
for a new federal building was obliged
to go to Biddeford to obtain hotel ac-
Talk Of a hotel con-
tinues, but no one seems to have the
to tackle the proposition.