Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29


who would look after him. He Is now
rom Washington.
| The many Maine friends of Rev. H.
E. Foss, formerly of Bangor and now
Of Southern Pines n. c., will sympa-
| thize with him in the loss of his home
by fire. Mr.. Foss. being crippled
| by the loss of a leg some years ago,
was unable to save much of his valu-
able library and household furnishings
and his loss is serious one. Mr..
F'oss is editor of the Southern Pines
,, Tourist and is one of the leading citi-
zens, having been mayor and has held
other offices He was obliged to leave
| the ministry few years after remov-
irg from Bangor on account of his
health, and located in Southern Pines.
Hundreds of friends of Frank L. Gard
ner, proprietor of the New Elm house in
Auburn, will be interested and enter
tanned in the following paragraph from
the Lewiston Journal regarding his prep
arations for the opening of the fishing
season:
F. l.. Gardner. proprietor of the New
Elm House, Auburn, has had his fishing
tackle ready for a month waiting for the
ice to go out of the Maine lakes. Mr..
Gardner says if one wants to be a real
sport he must be careful as to the use of
the word bite" 1t is a breach in fish
etiquet to use this word in connection
with anything as dignified as fish rod.
If one must use it, combine it with fish
pole, but when you say "fsh-rod'' be sure
you get a "strike." To illustrate his
point Mr.. Gardner tells the following
story Of an Indian who manufactures
rods. new York broker went into his
shop, one day, to purchase one of his
famous rods and said, II have come to
buy a fish pole" The Indian was highly
| insuted and CURLY replied. you can go
outside and get one of those. God manu-
features them, l make fish rods
The voters of kingfield have decid-
ed that they do not at present want
domestic science taught in the schools
and Go not care to have rooms fitted
for that purpose in the High school
| building-that being the vote at a re-
| cent special town meeting to recon
| slider the votes establishing those
| things.
A building owned by the Red Beach
| Plaster Co. is said to have encroached on
year boy riding bicycle collided with
an auto as both We're rounding the blind
corner and the boy was killed. The Ca
! lais city fathers are now considering the
/ matter and have instructed the city So
+ liCitor to communicate with the owners
of the building and to take steps look
| ing to its removal.
| The plan of setting the clocks ahead
! one hour for the purpose of Saving day
light" does not seem to make much head
| way outside the Dominion towns.
Censored mail matter is rather
novelty for citizens this side the line.
says the Pressure Isle Star Herald, but
| the war situation has reached the stage
| in the Dominion where it is deemed
advisable to adopt that policy, and as
a. result the letters reaching people
here, written by parties in Canada, all
bear evidence Of having been opened
! by the official censor. who, after hav-
| ing scanned the contents Of a letter.
affixes to the envelope the word Cen
sored." The new departure will of
course be accepted az necessary step
FOR our friends across the boundary to
take, but the system involves consid-
cradle delay in the transmission of
mail.
The Bangor board of aldermen COM
mitted a morphine addict to the Ban
for State hospital at meeting held
Friday. after questioning the man, who
testified that he contracted the habit
as the result of the drug being ad-
ministered when surgical operations
We're performed on him. He went to
|, the hospital unaccompanied, taking his
papers with him.