Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-03

| frequently occur that should be re-
corded. For instance, Charles j. Nc
Cormick, president Of the New York
Bar Association, is passing his spring
vacation at Sebec lake. He was recent
~ fishing with three flies on the lead
err and hooked and landed at the same
| time three bass, weighing ., IA and
| IL pounds. 1t will be understood that
| 1t required skillful fisherman to do
the trick, and it was done and hand
somely done.
| The Coast Guard crews along the
Atlantic coast are now enjoying their
annual vacation, which lasts through
June and July, in most cases only the
captain remaining on duty.
| The difficulties which shipbuilders
ere encountering is illustrated by the
fact that Frank Eowker is being
obliged to pick up small lots of timber
wherever he can And it, for a schooner
lie is trying to build at his shipyard at
Phippsburg.
The Maine Universalist Convention
will hold it's s7th annual session June
SIS at the Universalist church in Nor
way. The entertainment committee is
arranging for large number of dele
gates and others and a splendid meet
ing is anticipated.
The Grand Lodge 81 Maine, Free anu
/ AonanfnI Will hn1 Il
communication at 1890 A. M. Thurs
day, June s, for the purpose of dedi-
eating the new Masonic hall at Exeter.
Grand Master Waldo Pettengill of
Rumford will perform the ceremony of
dedication, assisted by the grand Of
fcers. Those who can attend are
asked to notify him.
The Daily RepCrter-Journal of
name of the Kennebec Leader. Editor
Bowler says: The change is made
in order that we may have a name
more in keeping with cur actual selves.
In the past we have been thought of
as a local affair. Henceforth we pro-
pose to be known as a Kennebec coun-
ty affair and we invite the people of
this county even as we have been in
viting the people of Gardiner to watch
us grow."-Bath Times.
United States Marshal John S. P. H
Wilson, who was in the city Wednes-
day and Thursday. when asked about
Lewis J. Marshall, the Lisbon Falls
"Necktie man." who is wanted by the
federal authorities and who wrote tc
them that he was on his way to the
penitentiary at Atlanta, laughed and
said
Marshall, l guess. put a little one
over on us. When my deputy was go
ing to Lisbon Falls after Marshall,
was going to my home in Auburn and
told him l would go along with him
We stopped at Lisbon Falls and went
to Marshalls house, but he knew my
deputy and, getting his eye on him.
jumped aboard an electric and hurried
into Lewiston, firm whence he left by
train. The letter the poor chap wrote
made us laugh, but of course he will
be captured, brought back to Portland
and sentenced in the usual way. and
don't imagine his present action will
| in any way shorten his sentence"
| Over a thousand Of the Bangor &
Aroostook employees will have get
together meeting Sunday at Houlton,
| at which President Todd and other Of
| ficials of the road will be present.
| A well-known attorney of Bangor,
says the News, who had been engaged
| to deliver the Memorial Day address at
an up-river town, had an experience
which he will not care to soon repeat
ir his attempts to reach the town in
question by automobile during the
heavy downpour on Tuesday. When
| we'll on the way things began to hap
pen in rapid succession. Blow-outs
occurred, the tires taking a most eX-
asperating inconvenient time, to give
| out. and several times the machine was
stuck in the mud. Working in the
heavy rain in attempts to dig out a
car from the mud holes is said to be
not so much in the attorneys line as
delivering finished orations and rulings
on legal QOlHlS. al Oil CSCillS, iiS NaN'
not reach the town, and the citizens
thereof lost the treat of an able ad-
dress.
! What a long afternoon it must have
been for that Haverhll. Mass. fisherman
up at Haines Landing, who caught the
limit on trout and salmon in the morning
and couldn't fish after dinner. All he had
to do was to tell fish stories, including
that famous one of catching monster
trout which had hook in his mouth and
a yard or so of leader trailing wherever
he went His mornings catch included a
5-pounder, a 4a-pounder and two g.
Founders, all salmon.
A movement is on foot to buy the Bird
! Tibbetts wharf and kiln privilege, just
to the northward of the waterfront prop
erty recently presented to the city of
Rockland by the heirs of the late Gen.
Davis Tillson. 1t is the intention of the
promoters to remove the old kilns and
rubbish, repair the wharf and establish
a frst-class public landing, after wnich
the property will be decided to the city,
to be used in conjunction with the Tillson