Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-13


Says faint nice,
Kickin' at the cold snap
He sells ice.
One mans happy
Bless your soul,
He wants it zero
He sells coal.
e. G. in Oxford Citizen.
The Cumberland County Audubon
Society was organized Monday night at
Portland, with a large membership.
Protection for birds, whose native
haunts are being encroached upon to
great extent by the numbering opera
tons throughout the State. is one of
the main objects Of the organization.
The officers are: President. DR.. Ada
Odiorne Fogg: vice president. Silas B.
Adams: treasurer. William E. Wing;
secretary, Amy T. Baker.
We are Of courre sorry for the editor
of the Rockland Opinion, who recently
was driven from his newspaper home
by fire and now through the kindly at
tentions Of a burglar is minus $50 in
banknotes-but If any newspaper man
time and leaves 1t around the office
just like coal, potatoes, flour and other
trtf1es. he almost deserves to lose it.
The new L. A. & w. St. Ry. bridge
over the New Meadows river at a point
just north Of the Inn, went into COM
mission this week.
The Fee, a magazine for New England
Shriners is to be published in Boston.
the first issue to appear the latter part
Of the present month. 1t will be devot-
ed entirely to the Shriners Of New Eng
land representing the following temples:
Kora. Palestine. Pyramid, Mt. Sina, AL
eppo, Sphinx, Melha. Cairo and Bektash.
Portland is perfectly willing to enter
upon a new era of shipbuilding and if
the New York capitalists decide to To-
cate their proposed yards there. they
will doubtless receive all the support
they could ask.
Judge William M. Warren is in Port
land in attendance on the sessions of
the United States district court in order
to become familiar with the duties of
clerk Of the court, which position he
will assume in the new Bangor district
court.-Bangor News.
Thomas r. Ballard of Riverside
sends the Journal a buttercup blossom
picked by him the other day while out
after evergreen for Christmas a rather
remarkable find for this time of year
1t was in perfect condition, as bright
and pert as though the weather was
June instead of December.
Requests Of 100000 each to the
Eastern Maine General hospital and
the Bangor Public library. made in the
will Of Col. Luther H. PIERCE of Chi
cago, who died in that city Oct. 20
1915, have just arrived in Bangor, ii
was announced Monday, by E. F. Rich
treasurer of the public library, and
Charles II. Crosby, treasurer of the
hospital. The requests are in the
form of stock of the Chicago Tele-
phone Co.. each institution receiving
$50 shares, whose par value is $1,000
each. The stock is paying 8 per cent
interest, so it's interest yielding value
is 100000 at 6 per cent. In other
words, the Bangor institutions will re-
ceive an income of $4,000 each from
their stock.
A young man walked down to the
wharves from Commercial street Sun
day afternoon and stepping aboard
the lighter of Captain Croker lying
off the Howard lower wharf, walked
slowly across the deck to the edge
and then calmly stepped overheard
into the river, reports the Bath Times.
Once he rose to the surface, he began
to swim with all his clothes on and
was taken by his efforts, aided by the
tide, to Kimball's wharf, where he
found no opportunity to get ashore, SO
swan around the corner of the wharf
and down to city landing where he
landed and walked away.
The old toll bridge between Trenton
and Mt. Desert Island, is again the
subject of attention Of the Hancock
county people, who wish free as well
as new bridge The old structure is
so dilapidated that not over three tons
may be hauled over 1t.
It is rumored On the streets Of Liver
more Falls that local coal and wood
dealer set q new man to work with q
team Saturday delivering coal. The
FIRST order was for two and a half tons
Of screenings for the bank building. and
the new man was instructed to haul the
coal over to the bank and dump 1t in on
the back side. He hauled the coal to
the bank all right and dumped it, but
1t was the river bank and most Of the
coal went into the Androscogg1n.
Here is yarn told to the unsuspect-
ing people Of Bath by one of Lon
Wellman's building moving crew Of
Augusta: One of the Wellman crew Of
house movers was formerly street
car conductor. Last evening he had a
Frenchman friend who on one occa-
sion had a terrible toothache. He saw