Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-31

love my life, but not too well
To cast 1t like cloak on thine.
Against the storms that sound and swell
Between tn, thy lonely heart AN and mine.
Harriet Monroe.
New moon at :.5s this afternoon
The days will lengthen but 1s minutes
moro this year.
Prepare yourselves to knock at the
doors Of the lawyers and merchants on
certain days and at certain hours and find
them closed-as the summer closing hours
are about to be adopted with the coming
Of June.
The next meeting Of the Somerset Coun-
ty Veterans and Ladies' Auxiliary will
meet in Athens on Wednesday. June T.
Morning session will open at 10 o'clock
for the usual business. Hon. L. c. Will
liams Of Athens will deliver the address
Of welcome. Dinner will be served at
noon by the Grange. There will be an
after-dinner dress parade, under the
direction of Adjutant S. F. Emerson.
Afternoon session will be called at lis,
with an entertainment. consisting of
solos. war songs, readings, speaking by
comrades. clergy and citizens.
special meeting of the Rumford Falls
Village Corporation will be held at 7.SO
P. M. Thursday, June !, for the purpose
Of taking action on the celebration of the
18th anniversary of the birth of Rumford
Falls village. 1t is understood that with
a very few exceptions the people favor
the celebration. If the voters decide to
have the celebration, it is planned to
name a committee of three prominent
citizens to take charge of the affair and
the necessary amount of money will be
raised. With the feeling so general
among the people in favor, it is to be
expected that the event will be on a scale
worthy OF the occasion
1t may be something of a task for
people in central and western Maine
to believe the following. written by the
South Hodgdon, Me-, correspondent of
the Aroostook Pioneer:
1T is over three months since we
have had good rain in this section.
A good shower would be as welcome
as the flowers that bloom in the
spring"
One of the biggest construction un-
certakings going on in Maine is that
of the power development and i'm
provement project of the Rumford
Falls Power Co. The H. P Cummings
Construction Co. of Ware, Mass, has
the contract and has begun clearing Off
the rubbish and trees. preparatory to
the arrival Of the working outfit and
the start on the main work. 1t will
probably require two years for COM
plet1on and will be an expensive job,
owing to the high cost of material and
labor.
The North Atlantic fleet having a
few business engagements in the line
OF regular cruising duties at about the
time Portland is planning on having
her 20Oth anniversary celebration.
June 10. it is rather doubtful if a bat
tleship or any other warship can be
secured for that date. The only avail
able dates for the summer will be from
July l to s, when the fleet will be
cruising along the Maine coast
The late Mrs. Frances Bunker, who
died April Is in Lewiston, was when a
child left in the poor house by her
mother and never afterward spoke of
or communicated with any relative, if
any existed. She married young and
the man deserted her after day, with
all her savings. She later married the
late VIM. Bunker and they lived hap
PLY until his death few years ago.
She said she was going to make a will,
but paralysis prevented and the estate
OF about $500 in value will, unless an
heir is found, go to the State.
Greeks all over the State, owing to
the prominence of the parties involved.
are intensely interested in the case of
Rev. Constance Garcupolis, pastor of
the Greek church of Lewiston, who has
sued one of his church members,
Christis Coutsioubos, for $4,000 for libel
in making certain statements implicat-
ing the pastor in improper relations
with the wife of one Of the prominent
members Of the church. The charges,
it Is understood, were made during a
church service and suit vas immediate
ly instituted.
The Bee Ridge correspondent Of the
Fort Fairfield Review writes: One of
cur neighbors, Mrs Roscoe BurtchelI.
reports seeing a flying machine Satur-
day evening about II o'clock. It
stayed in sight long while. They
watched it as they came home from
the Fort, and it was still in sight when
they went to bed 1t seemed to be fol-
lowing the st. John river or the c. P.
r. track to Grand Falls. They said
they kept turning the search light on
and off, as if watching for something.
Trim your trees and shrubs. Don't
let the dead limbs stay on. When
you cut off limbs cut them off close
and smooth to the trunk, don't leave
them sticking out an inch or more.
1t is the surest way you could adopt
to kill your trees. Trees can not
grow so fast or look so well or be Of
Sc much benefit or beauty if they are