Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-03

Upon the mast the san caught WlHuS
The pine and fax together sailed the
blue!
l saw and loved one beauteous face.
Though cycles long have come and passed
away
Her hand in mine,-she walks with me
The engagement Of Former Associ-
ate Justice Joseph W. Simonds and
Mrs. Alice Preble Anderson, both of
Portland, was announced Monday at
Portland.
Brewer people have taken decisive
action on the anti-tuberculosis ques-
ton by the organization Monday eve
ming Of the Brewer Anti-Tuberculosis
Society with DR.. ]. P. Russell presi-
dent. The other officers will be named
at the next meeting. 1t is planned to
maintain special tuberculosis nurse
and adopt other preventative measures
in the city.
The consolidation Of the First Bap-
tist and Essex Street Free Baptist
churches at Bangor is said to be made
more favorable by the resignation just
announced Of Rev. George G. Sauer,
pastor Of the former on account of i'm
paired health. The resignation Of Rev.
A. B. Hyde. pastor of the latter, was
recently announced.
The school SUPPLEMENTARY Of the
Fort Fairfield and Easton district re-
Gently vacated by Frank E. McGould-
rick, who was elected to the Bar Har-
Dor position, has been filled by the Sc
lection of Dr. L. P. Turner of Boston.
The office pays $500. DIR. Turner is a
graduate of Brown University and lat
er received the degree of doctor of
laws from Harvard. He was for some
years principal Of a business college in
Providence and was also a number of
years chairman of the School Board of
Providence.
The veteran skipper Of Passama-
quoddy Bay, Capt Simon Brown, re-
Gently celebrated his ssth birthday.
He has followed the sea for more than
ee-quarters of a century, starting
out on his first fishing trip when IL
years old, and is yet active about the
harbor and makes a frequent visit to
PASSPORT from his home on Campo
bello, N. B.
Tho a nnaaYnd 1nnp onnnph o.
Gently over Monson to get in it's work
with reflector which had been left
lying on top of barrel Of old rags in
an attic Of house and set them on
fire. The blaze was fortunately soon
discovered and a few pals of water
squelched it, with no damage.
Walter Canwell of South Albany
recently cut down a large maple and
on splitting 1t found inside a place
where the tree had been tapped. The
tree had grown six inches outside of
the place. Isaac Flint, who is nearly
so years old, says that he can remem-
Der tapping the tree when he was a
small boy as his father, Daniel Flint,
owned the farm and he was born and
grew to be young man on the place.
The executive committee appointed
to have charge of the celebration of
the centennial of the incorporation Of
Brooks as q town has decided to have
the exercises during the Old Home
week, from Aug. 13 to II. 1t is
planned to have Roberts Night, for
the descendants of Joseph Roberts.
one Of the original settlers. He was
twice married and the father Of 10
children by each wife. AS PA grand
children and their children are scat
tered from Maine to California, 1t is
expected that Roberts Night on Aug.
II will be notable event.
Brunswick Record: Prof. Orren G.
Hormell of Bowdoin college. has just
issued a pamphlet Budget Making for
Maine Towns, which will prove to be
of inestimable value to those whose
duty 1t is to manage the financial af-
fairs Of any municipality. That Bow
doin college through the work of Prof.
Hormell is doing the state great ser
VICE can Dc SSSH Wy any CillLeH IdIlll-
lar with the usual haphazard methods
Of making up appropriations by towns.
BY Prof. Hormel's method towns go
about their business as any individual
with certain income. or any business
concern. should expend their money.
Bowdoin's department of research III
municipal government is certainly an
! important one in the college and that
the towns Of the State are to have the
benefit of the practical method
worked out is sure to have apprecia
tive recognition.
The baby girl born on Conductor
BOWS train from Rockland April 10,
| while the train was on the Maine
Central transfer boat Ferdinando
Gorges. crossing the Kennebec river.
says the Bath Times, turned up in
Boston last week at the South Station
| where she had been abandoned by her
mother, and Is now in care Of charita-
BILE institution. The baby was identi-
fed by a little bonnet. a part Of the
wardrobe furnished by the Bath City