Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-12
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winter cruising season, which closed on
March 81, carried the steamer 10000
miles. Service was given In % cases
and nearly 1000 craft Of all kinds were
boarded for one purpose or another.
Several schooners were saved from
disaster. The cutter is hauled up at
Portland for short time, being
cleaned and made ship shape.
Work still continues to be brisk in
the plant of the Saco-Lowell Co. at
Bddeford The company is cOmplet-
ing its first order fol- 1900 tons o.
frames for two immense cotton mills at
Tentsin, China, and the last shipment
will be made May /. 1t is expected
that another order will be received IN
the summer and that the total value of
the order nearing completion and the
one that is expected will amOunt APP
proximate to s1000,O00. George T.
Hornbuckle of Biddeford will be one Of
three men in the employ of the COM
pany to go to China and superintend
and take part in setting up the ma
hinery, which consists of 65 rowing
frames and 81 spinning frames. The
men will probably be in China for three
years.
The old system of alloting honor
parts to the Biddeford High school
graduates and of allowing but half a
dozen, who have attained high rank, to
take part in the exercises, has been
discarded by Principal A. w. Rey
nolds and members of the School
Board. There will be Fl members IN
the senior class in June, and all will
take part. Under the old-fashioned
system, still in vogue in many cities
only half dozen speak.
| Very few immigrants are com
ing now, whereas thousands passed
through Portland every winter be
! fore the war, most of them bound
for the Canadian Northwest. Now the
trend is just the other way. and many
who became settlers there a few year.
ago are back in Europe fighting fol
| England in the trenches
| The annual session of the Crane
Castle of Maine of the knights of thu
Golden Eagle will be held with Conel
rowe Castle of Auburn next Wednes
Gay and Thursday, and the loca
knights are planning to make it one O
the most interesting sessions of thu
order ever held in the State. recep
ton will be rendered to visiting knights
at Abou Ben Adhem Lodge Hall b,
Conelrowe Castle Wednesday evening
and committee consisting OF c. f
Hldeout, E. B. Gilman and J. E. Brag
don. have arranged a fine program. 4
buffet lunch will be served. The bust
ness sessions will open at 10 o'cloci
Thursday, when the Grand Castle will
be called to order by Grand Chief w
II. Garland of Carmel. A dinner will
be served at noon by the Pythan Sis
ters of Auburn.
Announcement was made Monda,
at Sanford Of the marriage of Myrol
+. Bennett, editor and publisher of tn
Sanford Tribune and chief of the San
ford Fire Department, to Mrs. May J
Mack. They were married Saturda
evening by Rev. George F. Pratt. pas
tor OF the First Unitarian church. TIL
event was kept secret, except to tn
clergyman and witnesses. Mr.. Ben
nett has been fire chief several wear
and has also been superintendent o
schools and member of the Schoo
Board. He is now secretary of tn
republican town committee. Mrs
Bennett Is native of Nashville. Tenr
She has been housekeeper for Mr.. Ben
nett several years. They will live a
4S Washington street, Sanford.
f. c. Jordan of Portland, civil en-
slneer, has been appointed by Score
tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels a
a member of the Board of Directors O
the Organization for Industrial Pre-
paredness for the State of Maine. an
as an associate member of the Nava
Consulting Board.
The largest shipment of paper tina
ever left Rumford was the $50 tons il
p carloads, sent by special train fror
the Oxford mill Tuesday. The pane
is for the leading magazines of tn
country. The value Of the shipment
estimated at $4,000.
Representative Guernsey has desip
mated Merrill Frederick Sproul q
brewer for appointment as cadet q
the Annapolis Naval Academy. wit
Phillip Garretson Mcclellan of Carl
bou as his alternate.
The several boys about Old Tow
VINO have wireless outfits. met the 9th
er evening and organized as the OF
Iown Radio Club. with eight charte
members. Alexander Cutler was elect
ed president; Charles Lowe. trea
and radio engineer: Leonard Randall
secretary. All boys in this yicinjt,
who are interested in radio work ar
invited to join.
Old Town Enterprise-There is 70
port that the trunk line to Houlton in
stead of coming through Old Tow,
then Milford and the town on that sid
OF the river is to turn off at Stillwate
and go through that village to Alto
and LAGRANGE, thence across the rive
at Rowland, increasing the distanc
and practically ignoring Old Town.
Edgar M. Frisbee Of kittery.
Postmaster Edgar M. F'risbee of Kit
terry Point died Monday afternoon O
pneumonia. aged As. He was A son O
Capt. Charles and Hattie Bunker
Frisbee. In early life he was mate o.
his fathers coasting vessel, later serv
ing as master of the same. OF lat
years he had managed the Fairfield.
summer hotel at Klttery Point Il
1915 he was appointed postmaster.