Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-11
State House Chat

The first volumes or the nrSt annual
report of the Maine Public Utilities Com
mission were received Monday afternoon
at the State library, from whence they
will be distributed: They are bound in
black cloth with gilt lettering and pre-
sent a very neat appearance.
i No hearing Is scheduled for today.
Hearing" day before the Public Utilities
Commission. something that has not hap
pened before for year at least.
George A. Allen of Auburn. State agent
for the protection of children, was
caller Monday on business matters at the
office of the State Board of Charities and
Corrections.
The State pension Office force is busy
just now sending out the Quarterly pen
sion vouchers, about 5000 in all.
State Insurance Commissioner Erastus
]. Carter is on a two days trip to Ellis
worth, where he is in conference with
the county attorney of Hancock county
in regard to several fires which have
occurred in that county.
Primary nomination papers for Oakley
c. Curtis for the nomination on the DEM
ocratic ticket for Governor of the State
of Maine appeared at the State House
Monday afternoon and we didn't see a
single official fail to sign when they were
presented to him.
Mrs. Gladys Mathes has returned to
her duties as stenographer in the fores-
try commissions offices, after an en-
forced absence at home with an attack
of tonslitis.
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at the State museum were: Martha A.
Taylor, Bangor; Henry ]. Gagnon, Rum
ford; Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Clark, Hamp-
den Highlands; Charles Stilkey, Freeport
VIM. T. Pancoast and Paul NJ. Stevens.
Portland; Gladys Bickmore, East Cor
NTH; Miss Effie Harris. Lisbon Falls; w.
A. Taylor, Waterville; John Brown. West
Dresden; Cornelius Deacon and Theodore
McAllister. Hallowell; Q. A. Coston. Gar
diner; A. r. Page. Dexter; T. E. McCur-
dy. L. S. S. Georgia
! Attorney General William r. Pattan-
| gall has received an invitation from r
| Wooley, president of the Common Coun-
| sci. Club, to attend a banquet given by
! this organization at the New Willard
hotel at Washington on the evening OF
! Thursday, April Is, to commemorate the
| 173d anniversary of the birth of Thomas
| jefferson Attorney General Pattangal
will be unable to attend the banquet as
| he will be busy in the' supreme judicla
court for Cumberland county at Portland
! this week in the trial of the case of Pot
ter against the Dead River Lumber Co.
in which he is counsel for the plaintiff
Bddeford Record April Miss Beatrice
Cartier, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. 10
seph Cartier, of Washington street, has
been appointed clerk and stenographe1
! for the Public Utilities commission ant
| will enter upon her duties at the commits
sion's office at Augusta on May l. Th'
appointment is compliment to Miss Car
tier and a deserved recognition of he
lcapability as a stenographer. Miss Car
tier has filled number of similar posi-
tons with credit to herself and accep
tably to her employers. After gradual
j ing from ST. Joseph's school she entered
the Commercial school, from which sh'
was graduated and she then entered tn
law Office of her brother. Arthur j.
Cartier, now of Fall River. Mass. Late
on she pursued a course at Gray's bust
ness college in Portland, graduating
there, and then entered Leroy Haley
law Office as stenographer She was a
one time assistant to Albert Lesieur whel
he was city auditor and has filled posi-
tons in the office of superintendent o
schools. At the present time she is staml
clerk at Bradish's in Portland.