Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-27

Judge Emery expects to spend most OF
the winter in Berkeley and other parts OF
I California.
/ The first Of continuous exhibition OF
/ art to be held by the Bangor Society OF
Art during the ensuing year. is now
! on view at the Fine Arts Gallery OF the
/ public library, Ban1or.
! Eugene Frank. aged %, or Nova
! Scotia. first mate on the dredge FREE
port, at the Grand Trunk docks, Port
land. fell overheard at 4.3o p. NJ. sat
urday Another man who went over
/ at the same time was a good swimmer
and got to shore.
| Leonard w. Grant has been elected
principal of the Sanford High school
! to succeed Harry H. Burnham, who
| has just gone to kennebunk High
school as principal. Mr.. Grant is
graduate of the Brighton. Mass. High
! school and of Colby college, class OF
! 1915. He went to Sanford in 1916 and
! was submaster until his recent ap-
pointment as principal Mr.. Grant is
a native of Hartford. Conn. 4. Rus
sell Mack of North Easton, Mass. has
been elected submaster to succeed Mr..
! Grant. Mr. Mack is graduate of
Bridgewater Normal school and was
captain of the basketball team of that
school He also has an enviable repu
tation as baseball player. In the
Sanford school he will teach science
+, and athletics.
Houlton High school after DELAYING
! its opening six weeks in order to give
the boys of the school an opportunity
to help harvest the potato crop opened
fhiS
liam +. Davis. Jr.. of Orleans. Mass
assumes the. principalship, vacated by
I Thomas r. Packard, recently elected
superintendent.
/ Frank A. Morris. elected last sum-
mer as superintendent of schools for
Lisbon and Webster. has resigned TO
become experimenting agent OF
schools III Connecticut RAYMOND Car
ter of Pembroke. a Bates College grad.
uate, was Saturday elected to succeed
him.
Aroostooks starch industry this year is
getting into full swing early in the sea
son. The Haines & Osborne factory. Fort
rairhsid' lower village, the Aroostook
valley factory, north Of the Aroostook
river ABOUT a quarter mile from town
! ana the Goodwin factory at Hockenhull
brook are busily at work grinding gu.
, starch. The starch factory at Manic
Grove and the Osborne and Lundy fac
tory Rave shut down. The average
amount being paid per barrel for starch
potatoes is N25. Very few abe being
brought to the factories by the farmers,
and many of the factories are contem-
plating closing. This is indeed surprising.
considering the reports Of rot among the
Aroostook potatoes.
E! Judge Haley Of the Supreme Judicial
court at Portland Monday sustained de-
murrer filed by Hinckley & Hnckley, at
torneys for DIR. Z. E. Holt, Jr, in an
action brought by William Curran for
$4,000 damages for alleged negligent
treatment Of his eyes in 1913. which re-
'sulted in the loss of one eye and even
tually in total blindness. The demurrer
was filed on the ground that Curran did
not state in sufficiently specific fashion
how, when and in what manner the negi.
gence occurred and did not deal in sufi-
GENTLY specific fashion with the nature Of
the treatment given him by Dr. Holt.
AS a result of the gambling raid
made by. Deputy Sheriffs Thomas r.
Williams of Livermore Falls and H II.
the Chisholm line, Saturday evening,
II men of Livermore Falls and Jay
were before Judge Putnam Of the
Livermore Falls municipal court Mon
day. G. r. Grua appeared for the
State and T. b. Ciary Esq. for the
respondents. The men were adjudged
guilty and fined 81 and cost each.
which they paid. The court room was
crowded to the doors.
Madison Garland OF Lakewood was
badly burned at the Green Lake fish
hatchery. where he was temporarily
employed, last Wednesday evening
Mr. Garland had returned to his camp
after his days work and. stripped to
the waist. had rubbed his shoulders
and body with a liniment for rheuma-
tlsm. Thinking heat would be an add
ed remedy. he stood near the fire. The
Imminent evidently contained some
highly infIammable substance for il
suddenly burst into flame. enveloping
the upper part OF his body His
brother. happening in at just this time
succeeded in putting out the fire. or
the result might have been more seri-
Gus. Mr.. Garland went to the hospital
ct Bangor Thursday. His body ia
badly burned and blistered. Ellsworth
American.
\ little son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
MUCK Of Searsmont had very narrow
escape from drowning last week. He
win other children were playing in the
open cellar OF Mrs. Lucy Beams house
: wnen ne climbed upon the cistern and
fell through the wire scren which COW
cred the open space. Mr.. Lamb, who
was storing apples. hearing an out
cry rushed to the rescue and jumped
INTO the cistern where the child had
SUNK in five feet OF water nd hronnh.