Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

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ton Feb. 1. Fifteen thousand kolinsky
skins sold for $4,000.
Edwin Baldwin of Nyack. N. Y, re-
ported that he had seen the first robin
that has appeared in Rockland county
this year. simultaneously. Putnam
county reports violets in bloom.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter b. Brooks, Jr..
of Baltimore, Md, gave dinner at their
home, in Park avenue, for Miss Elsie de
Wolfe, of New York. who is stopping
with them.
LIntransigeant of Paris, France, says
probably 100000 men will be added to
the army as a result of the re-examina-
ton of $4,000 men who had been ex-
empted for various reasons.
The Ausable, the first of the three
steamships which left Baltimore, Md. at
intervals in the last two months with
consignments Of gold for South America,
has arrived at Buenos Ayres.
Baron de Carter de Marchienne, Bel
gian Minister at Picking, has been APP
pointed Minister of Belgium at Wash
ngton, says a dispatch from Peking.
The Baron will leave for his new post
in March.
At a meeting at Berlin, of the German
Baron Won Mumm, attended by numer-
Gus high officials and personages piomi-
nent in commerce and industry. larg"
sum was voted for the Shanghai Relief
Fund.
Members of the state Association of
County Euperintendents of ths Poor. in
conference at Albany. n. ". asked Cow
ernor Whitman to support q bond issue
al 81 ono RI 20 pyncuIpH at tho a
of $1,000,000 a year, for care of the
States mental detectives.
T. \. Olson, chairman Of the Wash
ington Industrial Insurance Commission
of Olympic, Wash, was shot and killed
in his office in the state capitol by Joan
Van Dell Of bordeaux, Wash. who was
dissatisfied with an amount Of money re-
ceived from the state accident fund.
Charles H. Davis and Elmer Gal
breath, formerly presidents of the old
Second National Bank of Cincinnati.
have been found guilty in the United
States District Court on twenty-ciGht
counts of an Indictment charging them
with violating federal hanking laws.
Charlestown Navy Yard had an excit-
ing few minutes Feb. ., when officers
marines and bluejackets from the yard
and the war ships were called by an
alarm of fire from the blacksmith shop.
There was much smoke. but little fire
The blaze was due to oil drippings.
The total assessments of taxable pro-
perty in the town of Greenwich. Conn.
as laid on the grand list completed by
the board of assessors and transmitted
to the board Of relief is 43,492,6O7 This
is an increase of $2,671,153 over last
years list.
According to the official report of
Argentine, South America, foreign COM
merce in 1916 imports amounted to PIT
400, 900 pesos. decrease of 9.4B3 600 and
exports to 543,345, 900, a decrease of IA
100000. The balance in favor of Argen-
tine is thus 1926, 936,0 900.
Governor Gardner Of jefferson Citv
Mo, has honored the requisition of tba
New York authorities for A. p Macan-
ley of Toronto, wanted on a charge of
passing forged checks Macaulev is out
on bail to answer an indictment I'm 81
Louis charging him with passine a
forged check.
a man with two heads is bound for
the American border from Mexico with
the returning punitive expedition He
was found in the hills back of Choco-
late Pass truck driver brought the
report, and Lieutenant orr acknowl-
edged that he had given a pass TO the
physical wonder.
how to arrange for 1900 new families
at newport, r. l., by the first of Julv
next Is making things lively in civic
circles here. he navy department has
asked Capfap John K. Robinson in
spector in charge of the torpedo station !
70 definitely ascertain whether 5oo
more f1rst class machinists and THAR
families can be accommodated mn |
homes here
Letters struggled out Of Russia in
loaVes of bread were found1in the mails
placed there by Mrs C. Goldberg who
IS with friends at Chicago, Ill. after
'nlrty-one day journey through the Rus-
9iah war zone. The letters, she said
We're hidden in the bread that uncen.
sored pleas for help from her ne,ghbors
IN Zabilin, Kirkland, might reach their /
American relatives.
me rev j. 9. II. Barry rector of the
Church Of st. Mary the Virgin. New
hofh lily, celebrated the thirtieth ami
'erSarY or his ordination. Feb. 2, at the
81 yes IN connection with the Feast of
the Publication.
toward {. Bodman. who died January
~. leaving more than 100000, gave
S2o,0O0 to the Madison Square Church
House, No 40 Third avenue. New YORK.
CITY. The remainder goes to friends
and relatives.
william Fl. Theobald. president of /
Kahn Brothers Company wholesale gro |
GERS, at Salt Lake City, and formerly
known as an agent in the United States
Treasury Department, died at a private
sanitarium in New York City. after a
long Illness. His home in New yorL