Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-02

The Augusta city council held an
adjourned meeting Tuesday evening at
CITY hall for the purpose of listening
to the report of the special garden
committee which was appointed at the
last meeting for the encouragement OF
gardening in the city. The comalttee
Of which Alderman Giddings is CHAIR
man reported that it had been sue
cessful in it's work, having received
good number of applications for plots
Of land to cultivate and having receiv-
ed the following offers of land: George
w. Merrill, land on Bowdoin street.;
A. M, Wight, four lots on Murray
street; r. L. Hersey. land on tiersey
street; E. l.. Gedney. land on Quimby
street; Joseph E. Nichols, land on
Riverside Drive; Charles S. Hichborn,
the lawn south of his house on VIM
throp street; Samuel Titcomb. land on
the Lambert farm on Hospital street;
S. C. Webster. 10 acres of land on the
Bangor road. Besides these plots of
land there is quite tract of land avail
able for planters on the Leonard farm
as well as other plots on the outskirts
of the city.
A patriotic offer of $26 was received
from Hon. Charles S. Hichborn, this
money to be expended in the purchase
Of seeds for the planting.
The following order introduced by
Alderman Giddings was passed in con-
currence: Ordered, That a sum not
exceeding $3.50 be and hereby is APP
propriated for the purpose of aiding
and planting of gardens and that said
amount be expended at the discretion
Of the special committee on gardens
for aforesaid purposes. and said COM
mittee consists of the following mem
bers: Alderman Giddings. chairman:
Councilman Worthing, secretary; AL
derman Trouant. Councilman Howes,
Councilman Redmond. Alderman hPil-
brick, Alderman Hopkins and Council
man Weeks.
In connection with this matter 1t
was announced that under the direc-
ton OF the garden committee of the
city council public meeting will be
held at 100 this evening at the Coun-
ell rooms at City hall at which A. l..
Deering, secretary of the kennebec
county committee on food production
and conservation. will be present and
will talk upon the subject. 1t is re-
quested that all citizens who have land
to offer for cultivation or who desire
to make application for plots of land
for planting attend this meeting.
Registration Board
Mayor Willis E. Swift announced the
appointment of two members of the
board of registration, as follows: Fred
w. Libby, appointed on recommended
ton Of the Democratic city committee,
succeeding b. F. Smith, and Charles T..
Holt, re-appointed upon recommended
ton of the Republican city committee.
The many friends Of Elmer Thyng son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Thyng of this
city, will be interested to learn that he is
among the Augusta boys who have re-
Gently answered to the call to the colors,
and that he has successfully passed his
examinations and enlisted as mounted
scout. He was among the foremost ath-
letes in his class at Cony High school
and took leading part in baseball, track
and basketball during his four years at
Cony. Last summer he was employed as
a forest fire patrolman in Somerset coun-
ty. and since leaving school this spring
he has been employed as a CLERK