Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-15

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Made at Niagara Falls, NY.
found damaging or stealing from a
garden and would give them the same
backing as the regular police.
The original notice of militia draft
away back in 1893 has recently been
found in some old papers by relatives
of the late Larry Gardiner of Rock
port, having beeen issued to his father.
It was made necessary by the famous
Aroostook war and reads as follows:
Militia of Maine: To Nathaniel
Gardiner: You are drafted and duly
enrolled as a soldier in the company of
which Captain William S. Timer is
commanding officer and are hereby
ordered to appear at Blackington's
Corner at East Thomaston on Friday,
the first day Of March, 1889, at ~
O'clock noon, armed and equipped as
the law directs, for military duty and
actual service, and there wait fur
Their orders. BY order of said COM
handing officer (signed) f. G. Hewey,
Lieutenant. Dated at Camden, this
18th day Of February, 1888"
Bath real estate man who knows
something Of farming as he was a
farmers boy and has managed a farm
himself. recently remarked, says the
Times, that there was not better
business in which a young man can
engage at the present time than
agriculture and especially in cattle
raising in the East. He advised
young men to go to raising stock and
incidentally raising their own cattle
feed on farms. He spoke of a visit
he made to California ranches some
years ago where the farmers lived in
huts on big farms. had Chinese cooks
and in few years retired with $4,000
or $4,000 each in the bank. .'hey
wore old clothes like their hired nelp
while on their ranches and of course
roughed 1t in modes Of living. He
said that with similar methods and
o little self-denial for a few Tears,
our Maine boys could be equally sue
cessful. It would pay them better
than law or medicine or any of the
professions and would be more profit
able than going into stores to dealing
in merchandise Moreover they would
| always have enough to eat and be in
dependent of the vicissitudes Of city
life:
intendent f. F. Callahan of the Jay
Livermore schools. who was last week
elected president Of the Franklin
County Teachers Association, that the
new $4,000 Grammar school building
dedicated Saturday of last week, was
erected. The new building is Of brick
| contains four rooms 22x3O feet, is up to
date in lighting and heating and is To-
Gated at Chisholm In the town OF Jay
Left an orphan at the age of two years
Superintendent Callahan has attained
his present position through grit and
ambition and that he retains his fight
ing spirit to this day is evidenced by
the fight he put up at the last State
Legislature for a more equitable dis
tribution of the school funds as be-
tween the high schools and the acad-
emies.
Red Cross chapter has been re-
Gently formed at the little town of
Warren, with 25 members at the first
enrolment. The Warren chapter mem
bers not only expect to greatly extend
the present roll, but also to do much
good work for the cause.
A Rockland girl Miss Louise Fisk, is
member Of the Harvard Red Cross
unit. which is to become part of
Base Hospital No. 5, in France. The
unit sails this week.
Once more a Westbrook girl, Miss
Cora Decormier, daughter of Mrs. Re-
gina Decormier, has been honored by
the French. She has received still an
other medal for her splendid work as
matrOn of one of the base hospitals To-
Gated in st. Cloud. She has been in
active hospital service almost since
the outbreak of the great war and has
made most enviable record, being the
recipient of many honors.
The Boy Scouts Of York County are
doing their part in this great war en-
Urgency. Troop gardens are under way
in the respective communities and the
boys are working very faithfully. Each
troop Is acting as an agency to gather
magazines for the county soldiers who
go to the forts. Many Of the members
have enlisted in the Boy Scout Coast
Patrol to assist the Naval department
and at public gatherings the boys give
practical police help.
William A. Melcher of Bath, one Of
the citys Oldest and most respected
citizens, quietly observed his 93rd
birthday Wednesday at his residence,
344 Front street. Mr.. Melcher is in
excellent health and until a year ago
was actively engaged in business at
the Bath Iron Works, where for many
years he was superintendent of the
wood carving department.
A summer resident of Poland of
whom her townspeople are justly
nroud is Miss Mary 6 Coombs who