Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-14
And the lovable heart Of youth.


Speak with the soul of big. strong
man.
And the lovable heart of youth.
A Lewiston man who claims to be
something of weather prophet said
Wednesday,, that an Indian summer
was due to begin the latter part of
this week. He further predicted
| "long spell of warm weather"
| A big majority of the citizens Of Au-
burn are expressing their hearty ap-
probation of the passage of the acts
granting the new charter and creating
the Auburn Sewerage District, says
the Lewiston Sun. Mayor Burnham
says he will be more than glad to give
up his position as mayor at the end of
| December but at the same time only
smiles when asked if he will be a
candidate for mayor under the new
system of government. Election will
take place on the second Wednesday in
December this year
Considerable excitement was Gre
ated among many Canadian island
residents of Passamaquoddy bay,
when a monster whale put in an ap-
pearance Monday and for time was
mistaken by some for German sub
marine, but the whale was later cap
tured and killed when it found its way
into one of the herring weirs. The
one killed this week was said to be
about IS feet long and one of the
largest seen for several years, al
though a 64-foot whale was killed by
Passamaquoddy Indians a few years
ago.
Lewiston policemen are waiting
anxiously the outcome of the tangle
in the department. They are starting
another period without pay, and won
! der how long it will be before some
agreement is reached between the
opposing interests.
Miss Florence l.. Nye, formerly of
the Lewiston Journal staff, who has
completed her duties as executive
secretary to Mrs. Deborah Knox
Livingston of Bangor, campaign man
ager for Maine in the suffrage cam
paign just closed, has accepted good
position with THE Players" a we'll
known entertainment bureau, and will
begin work in the Boston Office next
week.
Albert p. Gilligan, while digging a
cellar under his house near the High
school at Eastport on Monday morn
ing uncovered the remains Of the
old fashioned brick oven surmounted
by huge, fat stone, which are said
to have been a part of blockhouse
built in the earliest days of the settle
| ment. About four feet Of soil covered
the oven-top.
Percy Montgomery of Warren, who will
be 100 years old Nov. %. was among the
survivors present Wednesday at the an
nual reunion of the 4th Maine Regiment,
ID Maine Battery. Berdans Sharpshooters
and naval veterans at Rockland. Charles
E. Ames Of Damariscotta Mills. who was
known during the war as the baby of
the ID Maine Battery" was elected presi-
dent. Other officers chosen are: Oliver
n. Blackington Of Augusta, Frank E.
Aylward and William o. Steele of Rock
land, vice presidents; John ". Titus.
Rockland secretary and treasurer. A ban
auet was provided by Edwin Libby Re-
lief Corps.
A well known State official now
laughs at an incident that occurred
during the campaign for Equal Suf-
frage and in which he played an i'm
portant part, but does not concede
that it in any way affected the vote
cast on Monday. although he was on
the Yes" side. He was to address
Suffrage meeting and on his way to
the meeting a friend or acquaintance
pinned to the lapel of his coat fine
red rose. and he wore It throughout
the exercises and while he was speak
ing. No one spoke Of or apparently
noticed 1t until after the meeting, but
he has often wondered what the audi