Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-09


There have been seasons when three
towhoats We're kept busy. but one is
able TO do all the work now.
The final chapter in the Osspee Trail
with allied lines was written in action
of Brownfield and Hiram few days
ago. both approving the Pequawket
trail as AN extension of the Osspee.
These road improvements. when made
viii afford roads Of great scenic beauty
from Portland into New Hampshire by
two routes through to the Ossipee
Lakes hy way Of Freedom or into the
Crawford Notch country through Hi
ram, EroWntield ana Fryeburg wher. in
the pequaWket train runs, thence to
Conway ana Barllett across the State
line. Next comes the problem for the
selectmen and others instrumental in
securing this project to organize work
ing crews, men and teamsters, to build
the sections, town by town.
one of Sanfords most patriotic Young
women is Mrs. Marguerite c. Hamilton.
now employed as conductor on the
Broadway line in New York city. Mrs.
Hamilton, who arrived home Saturday
for n short visit with her aunt. Mrs. l.
NJ. Horne. in South Sanford, was one of
the first women to offer her services
and adopt the railway uniform when
the company called for volunteers Mrs.
Iiamilton's husband was formerly con.
nected with the Atlantic Shore Railway
in Sanford as conductor, on the Ken
nebunli Division.
The Saturday Club OF Brunswick ct
its annual business meeting Saturday
voted to give $3.50 of the proceeds of
the present year to the Red Cross and
to take 500 from the treasury for the
purchase Of War Savings Stamps.
Principal Herbert S Hi of Foxcroft
Academy has announced the following
Charles f. Woodbury., valedictory;
Howard Clark, salutatory. Those hay
ing essays will be Hazel Dmphey, Ed
win Gates, Edith Harvey Robert Har-
vey, Gladys McNaughton, Francia
Place, Helen Shorey, Sigma Soderberg
and Mildred Thomas
Yarmouth at a special town meeting
Saturday night voted to accept the
propos ton of the State Highway Com
mission to straighten death curve" at
Marsh Bridge and appropriated $500 as
the towns share of the cost of the
work.
The first Boy Scout in the PASSPORT
section of the State to receive the COW
etcd War Service Medal from Presi-
dent Wilson was Scout Wallace F. Ma
bee, the l5-year-old son OF Landlord
and Mrs. Fred Mabee of PASSPORT, who
was publicly decorated Easter Sunday
morning at Christ Episcopal church by
the young pastor, Rev. W. W. Ridge
way at the close of the annual services.
Boy Scouts of the congregation were
present in uniform. Last fall during
the Liberty Loan drive Scout Mabee
S'itt ~ JULIUS IOt S-iup, HIS nearest
val being a local scout who disposed of
eight at $500, but it was necessary to
sell 10 before coming in for the Boy
Scout Emblem.
Benjamin w. Merrill, who became a
member of the Saco fire department in
1874 and who served all the time with
the exception of II years that the citi-
zens We're in power and who last month
retired as chief engineer of the depart
ment. having served for FIVE years in
that capacity. was presented with a
handsome silver cup by the members
of the department as a token of esteem
in which the boys hold the ex-chief.
The silver cup is a handsome one and
Mr.. Merrill great ly cherishes it. He is
stiil interested in the fire department
put as he is no young man he feels that
ne ~ not able to ''hoof" it TO Gre
IN his young days when he
rather run than get a ride on The
apparatus. 'ue on me