Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-24

bduSOi > supply VI nara coal is SO
low that beginning Oct 20 all deliv-
cries to business places Of any kind
was forbidden, the available supply
being given to domestic users. Early
shipments into Bangor are expected.
The schooner Oliver Ames, which
for many years was the largest two
masted schooner afloat, is being brok-
en- up for wood at Factory c wharf
at Lubec. The two huge paasts were
pulled down intact by the wrecking
crew and it is said that there are
about five cords sf fuel in the two.
The old SCHOONER has been used for
several years as a break water. pro-
tecting 1tne factory wharf from the
force 1T the tide in the Narrows.
<<President George c. Chase of Bates
college announced, Tuesday, that
everything is going well at the COL
lege. with regard to epidemic condi-
tiorI. There have been no new cases
FOR some days and none Of the old
ones are seriously ill. The doctors,
however, advise that the ban shall
not lie taken off the other students
who do not live on the campus; and
this will not be done until they ad-
wise such a course. President Chase
says that every student will be noti-
fed personally, when this ban is lift
ed.
"It's a crime, the way apples are
goirg to waste out through the coun-
try" says a Lewiston man. Il take
hikes out through the suburbs every
year and invariably I find sections
where there are orchards with
bushels of fine looking. fruit scat
tered over the ground. In these
times when apples bring from 40
cents a peck up, it seems to me too
bad" And yet. in one Lisbon street
window. appears the sign: Apples
two for 25 cents" Fact! says the
Lewiston Journal.
A new plan for advising members
of meetings and speakers for the
meetings is to be used by the Lewis
ton and Auburn Rotary Club this
winter. 1t will all be done by tele-
phone, and it is figured that the en-
tire membership of the organization
can be communicated with inside Of
half an hour. The secretary will
phone a notice to each of five mem
bers. Each one Of these will tele-
phone it to two members, making
ten they will collectively advise. In
turn each of these ten will telephone
two other members, total of 20 for
them, making a grand total of IS who
will then have been notified. AS each
of this last 20 men will phone two
other members, given total of 40 or
grand total of IS which with the
secretary added makes 76, the COM
plete membership of the club. Simple
and it is believed effective. Each
mar will notify the same members
every time, according to a schedule
which has been prepared. Not only
will this method be effective and
rapid, but it will save the club about
$500 q year in postage and printing.
When one of the Bangor telegraph
offices opened for business one day
last week there was not a girl in
sight. The four telephone desk girls,
bookkeeper and assistant and several
messenger girls were all at home
with various degrees Of colds or real
influenza.
Ninety cases of Scotch whiskey
consigned to the collector of customs
at Bangor by the Iona Grande Co,
Chicago, to the order Of w. A. Ross
Bros, Chicago, in care Of William
McGinnis Of Portsmouth, N. H., were
seized Tuesday morning at the Maine
Central freight sheds by Sheriff Ar
thur l.. Thayer and carted to the
rum room in the court house build
ing, reports the Commercial. The
Shipment, according to the bill Of lad
irg, was supposed to contain Sc cases
hut Sheriff Thayer could only find 80
cases. The boxes had been unloaded
froH, a sealed car and were to be
taken to the customs house Tuesday
morning but the sheriff learned of
the presence of the liquor and after
notifying Collector Colby, went to
the freight sheds and effected a
seizure.
The shipment was billed from the
Customs House at Chicago, which
leaves no doubt as to it's being in
bond, Sheriff Thayer, however, stat
ing there was nothing to indicate
that that was the nature of the con-
signment, although he suspected that
a claim would be made for return OF
the shipment on that ground.
The bone drys have been very
much disturbed over liquor being
disposed Of here in bond and it has
been reported that Gov. Milliken went
to Washington to take the matter up
with officials there. Liquor has been
coming here in bond since early IN
the season and it has been expected
that the sheriff would go the limit IN
his bone dry enforcement.