Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-04

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Will begin the week Of March when
the majority of them will be taken to
Dennysvlle and Pembroke.
Following the unanimous aston of its
board of managers steps have been
taken by the Portland Chamber Of
Commerce to have the State of Maine
made a separate division of the inter-
nal revenue department, and if this |
cannot be effected to establish q branch /
of the department in Portland and nave
the Maine business handled in Port !
land. Under the present arrangement
the business of Maine. New Hampshire
and Vermont is handled at Portsmouth,.
n. H., and it is proposed that the Gran !
tie State city, If change is made. be
allowed 10 handle the business Of New
Hampshire and Vermont. with Port
land taking care of Maine.
AS a result of the investigation con-
Quoted in the family of David Pero, /
West Bath, three children of the six
have been taken from the home These /
children, two girls and boy. are from
si& to ten years old. While living with
their father. David Pero. as Miss Hill
informs the Times, they have been !
forced to sleep in the cellar in potato
bin beside the coal bin, decaying pota
toes. ashes. and the general debris of
an ill kept cellar They We're fright
ered and did not like it. The children
are row being well cared for. pending
the hearing. They arc said to have
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restricted by the elder sister, who did
the cooking, to Gle Biscuit q meal
One Of the youngest cooks in the
State must be Beatrice Salisbury of
Ellsworth Falls, who is but FIVE years
of age but who recently meaSured the
ir gradients. mixed them and baked a
cake for her mother. in honor of the
latter's birthday
The following from the Ellswol tn
American is worthy of saving for the
information of coming generations Is
to the severity Of the winter of 1917 Is:
Albert Gray motored in his Ford tour
ing car from his home at Cape Roster,
Brooksville, across the ice to Belfast
Friday, making the trip of twelve miles
in twenty-five minutes. He made sew
elal later trips. trailing sled and
bringing tons of freight. 1t is certainly
the first time such a trip was ever
made.
A new record has been made in the
Portland fire department, i'll that the
apparatus has been on runners for 70
Gays. the longest time on record. They
changed over to runners Dec. II and
have NOT wholly gone back to wheels
yet. In past years there have been
c..ses when they have shifted back and
forth a dozen times but never before
when they have remained on runnr"s
50 long at one stretch.
The first cadets to be organized IN
Maine during the war is captained by
Frederick F Srlly, Colby college
graduate, and at one time WaterviEe
representative of the Kennebec Jour
nal This body of young patriots Isl
composed of boys of the Calais AcaI- !
envy of which Mr.. Sully is submastcr
and it is known as the Henry f. Eaton
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cadet organization in the Pine Tree
State to be fully formed and equipped
The equipment was provided by Henry
F. Eaton, u well-known citizen Ihe
cadets not only form q first line of
home defences, but are soldiers IN me
making They also have benef1tted
wonderfully in health since the organ
liza ton was started
Lloyd H. Addition of Brunswick
claims to be the first automobiist to-
drive from Boston to Brunswick 10
1918. Mr. Addition made the trip on
Wednesday,, Feb. %. He reports the
travelling good from Boston to YORK
Beach, very bad between kennebunk
and Biddeford, fair from Biddeford to
Freepcrt and bad from Freeport TO
Brunswick.
The son of a Norway man is to become
a censor of foreign mails. when Zeora
ISiain, B. A, professor Of languages at
the Pennsylvania state College, son OF !
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Klain of Norway
accepts that position which has recently
beer offered to him. The offer Is accom- /
named with a good salary and If arrange !
merits can be made for him TO remain al
college until April /, Prof Klain will ac~
cept.
II is not often that a 5-year-old girl
makes a birthday cake in celebration Of
her mothers birthday, but such was the /
CO sc last week when Miss Beatrice Sails |
bury Of Ellsworth Falls measured the in :
gradients, mixed the cake and baked it. |
They say those who sampled it,, that t :
was fine.
The Irish for wit every time, says the !
Commercial. An old Bangor Celt whose 1
gray hairs and stopped form are ac- !
conpanied by a joking disposition was |
asked by 2 Bangor girl if he was going |
to enlist on wait for the draft. Sure, l
he said Il and tnaming chum of the |
same age) went down TO the recruiting
office and tried 10 enlist. We couldn't. |
They told US We don't take kids i
Very Simple
Can you tell me, professor II this .
amber jewelry is genuine
"Oh, that's very easily determined. Soak /
!. A.. .,azLaI <,r baprs genuine.