Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-11

Claiming that George r. Lane, a
wealthy resident Of Hollis, had
promised to marry her the succeed
ing day after she had secured a
divorce February q, 1918. from her
husband, Harold w. Cashier, now in
Uncle Sans. navy, but subsequently
violating that promise, Marion d.
Cashier. has brought suit against the
Hollis man, alleging breach OF prom
Use and placing damages at $4,000,
reports the Biddcford Journal.
Sister Ste Salome, who has been
connected for some time with the
Ste Marie hospital. Lewiston, died
Tuesday at the st. Anthony hospital,
Woonsocket. r. T.. of pneumonia.
Sister Ste Earnest, also Of Lewiston,
is seriously i'll OF influenza at the
same hospital.
Grand Master H. J. Toward of
Waterville announces that the meet
ing of the Grand Lodge Of Maine,
l. o. 0. f., will be postponed from
Oct. 16 to Nov. 10 in Portland. The
Rebekah Assembly of Maine will
therefore meet on Nov. IL in Port
land. The postponement was due to
tho influenza.
Three men. including a trial justice,
business man and newspaper
man. were politely requested. to leave
the court room at Alfred during the
session of supreme court, when they
were unable to hold back sneezes.
Remarks the Bath Times: Some
farmers who once owned good wood
lots, sold them to portable mills. saw
the timber cut off and then the lots
burned over by forest ares. are now
having to buy wood for their own use
this winter. All too late they realize
that they have made a mistake in not
limitint. the cutters to trees of a GER
tain diameter and making them clear
up the brush after the cutting.
Caribou can boast o. three young
ladies who are not sIackers. When
the time came for the boys who were
carrying mail on three of the rural
routes to go back to college. it left
these routes without any carriers.
Three young ladies, Rachel Phillips,
Beatrice Long and Rubie Tuttle, Of
fered their services, and are now in
the service of the United States.
They will certainly do their bit if
they deliver mail on a rural route
during an Aroostook winter.
Richmond, which for the past year
has had a revival Of shipbuilding.
launching a fine 1100-ton schooner
last month. now has two keels laid in
the Crosby Navigation Co.'S. yard
the old T. ]. Southland yard-which
will give a years work to a good
sized crew Of men.
1t was voted at a meeting OF the
executive committee Of the trustees
of Bates College on Wednesday to
name the new Bates College Union
building. now being built, Chase Hall.
in honor Of the president, George c.
Chase. This action was taken at the
suggestion of donors, but it was
wholly in accord with the wish OF the
executive committee and Of the col
lege people, generally.
Three big one-man cars have been
shipped to the Bangor Railway and
Electric Co.. by the American Car
Company in st. Louis and Manager
Graham is expecting their arrival
daily. They will be a great addition
to the street car service of the city.
will increase the company's ability to
serve its patrons and. besides they
constitute big saving in man power.
The big cars are the last word in sci
entific construction In capacity.
mechanism and construction.
The subject Of this story shall be "A
Strange Friendship" A friend Of ours
has a canary that has become great
pet and practically runs the household.
He is seldom fastened in the cage. hav-
ing the liberty Of thu house, although
understanding that he shall remain in