Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-01

made by the members of the COM
pany.
The opening of the radio, buzzer
and automobile schools in Portland
Monday evening was most auspic-
iOus. The schools are for men be-
tween the ages of Is and As and be-
gan their sessions with 142 students
and six instructors. The classes
meet four evenings week for two
hours of work
A new government regulation has
gone into effect whereby cameras
arc not allowed on harbor steamers.
The government men on the docks
take them all up and hold them in
storage until the people come back.
when they are delivered to their
owners safe and sound. The regula-
ton is a general one in effect all
over the country where there is sea
coast or any lake or river navigation.
The reason for this regulation is OBJ
yious.
1t was announced Monday night
that beginning the week of August
- the Auburn shoe factories would
grant a war bonus in the past year
and half. making total Of prac-
tically 80 per cent.
The new Sagadahoc Fish and
Game Club now numbers ~ mem
bers who have paid their admission
fee and are in good standing. Its
headquarters are at Bath.
An artistic and heavy bronze
eagle, said to have formerly been
the fgurehead of an American rev.
enue cutter, has fallen into the pos
session of DR.. William J. Rouse of
Bath. who is planning to offer it to
the federal government TO be placed
On the federal building during the
period of the war. DR.. Rouse says
it is a valuable work of art, so that
he cannot make it permanent gift
to the government.
Sanford, in line with other war
policies, has elected a woman as
principal of the High school, Miss
Flora Z. Goodwin having been Sc
lected. She is a Maine woman and
has taught in common and High
schools and colleges, being well
known for her work in Maine, New
York, Minnesota and California. She
is now visiting her brother, Rev. +.
E. Baldwin of Portland.
A hand organ man who for long
time has made the rounds Of Oxford
county was asked by the Oxford
Democrat how long he had been
visiting South Paris and was told
some 35 or 81 years. And with the
exception of one or two popular. airs,
he is grinding out the same old
tunes.
Some of the catalpa trees, which
were set out a number of years ago
in Bridgton have blossomed for the
first time, this season, notably on the
lawn of the Congregational parson-
age, says the News. Two trees have
been carefully trimmed in SYM
metrical manner by Rev. S. T. Liv-
ingston, and had grown to consider
able size, but the severe weather of
the past winter killed portion Of
one tree. The other, however, has
blossomed forth in great beauty.
Miss Matte Newcomb of Che
beague deserves special mention for
bearing her share of the labors in
the field during the absence Of the
young men of the island in the
service. After completing the wash
ing for a family of six on Monday,
she pitched ton of hay in her faith
er's barn and on Tuesday repeated
the stunt after finishing another
large family's wash for a sick neigh
Dor. Miss Newcomb is her fathers
chief assistant during the help
shortage at haying this season.
For the first time in the history Of
that port. the Grand Banks fishing |
meet VI I'dShSRpih DteIf lieu ny |
much Of the season because Of the |
lack of crews. In previous years |
there has been no trouble in getting |
Province men. natives and Portu !
cuese fishermen but hardly enough |
m man one or two vessels could be |
secured this year.
The Middle Intervale. Bethel, cor
respondent of the Norway Advertiser
evidently knows pretty girl wien
he sees her. as the following will
prove:
we noticed beautiful young lady
., the cars the 4th of July. enroute
~ Norway to visit a friond. She was
"a busy knitting and 50 lady Ike we
.ou,d but notice her.