Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-02-13


schools and the subject chosen is
Teaching the Idea Of League of
Nations" The second is open to
seniors in the high and other
preparatory schools. the essay to be
written on 1.-The Essential Founda-
tons of a League of Nations" The
essay is not to exceed 5000 words and
5000 is even more desirable. The
award of prizes will be made at the
annual meeting of the league in July,
1919.
The Piscataquis Observer remarks
on one contrast in the advertising of
40 years ago and of today. in. that
formerly The columns loudly extolled
whiskey raising compounds, where
today they run to razors.
Charles F. Jones contends that the
deterioration in salmon fishing at
Lake sebaso is due largely to meth
DDS Of caring for the fry. The pres
ent use Of ground liver, he says, is
not a balanced ration" for growing
salmon. He recommends placing the
newly Matched fry into the quick
waters of Crooked River. instead of
into the still waters Of the lake.
I. The "a Penobscot Indians at work
this winter on the Leighton & Nit
chell housing project on Lincoln
street, Bath, are said TO be indus
trious and skilled workmen; They
come from Indian island in the
PeIiobscot river, where one street
runs across the island and is faced
by little houses, most of them being
II stories high. but sprinkled among
them are several twO-storicd homes.
In nearly every house is q shop where
curiosities and articles of Indian
manufacture are sold to summer WISH
tors. On the island is school and a
church and in the Indian cemetery
are graves Of members of the tribe
who, according to the inscriptions on
the tombstones. fought on the Union
side during the Civil war. Not a
white man Is permitted to own a home
on the island.
hCIC was ulStUSSIOll Ill tIIe
of the Bath city clerk Saturday as to
whether the mild or the old fash
toned winters cause the greater num-
Der of deaths. City Clerk Grassy
looked UP his records and discovered
that last month there we've 20
deaths and during the month of Janu-
AIRY, 1913. there were 80 deaths.
A former workman, in the Sewall
yard at Bath when first steel vessels
were built on part of the present site
Of the Texas plant. Sunday evening
was recalling that in those days on
piece work ship workers made con-
siderable money. some of the rivct-
ers getting as high sometimes as $50
a week, but those haIcyon days did
not continue long.
Mrs. Frederick II. Fay of 1OG India
street. Portland, has given the Maine
Historical Society book of records
for the county Of Cumberland made
b. John rockingham, notary public,
extending from February ]. 1850 to
May Is. 1895. This old leather bound
book vas the property of Mrs. Fay.s
late husband, who in the opinion OF
many was. one of the most efficient,
all round newspaper reporters Port
land has eyer had. John Frotbingham,
who had been a resident of Portland
for quite a number Of years and had
been admitted to practice law in the
courts of Cumberland county in 1878,
vas appointed q notary public in
1880 and that fact accounts for the
existence of this book of records. He
later became n judge Of the court of
common pleas and was for many
years trustee Of Bowdoin college.
He died in 1926 in the house that up
to 1885 stood on the site now occu-
pied by the brick block on the corner
OF Center and Free streets His du-
ties as notary public chiefly related
to instruments used in commercial
transactions such as protests Of
negotiable paper. ships papers in
cases of loss. damage and the like.