Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-12-22

A look Of love. a word of cheer.
Who will buy?
Gentlemen and ladies fair,
Who will buy. who. will buy?
Silks of Ind. and spices rare,
Who will buy?
| Who will buy what none may sell.
Who will know what none may tell.
Who will read where none may spell.
WILLIAM FRASER.
A lady who attended one of the
Temple hall dances a few nights ago
found herself unaecountably tired
when the evening was over. Search
| ing for her missing sandals she
found the occasion of her WEAKNESS.
| She had been dancing in them all the
evening, says the Rockland Courier
Gazette.
Mrs. Frederick P. Abbott, express
ident of the Maine Federation of
Women's Clubs and prominent in
club work in Maine. tripped and fell
| while descending a flight Of stairs at
her home on Lower Beach street,
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fracture of the collar bone.
Wolf Russman of Portland has re-
duced rents to tenants from S35 to
S32 month, to start Jan. /, the first
instance Of any landlord in the city
looping off rent. He says he will cut
prices still further at the first OPP
portunity.. He has not increased his
J prices in the past three years. de-
spite the fact that he has built
houses while prices were at top
notch.
An employment bureau has been
opened by the Portland Chamber of
Commerce to assist hundreds of
Portland men who are out of work.
Positions and jobs anywhere in the
State will be filled free of cost to ap-
plicant or employer. Pres. Laughlin
is preparing to minimize hardsfips
which are expected during the Win
| ter.
| A call was extended Monday to
Rev. Charles s. Jones of South Fran
ingham. Mass, by members Of the
Second Parish congregational
Church Of Biddeford, to fill the va
cancy in the pulpit here. The parish
has had assurances from Rev. Mr..
Jones that he would accept. They
expect he will take up his duties
here. Feb. 1. He is at present a
student at the Andover Theological
School, and will not graduate until
next month.
Movement was formally started
Monday evening which, with CO.
operation of Auburn citizens, it is
believed will provide the city Of Au-
burn with Soldiers Memorial build
ing OF which the citizens, would have
no cause to be ashamed, says the
Lewiston Sun. A committee backed
by members of the board of directors
OF Alden NJ. Clayton Post, No. 81
american Legion, appeared before the
city council at it's regulart meeting
petitioning for a 50-year lease of the
land and buildings formerly occupied
as the municipal office building, the
Post to have certain obligations dur
ing this time and at expiration of the
lease, the lot and whatever buildings
may be on it to revert to the city.
car of potatoes was recently
shipped from Caribou by F. H. Lea.
witt to Boston which will be given
away toithe poor of that city. The
potatoes will be wrapped in 5000
packages.--Aroostook Republican.
The rays oftth sun reflected from
a small hand mirror in the window of
James Fl. Fenderson's Jewelry store
at Biddeford on Monday set fire to a
plush case. A passerby discovered it
and the firemen extinguished the blaze
before much damage was done.
The Weather Bureau station at
Portland reports that in the first 20
days of December. 1920 the tempera-
ture was below normal on but two
days, with the average about 100 above
normal. The temperature for the
same period of last year was about l20
colder than normal. or 220 degrees
colder than the last three weeks. Pre-
cipitation for the same time was 2.35
inches greater than normal.
Miss Anna Barnes, librarian of the
Cary library at Houlton, has been
looking up facts of. 100 years ago rela-
tive to that town and finds that the
population was lit whites, of which
"A were males and 43 females. The
Plantation of New Limerick had 81
Of which is were males and 12 females.
The 1920 Census gives Houlton 61sI
population and New Limerick 4t2.
Tho Eagle boat that the. government
is to turn over for the use of the
Maine Naval Reserve. and to be sta
toned at Portland is quite craft 1t
Is about els. tons displacement, 200
feet long, 25.5 beam and 11.9 depth.
She has single screw turbine oil
burning engine. She carries two f.
inch and one 3-inch anti-air craft guns
and two machine guns.
|
Percy H. Richardson, civil engineer
Of Portland, will recover $1,000 from
the county of Cumberland for plans
and surveys made in connection with
the proposed $1,000,OO0 bridge at
Martins Point. This is the decision
of the board of referees which heard
the testimony in the $4,000 action
brought by Mr. Richardson aoo;r-t