Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-08
hope that succeeding city fathers will
follow the example.

Pioneer, Houlton-An effort, it is
said. will be made this year to secure
a pardon for DR.. L. E. Dudley, now
serving his sentence at the State
Prison. DR.. Dudley was sentenced at
the November term Of the S. J..
Court in Houlton in 1914; fifteen
years recommended with ten years as
a minimum. Letters received here
from prison officials state that Dr.
Dudley has during the six years in
the prison, taught many of the pris-
oners to read and write and his de-
voted much of his time in studying
Law. He also has carried on his
medical studies by reading many
hours at night. There is no doubt
that many in Aroostook county who
hwould like to see the Doctor pardoned
on the ground that he has served a
sufficient number of years to atone
for the crime he committed provided,
he would choose other localities than
| ArooStook county to reside
| Word now comes from Aroostook
that Sheriff Dunn has withdrawn his
dictum that public garages must not
! open on Sunday for the sale of gas
oline, under an old Blue law whereby
| it was Illegal to go out on Sunday ex-
i cept to perform works Of charity or
necessity repeal of the order
seeming rather sensible, under the
| conditions that exist today, instead
of hundred or more years ago.
Pressure Isle hears that the Quebec
electric road will not be built this year
owing to the fact that railroad ties are
unavailable and labor cannot be Sc.
cured. much to the regret Of the pro,
motors and the public.
The teachers in the Biddeford city
and rural schools have been given a fla
increase in salary amounting to 500 :
year by the board of education. The
teachers petitioned for 33 1-3 per cent
increase, to make the minimum salar,
s1tOo a year. Under the increase given
the maximum salary paid in the city i
$3.50 and in the rural districts 500. Tn,
janitors and sweepers were also givet
an increase in pay.
| G. A. Harrison. for II years with TIL,
Grand Trunk and for some years pas
passenger agent for the roads in Port
land has been made general agent O
the road in New England. He will con
tinue to make his headquarters in Port
land.
+. V. Tufts Of kingfield has hen, :
cross between a White Wyandotte ane
a Plymouth Rock. which lays two o.
three eggs week OF unusual size. Mr.
Tufts exhibited five eggs last week, eact
weighing four ounces, the largest eigh
and one-fourth by six and one-fourtf
inches in circumference. Others wer,
seven and three-fourths by six and one
half inches. All weigh the same and ar,
double yolked. He claims the cham
pionship so far. Recently the hen, TIVE
days in succession, laid large egg.
| The original manuscript of the famou:
old Bowdoin College song. Phi Chi
is now in the possession of the Bowdoir
College library. The author was Z. p
Mitchell of New York, for years editor
OF the sun and of Bowdoin. II. He was
requested by Librarian Wilder to looh
for the manuscript and fortunately
found it. sending it to the college. with
a letter telling the circumstances
under which it was written, in July, 1872
while on a visit to the college, in the
room of Charles Moore, 10, then a tutor
Appleton han. 1t was a special offer
ing for initiation night of Phi Chi So
ciety,