Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-08-12

tunate enough to secure a visit from
one of the old German warships allo-
Gated to the United States will have
a drawing card that will attract visi-
tors from miles and miles around.
| Business is very brisk in the ship
yards. at Boothbay Harbor, several
hundred now being employed in the
construction of the vessels now on
the ways in the Atlantic Coast and
East Coast yards. At the former
yard work is well under way on the
four-masted schooner, Joshua. B.
Chase, her launching being planned
for some time in December, she being
sister ship of the j. w. Howard,
which was launched July 5. The
keel for another large four-masted
schooner will be stretched in a few
days at this yard, and the frame Is
to be started in September. All these
vessels are for Crowell & Thurlow, of
Boston. which concern owns the
! Company, the four masted schooner
Zehedee E. Cliff is we'll under way,
and it is planned to launch her the
latter part of October
OF the 107 cottages on Squirrel
Island. IS are owned by residents of
Maine and 40 by Massachusetts,
people. From New York, New Jer-
sey, Connecticut, New Hampshire.
Ohio, California. North Carolina.
Pennsylvania, Texas and the District
of Columbia the owners of the re-
mainder hail.
A Bath man purchased a pair If
shoes of local dealer, the shoes be-
ing Of brown canvas with leather
tips and trimmings, and while they
were recommended highly by the
| merchant. they were sold for a very
| reasonable price, something like 81. so.
On taking them home the purchaser
more carefully examined the shoes
and found that they were manufac-
| tured by an Auburn factory in 1899.
He put them on and is finding that
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Mrs. W. L. Anderson of Portland
Oregon, in letter renewing her sub
scription for the Kennebec Journal,
says: Our paper is read by several
Maine people here. and then sent on
to Centralia, Wash. to another group
of Maine families and we all enjoy It
very much"
! Rufus Doe, captain of the Saco
Rifles during the war. has been ap-
pointed. and on Saturday last. began
| his duties. as postmaster of Saco, to
succeed the late John P. Coughlin. The
Office has been filled since Mr. Cough
Inns death last winter by Former Tax
Collector John T. Emerson. The SAL
AIRY is about $500
| Dr. Jasper D. Cochrane Of Saco ad-
mits that he may be the champion DO
tato raiser of York county, he having
on Aug. taken a half-peck from four
hills. The seed were planted IS days
! previously. The doctor says he never
knew potatoes to mature so rapidly
as this season.
| The re-dedication of the Pratt
Memorial Methodist church at Rock.
land will take place about the middle
Of September, on the 50th anniversary
of the first dedication. Bishop
Hughes is expected to preach the dedi-
cation sermon and all the living ex-
pastors will be invited to be present.
| The church under its present pastor,
Rev. J. Stanley Crossman has been
very prosperous and one Of the most
influential in the East Maine Confer.
ence.
Two Bath clergymen have recently
resigned. Rev. R. w. Gardner, pas
tor Of the Church of the Nazarene for
the past two years. will leave in Sep.
I TENDER to begin his duties as profess
sor in the Eastern Nazarene College
at Wollaston, Mass. Rev. s. A. Evans
for the past seven years pastor of the
Peoples church. will close his labors
on Oct. 1. He has received several fine
offers but has not yet decided where
he will go.
| Forty-one hundred automobiles pass
ed over the State highway between
Portland and Biddeford on Aug. 1. &C
cording to the tabs kept by Eugene
L. Harmon-a new record. The 1919
record for single day was 1854.
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