Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-24

The waves that lap the shore-line
~. CLEAN and CLINT.
And lone night bird wings along the
0 dreamy hour! yield me to thy lay
AS to a harp Of hundred golden strings.
To mystic sense beyond the sordid day.
To magic calm and color symphony.
Pierces the blue and = glimpses that
s<, within.
-Mvra Powers Mclean
Bar Harbor at it's special town
meeting last Saturday voted to ap-
point a committee of investigation.
which is to look into the matter OF
the proposed bride paths and report
on Dec. II next, to which date the
meeting adjourned.
The Parker & Westcott store at
Castine is said not to have closed it's
doors for the past ia years. 1t was
founded on April rs. 1906, by Benja-
min Hook and William Witherlie.
The latter bought the formers inter
est two years later and in 1910. the
firm name changed to Witherlie &
Jarvis. which continued for "a years.
Il was then William Witherlie & Co.
from 1914 to 1855: for the next 20
years it was Witherlie & Co.; and
then it was run by William H. With
Grille until 1892. when c. Fred Jones
took it over, selling it in 1902 to the
present owners, Parker & Wescott.
Following the examples Of some Of
the leading schools in New York City,
Jordan high school, of Lewiston. now
has Student Aid Council in the
mathematics department. This council
is composed of twelve members, from
the junior and senior classes. who are
at present taking mathematics and
who, last year. were 'top-notchers'
in this particular study. The aim of the
council is to increase the efficiency of
the mathematics department through
lending aid to backward students at
such times as would be inconvenient
for the instructor.
The Hiram correspondent of the
Oxford Democrat (South Paris) says
that he has his first items to that
paper in 1855 and wonders If any
other correspondent can antedate
that. It would be interesting to
many, if the old newspaper cor
respondents in the State could be
heard from.
Nearly 200 East Deering school
pupils are now very comfortably
housed in the barracks at the Russell
shipyard. 1t was necessary to aban-
don the Presumpscot schoolhouse, on
account of an addition being in
process of construction, which will
probably take all winter. The bar
racks furnish four large rooms, with
plenty OF yard room, heat, water and
ventilation. Two sessions daily are
being held in both Deering and Port
land High schools. owing to the over
flow of students.
Justice H. HI. Bourne Of Kenne-
bunk has in his Office desk that is
over 100 years old and has been used
in the law Offices of four generations
of Bournes, having been first owned
by Edward E. Bourne. great-grand-
father of the present owner.
Another United States senator
elected Nov. 3 is Maine man, DR..
Edwin Fremont Ladd, elected from
the Fargo district, North Dakota. DIR.
Ladd Is native Of Starks, Me-, a
graduate of the University of Maine
and a chemist of renown.
Rt Rev. Louis A. Walsh, Bishop of
Portland, has issued letter to all
parish priests in Maine. with instruc-
lions to take a complete census of the
parochial schools in every parish.
Establishment of p H. S. weekly
in place Of the Racquet, three times a
year. marks an advance in the voca-
tional training department of the
Portland High school. Nearly 20 stu
dents are assigned to the different de-
'partinents of the newspaper. to be from
the piant OF the training school and
substantially tho exclusive product of
the student body
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