Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-16

The Wiscasset Inn was closed fol
the season on Saturday last, leaving
the Waldoboro hotel about the only
one open between Bath and Rockland
The proprietors all agree that where
once the travelling man was the chiei
support of these houses, they now
must depend on the summer trade fol
keeping open.
Says Major H. A. shorey in his
Bridgton News of Nov. Il: ;
''Fifty-seven years ago. this very
week, the editor of Tie News, then
wearing the army blue in the civil
war. IN an expedition in which were
. two Maine regiments. landed upon Bra.
EOS Santiago. near the mouth Of the Rie
Grande. in full view of Point Isabel
where the President elect and his
party are this week. 1t goes without
incidents of that adventurous trip are
recalled By the incident. especially
since Senators Hale and Frelinghuysen
twhom ne had SO recently metz are
in the party"
The season at Squirrel Island is
said to have officially closed on Mon
day. Nov. s, the last summer visitor
leaving the island. Observer the
Squirrel correspondent of the Booth
bay Register. reports that an electric
motor has been installed at. the
woodward for saving wood and a
splitter is to follow. He says that rs
Gently bought by Supt. Barter at East
Boothbay, loaded On a scow, for $500
or IS per cord. Freight to Squirrel
wharf was 1925. or S. per cord. II
cost $3.50 per cord to-haul il to the
shed. Total cost. in shed, S1i.35 pei
cord. When sawed, split and packed
in cart. it shfinks from one half to q
cord foot. 1t is delivered to the cot
tagers for $3.50 per cord, and the
Island overseers barely make good a,
that price.
Bath people will gather Tuesday
evening in Music hall. that city. for a
public meeting in support of the Bos-
ton-Kennebec steamboat PR position,
which has been meeting with APPROX
al all along the line.
About so West Deering people
gathered at o'clock Saturday after
noon on Forbes street, North Deer
ing and broke ground for the new
+ parsonage for the pastor of the
North Deerins Community Church.
The management of the Maine
School for the Deaf has purchased a
Simplex moving picture machine,
which was last week installed in the
hall of the industrial building on
Spring street. Portland. The yneM
machine was tried dht on the evening
OF Armistice Day and the pupils OF
the School for the Deaf experienced
for the first time the delight of hav-
ing a movie show of their own
The films which will be shown these
children will include not only those
of an educational nature but also
those designed to furnish entertain
ment. c. w. T. Cooling, who has TAX
/ en- great interest in having a NOV
ing picture machine added to the
equipment of this institution, CO.
operated with Miss Elizabeth r. Tay-
lor, principal of the Maine School for
the Deaf, in properly setting up the
! apparatus for service and in connec-
ton with which every precaution was
, taken to guard against fire.
Edward c. Plummer returned Fri
day night from Philadelphia where
he had been called to deliver his lee
ture on the New England Ciippe,
Ships. says the Bath Times. The ro-
mantle story of these racing vessels
and their brilliant performances fur,
nished a theme which brought forth
repeated applause and a return en-
gagement was made at once. It is
f, interesting to note that all the rec
ords for speed over the principal
courses of the ocean are held among
+. sailing vessels of the clipper ships o1
New England: and Maine furnished
Two of the best-the Red Jacket OF
Rockland taking and still holding the
record for run across the Atlantic