Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-11

A council of Congregational min
listers met Monday at the Union
church at South Bristol to consider
the matter of the action of and treat
ment of Rev. William Henry Jackson,
pastor of the church, who was said to
have been recently roughly handled
by some of his parishioners, for which
they were indicted. tried and &C.
quilted. The council voted unani-
mously to exonerate Mr.. Jackson and
to endorse him for further ministerial
work, should he wish to resume that
work.
The hearing before Associate Jus.
tice Scott Wilson at Portland, set for
Nov. 9. on the mandamus proceed
ings brought by the York County
Fisherman Association to restore the
license of Emile Cote of Biddeford,
| revoked last summer for alleged vio-'
lation of the lobster laws, was post
poned to Nov. 20. The association
| contends that the commissioners ex-
CCCuto tICll anu the pro-
ccedings are in the nature of test
case.
Eastport will hold a special election
on Monday, Dec. - to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mayor John
n. Henward.
The State Board of Registration of
Medicine were in session this week in
Portland, with three candidates for
examination.
A handful of old coins is laid on the
desk Of the numismatic editor by Mrs.
Annie Hall, some Of them curious and
| interesting. Among the number is a
"one penny token" of the size of the
| old-fashioned copper cent, bearing on
the diverse the words TRADE and
Navigation" with the date 1914. and
on the reverse Pure copper preferable
to paper" These tokens" appear to
have been p1entifully issued by various
interests during the country's earlier
days. form of propaganda" inciden-
tai to those times, the significance of
which is today utterly unknown, just
as the propaganda with which the
present times are thick will he I'M
known to the generations of century
later. The collection also has some of
the three-cent silver coins that old
people of today recall as circulatine
more than half a century ago-"fisi,
scales" they were called.-Rockland
C-G.
| The spool statistics for Maine say
that about 100000, 900 are produced a
year. valued at about .1.2OO,OOo.
! Ihis section OF the country is going
to be used rather shabbly in the way
OF eclipses next year. according to the
Maine Farmers Almanac. which says
that there will be none Of the moon
and that the two eclipses of the sun
March % and Sept. 20. will both be in
visible here. Then the Rockland C-G
says: No use to kick, even the Public
Utilities Commission hasn't influence
! enough to get the service bettered
! Word comes from Eastport that the
heavy automobile and truck traffic is
seriously endangering the safety of
the 1S00-feet-long, century old bridge
| connecting the island on which East
port is located and the mainland So
that the Washington county automo.
bile inspector, Ralph w. Bradish, has
asked the city council to change the
speed law from Is miles to 10 or even
| less.
The Portland Board Of Registra-
ton has made a ruling relating to the
registration of women that has
aroused much protest. A woman who
had married since her last registra-
ton. appeared for registration and
:, requested that she be registered by
her Christian name and the initials
OF her maiden name. just as she signs
checks and other business matters.
The board ruled, two to one il is
stated, that she must use her full
! maiden name in addition to that of
her husband, in order to continue to
vote, in spite of the ruling Of the at
torney general that the initials of the
maiden name are sufficient
The entire estate Of the late, Walter
e. Dingley Of Auburn is left in trust
to James Elms of that city for his
wife and at the completion OF the
trust. $4,000 is to go to the Andros-
coggin Humane Society, the balance
to go to the Good Will Farm for Boys.
The will was filed Wednesday in Au-
burn.