Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14


Canton Grange hall. Friday evening
and officers elected.
Huh?
The students of Jordan High
school, Lewiston, will hold a mass
meeting Thursday morning, May 10
to discuss and vote upon the question
of whether the school shall retain it's
present name or be known as Lewis
ton High school. The Student Coun-
Gil will handle the meeting, although
the School Board members and the
faculty will be in attendance
William H Melcher, Baths veteran
Joiner, for many years foreman of all
joiner work at the Bath Iron Works,
on Monday, May ., observed the 9Sth
anniversary of his birth hale and
hearty and greeting with great pleas
ure the many friends who called upon
him. He goes out doors in all but
the most unfavorable weather. keeps
up his reading and abreast of the
times, greatly enjoying conversation
with his friends.
Carl *. Crosby of the Kennebec
Navigation Co. is in Boston complct-
|. ing arrangements for the resumption
| of the Boston Kennebec steamboat
service. He will in few days begin
putting the WharveS and other prop
+ erty on this end of the route and
! along the islands route in readiness
for the season. 1t is still up to the
people of the places above Bath on the
kennebec to decide whether or not
the City of Rockland will come up
| farther than Bath.
Goldfish are said to be very plenty
! in Sheepscot bay and off the mouth
of the kennebec, great catches be-
| ing made
! A solitary pine tree stands in lot
! in Phippsburg that has been stripped
of its timber and on the solitary pine
! hangs Il sign-"The Lonesome Pine"
The town of Phippsburg has APP
! pointed the commission which the
! Legislature specified should have full
charge of the completion of the road
| from Phippsburg Center to Popham
I Beach, Charles V. Minott Harry c.
| Weber and Frank s. Bowker being
named. The State appropriated S10,-
600 and the town $4,000 to be expend
! ed in the next two years on this road,
| which when completed will give the
| famous Popham Beach a fine high
| way to Bath.
| The statement was made on
Wednesday that not voluntary
| bankruptcy petition had been entered
| in the United States district court at
| Portland for the past 10 days, where
! as the average had been four or five
d week.
The Jacques Cartier Society OF
Lewiston is already working on plans
for the celebration of its centennial
anniversary, which will be observed
in June, 1922.
| Henry F. Merrill chairman of the
State Pier Commission. said in an
! address at Biddeford that unless
something happens, the first piling
| for the State pier at Portland will be
driven early in July. He also said,
speaking of the benefits the pier would
| bring to Maine, that a manufacture
| ing concern which ships it's products
| to Europe had decided to establish a
| plant in Lewiston and ship through
Portland. when the pier is completed
| The Maine National Guardsmen
| will go into camp on August 1 at
Camp Devens, with the troops of New
| Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts
Rhode Island and Connecticut, com
prising the LIST Corps.
The earnings of the Maine Central
| for the first three months of 1921
show great improvement over the
same period of 1920. The March de-
felt was s22,338. which is large
enough, but small compared with the
| $331,779 shortage of March, 1920.
! Edgar A. Wright of Tampa, Florida,
formerly of Lewiston, is coming North
this summer says the Lewiston
Journal, his second visit for Is years.
He is editor and manager of the
Florida Grower a magazine published
to boom that state and in sending
copies to his friend, M. B. Costello of
Lewiston he has expatiated to some
extent on the advantages of his adopt
ed state Now Mr.. Costello prefers
Maine and doesn't hesitate to say so.
Therefore, in writing TO his Florida
friend he mentioned the fact, as fol-
lows:
you have nothing on the good old
State of Maine but few oranges and
crocodiles. To Offset those we have
the bear and moose, the salmon and
brook trout. pure clear, blue water. ap-
piles and best of all the snow and ice.
Think of a 10-mile hike on snow
shoes! Think of a toboggan slide
down the side of the old Franklin
pasture. Think of the fish waiting to
be drawn from the depths of blue