Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-08


If you still continue wakeful,
Count the drops that make laketul;
Then. if vigilance yet above you
Hover. count the times ! love you;
And If slumber still rebel you
Count the times l do not tell you.
Franklin =. Adams in Harper's Mag
azine for July.
Mr. and Mrs. Albion K. CLANCY of
No. IS Highland street, Bath, had a
double Fourth of July celebration this
year, as on that day they celebrated
the 50th anniversary of their mar
riage, relatives and friends assisting
in the observance. They were mar
ried in Bremen. where Mrs Chaney,
then Miss Ida Martin, resided, and
soon after went to Bath Mr.. Chaney
was one of the first men TO be en-
ployed by the Bath Iron Works, being
a foreman filter. Their five children
are all living and all live in Bath.
The Colonial Club of Bath at its
meeting last Tuesday evening made
Governor Percival =. Baxter an hon.
orary member The club also re-
ceived a fine portrait Of the Govern
or and it will be placed on the wall
decorated with the two flags he gave
the club al the annual banquet, when
he was the guest Of honor.
The Portland city council voted
pra ctically unanimously "Wednesday
evening to reject the Grand Trunk
offer of $4,000 for the East End
bathing beach and it will be retained
for the benefit of the public. The
Grand Trunk wished the beach for
development purposes.
Conducting Is community commit
tee meetings in lG evenings. was a
stunt that County Agent William NJ,
Gray of York county, who lives IN
Sanford, has just completed, therepy
smashing all Maine Farm Bureau rec
urds. so far as such records have ever
been made public. The reason he
didn't hold 16 was because Of prior
engagement of hall in which he had
expected to have the Sanford com
! mittee assemble.
| Machias. Bar Harbor Belgrade
! Lakes and Yarmouth are among the
Maine towns TO win a prize IN the
New England Clean-Up Week re-
suits. each receiving Civic Pride
metal rubbish cans. Westminster
Lancaster, Hinsdale, Sterling and
Princeton, Mass, Cavendlsh. VT
Collinsvillc, CT. and Hampton, \. H..
were in the same class. HinSdale
Mass. won the feet, 8 inches silk
flag offered by the New England
. Cleanup Committee TO places Of un-
der 5000 inhabitants.
! Afachias. after much heated debate
and considerable feeling, held a
referendum on the daylight saving
! time proposition. with the result that
but 81 voted for and 1S5 against it
Standard time will remain the
standard of time in that burg.
The naval barracks at Boothhay
Harbor is now sheltering IA eX-sol :
diers, who have been taking voca =
4 tional training at the Carnegie In
stitute of Technology at Pittsburg.
Pa, coming to Maine for the summer
, TO continue their work in commercial
art and mechanical drawing. They
are in charge of Charles ]. Taylor of
the Department of Arts of the insti-
tute. If their summer is successful,
probably about 100 will be there next
summer for camp and school.
Visitors registering during June at
the Sieur de Monts spring, Lafayette
National park Mt. Desert numbered
nearly 500, with II states and eight
countries represented.
Mrs. Nellie Keep of Salem ON ex-
animation of an egg that had been
injured and failed to hatch, found
that it contained q chicken with body
and head Of ordinary type, but with
| four feet and four wings attached,
: all perfectly formed.
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