Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-20


years the most faithful pupil at the
Peaks Island school, will never re-
spond to the first bell call again for
he is dead. Grownups of the Island
can remember when they went to
this school and found Teddy there,
and the children of this generation
knew him as well as their parents
and loved him. He began his
school attendance when he was
three years of age, and neither win
ter storms, with their cold blasts,
nor summer heat or rains kept him
from appearing each day when the
roll was called. He shared the
goodies consumed at recess time, and
so grew into the hearts and habits of
his young friends that he will be
missed more than a little now.
The establishment of marine bio
logical laboratory. on the island of
Mount Desert is work in which many
well known scientists have long been
interested. Last week, Prof. Ulrich
Dahlgren was in consultation with
Supt. George E. Dorr of the Lafayette
National Park concerning this work
While on his way from his home
to the business section of Winthrop,
Thursday, William E. Kinds picked
up what is thought to be a Spanish
coin, the date of which is 1888. It
was dented to some extent, resem-
bling a ten cent American coin a
great deal.
Douglas Volk, the artist, who has
a summer home at Lowell, and is we'll
known in Norway, especially among
the merchants, has recently been
decorated with the cross of Officer
of the Order of Leopold H., by King
Albert. This honor is probably in
appreciation of his recent portrait of
the sovereign. At his studio in the
National Arts Building, New York,
Mr.. Volk is now working on a por-
trait of Ex-Governor Smith, which
will be hung in the Capitol at Albany,
N. Y. He returned only last week
from a sojourn in California.
Grass plots about the Cumberland
county Jail are to be restored. For
the past two seasons the space has
been cultivated as garden plots by
the prisoners, under the direction of
Turnkey William H. Smith. The
county commissioners, now that need
for intensive farming no longer
presses, have decided to restore the
grass plots. Prisoners are employed
in regarding and resurfacing the
yards that are to be sown with seed
Conditions in Italy are not improv-
ing very fast and prices are high,
writes a former Livermore Falls man
who was in business with his wife in
that town for several years.
Missing heirs to the small estate of
the late Amelia Sanford Scott are
being sought in Bath, as it is believed
some Of them may be living there.
In a letter to Secretary Lucian D.
Fuller of the Bath Chamber of
Commerce the administrator of the
estate says that he wants inform
alton in regard to descendants of
Giles Sanford who married Peggy
Coleman, daughter of Barnabus and
Abial Coleman. He has been able to
find the names Of the Sanford de-
scendants for two generations and is
now interested in hunting out the
names and addresses of any Allen or
Coleman relative. The deceased,
whose estate is to be administered,
was Amelia Scott, daughter of Fred
erick c. Sanford and Mary Coleman
Allen, who it is understood, came
from Bath.
Golf is all the fad this spring at
Hebron Academy, and it has even
been rumored that new golf course
will be laid out soon, so that the
students may indulge in the game as
much as they please.
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