Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-10

/ guess she thinks I'm bad:
But Gee. think it's lots more fun
10 be boy like Dad.
L. (PALMER) HOGG
Mrs. Salome Dingley, who passed A.
way on June at her home in Otis
field. lacked but three months of
reaching the century mark, having
celebrated her 99th birthday last
September. Her memory of wears
ago as well as modern events was re-
markable. She had been confined to
her bed for some weeks by failing
health. Just before the end she rang
ior her nurse. said she was going
home and instantly expired.
Willis E. Parsons of Dover. COM
missioner of inland fisheries and
game, Charles p. Barnes of Houlton,
Speaker of the Maine House of Rep
resentatVes, Arthur G. Staples, edi-
tor of the Lewiston Journal, Fl. l..
Lord of Auburn and Game Wardens
John =. Flint of Monson and David
f. NORM left Dover Wednesday for
Moosehead Lake. where they were
to embark on a trip down the Ala
cash.
Boston University is said to have
over 100 Maine people on it's list of
students.
f, O. Smith of New Vineyard has
been considered a champion pickerel
fisherman, his record for one davis
fishing being 80. He went to Dag
get Pond last Friday and yanked out
1873 beforehand now no one disputes
his title
The spaniel dog Rover, owned by
George Paul of Houlton, a year ago
this month, while Mr. Paurs car was
stopped on the FoXcroft road on ac-
count of engine trouble, jumped from
the car and was not seen again un-
til last week, although long search
was made for him. Mr. Paul was
driving through the Square on May
81 when Rover appeared, almost fran
tic with joy. He was taken into the
car and at the Smell house made a bee
line for the room formerly occupied
by his master He was later taken
to the residence, where he went
through the house like a wild dog
until he located the room where the
two children were in bed. Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul found him snuggled be-
tween the children and he could not
for several days be induced to leave
them. Where Rover has been for the
past year is still a mystery
The Bath Rotarians have carried
out their plan and chartered the
steamer City of Rockland for a day
light excursion on Wednesday, June
Is, the day before she goes into com
mission on the Boston Gardiner run.
Camden and Rockland will probably
be the objective points, with possibly
Bar Harbor. A fish dinner will be
served on board, which probably Ro-
tarians from all this section of the
State will sample.
Malcolm f. Nichols, the newly ap-
pointed collector of internal revenue
for the port of Boston, is a native Of
Portland and a son of the late Capt.
Edwin Nichols, a native of Searsport.
The new collector was born in 1876
and graduated in 1890 from Harvard.
He is a member of the Massachusetts,
Bar and has been active in politics,
serving in the Boston city council and
in both branches of the Legislature.
Through the efforts of Chief Justice
Cornish, every supreme and superior
court room in the state is to have an
American flag. He took the matter
up with the board of county commits
sioners in all the counties and they all
approved the plan and directed the
purchase. The flag for the Bangor
Court House has arrived and is in
position for the present law term, at
the right and front of the bench. 1t
is made of banner silk, size 1-3x
5 IL feet, with 2-inch gold bullion
fringe, a six inch solid brass eagle
surmounting a polished pole, and with