Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-15


Earth is fading to a memory
And we breathe a different air.
Here the trail lies all behind us
Here the dusty travel ends.
we go singing up the highlands
where they beckon, long-lost friends
Annette Waltze Crossman.
They're going to have a regular
party when Antonetta Tempesta,
new born daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Tempesta of Lewiston is
christened next Saturday evening.
The invitations issued read as fol-
lows You are cordially invited to
attend an entertainment in Abou
Ben Adhem hall. 100 Main street,
Auburn, Saturday, April 10th, at 100,
given in honor of our newborn
daughter Antonetta who will be
christened on that date"
A musical program which includes
piano and vocal selections will be
carried out under the supervision of
Prof. A. M. Tesla, and after that is
over refreshments will be served.
Then to make everyone really truly
appreciative of the fact that An
tonetta has come into the world, the
guests are going to dance to music
by a lively orchestra.
1t is war to the knife now between
Lewiston shop keepers and thieves.
Shoplifters have worked in the local
stores for years and several persons
have been apprehended, but the af-
fairs have been kept quiet and set
tied out of court; through leniency
on the part of those robbed. The
members of the B. Peck Company,
becoming tired of losing many hun
dreds of dollars worth of goods in
the course of year. and finding that
being merciful has no checking effect,
has decided to give fullest publicity
in the future to any case which
comes to their attention. Local mer-
chants say that it is not the poor
class of people that do the stealing
but that well dressed and refined
looking women are often found
stealing articles which are really not
Of much value.
George r. King of Lewiston has
become the owner of fine specimen
of Pekinese sleeve dog, which he
obtained in New York In a meas
ure the name sleeve Dog" is de-
scriptive, for at the age of two
months she weighs but two pounds,
pounds when full grown. 1t is prob
ably the only dog of this kind in the
city, and the breed is not common in
any locality.
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds are
good enough for Elwyn H. Jones of
Dryden, who has a flock of As birds
of the species. In 1920 he sold 400
dozen eggs for $243.S1 and poultry
for 1851. The cost of feed was
S164.72 leaving net profit per hen
of about $3.50. which isn't so bad.
Frank Allen, young artist whose
summer home is at Spruce Point, at
Boothbay, is planning to develop a
prodigious amount of talent this sum-
mer He is to bring with him this
season an art class of forty young
people, who will camp out during the
sunny weather, and use a building
acquired by Mr.. Allen as a studio on
rainy days. The former Pierce and
Brewer store in the building known
as the Naval Barracks is the one he
has rented for this purpose.
Shipping men along the Atlantic
coast will read with interest that
Clarence c. Decker has been ap-
pointed as port captain at New York
for the United States Shipping
Board to succeed j. N. Patten re-
signed. Captain Decker has been
well known as a master of coast
wise vessels as he has commanded
some of the best steamships of the
Eastern Steamship lines. He was in
command of the steamship Governor
Dingley running from Boston to
eastern ports. when the war began,
and continued in service there dur
ing the time she was serving as a
training vessel for apprentices.
Captain Decker, now resident of
Brooklyn, New York, is a native of
Southport, where he began his sea-
faring career in the fisheries of his
native town.
Lieut.. Austin H. Mccormick Of
Boothbay Harbor will conclude his
naval service the first of May and
will return to Bowdoin College as a
professor and as the alumni secre-
tary. Lieut. MacCormick entered
the naval service during the war as
an ensign and was assigned as as