Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-27

more than 100 boys at the University
| in Lawrence, Kansas, which is super
viscd every ten days or two weeks.
All ex-service men in this university
! are doing splendid work and many
will be rehabilitatcd by June.
Miss Sutherland is delighted with
| Kansas City and finds the people
| most hosptahle, according TO letters
written to Bath friends. The Ameri-
! can Legion had its annual convention
| there last year and she says it has
never ceased to be Legion city.
Bath Automobiles who have had
! occasion TO so TO Lewiston this
spring and thereby learned the fear
| full condition of the road through
| Lisbon will he interested to know
! that work is soon TO commence on the
! two and a half mile stretch from
| Lisbon to the Lewiston city line.
| Lewiston, meanwhile, waits on the
state before construction can he
started on the piece Of road from the
| SGwycr place to the Lisbon line,
| somewhat moro than a mile and a
! half. The state. in turn cannot act
! until word regarding Federal aid is
received from Washington. Notifica-
ton is expected soon by Paul p.
Sargent, engineer Of the commission.
The youngest fire captain in Maine,
perhaps New England, is Capt Lu-
gene Kicker of Biddcford, az q -,
who has just been elected head Of tho
Richard Vines S. F. r. CO. While he
has not been called upon 10 direct
his company IN handling a i've since
he was elected, tho mon under iim
! believe he will be equal to any cmcr-
gency. The company of which he is
captain is the oldest and most mi
portant in the department.. Since the
new Democratic City Government as
stunned control, numerous changes
have been made in the personnel Of
the local fire fighting force. Can't.
Kicker is a horn fireman, his asso-
ciates declared. During his hoyhnod
days he ran to every fire, ara lie rod
fire wagon drew him, IS Il magnet,
to the Central Fire Station. When
! he was IS he was elected a member
of the Richard Vines Go. shortly
afterward he was elected clerk, thcn
made n pipcman, and nov ne is cap
tain, being chosen over a number of
! mon who have baon IN the depart
mcnt a number OF years.
A giant pine log, something that is
seldom seen in Maine, was cut down
on Denie Cyr's farm in DaiCle some
time last week. The log at the butt
was 4 feet, 10 inches, length 40 feet.
IL the readers of this item doubt this
report. which was given to the New s
reporter by a we'll known scaler,
Thomas Daigle, this log can now be
seen at Denie Cyr's saw mill in
Daigle, where it will be sawed up into
boards IL feet long. This is some
thing worth while seeing and not
many of lis would believe that Il pine
log would grow that big here in this
State-Bangor News.
Not many would care 70 have the
midnight experience Of Miss Nellie G..
Miles, who resides about a mile west
erly from the A. W. knowlton store
in Newburg. On Sunday night about
II o'clock Miss Miles, feeling very
thirsty, decided to get up and get a
drink of water which was in the
kitchen. AS she came from her room
! into the dining room she turned on
the electric light and passed on into
the kitchen. Not finding the drinking
cup in its usual position she turned
on the light to more readily find the
cup when what was her surprise to
see standing not more than two feet
away from her a strange man. Miss
Miles did not scream and faint away
but demanded in a firm voice what he
was doing there. The tramp or bur-
clar said he was nearly famishcd for
want of food. Miss Miles told the
tramp to sit down to the table and
she would get him something to cat,
which she did, and While he was eat
! ing she called the hired man, Alton
c. Reed, who took charge Of him for
the rest of the night and the next
morning took him to Eangor and let
him go.
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