Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-01-07


James w. Craig. Portland mail
carrier, resigned Thursday after serv-
ing 81 years in this Office as clerk and
carrier, to accept business position
He began as delivery boy in the spe-
cial delivery department and has
served in administration of several
postmasters.
Grain shipments through the port
of Portland during 1921 exceeded
those of the previous year by 413,O0C
bushels, it is announced by port Off
cials. The total was 1S609.376 bush
els.
The news of the death of Mrs. An
ME Dana Aver, in Pasadena, Calf.
reached Fryeburg Thursday. Mrs
Aver was the widow Of DR.. James M
Aver of Danvlle, VT, and the last
surviving child of EX-Gov. John w
Dana of Maine. She was also the
granddaughter of Judah Dana, who
was a member of the United States
Senate She was born in this town
in 1912 One son remains of her i'm
mediate family, Harold Aver of Pas
adena.
+. A. Schwartz of West kenne-
bunk, an all-around trapper, hunter
co., hoc hi OH local l.
tation as a weather forecaster. He
on Dec. /, last, wrote the Biddeford
Journal about his fall observations
but declined then to give winter
forecast. He now says that we are
to have a real winter, with an intense
cold wave about the middle Of jan
uary. the duration of which he is not
prepared to state.
The lax method employed in the
local courts in accepting bondsmen
whose identity is not definitely estab
lished, has proved an expensive one
to the county, says the Portland Ex-
press. An examination of records
shows that during the period covered
from September, 1913. to the present
day, the county has only been able
to collect $6,340 out of 100000 due
from defaulted bail. Based or
these figures, it is safe to say that
this prevailing method of releasing
respondents on bail, with unsatisfac-
tory sureties, has cost the county at
least $15O,000 since the executive Of
fees of Cumberland county have been
established in the present County
building. If one were to dig into the
older records of the courts it is al
most inconceivable as to just what
staggering magnitude these figures
might reach.
Joseph B. kahill, the Portland
artist, has just been commissioned to
paint a large portrait of the late
Charles Martin Bailey of Winthrop
whose wellknown career, covering
more than four score years and ten
included the upbuilding of the OIL
cloth industry in this State, and the
making Of a fortune which ran into
millions. Mr.. Bailey was widely
known as a patron Of the Friends
church and its interests and he en-
dowed many religious and secular ed
ucational institutions. stamping his
individuality upon his native town
and fellow townsmen to an unusual
degree. Mr.. Kahill will paint the
portrait of Mr.. Bailey from photo
graphs in the possession of the family
and will begin upon the work at once
Charlie Capen, of Greenville. claims
to hold the speed record in Piscata-
ouis county having travelled from the
Deer Island House to Beaver Greek
a distance of seven miles in five min
utes, the whole journey being cover
ed on the ice at Moosehead Lake. Mr.
Capen says that he drove a HUDSON
speedster on this occasion.
DR.. G. L. Crockett. Of Rockland'
some time ago, received a picture OF
historic interest from r. E. Dunn OF
Thomaston. It showed the Peleg
Wadsworth house as it looked on Its
original site on Wadsworth street
Thomaston, and was taken from the
interesting old map OF the town.
which a few Of US are fortunate
enough to possess. Recognising the
value Of the picture the doctor sent