Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-06
arrested, and Ralph Thayer was held
as an accessory and agent.


as an accessory and agent.
Rev. William s. Jones Of Bath. %,
Oldest minister in the Maine Confer
cnce Of Methodist churches. fell down
stairs Monday morning and in addition
to breaking his left ankle it 10 feared
there are other injuries. An X-ray
examination was made in the after
noon. Mr.. Jones. who resides with his
daughter. Mrs. William j. Baker. 243
Washington street, arose before the
rest of the family and they were
awakened by hearing, him tumbling
down the long Night of stairs. He
vas unconscious when picked up and
remained that way some time.
The work Of putting on the in
terror finish and laying the hard
wood floor in the mems new club
house at winnegance was COM
menced Monday. A cement mantel
is to be made and by early next
week the building ought to be COM
pleted, given q thorough cleaning
and made ready for it's formal open
ing which will probably be next week.
It is proposed that at this opening
the house shall be thrown open to
everyone In the village, music fur
nished and a social evening enjoyed.
Following this opening by the men
the club house will be turned over
to the women for a supper and sale
for an afternoon and evening.
Bath people are taking an interest
in the Y. NJ. C.. A. since it opened
under an operating committee, says
the Bath Daily Times. j. NJ. Trott
has given the $40 to be used for
subscriptions for magazines. The
North Center P. T. A. has contributed
SCI to be used for memberships for
the boys. David Alkazizs manual
training teacher, and some of his
pupils have been repairing furniture
and lockers. The Gym is being thor
oughly washed by women so that the
dust which has been so prevalent dur
ing basketball games will be given a
knockout. The lockers are also be-
ing washed. A gym schedule is
being arranged and will be perfected
by the last of the week.
The distinction of being the Oldest
man in the town Of Lowell is held by
Albion Head. who will be 80 years
old on his next birthday. April 8. Mr..
Head possesses a splendid physique
and his erect and alert bearing makes
<o he ha
many years, which he says is due to
good health and cheerful and optimis-
tic disposition. In former years Mr..
Head was one Of the merchants of the
town, but his business has descended
| to his son, S. =. Head, it being now
conducted in able manner by him and
partners under the firm name, Head,
Stearns & Kimball. Mr.. Head was al
so an expert carpenter and many of
his friends prize fine pieces of work
done even now by his still skiIlful
hands.
Operators of street cars are fire.
quently obliged to snub their cars
| quickly because dogs and cats per-
sist in running across the tracks in
front Of approaching cars and they
are in consequent danger of being
run over. Operator Hartman had
an experience Monday morning when
a little kitten ran across the street
and sought refuge under a car that
had stopped for a passenger on
Washington street, near Oak, at Bath
Mr.. Hartman was obliged to spend
several minutes coaXing the kitten
from her dangerous position before
/! he dared start the car. 1t was a
| humane act that was fully ap-
| preciated by the passengers who
commended him for his thoughtful
ness.
Miss Augusta NJ. Bibber, dean OF
Names former school teachers, with
a record Of SIS years teacher in the
frontier seaport of Eastport, has
just reached her S0th birthday.
Miss Bibber was retired from school
work in 1919, when she received the
State Of Maine pension for those
teaching 35 years and over. When
a girl she opened a private school at
| Eastport with six pupils, when 1T
was necessary for a teacher to pro-
vide a satisfactory room with heat
and lights, the fee usually being 81
| for q 12-weeks term, or sometimes
25 cents a week for each girl or
boy. After 20 years Of private
school work Miss Bibber had As
pupils, and just 3S years ago she
was elected as regular teacher in
! the Eastport public schools. For is
years previous to being retired, Miss
Bibber had taught the sixth grade
at Eastport Grammar School,
The surgeons and attending doctors
who operated on Gordon r. Clayton,
the 12-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Matthias Clayton of 46 Noyes street,
Portland, reported that young Cor
don would recover the sight of his
right eye. Gordon was playing with
a piece of wire and as he threw 1t
away, it caught in some way on his
clothes and flew back, the end pass
ing completely through the pupil of
the right eye. The family physician
| ordered the boy to the Maine Eye
and Ear infrmary where he was
operated on. Surgeons stated that
the injury was a most peculiar one
and that recovery of the sight is re-
markable AS the wire passed
through the eye, it punctured the
eyeball through the pupil. Had it
PASSED through the eyeball at any
other point, recovery of sight would
be doubtful AS it is they expect
| .La4 althnloh his Sixhf will be re.