Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-12

Or tire and soon put 1t aside?
Elizabeth Evelyn Moore.
The school children in Bangor are
| 1ompng away with the best laid
plans of the city government in that
they are increasing in such numbers
that another building must be pro-
Nided for them. The High school
erected in that city in 1911 at a cost
of nearly 100000, already is found
inadequate to house the rapidly grow
ing numbers of pupils. This year
| there will be 1900 pupils, an increase
of 200 over last year.
Ray Merron Of Hartford thought
| he was seeing things 'tother day,
when he ran into large moose in
Ben" Vests meadow. The animal
was only few rods from where Mr..
Merron was working
| A modest hero being entertained at
Sedgwick is Captain w. A. Cook of
Provincetown, Mass. He is visiting
A. n. Cole in that place. Captain
Cook for 33 years was employed at
the Peaked Hill Bar saving station
| at Provincetown. Thirteen years
ago, as surfman and 20 years as cap
tam is Capt. Cooks record. In his
first wreck, after he became captain.
ne saved the lives of the crew Of the
| schooner. Nellie Higgins of which
Captain Cole was mate. In the
saving Of those lives it was said to
be the most daring piece of bravery
ever done on the coast.
The lowly sardine is not to be
scorned because nothing can exceed
1t, for those who like it, when it is
drenched in lemon juice. All East
port sardine factories are running on
steady time with extra night work
since the month opened. Herring
continue somewhat plentiful
The Maine Central railroad is COM
ing to the rescue in the coal short
age and is making plans to haul
cordWood on their cars WHICH have
been used for pulpWood. AS long as
the pulpwood business is drawing
| to close the railroad will soon te-
gin to haul wood from the eastern
/ part of the State. The cars which
they will press into this important
! service are the ones which were
specially equipped for the pulpwood
business and which will work nicely
in this new line.
If you had lived in the same house
| for "a years of your e. years maybe
! you would be homesick too. That is
the predicament in which James H.
made his home in the Preble House
! for that many years Of his above
stated age. He is Portland fish
dealer and no doubt he was the last
! one to leave the Preble House which
is being closed to the public. Mr..
Mcdonald left the Preble House
shortly after 9 o'clock Sunday morn
ing and moved to the Congress
square The tenant for a genera
! ton was not turned out Saturday
| night but was allowed to finish his
sleep and go out in the morning.
In Scarboro lives Mrs. Mary A.
Waterhouse, who is 81 years old, does
her own Homework and dances the
minuet to accompany stories Of her
girlhood At the Gorham Fair this
year, Mrs. Warehouse exhibited a
rug and number of other examples
of her handiwork.
Senator Bert Fernald Just got his
voice back again, within a few days,
having been for SO days without it,
His trouble is an inflammation Of
the larynx, resulting from an attack
of the Influenza. He will not return
to Washington for the present but
will continue his plans of outdoor
life that is effecting a cure.
The largest enrollnlent Of pupils in
: the history Of the school. marks the
opening Of st. Mary's parochial