Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-14


| successfully.
of citizens of Hancock county who
applied for temporary injunction
against construction of the proposed
bridge between Hancock and Sulli-
van, denying the petition.
| The out-of-the- State cars are be-
! ginning to arrive, cars from Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire, West
Virginia and Michigan being seen
Sunday in Portland.
Grain continues to arrive freely.
over 100000 bushels being now in
storage in the two Grand Trunk elc-
vators, both being practically full,
with a number of unloaded cars on
the track, says the Portland Press
! Herald. Although all the grain now
leaving this port is going out in the
regular liners. it is believed the char
| ter of a number of outside boats will
soon be announced. as considerable
more grain is understood to have
been billed out at Canadian ports for
Portland shipment.
Frank A. Munsey, New York pub
Usher, has offered to pay one-quarter
of the debt of the Maine Historical
Society if the balance can be raised
otherwise. This debt is $10,500. and
a campaign will be made to raise tho
sum needful to avail of this offer.
/ Read Nichols, Baths oldest citizen,
on Sunday celebrated the Tooth an
niversary of his birth. the entire city
Joining in the observance. Flags
were displayed on all the Fire De-
partment's houses, he being the old
est living eX-chief. The Veteran
! Firemen's Association also flew a
flag. Mr.. Nichols is in his usual re-
markedly good health, shaving him
self and doing considerable work
about the house. The annual fam
lily dinner was given by his daughter,
Mrs. Emma Pierce, who makes her
home with him. Mr.. Nichols was born
in Bowdoin. He learned the mason's
trade at the age of II and after iv-
ing in Boston for five years, moved
to Bath where he has since resided. |
His first vote for President was for |
James X. Polk.
! Navigation, Which has been closed |
since last December through the
Sasanoa river, was resumed Satur- |
day, Capt. 7. w. Blaisdell of Five
| Islands getting through in his launch I
Worry to Bath.
Apropos of the often heard state !
ment that many years ago that part |
! of the Kennebec river below Merry
meeting bay was known as the Sag
adahoc river, Henry Otis Thayer
! sends the Bath Times the following |
; deposition, secured by the Plymouth |
Company in its efforts to sustain it's
claim to all the lands on the Ken
| nebcc river:
II, Thomas Percy of Georgetown,
aged 81 years, do certify and say that
about % years ago l went down to
! the Eastward and lived on Swan Is
| land in Kennebeck River for nine
years: after which I removed to a
place adjoining to Small Point, and
from thence 1 removed to a place
called Cocks Head, both which last !
mentioned places, as we'll as Swan
Island do lie in Kennebeck River and |
that Cocks Head is about one mile
from Honeywelrs Point, and said
Honeywell's Point is about one
league distant from Segun Island,
which Island called Seguin, lyeth
Off the mouth of the Kennebeck Riv-
cr beareth South: And l do testify
and say that the river beareth the
the name of Kennebeck from the
f o I e m e n t i on ed Honeywell's
Point many leagues upward into the
Wilderness; nor did I ever hear said
| Kennebcck River called by any other
name until since the time when Mr..
Samuel Goodwin went up on the sur
vey in the service of the Plymouth
Company, which was about three
years ago, but it has always been
heretofore called Kennebeck River
and is now called Kennebec River
by the most ancient persons now liv-
ing there and known by no other
| name; and further saith not.
Given under my hand this 3oth
| day of April, 1853"
Lewiston, March 1.-THE annual
session of the State Council of
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton will be held in Lewiston We'd
ncsday and Thursday and elaborate
preparations are being made by the
members of Mary Dillingham; Chap
ter of Lewiston and Auburn, who will
be the hostesses for the occasion.
Lewiston Lodge of Elks has Of
fered the Daughters the use OF
the assembly hall in the Elks' Build
ing at Ash and Middle SITS, and the
business sessions will be held at that
place.
A reception will be held at the
Elks' Hall Wednesday evening, with
an entertainment consisting OF read
iurs NV Mr. yTo1for pIunner Of