Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-04

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themselves on their crowded apple
branches. G. l. Conant of that town.
picked q branch at random and 10
apples were counted all in a row.
They are Northern Spys. eThe cold
snap Of last week caught Mr.. Conant
with about a third of his apples I'M
picked. The fruit was frozen solid
and good for only cider vinegar. The
loss is about $4,000 to Mr.. Conant.
| Radio experts with transmitting
sets at Bath will keep them silent
| during certain periods of each day
so that the sending waves will not in
terfero with the receiving waves, ac-
cording to an agreement recently en-
tered into. A schedule prepared by
| exAlderman Francis b. Torrey, Jr.,
was accepted with amendments and
will be given a trial during Novem-
Der.
| Rumors that certain officers at the
! National Soldiers Home at Togus
would be relieved because of their
political affiliations, have been set at
rest by the statement made by Roy
l.. Marston of Skowhegan, a member
| or the board of managers of the Ma
| tIonal Soldiers Homes, who declared
that the board is not contemplating
making any changes in the personel of
the Togus staff. THE whole bust
ness is false" declared the Colonel.
i ic -,
being fired. 1 have heard it repeat
edly and about twenty-five good
| friends Of mine have applied for jobs,
| especially for Major Niles Perkins
place because he is Democrat. In
efficiency forms the only basis for
discharge and no charges have been
filed against officers and no COM
plants have been made. An inves-
| tSation will proceed the removal of
any officer at the Home. To all re-
| quests for an appointment to the
Home l have replied that no vacancy
exists at present and if one occurs,
the successful applicant must have
these three qualifications, he must be
efficient, he must be an eX-service
man and he must be Republican
and you notice that l put that quail
/ tiCatiOn last"
Some of the principal lumbermen
OF northern Aroostook county in
af1idavits made before the immgra-
ton commissioners at Fort Kent to
the effect that there is a scarcity of
men for work in the woods, petition
l<I a.,
permission to bring in Canadian la
Dor to meet the emergency. These
alfidaVitS have been forwarded to
Senator Hale, and the lumbcrmen are
hopeful that their petition will be
granted promptly, so that they may
fill their camp crews in time for this
winters cutting, which should now
be underway. 1t is said, however,
that representatives of the woods Ia
boring class will forward to WASH
ington remonStrance against grant
ing the petition, declaring that there
exists no shortage of woods labor, but
that the operators have misrepre-
scented the situation to get their help
at the low price of 81 a day, which
they combined to pay last WIN
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sufficient to attract men this
season, as some of the big pulp
and paper companies have been Of
fCring $50 q month. Offers of $50 to
$40 month by the llimbcrmen have
to fill their camps. Under the i'm
migration laws, Canadians entering
this country are obliged to pay a
head tax of IS and to pass a literacy
test. The amount of the head tax is
refunded to those who return to Can
ada within six months.
The dispatches from Richmond,
Va, announcing tho death of Thomas
Nelson page in lis ancestral home,
Oakland. cast shadow of gloom
over York Harbor community. For
number of years Mr.. Page and his
wife spent their summers there, both
having been keenly interested in the
development Of York Harbor. They
spent their summers at "Edgecliff'
annually, except during the time Mr..
Page was Ambassador to Italy.
Goth gave literally to the local funds
for the development of York Harbor.
IL 1907 Mrs. Page gave $4,000 to the
Old York Harbor Historical and I'M
prOvemcnt Society; also contributed
literally to the York Hospital She
inaugurated the annual Page Festival
which consisted of an afternoon to
which all the boys and girls of York
Harbor were invited, Toasted and en-
tcrtained, at the close of which each
child was presented with a gift Of
some kind. Mrs. Page died about a
year ago but Mr.. Page continued the
work inauguratcd by his wife, and
personally conducted the festival for
this year on Sept. last. Mr.. Page
presented to the town of York,
beautiful silk American flag, which
was the official Embassy flag in Italy
on the occasion of President Will
sons first setting foot on Italian soil.
He was q member of the York Harbor
| Reading Room Association and the
York Country club. The Page Cup
for the handicap golf tournament was
one of the big annual events of the
country club here. 1t is expected
| that memorial exercises will be con-
| Quoted here either on the day of his
! funeral or very soon after.
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