Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-13


And share the charm Of woods and
Oh. fair ana gracious sovereign.
This queen when she rules ovei
And only one fault can we find;
Far too brief is this sovereign
Nellie cappers.
mania. told the Maine Publicity
Bureau officials at Portland Thurs
day she was going to remain In Port
| land until she had chance to see
her first snow storm. She Is touring
| the world.
One Of the strangest freaks seen
In Maine for many years was the
calf purchased by Alton Woodward
and Fred Pendexter in Newheld
After being dressed the calf In all
| other respects normal, was found to
be without liver.
| A poor old innocent owl that lit on
a wire carrying $4,000 volts between
Bath and Nequasset, short circuiting
the Bath Water District station and
disturbing the Buoksport to Belfast
| and Belfast to Burnham lines, Satur-
day night was the only one to suffer
permanent injury.
Granville r. Lee, superintendent
of the Portland Fairgrounds, is in
Sanford, having gone there at the
request of a committee appointed at
the town meeting for the purpose OF
making preliminary arrangements
for the establishing a large play
ground between Kimball and Roberts
SITS. The voters placed $1,000 at the
disposal of this committee.
A rosebush of the premises OF Ben
jamin S. Whitehouse in Rockland is
blooming for the second time this
season. The variety Of the "Seven
Sisters" or was until Ben renamed
1t the Seven Grandmothers" in hon.
or of it's unusual achievement. But
it's in the nature of things that ev-
erything should smile where Ben Is,
says the Courier Gazette.
Robert J. Henderson, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Adney ]. Henderson, Elm
street, Saco, a senior at Dartmouth,
has been chosen as a member Of the
Players orchestra Of the college. Mr..
Henderson plays the cello. There
were 40 candidates for positions in
the orchestra and from this number
IS selections were made. Member
ship in the organization is consider
ed a great distinction at Dartmouth.
The corn shops, at New Portland,
have closed down for the year in
this town, now, and about two
| thirds normal pack was secured. The
corn used this year was Golden Ban
tam instead of the Crosby corn. Will
| lis L. Wheeler of Norridgewock was
superintendent, as he has been for
several years. A social dance held
by the factory workers closed the
season with due ceremony.
The new franklin county health
nurse. Miss Harriet Anderson, Is to
make public her reports each week.
and for last week, she visited Ave
schools, inspected 122 pupils, finding
Sc with defects, made several home
nursing visits. attended six confer
ences with town committees and did
few other chores in the line Of her
work, including sending out Sc no.
tees to parents as to the defects
found in their little ones.
A big real estate deal has recently
been completed at Madison by which
st. Sebastian Catholic church has
become the possessor Of the house
owned by G. A. Herrick at the corner
of Old Point Avenue and Pleasant
street, also the house owned by Mrs
Herrick lot. The purchase price of
the two stands it Is said to be $780,
900. 1t is reported that plans are
| already under way for the erection
of a new church on this site.
Charles F. Sweet, clerk of courts
in Penobscot county for thirty-four
years. was taken by surprise, Thurs
day afternoon at Bangor, when he
was presented with silver service
by members of the Penobscot county
bar, the presentation being in honor
OF his recent marriage. James Gill
lin, Esq, made the presentation
oP~SSAA eAhA la HItllIS tCIulS pdI0 tHS
tribute Of the bar to Mr.. Sweet to
which he replied and thanked the
donors for their handsome gift.
Friends at Readfeld Depot of Mr.
and Mrs. Clark Benedict Williams
have learned that they were prob
ably victims of the Grand Hotel dis
aster at Yokohama, which was one
| of the buildings that collapsed dur
Ing the earthquake in Japan. Mrs.
Williams was Readfield girl. Two
years of her married life were spent
in Germany with Mr. Williams and
her son. Dexter. She had a daugh-
ter. Elizabeth. born in Germany who
is now in school in Mt. Holyoke.
For some time past the electric
lights at Eastport had been running
unsatisfactory. After shutting off
wheel in the pit. Supt. Leroy 6.
Vose went several feet below and
soon discovered the cause and re-
moved two full pals Of big cells. A
few measured A inches in length.
Some had to be chopped apart from
the cogs. so tightly were they
wedged inside and preventing the
machinery from running.
Mrs. Rosetta Woodbridge Huddil-
stop of Orono, and Mrs. Elizabeth M.
Hodgkins of Portland have been ap-
pointed to represent the Maine W.
C. T. U. at the citizenship conference
to be held in Washington, Oct. 1915.
Ex-Governor Milliken of Maine Is the
chairman, with Gov. Pinchot Of
Pennsylvania honorary chairman.
Miss Anna AdanaS Gordon 1arasidant