Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-07
BY Albert T. Reid

and continued his trip East direct to
his old home.
G. Julian Brown of Norway has
measured his silver leaf maple tree
and it girts s feet, inches. He has
performed this ceremony annually
since the sapling was set in the year
1900, when it was 81 inches in cir
conference. The annual growth has
averaged about inches with a vari-
atiCn according to climatic condi-
tons.
Now that new industry has been
landed for Bath the Bath Chamber of
Commerce plans to make a survey of
al! the vacant buildings in the city
which are adapted for manufacturing
purposes, so that they may have the
Information at hand when they find
another manufacturer who is seek
Ing location, which seems most ex-
cellent idea.
In a York county town this spring
where they were coating the high
way with oil, summer resident
from down in Virginia was COM
planning to the road commissioner
about the mess it made. At last she
exclaimed, "Why don't you put it on
the roads in winter when we're not
here." Madam" was the prompt
reply. "why don't you come up here
IT, it 'ne winter ana snow us now to do
The Bates summer school will
open for its sixth annual session next
week under the direction of Prof. r.
r. n. Gould, head Of the history de-
partment at the regular Bates college
sessions. Tuesday will be registra-
ton day. Actual work begins We'd
nesday. the lin. In addition to the
regular courses given in previous
years Prof. w. II. Hartshorn, head Of
the English department at Bates, will
give course in American literature.
The annual appropriation resolve
adopted at the recent meeting of the
Lewiston City Council, shows an in
crease Of about SAT, 900 over last year.
though there are heavy cuts in Some
! of the department expenses. The tax
rate will be the same as last year. 20
mills on the dollar. A special tax of
one mill will be levied, however, to
complete the new armory. Strenu-
Gus objection was made at the meet
ing to some of the increases, especial
ly in the police department which is
increased from $4,000 last year to
$4,000 this year.
Writing from Belgrade, F. C.
Drawn asks the Boston Globes, What
People Talk About Department:
when a person takes a horsehair out
by the roots and puts it through a
gofd ring and lowers into glass half
full of water, why does the ring sway
back and forth and ring on the glass
as many times as the horse is old?
This desire for information is COM
mendable, but the construction of the
sentence is open to criticism. Really,
in the natural course of events, a
horse cannot be old but once.-Bidde-
ford Journal.
The Maine State Chamber Of Com
merce is sending cut the itinerary of
it's trip from Portland, Maine, to the
Pacific coast and return. The party
will leave Portland on Sept. and
arrive back home on Sept. Is. 1t is
estimated that the expenses of the
tour will be about $500 per person
and the. trip will be made in a spe-
cial train of Pullman cars. The
number of reservations possible will
be about so and 1t will be q wonder
full tour for those who go ~as stops
will be\made at all principal points
and in many cities the party will be
entertained by boards of trade and
like organizations.
With mean temperature Of Ga de-
grees. June of 1923 will go down on
the records at the Portland Weather
Bureau as the warmest June in IA
years. The mean temperature in
June 1909. was 65 degrees. The
normal mean temperature for June
for the past SO years has been 62.5I
degrees. Although June was warm
er than normal, the year 1923 has
been 423 degrees colder than nor
NAL. or an average of "a degrees
each day. Precipitation for June of
this year was 2.S9 inches against a
normal rainfall of 1856 inches. There
were II clear days. eleven partly
cloudy days and eight days on which
.01 of an inch or more of precipita-
ton occurred during the month.
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George Farrar of East Dover, died II
the Dexter hospital Thursday morn
ing as result of injuries received
IN an auto smashup Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Farrar driving a oar oocono