Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-27

will be held at the Congress Square
hotel in Portland on Tuesday, oct.
., at o'clock. There will be a devil
alton from previous years as the
meeting will be held in conjunction
with the Maine Automobile Dealers
Association. There will be several
prominent and interesting speakers.
who Will take paIt in the after dinner
program. foremost among them being
Harry MciXell of New York lily. the
secretary of the Motor Vehicle Con-
ference Committee. Invita- tons have
been sent out from the Portland office
of the association and women have
been invited as we'll as the men.
The Abbott school opened It
Pennington for the ensuing year on
Wednesday, Sept. 90. In accor-
dance with long established custom
the students assembled on that da tie
for the opening dinner at 6 p. m.
The enrolment is larger this ycat
than last and indicates the develop
ment of the school under the man
agement of B. II. MacCormack, the
head-master. A large proportion
of last years students have re-
tGrned. New faculty members in
tlide Arthur y. Garcelon, Jr., who
will head the English department
Nj. Garcelon is we'll known as a
,nccturer on far eastern subjects.
An innovation in the affairs of
the Maine Automobile Association
will be introduced next month Wien
on the occasion OF the annual diI;
ner and meetings the organization
will meet in conjunction With the
Maine Automobile Dealers AsSoc:s
tlon. The affair will he held at t."
Congress Square Hotel at Portland
On Tuesday evening. Oct at 6
O'Clock. An interesting program is
being arranged and a number of
prominent speakers will be secured.
chief among whom will be Harry
MeiXell of New York. secretary of
the Motor Vehicle Conference Com
mittee. Subjects of interest to all
! motorists will be the topics under
: discussion. Members of the as
/ sociations and their ladies are in
! vited.
Mrs. Nelson L. Page of Shcpley
! street, Auburn. received word Monday
from her husband at Alexandria,
Mimi, that his sister Mrs. Mary Page
! Knox, her husband James w. Knox
/ and their two children, victims of the
triple Staying and suicide by Mr..
/ Knox. had been buried. MI. Page is
expected to return home within a
! week accompanied by his mother Mrs.
Nellie 3. Page ard sister Miss Stella
lE Page. who have been visiting in
Alexandria. Madam Page and her
daughter. Miss Stella Page left. Au
burn about three weeks ago for
: Minnesota to visit their former home
and also the Knox home. They then
planned to go to Florida for the WIN
ter. They had been at the Knox
home. but were with others, it is I'M
/ derstood, at the time of the trag edy
! According to those who ought to
know there is no other market place
in Maine like Pickering square in
Bangor This has been one of TIE
+ features OF Bangor for. a great many
/ years. Here there have been gather
cd every work dav of tie wear farm
crs from tie surrounding country
II sell their produce to people Of the
city. White along the cross walk Of
Water street which passes thru the
square have stood the meat wagons
CT men VITO Suppllcu all SOTlS c.
beef products at a few cents under
! the price of the regular stores of the
city Years ago, these carts We're
: moved away to stables each night
! and hauled back to place in the
! morning much as the night lunch
: carts are in many cities az this time.
, In recent years there has come Il
I chance. The carts are now perma-
nentlY stationed in their places on
! The square. and are equipped with
. electric lights fo~ on SATURDAY.
! nights trade is brisk on the square
The three Bates men who are to
meet Oxford in the debate. Thurs
day at Lewiston, are all Lewiston
and Auburn men, William F. Young
! being graduate OF Jordan High and
| Arthur w. Pollister and Erwin D
Canham being Auburn men. Pol
! lister and Young are seniors and
! Canham a junior. All three debated
on their high school teams before
! they entered Bates. The Oxford
debaters. C. H.. o. Seattle of ST
Johns College, G. A. Gardiner of
Magdalen. and ]. D. Woodruff of