Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-19

the Athens road In Skowhegan and
plans to build there an apple canning
factory. This will be about two
miles from Skowhegan and only
short distance from the Hilton Hill
orchard district.
Hot ashes and tortoise trimmed
glasses do rot agree for a cent. as
Fred NJ. Blackington learned Sunday
when he laid his spectacles too near
tray which contained hot cigar ashes.
There was puff. a room full of smoke,
and Fred read the rest of his Sunday
paped with his own eyes.-Rockland
Courier Gazette.
The Bureau of Education in Wash
ington has issued a statement that
Maine teachers receive the lowest sal.
aries of any in New England. This
may be true, in figuring averages. but
it costs many of them less to live in
Maine than it docs in Massachusetts
and there are other advantages which
Maine can offer that other states do
not equal.-Bath Times.
Among the July victrola records is
a song, Rosa" sung by Giuseppe de
Luca, and written by Romilly Johnson,
Bowdoin '06. Other records published
| by Mr.. Johnson, who writes under the
| stage name of G. Romilli, which was
| used by him when singing opera IN
| Italy are Marietta" Neapolitan
song, also sung by de Luca, and "A
| Boat Song" sung by Miss Geraldine
Farrar.
| Fish may come and fish may go but
| proof is here that cunrers live on for
| ever. Wilbur Corson of Greenroad n.
b., who is visiting Il. S. Foye atTorring-
| ton Point, Peaks Island, hooked what
| is believed to be a Gunner of record
size. and he performed the stunt with
/ an ordinary pole and line. The spec
linen, which closely resembles black
| bass, tips the scales at y pounds and
! measures better than IA inches.
A large whale was sighted in Pcnob-
scot bay Tuesday by Miss Anna Sar-
| gent =: father, G.G. Sargent of
| Brewer, while they were crossing the
| bay in a rlotorDCat with DR.. Harold
| Hunt of Bangor. The monster was
/ seen off Deckle's Point and Miss Sar-
, gent said she thought at hrst that it
7 Il
! blowing" Residents of that N.cinl-
! ty said it was the second whale seen
III the bay in 40 years.
The marriage of William Bill
| Quincy of Biddcford, football captain
at Bates college last year, with Miss
Dorothy L. Heal Of Lewiston, solem-
nizcd last September, has just come TO
| orryo 90
cret while Mr.. Quincy was at college.
He was graduated in June OF this year.
| He was one of the NEST popular stu
| dents at the college. Mrs. Quincy is
the daughter of Mrs. Jennie Heal of
| Hammond street. She is employed at
iunn and Sweets. Auburn.
Commander John Henry Newton, L.
S. Navy executive officer of the new
! Massachusetts built scout cruiser,
Detroit" announces most attractive
! Mediterranean cruise for former navy
| men who care to rc-enliSt on the latest
! Pride of Quincy" The Detroit will
sail from Boston early in August. Wis
iting Alexandria, Egypt, Venice. Nice,
| Gibralter, Malta, Algiers, Suez Canal,
returning to Boston shortly before
Christmas, the Boston Navy Recruiting
Station making the reservations.
Nineteen more students than attend
cd the 1922 session are now registered
in the total of 142 at Bates College
| summer school. The registration is
the largest in the five summers the
school has been operated. Most of the
142 are Maine students, with IA from
Massachusetts,, six from New Hamp-
shire, four from Vermont and four
from Connecticut, two from New Jer-
sey. Most of these are teachers OF
principals in high schools.
Harry T. Passmore, secretary of
Bath Rotary Club, received on Tuesday
an interesting souvenir in the form of
the constitution, bylaws and roster of
the Rotary club of Shanghai. 1t is a
bound volume of nearly so pages with
cover, bears half tone cuts of past and
present officers and reports of the
E.. liz.