Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-24

Of two-headed calf. and the said
owner had visions Of wealth from
exhibiting the latest addition to- his
farm stock. But the calf evidently
decided that two heads were a handi-
cap rather than an advantage and
quietly gave up the ghost after a
short sojourn down on the farm.
To Edward E. Talbot, Of Machias,
Of the Citizens Military Training
Camps recruiting campaign belongs
the credit for not only being the
first chairman in New England to
double his quota for the 1923
Citizens Military Training Camp, to
be held at Camp Devens Aug. / to
81. With the assistance of his able
local chairman. Mr.. Talbot expects
to send a 200 per cent enrolment to
Camp Devens on Aug. LIST.
George A. Harrison, general pas
Railway System in Portland and
member of the train sub committee
of the Portland to Portland Commit
tee, will be engaged this week in
closing bookings with those who are
planning to take the trans contin-
entail trip on the State Chamber of
Commerce special. Mr. Harrison was
in Lewiston and Auburn Monday and
Later in the week he will visit pros
poets in Watervil!e. Rockland and
Brunswick.
Efforts to obtain Vice President
Calvin Coolidge as the speaker on
the closing day Of the Methodist
Episcopal campmeeting at Old
Orchard. July 90, have been unavail-
ing, Mr.. Coolidge's physician having
advised him to take a complete rest
be delivered by Ernest Cherrington
of Westerville, O., editor of The
American Issue, the paper issued by
the Anti Saloon League of America.
The campmeeting opened Saturday
afternoon and the speaker Sunday
was Bishop Richardson Of Atlanta,
Ga.
mo trespass signs" greeted Ken
nebunk berry pickers in number of
the BURBERRY pastures at West
Kennebunk this week. Upon learning
VI ShO hSCP-ool hOllSSo liiC rep
resentatives to the Legislature from
Kennebunk and Kennebunkport,
Edwin I. Littlefield. who owns much
property, signed his name to an
advertisement in the local paper
which read that men, women and
children were privileged, without
price, to enter his fields at West
Kennebunk, Lyman and Wells and
fill their pals. boxes and baskets.
Last Winter, Representative Little
field gave wood to all who cared to
60 to his lots and load it.
Maine may receive a visit from a
real princess this Fall, if plans now
under consideration mature. Princess
Santa Borghese of Rome, Italy. who
is also entitled to prefix DR.. to her
name, is making lecture tour in the
United States and has promised to
come to Maine. Princess Borghese
was an official delegate from Italy to
the World Conference on Education
recently held in San Francisco, and
at the request of DR.. A. o. Thomas
she consented to visit Maine before
she returns to Italy. She is a
brilliant woman and although hardly
thirty years of age stands high in the
She studied at Oxford University and
received her doctors degree from the
university in Milan. During this
summer she is lecturing in the West
and is engaged to give course of
lectures at Columbia University in
the Fall. If she comes to Maine, it
is probable that she will address some
groups of Maine teachers.
Is there a society Raff1es at work in
Portland? This is the question
which is keeping the blue coats of
the city on the qui vive since it de-
veloped in wake of the discovery
Of a burglary at the Charles
F. Flagg house on Carroll street that
three. other homes in the exclusive
Western Promenade section have
been entered by marauder, who in
each instance. apparently spent the