Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-08

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and in some cases all of their regis
tiers which were stolen to procure the
autographs of famous people. Booth
Tarkington's name was so cut from
the lockwood hotel book last week.
In another case the whole register
was carried away.
Two checks for $50 and one for SIC
raised the total of the 103rd Infantry
Memorial fund to nearly $4,000. More
than half of the amount required for
the erection of suitable markers on
. French battlefields has been OBJ
tanned and the committee of former
103rd officers feels certain that Maine
people will continue to rise to the oc-
caSion.
Mrs. Lemuel Stinson, Woolwich, is
a patient at the ath city hospital as a
result of a peculiar accident on the
State highway near Wiscasset early
this week. She was a passenger in
the rear seat of an automobile and a
| rear tire burst. The machine swerved
and threw her out over Ethe side onto
the road. Four ribs were broken and
her chest crushed somewhat. DR.. A,
A. Stott ordered her removal to the
city hospital and her condition was
reported favorable.
The second annual meeting of the
Maine State Detectives Association
| was held at the office of L. O.
| Cabot at Lewiston, Thursday, with an
attendance of eleven from different
parts of the State. officers were
elected as follows: William A. Jack
| Bath, chief; Herbert J. Pearson. Au-
burn, deputy chief; Charles A. Max
| well, Portland, secretary treasurer;
Louis o. Chabot, Lewiston, past chief;
| Charles Whitefarit, Saco, John L
Alfred, F. NJ. Douglass, Bangor, and
Maxine Beaulieu, Lewiston, execu-
tive committee; Edward ]. Cogan
Dexter, finger print expert.
There is much anxiety at Lubec in
regard to the safety of Lieut.. Com
mander Hartvell c. Davis, formerly
of that town, who is in Toxic, Japan
where he is serving as an attache of
the American embassy. Owing to the
earthquake and other disturbances
there which have resulted in great
loss of life grave fears as to his safe
ty are expressed. Lieut.. Commander
Davis is graduate of Annapolis and
was in active service in the American
navy up to two years ago, when he
was assigned to duty in the embassy
at Toxic. Here he married about a
year ago the daughter of member
of the American legation. He was at
last accounts in Toxic. He is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Davis of South
Lubec and his last visit was about
two years ago to attend the Fourth
of July celebration as the commander
of submarine chaser.
Maine is the third from the bottom
in the formation of the Organized Re-
serves of the country, Major Frank
M. Geere, U. S. A., who has been
in the State for the past year
working upon this organization, told
the members of the Portland Kiwanis
Club. "In the work in this state we
have had to contend with subtle op-
posing influences" asserted Major
Geere. 1--WE believe we should inquire
into the origin of these forces as we'll
as those that are opposed to the in
dustrial development of the State"
I'VE cannot listen with one ear to the
pacif1sts and with the other to the
claims of preparedness and get any
where; we must close one or the
other ear and go either backward or
forward" said Major Geere. 1.-THE
pacifists who say that we raised an
army before and we can do it again,
are in every instance men who slept
between clean sheets and ate off linen
tablecloths in the last war;" declared
Major Geere.
A Bath man who returned a few
days ago from a trip through the
White Mountains was mourning the
fact that commercial enterprises now
days do so much to ruin the beauties
of nature, says the Bath Times. He
alluded particularly to the work
which is being done at one of the
beauty spots near North Conway
known as "Diana's Baths" Here there
is mountain stream of great beauty
which tumbles down over the hills in
falls and where the rocks are so worn
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