Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22

eft Of it's Christmas charities for poor
children Of the city.
Rev. Birney S. Hudson Of Portland,
former pastor of the Plymouth Free
Baptist church, has accepted a call to
be associate pastor Of the Temple
Baptist church in Los Angeles and
will assume his new duties next week.
Mr.. Hudson recently resigned when
the Free Baptist and Free Street Bap-
fist churches amalgamated.
With coal coming in almost faster
than it can be handled Bangor deal
ers are loking for orders rather than
turning them down for lack of supply.
The summer price has been fixed at
S15.75 for pea and nut. Sl625 for egg
and stove and SLIPS for soft coal,
with two per cent. off for cash. The
dealers expect to get a full supply
this season.
The United States Touring In
formation Bureau of Waterloo, Iowa,
publishes a guide for automobile
tourists in which is listed the cities
throughout the country which have
set apart camp sites. Maine has
nine cities named in this list They
are Auburn, Augusta, Bath. Belfast.
Bridgton. Caribou. Lewiston. Lisbon
Falls and Norway.
The Maine Bankers Association
will hold it's annual convention at
the Falmouth Hotel. Portland, June
23-o4. A Maine daily in announcing
the event gravely declares that a
gold tournament has been arranged.
This Would be appropriate enough for
bankers convention, but The
Courier Gazette strongly suspects
that it will be golf convention in
stead.
An article on Motor Camping in
Maine is being prepared by Harrie
i. Coe. publicity secretary Of the
State Chamber of Commerce at
Portland. He would apprec ate re.
celving from anyone information re-
garding opportunities Tor motor
camping in the State. stating loca-
ton, facilities for camping. cooking
and obtaining supplies, also rccre-
ational opportunities. as fishing,
bathing and dancing.
Mayor John B. Stuart of Brewe-
has again put a ban on public meet
ings in the Brewer City Hall in the
interest of the Ku Klux Khan. Satur-
day he notified City Marshal Lunt to
see that the hall is not used Thursday
night for a lecture. The reason the
Mayor gave to +. Herbert Hathorn,
the petitioner, for the hall, is that the
appearance last Thursday evening on
the stage Of twenty-f five robed Klans-
men is a violation of the agreement
under which the hall was rented.
The Quarter Century Travelling
Mems Association of Maine will hold
its sixteenth annual meeting and din
ner Friday at Cape Shore Inn. for
merly Cape Cottage Casino. Plans
are being made to accommodate be-
tween 100 and $50 members of the
association and guests. The annual
meeting of this association is an
event each year in the lives of the
travelling men of this State, and men
various parts of the United States
are entertained at this time.
Regular sailing on the Interna-
tional Division of the Eastern Steam
ship Lines between Boston and st.
John, N. B., via Eastport and Lubec
was scheduled to be resumed yester-
day after suspension of the service
in the Winter. The steamer Cover
nor Dingley, which has been under
going a thorough overhauling, will
from Boston Mondays and Tuesdays
Saturdays. The Saturday trip from
while on the Wednesday trip the
'uolsod o. losIlp 90 lIIM uuor as
and from st. John Wednesdays and
maintain the service, and will sail
steamer will make calls for passen-
gers and freight at Eastport and
Lubec.
Mrs. Eva NJ. Weber of Windham
is the first woman to serve on a GRIM
inal jury in this county. She is a