Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-28
By Albert T. Reid

registered, ana the COTHlltOry is ldAeu
beyond capacity. The fall term will
open Wednesday morning. Sept. IL.
The faculty for the ensuing year will
be the same as last year. and is as fol-
lows: DIR. w. l.. Powers. principal.
school management, psychology and
pedagogy; Earl Merrill. French. mathe-
matics. history and librarian; Frank
kilburn. botany, science and agricul-
ture; Leila Trip. critic teacher
methods: Ethel Duffy, manual training;
Anna Brown. music. English, rhetoric;
Ruth Harthorn. home economies; Ruth
Marble, physical culture.
The will of Margaretta A. Libby of
Portland. filed for probate, leaves pub
lie requests aggrcgating S102,500. Be
quests of s. 600 each in trust arc given
the state Street Congreg ational church
of Portland. the first Congregational
church of Scarboro. the Maine General
Hospital and the Young Women's
Christian Association of Portland. Be
quests of $1,000 each are provided for
to the State y. NJ. c. A. the Mary
Brown Home of Portland. the Home
for Aged Women. and the Fee
male Orphan Asylum of Portland and
! the Maine Bible Society. On decease
of four beneficiaries, additional be-
| quests provided for include $4,000 to
! the Maine General Hospital. s15.0000
! to the state Street Congre gational
= church. $4,000 to the Portland Young
! Womcns Christian Association, $4,000
each to the Mary Brown Home, Home
| for Aged Women, Home for Aged Men,
| State Y NJ. c. A. Scarhoro First Con-
/ Crcgational church and $4,000 to the
| Portland Female Orphan Asylum. The
estate is valued at S500,00o. Is. b. San
dcrson is named as executor.
| S. S. Kresge, head of great chain Of
stores. was touring Maine last week
, by automobile and this is the way his
presence in Lewiston was announced
! by the Sun: "A stranger came to town
! few days ago in his automobile. He
, came and went unnoticed and I'M
! heraldeG. He was just one Of the
! many ordinary tourists that each day
are seen in Maine from the outside
! world. His car wasn't seedy but it
J wasn't now this year or last. He had
no chauffeur and made repairs himself
! by the roadside when he had car
! trouble like any other humble tourist
| His clothes were very ordinary and the
tailor's iron evidently had not worked
| on them lately. The stranger bought
! 4 hammer at the local store to add to
! his repair kit, looked the town over a
| bit. and went on. He might have come
| in a big fine new car with a chauffeur
and other attendants. He might have
| come in a private car attached to the
| Bar Harbor Express, for the stranger
was no other than S. S. Kresge of
! Detroit. Mich, the controlling owner
of the Kresge chain of stores
| Mr.. kresge was touring the country
alone and for one of his means and
influence in a very humble way"
The entering class at Bowdoin col
lege will exceed in numbers the class
of last year, which in itself was a
record breaker. To date 100 men have
already been accepted, which is 20
more than last year at this time and
applications are continually arriving.
The entrance examination yearly be-
comes more stiff and severe. and in
spite Of this. the classes gain in pro-
portion. While nothing has been laid
| down as a rule. it is we'll understood
that 500 is the desirable number of
students for the college en- toto. last
year the student body numbering sos.
1t is going to be difficult to keep down
/ to thase figures. if the demand con-
tinutf to come for admission a S it now
docs. OF the 120 men admitted SO per
, cent are from Maine, 36 men. or 80 per
cent, are from Massachusetts, which
has always sent goodly numbers to this
/ college. Of the rest, six are from New