Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-20

A 20 page booklet showing the &C
Invites Of the Auburn Chamber Of
Commerce for 1929 has just ap-
peared. 1t was compiled by Earl s.
Lewis. executive secretary, who
shows in its pages that the year has
been one of the most active and
fruitful in the history OF the Cham
Der.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Blanchard of
Portland sailed Thursday from San
Francisco for Shanghai by the
steamship Tenyo Maru on their way
to West China, which they will reach
by a river trip of 1900 miles up the
Yangtse. Mr.. Blanchard is going
out to join the Syracuse Unit, A team
of missionaries, consisting of educa-
tionalists, preachers. nurses and doc
tors, organized by alumni of SYRIA
cuse University.
The finishing chapter of a romance
begun in the 70's, interrupted and re-
newed just now, is that Of the recent
marriage Of Artemus Mead and Mrs.
Marcia Adams of Bowdoinham. For
ty five years ago they were married.
After a time they separated, Mr.. Mead
remarrying as years passed on until
he had buried four wives. Mrs. Mead
married a Mr.. Adams, who some time
ago also died. Last week Mr.. Mead
and Mrs. Adams were again married
and expect to finish their lives in
each others company.
Some of the Lewiston grade teach
! ers have retained counsel to repre-
sent them before the Lewiston school
board in the presentation of claim
that the committee on teachers has
violated the seniority rule of the
board in the election of Miss Simone
Rcny to Il vacancy in the Wallace
school. They assert that the seniority
rule requires one of the rural school
teachers should have been elected to
the vacancy, and that Miss Rcny,
who is a new teacher, should have
been started in the rural schools, as
she is without experience in teaching.
| They wish to make a test case re-
gardinS the value of the seniority
, rule.
| At a meeting of the Bangor board
| of public works, Monday night, at
! which representatives of the Penob-
| scot County Jndertakers' association
/ were present, it was decided that the
city will keep the streets open for
! funeral professions by motor cars
| during the winter months. The plan
/ as adopted is for the city to pillow
out the street from the house, where
! the funeral is to be held, to the near
! est carlinc The procession will fol-
! low along the path made and will
: then continue along the street car
! tracks, where turnouts will be plowed
! at near intervals IN order that the
street cars and the machines of the
procession may be able to pass one
another.
| Word has been received in Lew
| iston that DR.. A. w. Anthony or
New York, formerly chairman OF
the Lewiston police commission and
professor at Rates college, has re-
signed. after five years service, as
executive secretary of the Homo
! Mission Council of the Baptist
church. DR.. Anthony has been ac-
I tive in the Baptist church for many
years. and has written several books
about his work. He was. after re-
signing from his professorship at
Bates in 1911, secretary Of the Bap-
fist and Free Baptist societies and
the Foreign and Home Publications
: Missionary societies. He became
! trustee of Brown University. from
which he graduated in 1888, in 1911.
He was on the Lewiston school board
! for several years.
! The sturdy steamer Anna Belle.
after serving Portland people for
many years, now lies in her grave on
! the beach of Peaks Island. Her ca
! reer is ended and workmen are now
busy tearing her apart She will
never float again in the service OF
| Portland's people. The Anna Belle
was originally the steamer Percy ".
ex Governor John F. Hill. She was
/ constructed at Bath, Maine, in 1886
! and after operating there for a num-
| Der of years the steamer was bought
! by ]. NJ Mcdonald of Portland, who
ran the vessel under the name Of
t Percy ", on the route from Port
land to Small Point and Cundy's
Harbor. Her first commander at
this port was Captain Charles Howes
/ and she was later operated by Cap
tain John Wallace, now in command
OF the local fire boat, engine No. 7.
For six years she plyed this route in
Mr.. McDonald's service and in the
year 1903 she was sold to parties at
IsleSboro.