Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-12-05


to IL P. NJ. and find the ferry to take
them home-that is the ferry will
run at that hour under a new ar
rangement and Woolwich people are
q sober lot.
A bill will be introduced in the ap-
preaching session of the State Legis-
lature requesting the right to change
the name South Portland to one that
will not imply South Of any place,
II a majority Of the citizens OF Port
land approve. Senator Frederick w.
Hinckley of South Portland Will
sponsor the bill.
DeForest II. King of Bangor was
elected president of the recently
formed Classical Club at Amherst,
Mass. This club is composed of
members of the faculty and undergo
aduate students to stimulate in
terest in the classics and Is limited
to IS members, seven of which are
Latin and Greek departments.
Two hundred dollars in cash priz-
es will be awarded by the Maine
Central Railroad to the boys and
girls attending the State Contest Of
the Boys and Girls Agricultural clubs
of Maine, to be held at Orono, Jan.
/, 9 and 3. For a number of years
this company has been giving money
for the contest which is the climax
of each club years work.
Edward E. Carter. former Bath
boy, who is in the United States
Forestry service, has passed the last
three summers in Alaska. A large
part of the transportation service in
Alaska is done by motorboat. He
learned during his stay that the Bath
made propellers are held in high es-
TEEN by the boat owners in that FAR
away land.
One of the keepsakes which Don
aid 3. Macmillan reckons among his
choicest belongings is a pair Of lit
tie shoes which his father brought
him from Labrador when he was but
a youngster and they are kept in the
living room of his sisters home IN
Freeport. DIR. Macmillan had a de-
sire to explore the Arctic regions
when he was a mere boy, perhaps
due to the fact that his father was a
sea captain and told him stories of
Labrador and the North country.
Amity Lodge. +. and A. NJ. Of Cam
den boasts of the youngest worship
full master in the state of Maine. in
the person Of Harold l.. Ames, who
was recently installed as master at
the age of Is years. He comes nat
urally by his love of Masonry as his
family for generations have been
lovers of the craft. He was installed
by his father. Leslie d. Ames, past
master of King David Lodge of Lin
colnville, but at present member OF
Amity.
Young Ames Is a native of Lincoln
Vile, but has lived in Camden, the
most of his life.
John A. Swanson Of Saco. Maine.
visiting relatives in birmingham,
had q narrow escape from death be-
tween that city and Natick today
being dragged more than four miles
ny DOSNoh poullu SNPA Seo ~ uai'
Swanson was seen clinging to the
iron gate of the train by persons
waiting for a local train on the
Natick station platform.
They notified the station agent
and he had the train stopped at a
tower beyond the station where the
man was taken aboard suffering from
exposure and weakened by the strain
Of his precarious position which he
had held for more than four miles.
Walter E. Reid of Portland, a near
all year round resident of Seguin-
land in Georgetown, has purchased
the FIVE masted schooner Bright at
Portland. This is the third time the
schooner has been sold in as many
months.
First disposed Of at U. s. Marshal
sale. she was purchased by Capt.
William Merritt, Of South Portland,
for $3.50, a sum so small for a 1000
ton vessel as to attract attention all
over the country. Capt. A. W. Frost,
Of Portland was the next buyer, and
he RENTED her at considerable cost
and placed her in commission.
The schooner has been chartered
to load coal at Hampton Roads for
Portland and is expected to go to
sea this week in command of Capt.
Orias Parsons, Of South Portland.
The moving pictures Of the West
have nothing on this one and the
orchestra didn't play during the per-
Torrance either
The Gilroy brothers. Mark and
Robert. of Bingham were sent after
a bull pastured a few miles up the
Kennebec river. where there Is no
road. They found the animal on the
opposite side. Ice had made on the
edge of the river, which is fordable.
and the bull wouldn't be driven
across. After everything else had
failed, the boys succeeded in getting
double-twisted telephone wire
around the bulls horns. This they
carried across the river and hitched
ii to their fiivver. They gave 'er the
gas! The bull hung back, the fiivver
was more than cne-bull power and
slowly, but surely. the bull was tow
ed across the river. He charged the
fiivver but a quick move around 4
tree tethered him before he did any
damage He was then brought back