Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-15

Your smiling welcome gives my heart
The greatest JOY life can impart.
I listen for your pattering feet.
And crave yout hugs and kisses
sweet.
I watch your leaf-like minds unfold,
And tender wonderers behold.
wish I might strong shields erect
That would from harm your lives pro-
I'll humbly trust His power divine
To light your paths, dear ones of mine.
o. NJ.
Maine visitors to Florida report
that boys along the roadside are
selling strawberries at Is cents a
box.
Officers of the Lincoln county fair
at Damariscotta will make strenu-
GUS effort to get the stipend of year
before last, withheld by Commission
err Washburn on account of alleged
gambling on the grounds. This loss
Of money is sore spot with the
management.
: An order for an eighty foot tow
boat has just been>placed by John
L. Gross, Of Boston, at the ship
yard in Camden and work has al
ready begun. Mr.. Gross carries on
an extensive granite business at
StOnington, Maine. The tug will be
named the Eugene Spofford and is
to be completed, by June, and she
will then be lowed to Portland to
have her machinery installed at
the Portland Company. The owner
intends to use the tug in towing
coaf laden barges from the Rock
land anchorage where they are drop
ped by the ocean tugs. to Penobscot
Bay ports nearby and, back again to
be picked up for the southwark trip.
The high school conference at the
University of Maine opened yester-
day with about IS delegates from "a
high schools and academies scattered
from New York to Fort Kent. At
the opening session the delegates
were welcomed by DIR c. c. Little,
president of the university and Con-
rad E. Kennison, president of the Sig
ma Delta Chi fraternity. Response
was made by Donald Taylor of Ban
gor high school. Addresses were de-
liyered by Dean J. S. Stevens and A..
l.. T. Cummings, manager of the
State Chamber of Commerce and
formerly agricultural editor at the
University. A dinner was given in
honor OF the visitors at $50 follow
ting which the delegates went to Ban
gor to inspect the plant of the Ban
gor Daily. News. Today's program
includes Speeches, discussions and a
dance In Alumni hall.
State ownership of trees along
the highways was recommended by
Clarence w. Eaton. state forestry
expert, in his talk Wednesday noon
at the First Parish House before the
Portland Chapter of the Unitarian
Laymen's League. I'VE do practic-
ally nothing for our highway trees
said MIR. Eaton, land they could be
made, if properly cared for, an ad
ded attraction to the tourists who
visit the State" He explained that
the present law makes even the
care of these trees optional while
New Hampshire has passed n high
way law, under the provisions of
which every tree along the high
ways belong to the state. Mr.
lSaJOil tCu tildI tic Nh u
Katahdin region was more suita BILE
for a national park than many other
regions which have already been
made national parks in various parts
of the country. He expressed q
doubt as to whether Congress would
create national park in the
Katahdin region. as was strongly
desired by associations and organi-
cations in Maine, for the reason that
sentiment is growing in Washington
that no more national parks should
be created at the present time.
Among the bound over cases which
may come before the March term of
the supreme judicial court which
opened Tuesday at Dover Foxcroft
are the murder case in which John
Isaacson of Monson is accused of
killing his wife with an axe con-
tinued manslaughter case, in which
woman was killed, or died SUISSE
quent to being hit by an automobile
driven by Axel Erickson of Monson,
md libel case, concerning a MEM
Der of the /. w w. organization at
Greenville.
The murder case may not be tried,
as Isaacson is at the State hospital
at Augusta, and has been under OBJ
servation there as to his sanity. His
trial will of course depend upon the
testimony of the physicians there
The manslaughter case was tried
ct the last term of court and the
fury disagreed. 1t Is understood that
County Attorney Gerrish has been
investigating the matter with view
to re-trial at the present term. but
he has made no statement as yet
about 1t.
The I. WI W. case grew out of the
trouble in Greenville, and the post
ing of notices and distribution of
papers concerning boycott of some
Of the local traders. and one young
man was placed in Jail on the charge
OF libel. Attorney General Shaw has
been at Dover-Foxcroft comforting
with the county attorney in this mat