Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-10

Prominent temperance workers from
several of the New England states
are expected to be present. Miss
Clara Fl. Messrve, president Of York
county w. G. T. U. will have charge
of the children's hour. Special
music will be provided.
Frank G. Harrington Of Augusta,
who has been given certificate of
nomination as the Republican candi-
date for Governor, has filed with the
Secretary of State an itemiZed ac-
count of his primary campaign ~ex-
penses as required by statute. The
account shows a total expenditure
of $1,174.65; itemized as follows:
Printing, $73S.93; clerk hire, $206;
newspaper advertising, S97.72; hall
rent, IS; soliciting agents, SIS;
miscellaneous, SO. No expense ac-
count is required to be filed by de-
feated candidates.
The Maine w. c. T. U. will hold
it's annual convention in Portland,
Sept. "a. IS and Goth. closing at
noon on the 26th. This Is the
7 Jubilee or fiftieth convention. and
will be one of marked interest. That
it is to meet in Portland, the home
of General Neal Dow and Mrs.
Lillian M. n. Stevens, seems most
appropriate.
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, PhD. of New
York, Is to be one of the speakers.
DR.. Boole is not a stranger to Maine
audiences and is greatly admired.
and recognized here as elsewhere, as
one of the finest speakers of the
country.
Both lake and coast resorts are
already showing an increase of
tourist travel over that of last year,
according to Harrie B. Coe, man
ager of the Maine Publicity Bureau
at Portland. Mr.. Coe has returned
from the Rangeley region, where
many of the resort proprietors re-
port marked increase over the
business of last year. One house
,, In that section reports 600 guests at
the house for June as against 2S5
1or the month last year. A lady
! VINO has been at the resorts in
york County, reported to the BIZ
reau yesterday that one hotel AT
Wells Beach had bookings ahead for
August which would completely All
the houses. Another hotel at York
Haroor had bookings for the FIRST
week in July tfat were greatly in
excess of last year.
Automobiles who have driven over
the Saco roads recently will best appre-
ciate the criticism contained in inc
following verses clipped from the
brlogton News and credited to "R II
,, W." Waterbury Conn:
THE ROADS OF sACo
nnere's town in Maine called Saco.
It's roads are full of holes.
some OF them go to China
Ana others to the Poles.
T., WIKI some are great big mountains,
IN others wondrous lakes,
WIN MY YOU swear aWay/aS well you NAV
""'ie you re getting a million shakes.
In saco there are no warnings
Aoout now you should drive your car.
VT 10 franc cops will stop you,
Jour pleasure thus to mar.
You can drive as fast as Won want %
H Dut you'll probably take it slow w.
TOT ehs pumps You get, it's good safe
Will make you shift into low
Work is underway at the Bath
Iron Works Ltd, on the first tractor
plow ever built in that city. 1t is
OF wood and steel, of two ton ca
pacltyS and will be followed nv
others OF five and ten tons capacitv
some OF which will be of ali steel
construction. These plows ore he"
ing built for the Thomas PIow 70
a concern that proposes to mako
us headquarters in Bath and rvbicb
i0r some time has had an Office in
enat city. This pillow can he buiIt
aoout any caterpillar tractor. Ali
parts have been patented in THE
country and Canada. Horace
Ilnomas. treasurer of the Tbon,.s
riow Co.. is already negotiating far
thelr manufacture in Canada whiia
ne announced on Tuesday that he
ma, mas a nice bunch of orders for Az
livery 70 various municipalities In
MS MS country for next Winters psa
IN. Inc junction of thfs plow is to ciaar
me highways after snow stornns
anu II Is said to work out in meet
s manner. The nlow Nc .
800 IN brunswick last Winter with
SOU results and upon one or I've
S 60 was used to clear tba
ana nlghway between Brunswick
1 au bath; 1t has passed the ayN
That stage. according to M
T.. as, the company now beine n
eniro year and has been narsa.
pioouct for year,
Living in Stoneham
county, is a man of SIS years who
was one Of the soldiers detailed in
April, 1865. to guard the heav ar
Abraham Lincoln ana e..a-SSs "