Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-13
when he leaves Auburn about the
first of May, he will go to Panama.


first of May, he will go to Panama.
The crew at the Moose River pulp
wood camp of S. D. Warren Co, 10 in
number, which went into the woods
Dec. 81, came out Feb. IS. and the
camp is in charge of caretaker Her
bert O'Brien, until May, when the
choppers and peelers will return for
the summer work. About $500
cords of pulpwood was cut this win
ter. and 10 teams, hauling on four
turn road, hauled it all out to the
salt water landing on Moose River
creek. The largest weeks haul was
made by Harlan Eaton of Lubec,
with 80 cords, and the largest load,
six cords and two feet, are also to
his credit. The largest single days
work was made by Otis Leighton,
who hauled 81 cords, with one pair
Of horses.
DR.. Thomas Tetreau, Portland
health officer, hkened some of the So
called apartment houses of recent
construction as merely rabbit nests,
in an address before the Maine Mas
ter Plumbers Association in conven-
ton Tuesday at Portland. He de-
nounced these conditions where many
persons are huddled together, which
serves to weaken their moral fiber as
we'll as affect their physical we'll
being. He advocated stricter build
ing ordinances. Officers were elected
by the Plumbing. Steam and Metal
Salesmen's Association in convention
as follows: Rupert c. Parker of
Portland, president: Nat NJ. Boalton
of this city and Harold w. CoomLs
of Boston, vice presidents; Frank s.
Billings of Portland treasurer; J.
Warren Chase of Portland, financial
secretary; +. II. Winslow of Port
/ land, corresponding secretary.
That Ward Seven, South Port
land, is still interested in
segregating the Thorndike Heights
section as a separate township, was
evidenced at an open meeting of the
Thornton Heights Improvement
Society Monday evening, when fig
!. ures taken from the city treasurer's
books were read to show that Ward
Seven had been abused" as far as
the proper distribution of the city's
money was concerned. Mrs. Will
liam Fairfield. as chairman of a
committee to look up the amount of
taxes that Ward Seven paid, re-
ported that Ward Seven, not includ-
ing any of the Portland Terminal
property, paid a tax of $63,49S.S9 in
the year 1923, an amount which il
between twenty and twenty-five per
cent of the total taxation of South
Portland. Seventy-five residents of
Ward Seven were present and many
of them contributed speeches on
what ri a lo
fairness of conditions in the section
in which they live. AS usual, the
sewer problem came in for a good
deal OF discussion. The increase in
the number of dwelling, with a cor
responding rise in the price of land
was brought out. The danger to
health and the inconvenience of
cess pools which are the sole means
OF sewerage now were discussed.
The Maine Publicity Bureau,
through one Of its members, is to in
restigate the Californian style of
publicity in the hope of receiving in
formation that may be applied in
Maine. Most of the states can learn
from California and Florida in self
advertising. 1t is not only the peo-
pie of those two states that work in
Cessantly and increasingly in sound
ing the tocsin of the beauties and at
fractions of their states but also the
strangers who are within the gates.
If they write home knock they are
very likely to hear from it, whereas
they soon learn that compliments for
the state make them many friends.
There is certainly team work in
California and Florida in the press
agent work and Maine could do well
to take leaf from their books. That
Maine people are proud of our State
is without question but we are mod
est folk and disinclined to foot our
cwn bugle. We have a State Pub
licity Bureau and it is doing good
work but its greatest need is the CO.
operation Of our people Florida and
California have nothing on Maine in
the line of attractions for visitors and
If we as people could only assimi-
late the boosting habit and keep
everlastingly at it surprising results
would be attained.-Bangor Com
mercial.