Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-12-02

/ assist them, they hiked to Cary S
| Mills, then through the Mclntire
Road to Hodgdon Mills. out on the
Calais road and back home. a dis
lance of IS miles, in exactly three
hours.
On Monday next, at the municipal
election that pestilential nuisance,
daylight saving" will for the third
time be submitted to the people of
Bangor for adoption or rejection.
| Twice it has been turned down. out
! proponents of the idea seem to think
| that by frequent referendums they
may tire the electorate out or eaten
| it mapping, and thus put the rad
, through, to annoy and harrass the
masses of the people and put a
! handicap on business next summer.
Bangor News.
Capt. Donald B. Macmillan. Arctic
| explorer has expressed his willing
ness to go to the North Pole in a
dirigible. under the direction of the
| Navy Department, as pilot or COM
| mander of the expedition. He was
asked if he Endorsed the plan and
said that it seemed feasible. IL he
will probably go north next Sum
! mer to establish a permanent mag
| netic station. It's purpose would
| he to install apparatus for measur-
| ing the variations of the magnetic
! needle.
Joe Chaplin of East Hampdcn
| wanted to mail a letter to Boston
Sunday morning. The mail box and
| fire alarm box are near each other
at the corner of Main and Sidney
| streets. Joe pulled in q fire alarm
from Box 224. and in the driving
| snow storm the apparatus responded
| to find that 1t was only man mail
| ing a letter. Chief Lebarrow asked
| him what his name was. All no
| kept saying was that he wanted TO
mail a letter to Boston. The letter
| was inside the fire alarm box. Joe
| apparently pulled the cord inside to
start his letter onaits journey west.
immigration officer Howe OF
Portland went to Biddeford last
Friday with warrant from Wash
irgton. ordering the deportation Of
John B. Gagne, his wife and five
children. The Gagne family were
in Biddeford two or three years ago
and were sent back to Canada. 1t
is now charged that Mr.. Gagne
shipped his furniture to Biddeford
and then brought the members o.
his family into the country by auto
mobile. last August, evading the
officials at the line. They have teen
living on Cleaves street in Bidde.
ford A hearing on the case was
scheduled for yesterday afternoon In
the U. s. district court. Portland.
News Of the marriage of Theodore
Lane, IS, foster son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Lane, of Auburn and Miss
Jessie Schroeder, 16. daughter of
Arthur Mahan. Auburn. both Ed
ward Little high school students
came to light in Auburn Saturday
upon the appearance of a small
newspaper account of the marriage,
cut from a st. Louis paper. The
girls father is now understood to
be instituting annulment proceed
ings, claiming the girl Is too young.
1t will be recalled that the young
couple. last April. then students AZ
the Webster Junior High, Auburn,
ran away on young Lanes motorcy-
Gle and lived in a hut in the wooded
area off the Newburyport turnpike.
rear Saugus, Mass. being 're-
turned to their homes by Saugus
police officials who found them at
their love nest. The trip to st.
Louis is understood to have been
made on the motorcycle.
Z. a. Whittier of Auburn, presi-
dent of the State of Maine Asocia-
ton at st. Petersburg. Fla. has
written the Maine Publicity Bureau,
asking for cooperation in the riac-
ing of a Maine float in the carnival
there. Maine won second prize in
the carnival at st. Petersburg last
year. and Mr.. Whittier IL DESTROYS
that the Maine float shall capture
the first prize this year. Mr.. Whit
tier is planning to have this years
float represent the fish and game
interests of the state. and says that
missioner Willis E. Parsons and AJAX
that he loan stuffed animals and
mounted fish and game from the
state museum for the exhibition.
Last year the Maine exhibit which
took the second prize was made Up
to suggest the ice and snow OF
Maine winters and feature winter
sports. Mr.. Whittier feels that a
float calling attention to the fish and
game resources of the state would
serve much better to advertise
Maine.
Negotiations are being made by
three different groups Of prospective
buyers for the Falmouth hotel at
Portland. One of the groups in
terested is said to be a syndicate
connected with other hotels, but no
details 40 to the prospective pur-