Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-18
quiet hour will be in charge of Ed
ward Taylor Sultan of Newton
Center, Mass.

Bath is not the only city in this
section which is feeling the partial
cessation of industrial activities this
Winter, says The Bath Times.
Lewiston people are complaining of
conditions there and hoping that
there will be an Improvement in the
Spring. over in Biddeford more
men have been laid off at the Saco-
Lowell shops, in some cases the lay
of being too 4 week and in others
Until the first of next month. There
are like reports coming from some
ether sections of Maine.
A valued possession Of Mrs. Seth
May Carter of Auburn is a blue
plate, concentrating the American
independence Of 1875, used at the
first celebration of the Landing of
the Pilgrims, by the Sons and
Daughters. of Plymouth, when Daniel
Webster delivered the Grafton of
the day. The design; shows the
historic vessels, Mayhower, the Ply
mouth Rock itself, the Pilgrims and
the Indians. This souvenir OF New
England has been appropriately
framed, and is much admired.
Edwin W. Palmer of South Port
land was elected president Of the
New England States Veteran Fire
mems League at the annual meet
in.5, which was held in Boston
Wednesday, Mr.. Palmer, George a.
Dow. George Plat and Duncan
c. Macdonald attended from the
Association
among the 100 delegates and
guests who were seated at the din
ner in the Old Franklin School Mr..
Platt was elected one of the vice
presidents.
A revised schedule for the Eniver-
. sity of Maine debating team. con-
tains several changes. The next will
; be Feb. IA, when a triangular meet
will be held Maine will debate
Rhode island at Kingston and New
Hampshire will come here. Maine
will debate with New York City Col
lege Feb. Is in New York. with
clark University at Worcester the
next night and with Massachusetts
Agricultural College at Amherst on
Feb. IS. Debates are pending with
Boston University on Feb. 10 at Bos-
ton and with University of Vermont
at Burlington at a time to be select
ed.
A fight between a fox and a Wild
cat, is described by two young
hunters of Lubec. James Cook and
John Porter, who were eye witnesses
to the encounter last Saturday,
-. g tInR
on a camping and hunting trip
The two young men had killed sew
eral rabbits in the morning, and had
left carcasses a short distance from
the camp. Coming back in the after
noon. their attention was attracted
by the sounds of scuff1e and peer
ing cautiously around a clump OF
| trees they saw a wildcat in a des-
perate conflict with a fox, the two
being nearly Of the same size, with
the odds slightly in favor of the
bobcat. AS the wildcat caught the
scent of the boys he paused for the
fraction of a second, and the fox
shaking himself free. limped hastily
into the underbrush while the cat
glared at the newcomers. who were
armed with only light shotguns, and
had but one cartridge between them.
MOI Gal Ing TO TlSk WOunOlnS tHe
animal. they watched it until it turn
ed, licking its jaws. and disappeared
in the woods. The bows packed up
their outfit and came home, report
ing both rabbits, which may now be
killed. and partridge. now protected
by law. as being very plentiful.
Not many people. even among the
whites, pass the century mark. but
there is an Indian of the Passama-
,<qnoddy tribe who claims that he
was born in 1922 and next June will
celebrate his 102nd birthday. He is
known to many Eastporters as he
has been a yearly visitor since a boy
and had been married in PASSPORT
65 years ago by Rev. FIR. Durney.
who was in charge of the Catholic
parish there. as also at the reserva-
ton five miles away. John Nicholas
; is the oldest Indian of the Passama-
qUoddies without question. He says