Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-09


perty. The samples he has had pol
ished show a quality that matches
the famous Vermont granite. Sixty
tons have been taken out to date and
he is planning to haul this over the
ice of the lake as soon as it is safe
to do so. He will work the new
quarry as needed.
c. J. Russell of Lewiston. has as
sumed the general managership of
the Park and Bijou theatres at Ban
gor. these two theatres having been
sold to a new corporation. the Park
Amusement company by the Bangor
| theatre company of which Charles
Stern has been manaser. Mr.. Stern
| is going to New York to live. With
| Mr. Russell in the new enterprise are
| McPhee and Fernandez of Oldtown.
| who have>been operating the Strand
| and Central theatres in Oldtown. The
| McPhee and Fernandez company
consists of Orman, B. Fernandez of
Bangor and William e. McPhee OF
| Oldtown.
Valuable for their beauty as we'll as
for their historical interest, the solid
silver porringer and spoon owned by
the Reed family Of Bowdoinham are
| counted the most treasured heirlooms
| handed down to the younger genera
| ton. The porringer is five inches ac-
| cross and is marked James Bowdoin
| Reed" The porringer and spoon were
| given to Thomas BoWdoin Reed by
| Governor James Bowdoin of Massa =
! Chusetts, on account of the name.
| Then his son, James Bowdoin Read,
| or Reed. as 1T is spelled now, "in-
heritcd" the heirlooms. Now they are
| in the possession of Mrs. Margie
Reed Henderson, daughter Of James
| Bowdoin Reed. James Bowdoin lived
from 1927 to 1890. He was an Ameri-
can patriot and was governor of
Massachusetts from 1885 to 1856. He
| is known as the man who suppressed
Shays Rebellion.
"The Mould" by Grace Kellogg
Griffith, one Of the popular books of
the season, has special interest for
! Bangor readers as the authoress is n
native of Bangor, having been born
in that city while her father, Charles
c. kellogg, was a student in Bangor
/ Theological Seminary. By an inter-
esting coincidence the printers proof
of Mrs. Grifliths manuscript was re-
ceived by her in Bangor while she
was in the city for the first time since
/ infancy making a brief visit while
| on n motor trip with her husband
: and children. The Mould" is a
story of uncommon interest. In It a
girl is transformed into a selfish
seeker OF pleasures by the environ
ment of fashionable school and q
group of idle rich in a ereat city. The
death Of her father brings her almost
/ to poverty. and the struggle for eXis-
! tence is the mould from which she
| energies restored to her true Charac-
| ter.
Few Acres" at Pennington, once
! the home of Jacob Abbott, author
p educator. and father ot-four eminent
| sons, is to be restored to its original
! condition as nearly as possible. II
! has been purchased bv Mrs. George
| Dudley Church of Worcester, Mass,
and the work of restoration has al
ready begun. Mrs. Church is the
| wife of a former headmaster of Abb
| bott School, which was one of the
| institutions Jacob Abbott founded.
| DIR. Abbott wrote over 900 books
| among them the Rollo books for boys
| and the Lucy books for girls. Feel
| ing the need of more advanced
schools for young people, he founded
! first the Mount Vernon school in
| Boston in 1929, and was principal I'M
til 1888. He and his brother, Samuel
Phillips Abbott, Instituted Little
| Blue" in 1914. His sons were DR..
Lyman Abbott. Edward Abbott, a
writer and clergyman. John stevens
! Cabot Abbott, also writer. Samuel
| Phillips Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan
| Abbott and Austin Abbott.
| Dean James s. Stevens OF the COL
Iege Of Arts and Sciences of the Uni
versity of Maine favors the Com
mercial with a set of records OF the
| average temperature for the month
! of December which run back to 1869
1t will be noted that only twice has
the temperature surpassed that OF
the year just passed. the exceptions
being in 1881 and 1891. The records
! ey;x No +ar I'm follow