Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-29
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To ston a noisy conference of crows.
The eyes Of him. deep-set in wrinkled
Are lighted from such innocence
That ali the pureness of his nature
And when. at feeding time. the yard
Each other in a wild and reckless race
To where he stands and calls, and
ducks and geese
And hens and cockerels, are told to
Their greedy clatter. in his Gaelic
I hear St: Francis preaching to the
Charles Dalmon in The London Mer-
curry.
Richard Mathews Hallett, grand
son of Bath and well known fiction
writer has been elected president Of
the board of trustees of the Booth
hay Harbor Library association.
Ernest Williams of West Bath re-
ported that there were hundreds Of
ducks in the upper waters of Win
negance creek Thursday morning,
the birds having taken refuge there
from the wind which was prevailing.
A petition has been circulated in
the Paramount Park section of Ban
COR expressing objection to the
granting of a permit for the build
ing of a dye house on Hammond
Street by the Hillside Dye House
Company.
Fred Adams, a former Castine
man now living in Boston, has one
of five existing $50 bills issued by
the United States under the date of
1879. A Bath man has Pine Tree
shilling issued by the Colony Of
Massachusetts Bay in 1852. 1t is q
silver coin, thin, and in a good state
of preservation. Many school chill
dren of years ago will recall seeing
pictures Of this old coin in their
histories.
Frank G. Harrington Of Augusta,
candidate for the Republican nomin-
alton for governor in the June pri-
maries, was a visitor in the two cit
les today, said The Biddeford Jour-
nal of Thursday. He called upon
leading Republicans of the city and
Saco while here. He expressed him.
self as we'll pleased with the out
look in this section of the state and
with the receptions accorded him by
leading members of the party in
York and Cumberland counties.
A eongratula tory message was
received at Portland Thursday from
former Mayor Thomas N. Hart OF
Boston by his cousin. Mrs. Julia M.
Norton Deland, Names oldest citi-
zen, who Wednesday started out on
her 1O4th year. Mrs. Deland recalls
almost a century of Names history,
having a remarkable memory for
dates and events. In spite Of her
age, she can see to knit for hours
at time and apparently is yet in
sound health.
Col. Edgar Allen Fry, command
ing officer of the Fifth U. S. In
fantry, now stationed in Portland
Harbor, who is making a tour of all
the recruiting stations in the Maine
district, was a visitor at the Bangor
army recruiting station Thursday.
Col. Fry said that the 5th Infantry
would leave for Camp Devens, June
], with about LOO men and would
like to have another 100 men from
Maine Eefore they leave. He said
that the regiment already had a
large number of Maine boys in the
ranks and that they were some Of
the best men in the regiment.
An announcement had been made
that q Republican caucus would be
held at the armory in Eastport. The
voters gathered only to find that
the keys of the building were
not forthcoming. The evening was
reasonably warm and a convenient
street light shed enough illumina-
ton so the first open air CAUCUS
known in this city was held. Fred
7. Eldridge of the Republican city
committee called the meeting to
order and was elected chairman.
Daniel Galen was elected secretary.
William E. Buck was the, only
candidate and was unanimously
nominated to run as alderman for
Ward Three.
Two men toiled YEARLY at de-
molishing an old block on Main
street in Biddeford, their threats
parched by the dust arising from
theireefforts. Bricks fell away from
a secret chamber in the wall, and
within reposed two ancient appear
ing jugs that bore some sort of
liquid and the smell of alcohol. The
workmen thought naturally of home
brew, but swallows verified the jug
markings, which affirmed that the
liquor was New England rum, made
70 years ago. There were two gall
Ions in the lot. Stories are told of
men working on the cellar of an
old house in one of Baths suburbs
finding a jug of similar liquor in a
carefully concealed hide where it
had been safe for many decades.
Fish Warden Thomas E. Sullivan
thinks this is to be a fine year for
salmon on the Penobscot, as a good
and early run of the big pink and
silver fishes generally follows a mild
winter, and then. the fine new fish
way In Bangor dam, one of the best
anywhere, will help, afrording an
easy passage from the tidewater to
the river above and the spawning
grounds. Last year was disappoint-
ing for the fly fishermen at the
Bangor pool. for there had been a
/, hard winter, and, following the
damage by flood, there was a big
gap in the dam, which allowed the
salmon to pass through without
hesitating long. 1t was late in June
when this gap was closed, and then
tne run of fish was about over,
salmon were plentiful however, at
various points along the river late
In the season, and the hook :
line fishermen made catches right
up to the law limit SAINT LIZ ALL