Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-07-02

TO appear Wttnln the legal umltS OF
the highway, which are not always
merely the travelled road but the full
width of the road as may have been
laid out by engineers. Thus does this
form OF advertising pass and no more
will guide posts be so covered with
advertising that tourists cannot read
the directions without stopping. and
no more will the scenery be marred
by these signs.-Bath Times.
A goodly number Of Maine people
will be among the passengers on the
giant United States Lines steamer,
Leviathan when It steams out Of New
York Harbor on July I, bound for Eu-
rope. Miss Mira L. Dolley and Miss
Ester N. Perkins, both Deering High
school teachers, Portland, are to tour
England and Scotland. Rev, Henrick
Plambeck, If the Danish Lutheran
church at Portland, will visit his
homo in Denmark. Mrs. Anna Thor
sager of Denmark, 80 year old parent
of Mrs. Andrew Mill Of Portland is
returning to her home after q visit in
Maine extending over a year. Robert
C. Hamlet and Charles Whitcomb, In
structors at the University of Maine,
are visiting England and France for
purposes of study. Miss Marion CO.
nant and Miss Doris Grant, teachers
at Millinocket, will tour England and
Scotland for pleasure and study.
The petitions calling for q refersn-
dunn on the Anti Daylight Saving Act
passed by the last Legislature, will
be filed at the office Of the Secretary
OF State about July 8. At least
1915 names have been certified and
1t is believed that the total number
will be in the vicinity of $4,000 when
the final count il made. Petitions from
Augusta and Bangor have not yet
been received by the committee in
charge of the campaign. 1t is said
that there are about 1000 names on
the petition from augusta and several
hundred names on the Bangor petit
ton. In order to get this total number
Of names about 10000 signatures had
to be obtained, the loss being due to
wrong addresses and to the fact that
the correct voting name was not
signed. The Portland Evening Ex-
press asserts that there IL no means
of knowing whether Governor Brew
ster will call a special election to
consider the referendum, and II he
does 1t will not be held later than the
middle of November. The item of ex-
pense will be presented to the Gov
ernor as reason for not calling one
and for allowing the referendum TO
go over until the next general cleo
ton to be in September of next year.
j. M. Pratt, Bath is the owner of an
s0-page pamphlet printed by Thomas
Todd & Co.. of Portland. in 1921. It
is called "An Act to Organize, Govern
and Discipline the Militia of the State
of Maine" AS this act was passed by
the Maine Legislature in 1891, one
year after Maine became state, 1t Is
of particular interest. One of the
sections of the act imposes fines for
members Of the militia who fail to
appear at inspection without proper
equipment, Below is printed a por-
ton of the section pertaining to this
matter:
"If deficient of a good musket,
bright and in good order, of bore
sufficient for balls of the eighteenth
part of a pound, sufficient bayonet
and belt and an iron or steel ramrod;
all Of which articles are to be con-
sidered as one, and deficiency in
either shall be considered as def
cheney of the whole, he shall forfeit
one dollar. If deficient of a cart
ridge box, containing "a cartridges
suited to the bore of his musket, and
each cartridge containing a proper
quantity of good powder and ball. or
II deficient Of a serviceable knapsack
he shall forfeit sixty cents; IL defici-
ent OF two spare fiints, and printing
Wire and brush, or either of them, he
shall forfeit forty cents"