Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-26

Competitions for the State OF Maine
Athletic Trophy at the encampment
Of the 24Oth Coast Artillery in Port
land forts. July $40, will consist OF
baseball, track, boxing and military
contests.
Miss Dorothy Tuck of East Holden
who has just been awarded the de-
grees of B. S. and M. E., master OF
Education) at the graduation eXer-
cises at Boston University, was grad
utaed from Bangor High school in
1920, and Washington State Normal
school in 1922.
w. H. Gordon, postmaster at East
Franklin. landed the largest togue
that ever was caught in Tunk Pond,
the other day. 1t measured "a inches
in length, 20 inches in circumference
and weighed Is pounds. Mr.. Gordon
was excited when he found he had sc
large a fish on his line and was about
one-half hour in securing the prize.
Four of the members of the above
named expedition were Roekland stu
dents-Dr. Walter NJ. Spear, Jona-
than P. Cilley. Jr., Mervyn Ap Rice
and Fred J. Simonton, and of this
quartet DR.. Spear is now the sole
survivor. The trip was made in the
Rockland schooner Julia A. Decker
Capt. Spear, says The Rockland
Courier Gazette.
By coincidence the number Of mar
riages and the number Of deaths as
recorded at the Portland city clerks
office for May, 1925, and May, 1924
exactly correspond. This year, May
54 marriage licenses were filed, and
in May, 1924, the same number were
recorded. This May 110 persons in
the city died, and the same number
died in May in 1924. A decrease is
noted in the number of births this
May, as against May of last year
when % more were noted. The fig
ures for births in May this year read
147 as against 10 born in 1924,
Fred Emery, electrician for the A.
& X. Ry. Co., and Royal Langlan,
master mechanic, made a tour Of in
spection over the Bath line the other
day. to detect leaks that might in
terfere with radio reception. They
brought along a very sensitive appa-
ratus and tests were made in various
localities. According to these two
men, who are ardent radioists, while
some interference with radio recep-
tion may be due to the trolley COM
pany, there are other disturb
ing factors. So far as the electric
railroad is concerned, the joints along
the track for the entire distance of
the road have been properly bonded
and this coupled with new machinery
at the car barn and new blowers on
the cars, they say, has reduced radio
interference almost to minimum.
Hon. and Mrs. r. H. Baxter enter
tanned Prof. Warren Smith, Mrs
Smith and daughter of Chicago at
supper at Mere Point Sunday even
ing. Miss Smith was a classmate of
Mrs. Bruce White at Vassar. Prof
Smith graduated at Bowdoin with the
class of 1890 and was a member of
the Bowdoin Scientific Expedition
headed by the late Prof Leslie A. Lee
to Labrador in 1891. Mr.. Baxter was
also a member of this expedition. 1t
may be recalled that two members
of this expedition, Prof. Dennis Cole
of Pennington and Austin Carey of
Machias were the first white men to
discover the Grand Falls of Iabra-
dor. Prof. Smith and the late DIR.
Ernest Young of Brunswick were
originally members of the Grand
Falls party but owing to illness of DIR.
Young was obliged to bring him
down the river to Rigolette and there
await the return of the main party
who went north to Hopedale.-Bath
Times