Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-21

Kinder scatters shadows some,
Just to make us mortals thanK1ul
When we see the sunshine come.
oh, the world looked pretty happy.
I felt better--that's a fact:
And wished all folks &c, .Gop Sdc Morning
And, somehow, Thanksgiving COMM
Cprec'ate blessing? Guess I dob
Yet I'm thankfuPst for neighpor,
Just to say Good Morning 10.
Grace IL. Parmenter.
About all kinds of game animals,
including bears and bobcats, have
got in front of automobiles and in
sisted upon getting hit and killed in
Maine this fall, but we haven't
heard of any partridges winch per-
sist in pecking the hunters anKies
after they have been warned OF,
The Oxford Democrat comments.
Maine Is soon to experience a DIG
real estate boom. 1t will not, per-
haps, reach the proportions thaI
have come about in Florida. but for
all of that there is to be DOOM III
Maine real estate. This is the
opinion of many who are Watching
the Maine development program.
The publicity which is being gwen
the state is bound to bring ADDED
thousands of vacationists here. Some
of them will become permanent resi-
dents. others will buy or bulld
Summer homes.-Bath Times.
President Kenneth c. M. Sills OF
Bowdoin College speaking at st.
Philips Church at Wiscasset. took Tor
his subject the church and the school
and laid great stress on the 1acl tndI
an education entirely along literary
or scientific lines, no matter now
thorough it might be was not a com
plete education. The only iuliS
educated man or woman is one
whose moral as we'll as mental nature
is fully developed. lie declared thdc
an education is not simply process
of learning how to make a living but
that 1t is learning how to live, a
part of life itself.
Six warnings on the fire alarm at
intervals Of two hours will be the
official method of urging Portland
voters to go to the polls Dec.
What is known as the double
three" will be struck by the fire de-
partment at $50 a. m. and every TWO
hours thereafter during the day up
heated warnings to citizens that
Councillor. school committeeman and
ward officers are being elected, and
that they should ballot on daylight
saving time and what is known as
the Grade A Milk bill. The city
council. by a vote of to /, has
authorized this unique plan.
In a letter recently written to the
editor of the Lincoln County News,
Miss Elizabeth Reed Of New York
enclosed some interesting clippings
she copied from the Lincoln lntell-
gencer, printed in Wiscasset April
9, 1924. Miss Reed copied these
items from an original copy OIL tne
Intelligencer in the British Museum
London. Miss Reed writes that she
found research work at the Museum
difficult as it was necessary to be so
fully armed and equipped with
credentials to gain entrance.
Miss Reed suggests that the old
Block House at Edgecomb would
make a splendid Historical Museum.
/ About 60 delegates are expected TO
attend the state convention of Y. M.
C. A. secretaries and committee men
which Is to be held In the Auburn
Y today. Bangor is sending 10,
Portland IL, Augusta 8. Camden, 8
and Bar Harbor 2. About 20 are ex-
pected to represent the Auburn
with representatives also being
present from the railroad Us at
and from the associations at Bath
and Greenville. The outstanding
feature of the program will be the
big banquet in the evening at which
time a number of well known speak
ers from various parts of the United
States will be present. The principal
speaker is Waldo II. Heinrichs, ma
tive of India and hero Of the World
War. His talk will deal with cur
rent Y. M. c. A. issues in India.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution Thirty fourth Continental
Congress voted last April to erect in
Washington q new auditorium, cost
ing S1,S25,000, and dedicated to the
progress Of American Ideals. This
new auditorium Is to occupy the
Administration Building. The Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution in
Maine, 2,162 in number, are working
to do their share in the erection Of
this new auditorium. Mrs. Spauld-
ing s, Bisbee, member of the
Elizabeth Wadsworth chapter, Port
land, has given the Box for the State
of Maine, in memory of her mother,
the late Mrs. A. S. Kinds. who be-
longed to the Elizabeth Wadsworth
Chapter many years ago. Mrs. Bis
bees generosity has meant much to
the state, as $1,000 is a large sum
to be raised by the Maine Daughters,
together with all the other obliga-
lions required. Every chapter heard
from so far has pledged a chair,
costing $3.50. and the larger chapters,
Augusta, Lewiston and Portland,
have from four to six chairs each.
Daniel C. Stanwood, professor of
international law at Bowdoin college
told members Of the Y. w. CA.
legislative course at Lewiston
Thursday evening that in his opinion
America would enter the world court
this winter. at is greater source
of strength by far than any army
and navy in the world said Prof.
Stanwood in closing. This meeting
was the last Of series of five
lectures. Prof. Stanwood in his talk
on the world court told of its power
to settle affairs between countries.
He said that America always a
leading nation and praised Elihu
Root for his efforts to organize a
world court, from his Hague Court
NIL
court is made up Of IL permanent
Judges with no two from ono natinn