Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-11

John Nicholas, Passamaquoddy
Indian, will be 10S years old next
June and still going strong.
The Oxford County Farm Bureau Is
much interested in forestry and in
the spring a new feature of extension
work will be tried out in the form of
a small forest nursery.
Artemus Mead of Bowdoinham took
his seventh plunge in the matrimonial
sea when he recently married Alice
Sedgley Of the same town. Miss
Sedgley is his first as we'll as seventh
seventh wife.
The Shipping Board Office at Port
land, which was to have been closed,
will be continued as a result Of
conference held Friday between Port
land representatives and President
Palmer, Maine congressman.
Here is record that will be hard
to beat. Edith A. Skillin of Portland,
15-year-old schoolgirl in the Fresh
man Az class at High School. has
not been late, absent, nor dismissed
since she started going to school.
Great enthusiasm was manifest at
the recent meeting OF the business
men in Union. when they gathered to
organize a Chamber of Commerce.
j. c. Creighton was elected President
Of the orga nizafioO
One OF the latest in band rehearsals
was staged in the window of the
Burpee Furniture Store in Rockland
last Sunday where hundreds watched
outside and got the full benefit of the
performance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ruffner. Jr.,
Of Lewiston, are the first to carry the
Maine 1925 auto plates across the
continent. They are OH their way to
Portland, Oregon, and report many
many trying experiences across, in
the line of floods, bandits, wrecks, etc.
Williams Bingham, End, has recently
purchased the Horace Andrews house
and land opposite the Gould Acad-
envy campus in Bethel, and as soon
as the buildings are moved and the
lot graded, it will be added to the
Academy property.
Mrs. Evelyn Boggs, who died Sat-
urday in Waldoboro at the age of
80 years. was the granddaughter of
Conrad Heyer who crossed the Della
ware with George Washington at the
time Of his memorable trip to the
.. Hessian camp.
DR.. Clarence c. Little, president Of
the University Of Maine, and Robert
p. Clark, of the University. will be
the principal speakers at the annual
meeting of the Western Maine
| Alumni Association, to be held next
Tuesday at the Elks Club in Port
land.
Workmen employed in the new
plant of the New Engla nd Cement and
Lime Co., made what is regarded as
, record in cement work the other day
when a quarter of a yard of cement
was poured every minute for "a con-
, secutive hours, the thermometer reg
| istered 10 degrees below all the time
during the work.
VIII II. Mcdonald, the manager of
the Portland branch Of the Baker Ex-
tract Company, who died recently,
was former well-known hotel man,
being associated with several Port
land hotels and was at one time man.
ager of the Stoddard House in Farm
ington for 10 years,
Rev. d. B. Holt was rendered
reception and banquet by the ladies
OF the Norway church last Tuesday
evening, expressing the regret of the
church people in the retirement of
Mr.. Holt, who has for the past ten
years been District Superintendent of
the Methodist churches in this dis
trict. Mr.. Holt was presented with a
beautiful travelling bag.
Plans for the Winter Carnival to be
held in Portland on Iincoln's birth
day, have been completed and it
promises to be one of the most bril-
llant affairs of the wintey season. The
oaks have been converted into a verb
table fairyland for the evening pa