Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-18

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have considerable speed and the Try
outs have been watched with grea
deaI of interest. There is muci
betting" on the coming free Tor al
ace much interest is being mani
tested in Jackson Grafton, the Houl
ton horse. One admirer has wrltteI
the following verses in honor ol M
driver as we'll as the horse, entltle'
1.-THE Winning Race:
Ralph Burrill as driver
Has won fame from East TO west
Whenever he took the reins in hanc
| Good bye to all the rest.
But somehow Jackson Grafton
Is a balky sort of hoss,
He will not start and thereby
! Has met with many a loss.
But on August Twenty-seventh
When Jackson appears on his nome
| track
Just watch him go! Just watch him
go!!
Jackson Grafton will come back.
Boy Scouts of Auburn and Lewis
ton yesterday met the Boy Scouts o.
Panama who are camping at Taylor
Pond. and last evening the young.
stcrs attended the movie theater anc
move ball at Lake Grove.
TIE site of the old muster field al
Boothbay Harbor where Paul Rever,
drilled troops during the Revolution.
arv war is to be provided with q
marker by the Boothbay Harbol
Historical society, action to that ef'
feet having been taken at meetinE
of the society at the board OF trade
rooms.
Dexter P Cooper. Eastport engi.
neer who is busily engaged in telling
Maine people of the merits of the
Quoddy tide-power project on whicf
referendum election will be held or
Sept IA of this year, will be one Of
the speakers at a special meeting o.
the Camden board of trade tonight
There will also be an address regard
ing the kennebec bridge project.
Robert D. Watts, formerly of Port.
land, graduate of Bates College. .:
and Yale law school '25, has been ap.
pointed by Emory r. Buckner as one
of the IS assistants in the United
States attorneys Office in the south
ern district of New York. Mr.. Watt;
was captain of the first American
college debating team to debate Will
oxford.
In connection with Kittery's Ole
Home Week celebration this week
it is an interesting fact that the pres
ent town of Kittery comprises par,
of a grant of territory given Angus
10, 1922. to Sir Ferdinando Gorge:
and Captain John Mason by tht
Council of Plymouth, England. The
town was incorporated in 1649. j
was at Kittery that the sloop of wal
Ranger. the first American navy ves-
sci, was built.
Poland spring water Is popular
drink on the arctic exploration, as 4:
noted from the following radio mes.
sage sent by DIR. Macmillan to Hiram
Kicker of Poland Spring
No. S163 Received Q a. m. Cedar
Rapids from S. S. Bowdoin, Etah
Greenland. Aug. 16. Drinking Pc.
land Spring Water here at Latitude
IS and 20 minutes north. We have
reflled one bottle for you with glac.
ier water 10000 years Old
(signed) Macmillan.
Olof Nylander, naturalist, who has
been making explorations in the For-
Fairfield swamp, where thousands o!
tons of pure mari lime, essential K
Aroostook farms. have been found
will have some of the stuff on eXhibi
at the Caribou Fair the coming week
and will be glad to make any expla
nations or answer any questions re
Sarding it. Mr.. Nylander said thai
it is fully 30 per cent pure lime and
that the dross can easily be separat-
ed.
The Patten correspondent of the
Bangor Commercial suggests in view
of the growing popularity of Sh.r
Pond that the pond is deserving of =
more euphonious name. Howard
Wood, who owns one of the most at
tractive camps, suggests the name OF
Abenaki Lake-a very appropriat,
name inasmuch as the pond is or
the Penobscot waters and the Abe
nakis were an early Penobscot tribe
of Indians. Mr.. Harvey who run:
the Shin Pond House. has the pos
office departments promise to have
the name changed if the idea meets
with approval.
Thomaston has made all its prepa
n fnr lA
Fair on Wednesday and Thursday o1
this week, and is now hoping TO,
good weather. Governor Brewste,
has accepted an invitation to attenf
the Fair on Thursday morning anc
review the Boom Maine parade
There will also be street parade or
the opening day in line with this
years theme, Boom Maine" The
children will have a parade all theil
own on each of the two afternoons
of the fair. A home made midwa,
Will be ready for business all the
afternoon and evening.
Lodges of instruction in the I'm
written work and lectures of the va .
rious Masonic degrees at which off
GERS of the various Blue lodges in
Maine and District Deputy Grand
masters will attend, are announced
by Samuel B. Furbush, grand lectur-
ef. 1t Is planned to hold the first lodge
OF instruction at Old Town Monday
Aug. II at I o'clock, and similar
schools have been arranged for the
Following places: Fort Fairfield
Wednesday. Sept. .; Saco. Thursday
Oct. %; Camden. Friday, Oct 80
similar schools of instruction in the
ritual and floor work of chapters are
also to be held at the following
points: Pittsield. Thursday, Aug. -;
island Falls. Friday, Sept. 4; Gard
lner, Wednesday, Nov. 4. All Mas
ter Mason and Royal Arch Masons
in Maine have been invited 10 at