Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-19

One OF the community houses at
Sunset Park in Bath has been leased
by Carl Seiders Of South Portland
for the manufacture of birds and
flowers from pine cones and he eX-
poets to employ Is or 20 persons.
Associate Justice Norman L. Bas-
sett of Augusta, will pay his first
official visit to Belfast since his ap-
pointment, next Tuesday, when the
September term of the Waldo County
Supreme Judicial court will convene.
The Boston and Maine Railroad
announces that effective Sept. 81. at
1901 a. M, the termination of day.
light saving, its trains will be sched-
uled one hour later. New time
tables, incorporating the Fall
changes, will be ready for distribu-
ton on Friday, Sept. 25.
PASSPORT was a noisy place when
the news of Mondays referendum
vote son the Cooper Quoddy tidal
project bill reached there and it
was known that the great majority
of the Maine voters are in favor of
the development. Church bells were
rung, June horns and bells were
used by auto riders, and for a short
period there was little sleep in the
four wards when the noise makers
appeared.
At the regular meeting of the An
droscoggin Valley Medical Associa
ton held in the Dewitt hotel at
Lewiston it. was announced that the
State Medical meeting which is to
be held sometime in the spring, will
be entertained in Lewiston. A COM
mittee consisting of Doctors, Ralph
Goodwin, John Sturgis and l.. ]. Du-
mont was appointed as a committee
to make arrangements for the con-
vention. s
Samuel Lord of Salem, Mass, has
been engaged as secretary of the
Rockland Chamber of Commerce,
and will enter upon his new duties
Oct. 1st. Mr.. Lord served two years
as assistant secretary of the Salem
Chamber of Commerce, and gained a
valuable insight into the work. This
he has supplemented by attendance
at a secretarial school in Evanston,
Ill. He comes highly recommended
by the Salem, Worcester and Bos-
ton Chambers. Mr.. Lord was in
Rockland recently and made a very
favorable impression upon those who
met him.
The Bangor police were advised on
Wednesday by the Portland police
that it was believed there that some
colored men who have, been cashing
counterfeit Pullman pay checks there
We're on the way to Bangor. 1t was
stated that in Portland a colored
man of good appearance. dressed in
regular Pullman porter uniform
presented pay checks at five business
establishments, obtaining $195. Some
pay check blanks had been printed
to initiate the regular Pullman
checks and these were accepted
without question, the man being in
porter's uniform. People in Ban
gor and vicinity are cautioned about
cashing Pullman pay checks until
their validity is established.
Fred F. Lawrence of Portland
former State bank commissioner
Mrs. Florence A. Stevens of Port
land, city councillor, William S. Lin
nell of Portland, member of the
Governors Council and Ernest A.
Hale Of Boston, one of the vice
presidents of the United States
League of Local Loan and Building
Associations, will be among the
speakers at the annual convention of
the Maine League of Local Loan and
Building Associations which will
be held Saturday, Sept. 26, at Port
land. 1t is also expected that Rev.
John Nichol Mark of Fall River will
address the convention and that an
other important speaker will be
Thomas A. Saunders of the Federal
Loan and Building Association, who
will report on the National conven-
ton which was held at Kansas City
last June. H. o. Gurdy of Rockland,
president of the Maine League, will
be an important figure at the meet
ing, presiding over the convention at
both the business meeting and the
speaking program. The primary
purpose of the convention this year
is to disseminate information con-
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tons.
In the rear of the Maine motor
cade next Monday from Portland to
the Eastern States Exposition at
Springfield, Mass, will be a number
of floats with banners and devices
proclaiming the industrial, agricul-
tural and recreational advantages of
their respective sections of the state,
Bath and Woolwich will send float
with a story about the Kennebec
bridge. The Lewiston and Auburn
float will illustrate the industrial i'm
portance of those sister cities. York
County's textile and shoe industries
will be advertised in a float that is
being decorated at the Cummings
shoe factory at South Berwick and
will join the procession either in
Portland or at Wells. Rumford citi-
zens will bring along a float with
banners that tell of the marvellous
growth of industry from the Rum
ford Falls development. From Range
ley Lakes will come a motor vehicle
bearing descriptive matter about that
attractive regime. Adjt. Gen. James
W. Hanson of the Maine National
Guard and Col. Charles E. Dustin
Governor Brewster's private secre-
tary, and member of his official staff,
VIII occupy a car in lead of the, pro-
cession from Portland. Mrs. Han
son and Mrs, Dustin will accompany
them. The telephone in the State
chamber of Commerce Office, Port