Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03

And yet he smiles so wistfully
Once he has crept Within
I wonder if he hopes to see
The man I might have been.
Thomas S. Jones in Boston Tran
script.
The Executive Council, Tuesday,
approved Governor Brewster's APP
pointment of James c. Boyd of Fall
mouth as a member of the New
England Fuel committee.
Fred c. Foster Of Lisbon Falls,
State special motorcycle patrolman,
who was instantly killed at Belfast
in a motorcycle accident Sunday
night, was in Bath several years. He
was a riveter at The Texas Steam
ship Co., and with his brother man
aged a shoe-store.
The York county farm bureau and
|. the business men of Sanford are
making elaborate plans for the fruit
show to be held at Sanford, Thurs
day and Friday, Oct. 20 and 80. They
state that $400 in premiums will be
offered, which will assure interest on
the part of fruit growers all over
York county.
Heads of the various departments
at the Maine State Fair at Lewiston
are busy this week completing ar
rangements for the opening Of the
annual exhibition next Monday. AL
ready some of the exhibitors are
beginning to arrive on the grounds.
1t is predicted that with favorable
weather conditions the fair will be
the biggest in the history of the as
ISOLATION.
A special communication of the
Grand Lodge Of Maine, f. & A. NJ,
will be held at Searsmont. Saturday.
Sept. S, at p. NJ, for the purpose
of dedicating the new hall of
Quantabacook Lodge, No. 129, just
completed in that town. The cere-
mony will be performed by w. NJ.
Davis E. Moulton, Grand Master,
who desires the assistance of every
Grand Officer who may find it pos
sible to attend.
October ~ has been set as the
date of the debate between the Bates
varsity debaters and Oxford Uni
versity. The debate will be held in
Lewiston city hall, and will be the
fifth contest between these two in
situations. Bates team Of under
graduates will meet a team COM
posed of graduates Of Oxford Uni
versity, and Bates is the only coll
lege in Northern New England in
cluded in the Oxford itinerary.
A note given by a Rockland man
to a local grocery concern for a
grocery bill of more than $50 and
contested by his attorney, when civil
suit was brought for payment, on the
ground that more than half the bill
was for vanilla purchased for use in
violation of the prohibition law. was
declared illegal Tuesday by de-
cision rendered in the RocklAnd
municipal court. The court gave
judgment for the defendant. The
case, according to attorneys, is rare
one of its kind.
1t is interesting to note what care
the State Department of Health has
taken this season to see that camp
ing places used by tourists coming
to Maine are kept in a sanitary con-
dition and that no water is used
which might bring about disease,
says The Bath Times. State super
vision over these camps is a great
thing and the tourist can come into
this state with the knowledge that
his health is being protected as well
as his safety on the highways.
Maine is bound to stand for good
health and in this is entitled to all
of the assistance that it's people can
render.
The Eastern States Exposition at
Springfield, Mass. boasts of one of
the best horse shows in the country,
this being feature Of each evening.
Maine folks who will join the auto
mobile cavalcade from Portland to
Springfield on Monday, Sept. 81, will
arrive on the Exposition grounds in
time to take in the horse show that
evening. The Exposition will open
at noon Sunday, Sept. 20. and a
musicale in the big coliseum and
reception for the governors will con-
stitute the program for that day.
The following day will be Governors
Day, and at IL A. NJ. Tuesday,
Sept %. the new State of Maine
building will be formally dedicated.
A Saco woman complained to
Chief of Police Robbins. Saturday
afternoon, that one of the men SELL
ing reserved seat tickets at the
Walter l.. Mains show. which play
ed at Biddeford Saturday, had trim
med her out of $40. Chief Robbins
went to the show and threatened to
lock the man up if he did not give
back the money. The man pro-
duced the $40 and was not put under
arrest. There were several reports
of people getting trimmed at the
ticket wagon. Those who found out
that they had been trimmed and put
up holler were given their money
back. The police are inclined to be-
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