Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-17

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mention them as candidates.
Portland plans to keep it's streets
clear of snow this winter by using the
newf snow loader, recently purchased,
during the day to load the snow into
the sleds and trucks owned by the city.
The loader will also be worked
through the night when the feet of
city trucks will be augmented by the
hiring Of number of trucks which
are in use by commercial houses in
the day time. 1t Is expected that the
snow loading machine will take care
of snow removal at rapid speed.
Describing his adventures on an 49,
600 miles journey. 5000 miles of witch
he travelled by bicycle. M. c. Plummer,
an Auburn artist, entertained an au-
dience last evening at the Chestnut
Street M. Z. church at Portland. His
trip this last summer took him to CAL
ifornia, with return by way of Pana-
ma and Havana. He prefers travel
ing by bicycle, he says, because OF
the opportunities 1t affords Cor init
mate contact with people and for ad-
ventures which would not befall a
person using swifter and more mod
ern methods of transportation.
The Pasadena Star-News Of Dec.
reports a meeting Of the Pasadena
State of Maine Association and a din
ner of New England baked beans.
brown bread, doughnuts and pie. The
meeting was in charge of representa-
II Sc, Nol In
counties. The former had the lead
with Is present, while Androscoggin
and Penobscot were represented by IL
each. Rev. w. r. Luce. formerly of
Knox county, is president of the As
ISOLATION and Ex-Governor Plaisted Is
to address them at the January meet
ing. The program chs r nan of the
December meeting. Mrs George II.
Turner, had arranged very entertain
ing one The California-Maine song,
to the air Tramp. Tramp" etc. was
sung The chorus of this is:
Grand old State that greets the sun
rise,
Famed in story and in song;
BY the far Pacific shore
Well forget thee nevermore,
AS the years Of endless summer roll
along!"
A bold attempt at robbery was frus-
trated by a Saco milkman one morn
ing last week. William Patten, milk
dealer, was driving along the streets
Of Saco at about $50 in the morning.
When he reached the residence of
Judge John p. Deering on Summer
street, tall man, wearing long
overcoat, stepped from the street and
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head. Mr.. Patten at first thought it
was someone trying to play joke on
him, but quickly saw that the man
was stranger and acted Immediate
ly. Before the man had chance to
take any action Mr.. Patten reached
under the seat and grabbed an empty
milk bottle Jumping from the seat,
he struck the man in the back of the
neck with the bottle, the blow not be-
ing hard enough to break the. bottle,
but of sufficient strength to take the
fight out of the man, who turned
quickly and ran away. Mr.. Patten
was unable to identify the man in
the dark, only being able to tell that
he was tall and had on a long over
coat of dark color. The police were
notified, but were unable to round up
any suspicious looking characters
about the city during the day.
At the chapel exercises at Bates
College Tuesday morning, Fred T.
Googins. '27, of Portland, gave a
short account of the World Court
Conference which he attended at
Princeton University Friday and
Saturday of last week. This was the
Ia e,ft 1 IL
in this country, Mr.. Googins told the
audience, there being over 200 COL
leges and universities represented,
and it was attended by delegates
from Maine to Florida and as far
West as California. After a series
of meetings which were very lively
and inspiring, and which were adj
dressed by such well-known men as
DIR. Henry Van Dyke, the final ses-
sion was held last Saturday evening,
when vote was taken 246 to in
favor of the entering of the United
States into the World Court.
At that time also discussion was
held as to whether this meeting
should be organized into a national
federation of students for the pur-
pose of expressing opinions upon ma
tional and international questions of
the day. A conflict began over the
race question that was an amazing
revelation to anyone who has not
lived in the South and seen the
Southern reaction to the negro ques-
ton. In the end, however, the Fed
GRAFTON of Students of the United
States was formed as a permanent
organization. and Bates College is
one of the federating institutions.
The late James L. Spinney, so
long head of the we'll known mill and
lumber operators of Arrowsic and
Bath, had in wonderful 'egree the
gift of estimat ting what a wood-lot or
pile of logs would yield, The Bath
Times asserts. He would saunter
through a wood-lot looking about
casually, and give an estimate which
was infallible. One day, as he was
riding along he saw man scaling a
lot of logs. Near by was a pile Of