Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-03

For the lads who never came home,
It will bloom and keep on blooming
On those crude graves marked
unknown"
1t performs a silent duty,
Blooming DER our honored dead;
We thank God for sending the poppy
For those heroes who fought and
Ira w. Huntington
Ashland, Maine.
Plans for the annual cruise of the
Portland Yacht Club will be discussed
at the meeting tonight. A trip to
Wtscasset to greet Lieut.. Commander
Donald B. Macmillan, when he leaves
on June 10 for his latest polar ex-
plorations, also Is being considered.
Fake officers or thugs are reported
to be stopping automobilists under
pretense of searching their cars for
liquor. If any is found they take 1t
and warn the owners OF cars about
second offense. This trick mas peen
practiced more in MASSACHUSETTS, anu
New Hampshire than in Maine. Mo-
torists have learned not to heed their
warning, however. but to put on speed
Activity in the baled pulp line at
the state Pier at Portland will be re-
sumed in full force this week. The
first foreign steamer to arrive there
with a cargo of Scandinavian pulp
will be the German steamer Goldbek.
The Goldbek sailed from Embden,
Germany on May Is and should easily
dock at the Pier this week. The Greek
steamer Milos, also steaming there
with a cargo of Scandinavian pulp, is
- days off of Shields, England, where
she took on bunker coal.
The annual meeting of the Maine
Society of Certified Public Account
ants will be held at the Moulton
House, Scarboro. the afternoon and
evening of Saturday, June 6. A golf
tournament at the Willowdale links,
dinner at the Moulton House and a
business meeting in the evening are
among the events scheduled. The
post prandial speaker will be Richard
T. whitney of the American, Appraisal
Company. His subject will be ZAP
praisals and Their Relation to the In
terests Of the Business Community"
Chester M. Foss of Portland is presi-
dent of the Maine Society Of Certified
Public Accountants.
Plans are being made for historic
pageant to be produced at Ellsworth
this summer, on Wednesday and
Thursday, July 90 and 20. The Han
cock County Fair Association Of this
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the John B. Powers Producing Com
pany for the pageant. 1t will be an
evening affair at Wyman Park, and
day program in connection with it will
include horse racing and other attrac-
lions. This will be a county affair
and depict county history. More than
500 people will take part in the pa
geant and be cast to represent the
people prominent in the history of the
county.
The State ferryboat, Governor King
at Bath, has had busy time for the
last few days. During the rush hours
the boat ran back and forth as fast as
she could load and unload without any
thought of scheduled time. This
handled the traffic in good shape until
Sunday afternoon about $50 when a
rudder chain broke or slipped Off aud
made 1t difficult to dock her on one
end. In fact for two hours while re-
pairs were going on the boat had to be
turned around on each trip as it was
impossible to handle the rudderless
side. During this time the traffc
from the east poured into the Wool
witch side and at one time there were
ITO cars in line. extending up around
the bridge way down the Wiscasset
road for nearly half mile past the
potato house. This necessitated a
wait Of nearly two hours for much
traffic, some Of which was bound to
distant points, even beyond Boston.
Highways throughout the State are
now in good condition in almost all d.
rections, says the Bath Times. At
some points work Is in progress on
them but as one travels over Maine
he cannot fail to be impressed with
the wonderfully fine highway system
which Maine Is getting, considering
the vast mileage which this State has
to build and maintain, a large part of
it being through a sparsely settled re-
gion. There is hardly a nook or corner
in the State that cannot be reached
now days over improved highways and
each year they are growing better.
Certainly tourists from other states
must appreciate the wonderful i'm
provement in Maine roads and they
are showing this appreciation by the
increased numbers of them who are
coming to Maine year after year. Ac-
cording to available information the
travel into Maine Is already heavy for
SO early in the season and indications
are that the number of tourists COM
ing here this summer will be the larg-
est on record. The Maine Develop
ment movement started by Governor
Brewster from the very day Of his in
auguration to now is already bearing
fruit.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion may hold a regional hearing at
Portland some time the latter part Of
June or early in July to consider the
effect upon Maine shippers of the in
crease in rates asked by the railroads
in Eastern Freight Association terri
tory and particularly upon the pro-
posal of the Maine Central Railroad
TO increase the arhitra ries east of