Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-02

An fare thee weel, my only love,
An fare thee weel a while;
An I will come again, my love,
Though 1t were ten-thousand mile.
By Robert Burns.
For the purpose of purchasing a
pumping engine for the volunteer ire
department at York Beach, a nre-
mems ball was held in the town last
Monday evening and a substantial
sum was realized.
County commissioners or Sasaua
hoe will have meeting at Popham
Reach next Saturday forenoon to
hear the petitioners who want the
town of Phippsburg to lay out ROAD
around the Beach at that popular
resort.
Bangor members of the 303rd reg
iment of Field Artillery are prepar-
ing for the third of their biennial
reunions, which will be held next
Saturday and Monday at Camp Dew
ems, Mass. Among the Bangor mem
bers already on the list of those that
are planning to attend are FRANK
McKenney, Roy Hudson, Wllliam
Cox, Orrin Berry, Henry Elliott
Stafford Duncan and Peter Ahearn.
At a meeting of the Old Orchard
experimenting school committee the
resignation of Henry F. Worcester
was received. Mr.. Worcester, 1t is
understood, is a candidate for the
office of vice commander OF the
American Legion department OF
Maine, in September at the annual
convention. The rules of the legion
prohibit a candidate for any ONCE
holding any political office.
The field day of the Maine Pomo-
logical society held at the orchards
of A. l.. Blaisdell at Winterport the
other day was attended by a large
number of enthusiastic orchardists
from Maine and Massachusetts,, also
from the great apple section of Nova
Scotia, the Annapolis Valley. The
| beautiful fruit on the Blaisdell farm,
the results of excellent care and sci
entific methods of spraying was
greatly admired by all present. .
Very Reverend Edmund r. Lame,
Jr., dean of the Cathedral of ST.
Luke. Portland. will leave on Tues
| day to be absent from the parish un-
til the firstso November. During the
month of September he will be in
charge of ST. Martins Church in
Providence, r. l., during the absence
abroad of the Rev. Arthur L. Wash
burn; and throughout the month of
October will be in attendance at the
General Convention in New Orleans
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cese of Maine.
The big basking shark caught off
Monhegan a week ago and towed in
to Boothbay Harbor was brought to
Bath Monday and is on exhibition
on scow at the end of Mulligan's
wharf. The monster is about 80 feet
long, weighs upwards of eight tons
and for several days was unclassi-l
fed. 1t is said to be only the third
specimen ever seen off the Maine
coast although its habitat is the
North Atlantic in the summer sea-
son., In spite of its size and the fact
that it lashes the sea with its tail
when aroused, it is said to be harm
less.-Bath Times.
Why not tow the sea monster up
the Kennebec to Augusta, with spe-
cial exhibitions en- route?
Representative, Thomas f. Lamson
of South Portland has announced his
candidacy in the Republican primar-
| les of next June for nomination as
one of the State Senators from Cum
| berland county. He will make his
| campaign principally upon the issues
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entire state and the replacing of the
| three-man Sea and Shore Fisheries
Commission by a single commission
er. He was a strong champion of
nine-inch lobster law for York and
4, Cumberland counties and also of the
one-man Sea and Shore Fisheries
| Commission during his two terms in
1 the House. He was House chairman
of the Sea and Shore Fisheries COM
mittee of the last Legislature.
The State Highway Commission
has purchased the property at Fer
ry street, Bath, occupied for several
years by Eugene Pinkham for a res
/ taurant, and will take possession on
Sept. 8. At that time the building
will be altered for general resident
offices and waiting room for the
Bath State ferry. Edmund P. Briggs,
recently appointed resident manager
of the Ferry, has been devoting all
| his time to the work since his APP
pointment effective Aug. %, and Is
| receiving the hearty cooperation of
Capt. Charles w. Dingley, temporary
| superintendent, and the other cap
tains and crews. Manager Briggs in
tends that the public shall be given
the best service possible.
| A forest fire in the woods about
mile and half south Of Ogunquit,
believed to have been started by ber-
ry pickers, gave the fire departments
| from York Beach, York Harbor and
| Ogunquit hard fight Sunday after
noon and evening. The fire started
| about noon and spread rapidly. Many
volunteers Joined the firemen to help
/ check the blaze. Property owned by
Joel Perkins, Wendell Phillips. Cd
ward Tapley and George Tho. J8un
was burned over. On account of the
| dense growth the work of the fire
| fighters was very difficult. The crews
| had hard fight Sunday evening to
keep the fire from jumping the Jo-
siah river, which is about one mile
from Ogunquit.
Six timber estimating demonstra-
| tons will be conducted in Oxford
county by M. Z. Watson, forestry
| specialist, and r. F. Thomas, county
agent. Demonstrations held thus far
nave been unusually we'll attended.
At these coming demonstrations Mr..
Watson will explain timber estimat-
ing in general, after which all those
! attending are invited to take an ac-
tive part in the estimatin Following