Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-29

Miss Margaret McAiooi, q AoA So Va
Bangor, was one Of those who helped
care for the rescued on the i'll fated
submarine S-51.
James A. Richardson Of Portland
retired from the stock sales depart
ment of the New England Telephone
& Telegraph Company last Saturday
after serving that company IL years.
Mr.. Richardson is the only local sur
vivor of Clusters last fight and
former sergeant In the army.
One of the oldest, and perhaps the
oldest. parties to take a flight with
Harry M. Jones at Old Orchard,
Sunday, was c. w. Bradley OF
Rochester, N. H. Mr.. Bradley Is al
most 90 years of age and enjoyed his
ride in the air as much. and perhaps
more. than some men Of much FEWER
years.
The contest for the longest ha'r
run in connection with the Pageant
of Progress which opens in Lewiston
on Oct. -, is a bad blow to the the
ory that 'if they aren't bobbing u
they are cutting it close to a bob
for IA girls from all sections OF the
state have already entered their
names as contestants.
The climax in the sales OF sailing
vessels was reached last week when
the William Thomas, a 100 ton
schooner was sold at U. S. Marshals
sale for $40. This sale took place
at Dresden Mills but has not yet
been confirmed by the U. S. Court,
the price being considered INSULT
cient.
Richard Brown Of Bowdoinham
was arrested Saturday on the charge
Of trying to purchase an auto and
offering in payment a check on
which the name Of the payee and the
signature were both fictitious and
dorsed the name of the fictitious
payee.
John ]. Haveloek of Bingham and
a party of five others narrowly
escaped fatal injuries last week
when the Essex coach in which they
were riding went down a 25 foot en-
bankment on the road from Bingham
to Scion turning over twice. Out
side of a few painful cuts and
bruises the party received only
severe shaking up.
The report comes that Charles
Dana Gibson, the famous artist, rails
ed pumpkin on his farm at Isles
boro this summer that tipped the
scales at 66 pounds. Good for Mr..
Gibson, but isn't there some Maine
farmer who can hold up his hand
and declare he has raised a still
larger farm product? Let's hear
from him IL there is.
Several dozen scrambled eggs on
the floor of Ford coupe was one OF
the results in a collision between
Ford coupe and Buick touring car
Sunday evening at South Paris when
the coupe was thrown against a
stone wall and considerably damag-
ed. The occupants Of the car were
badly shaken up but not seriously
injured.
George st. Hilaire. Human Fly,
who has been the hero of several
hairbreadth escapes, one being fall
of $50 feet while performing in Wa
terville, met with peculiar accident
last Saturday where he is confined
in a cell at the Lewiston police sta
ton, when he fell from a bunk to the
floor, a distance of only about two
feet and broke two Of his ribs.
Little Harriet Jones of Vinal-
haven, who was injured in an auto
accident about two weeks ago and
not expected to live because of the
pressure of skull bones upon the
brain, has been successfully operated
on by a Rockland physician and is
now rapidly recovering. For 10 days
the child did not recover conscious
ness for more than minute at
time.
1t was only a regular happening In
the course Of the days work. that
little hold up in the long stretch of
woods near Portage Lake in Aroos-
took County. last week, by the
Federal officers and described by the
EOllOr OF the ArOOStOOk Republican,
but it must have seemed like a per-
sonal affront to the highly respected
and innocent occupants Of the car
who were accosted In a manner
which, to them, must have conveyed
the impression that they were re-
garded as regulars" and needed to
be treated as such.
It's rather sad ending for a bor-
rowed blue suit to figure prominently
in a romance between a fellow and
his best girl and then be consigned
to the mercies of the elements under
an cid barn because it's rightful
owner returns home from his sum-
mer vacation and the would be bor-
rover has no way of returning the
pilfered finery without being found
out, but such is the story that comes
from South Rumford. Well. anyway
the suit, or what is left Of 1t, may
be brought back to life under the
artful manipulations Of the tailor,
but the romance is busted forever
and the young swain has departed
from South Rumford.