Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-17

God grant me this: To know no more
forever
Red roses in the dawn.
&C. T. Davis in The Arkansas Gazette.
Baseball now begins to give way
to football; and fishing to hunting!
A. Walsh. the Wayside Evangelist
who has been working in the neigh
borhood Of st. Francis for a few
weeks, exceeded all known records
when he baptised 100 persons In one
hour In the international waters OF
the st. John river at a place in Ala
cash plantation. Mr. Walsh also
held four other baptisms on the
northern border.
Summer still fingers along the
shores Of Penobscot Bay and at Isles
boro more than half of the colonists
are still at their cottages. many OF
them planning to round out the
month and many will remain until
early October. The generally nne
weather of the past week has more
than repaid them for remaining and
while many of the sailboats have
been put into winter quarters
launches and yachts ere still in COM
mission and conditions have been
perfect for trips about the bay.
With the sailing Of the British
steamer Ruysdael on Sept. II. two
steamers are bound to Portland with
full cargoes of china clay. Exactly
a week before, the British steamer
Bedecrag sailed from the same port
and is due to arrive at Portland about
Sunday. Not only is china clay one
of the chief imports of Portland but
pays the highest tax of any commod-
ity received. The Ruysdael registers
2,966 net tons. Her cargo of $500
tons of clay will be discharged at
the Portland Terminal Pier.
According to Contractor II. F.
Howard of Rochester. \. H., who is
in charge of the building Of the new
state highway road between the
halfway section and the standpipe
at Old Orchard, the road will not be
open to traffic for It least six weeks.
and motorists going or coming from
Old Orchard must go by the way OF
Ocean Park and Ocean Park avenue.
This new stretch of road that Is be-
ing built will cost somewhere In the
vicinity of $4,000, and is guaranteed
for ten years.
More than 100 members OF boys
and girls club from all over the state
will assemble tonight at the Fall
mouth Hotel at Portland, on their
way to the Eastern States Exposition
in Springfield, Mass. The group VIII
include 10 members from each county
and four sectional demonstration
teams. The county club members
are selected from those boys and
girls who made the highest score In
the contests and exhibits of last year
and are engaged in active club work
this wear. The party will be in
charge of Lester H. Shibles Of Orono.
State Club leader, who will conduct
them to Springfield. They will leave
Portland Saturday morning for the
Exposition.
Mrs. Pearl Hill, who conducts the
Dewey Lunch opposite the postoftice
at Bath has arrived home after being
Just seven days to minute by auto
mobile from Tampa, Fla. On her
way South she was nine days on the
road, but this was due mainly to
the fact that she carried more per-
sons and a quantity of baggage in
her car. On the way back she had
much baggage. but one person less
and the car was running night and
day. In answer to the question II
she would remain in Bath, she replied
that the people and climate here
suit her to perfection and that she
was able to get cup Of good coffee
which was something she had been
unable to do since leaving Bath.
leg could swim about for half hour
is a question that is interesting
many people because of an accident
a few days ago when the horse was
bumped off a bridge between Booth
bay and Barter's island by an auto
mobile driven by Mrs. Merrill Day OF
the island. The horse was being led
by two boys, aged 10 and IL years,
and it is the claim of Mrs. Day that
the animal backed in such a manner
that the accident was unavoidable
and that the Ford sedan she was
driving crashed through the bridge
rail and was suspended In a pre-
carious position. The accident was
investigated by State Highway .Po-
liceman Harry Thompson Of Bath.
Mrs. Day was ordered to appear in
the Lincoln county municipal court
at Wiscasset where she was fined S35
for reckless driving. She appealed.
It is claimed the horse leaped three
times out Of the shallow water on
the rocks in an effort to get his feet
under him. Because Of the broken
leg the animal was shot.
The Bath Times says the following
regarding the duck hunting season
which opened Thursday morning.
The banner hunting season for
years is predicted in Maine this sea-
SON by game wardens and others