Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-28

To close singing year:
Fortissimos of color,
Andantes Of repose,
Scherzos when the wind-whisked
Trace wild arpegsios.
Carlyle w. Morgan in Christian
Science Monitor.
The program Of the Maine indus
trial exposition to be held In Portland
the week Of November 9Th, sponsored
by the American Legion. is now be-
ing arranged.
Mrs. Joseph A. Small Of West
brook. president Of the Maine Par
ent-Teacher Association, will speak
at teachers reception to be held
at Bath on Wednesday evening Of
this week.
Notices have been issued for the
regular meeting Of the Maine State
Hand Engine League, Inc, to be held
in r. G. Counce hall, Thomaston on
Oct. 9 at p. m. Two delegates and
one alternate will be allowed from
each association.
At the annual meeting of oxford
County Fair Association held at
South Paris, on Saturday evening,
A. w. Weston, Bolsters Mills. was
elected vice president, and W. E.
Penley, West Paris, A. G. Hayes,
Oxford, and c. w. Bowker, South
Paris, trustees.
Ex- Governor Baxter and Arthur
Gould. candidates for U. S. Senator;
Morris Mcdonald. president of the
Maine Central R. R.; and Bradford
c. Redonnett, of Wiscasset. well
known attorney, are to be heard at
the State Chamber of Commerce
secretaries meeting to be held In
Auburn, Oct. S.
The Maine Legionnaire. a Legion
paper printed in Lewiston, will make
its last appearance within a short
time This issue will cover the con-
vention in Brunswick during the
month Of August. At the convention
in Brunswick it was voted to dis
continue the paper.
Several Lewiston boys were given
lecture at police headquarters,
Sunday night, after they had been
arrested for disturbing the religious
meeting at Lewiston City Hall. Capt.
Picard also has the names of others
who were expected to visit head
quarters Monday evening. Those in
charge of the meeting did not wish
to prosecute unless the offense were
repeated.
At the annual meeting Of the Ban
gor chapter of the National Aero
nautic Association, held recently, the
entire board of officers was reelected,
as follows: President, Edward F.
Godfrey; vice president, Robert H.
w. Lowell: secretary. Fred w. Row
ell; treasurer, Ellis Y. Eldridge.s An
interesting feature of the meeting
was the reading by President God
frey, president to the general conven-
ton Of the National Aeronautic Assoc
ciatino, of his report Of the proceed
ings Of that body.
About the busiest place In Van
Buren, these days is the Immigra-
ton Office at the end of the Inter-
national bridge. Potato pickers are
coming in droves seeking admission
to the United States for the harvest
ing of Aroostooks principal crop.
Under the recent instructions issued
by the Department of Labor at
Washington, the officers are permit
ted to admit potato pickers for a
period of 80 days upon payment of
the head tax of IS. This tax will
be returned to the alien when he re-
turns to Canada after the digging
season has closed.
The General Contracting Co., own
ed and managed by Andrew S. Mer-
rill of Bath, has just completed a
water plant and system for the town
of Wayland, Mass, which 1t is said
is second to none in eastern Massa-
chusetts. In the last six months IA
miles of s, 10 and 12-inch pipe were
laid, pumping station was built,
80 artesians wells were driven and
connections between them made and
a steel standpipe was built on high
hill In one day three shifts of labor
ers, dug 1925 feet of trench, laid the
pipe and covered it. Mr.. Merrill has
been very careful and thorough in his
undertaking and after the pipe was
laid and the earth thrown back into
the trench Mr.. Merrill had it rolled
and it is said a causual visitor in the
town would never know that the
streets had been torn up through the
Summer. Mr.. Merrill's company has
just been awarded tie contract by
the Essex County Sewage commits
CT 10 a mn foot IF in the
city Of Salem, Mass. OF this amount
5000 feet is to be of 4S-inch pipe and
1000 feet Of 3o-inch. He plans to
begin work within a month.
Justice Charles J. Dunn Of the
Supreme Judicial Court is not ex-
actly a resident of Bangor; his home
is in Orono; but both communities
look upon him as their own. He has
the happy faculty of preserving the
dignity of the bench, yet at the same
time being very approachable. Visit
ing attorneys and newspaper men
have been impressed by his conduct
of important cases. Those who sit
in his court cannot but feel, instinc-
lively, that he Is deeply fond Of his
important work; that he approaches
the bench with almost touch of
reverence Justice Dunn was born
in Houghton County, Michigan; was
educated in New York, and in 1920
received the degree of LII. D. from
the University of Maine. He began
the practice Of 'aw in Orono in 1892;
was a member of the Maine House of
Representative in 1901-02 was judge
of the Old Town municipal court
from 1903 to 1911, and was appointed
an associate justice of the Supreme
Court in 1918. One Of his most
earnest interests has been the Uni