Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-14


Relish the bitter plums.
-Leonora Speyer in The Nation.
Farmers in the vicinity of Bath
report that cut worms are doing
great damage in the gardens. Peas
seem to have a particular attraction
being destroyed.
II haven't given the matter a
thought or said a word one way or
the other" was the reply of Mayor
Wiseman of Lewiston when asked
Monday evening concerning the
truth Of the report that he was to
seek third term as mayor.
A time worn fraud was worked
here recently when a strange car
stopped near Oscar Whitlocks jew
elry store at Calais. A young man
got out, entered the store and said
he desired to look at some watches
These he was shown and selecting
a valuable one asked permission to
show 1t to his father in the car for
inspection. Permission was granted
but neither watch, young man nor
old man has since been seen.
Records Of the Lewiston fire de-
partment include one or two in
stances when some particular num-
Der has made its appearance repeat
eddy during a fire. Monday the
number was 202. The central sta
ton clock, on standard time, was at
200 Monday afternoon when a call
was received for fire at the White
Star Laundry. This is located at
202 Park street. Rubbish in the
cellar caught fire but caused no
damage.
President Coolidge is expected to
visit Portland on Friday, November
II, as the guest of the National
Grange at it's session there. He will
speak IN the auditorium of Portland
City Hall on that afternoon or even
ing. William M. Jardine, Secretary
of Agriculture of the United States
will come to the National Grange
sessions at Portland to receive the
seventh degree. He also will be one
of the speakers at the Grange ses-
sions. United States Senators,
members of the National House of
IlCPl duu SSNc1dl 4NeN
England Governors will be included
among those taking the seventh de-
gree.
Tourists to Canada have found a
peculiar interference to comfort
that has oftimes been a cause of
accident. A Lewiston man, Jo-
seph Leblanc, reports encountering
swarms of bees along the highways
that made trouble. His party had
an accident and in another case a
man was killed. Not once, But
many times, swarms of bees were
seen hanging on trees at the road
side. Mr.. Leblanc says that inquir-
ing at garage what made his
motor heat up the mechanic inves-
tigated and found the cells in the
front of the radiator packed full of
bees; no air was passing through.
1t was necessary to dig these bees
all out.
An unusual number OF deer are
being seen in Naples and vicinity
this year. the reason for their prev
alence being unknown, except that
they are apparently working back
into that section from the heavily
wooded districts to the North and
West. One doe has apparently
established itself in a small clearing
between Naples Village and the
Chute homestead and the adjoining
woods, and is being seen there fire.
quently. 1t has become so tame
that 1t was seen in the middle of
the afternoon feeding alongside the
road, paying no attention whatever
to passing traffic. Two little fawn
have also been seen together in
that vicinity on one or two occas
ions and, in fact, deer have been
encountered by motorists in num-
Der of places nearby.
The need OF increased attention to
the matter of advertising Names
resources, in order to compete with
the activities of other states and
provinces in making an appeal to
tourists, was emphasized in Bidde
ford last Friday. At the meeting
of the Biddeford and Saco Rotary
club at Hotel Thatcher, attractive
and widely distributed folders put
out by the Nova Scotia Publicity
bureau and the Baddeck IN. 81
board of trade, advertising the at
fractions of the Baddeck on Cape
Breton Island were distributed.
1.-The showering of Maine cities
with Nova Scotia publicity matter,
indicates that our state is to face
strong competition from territory
farther east in the matter of tourist
appeal" was the comment Of
Portland man who attended the
meeting.
A wartime romance that began
in a hospital at Limestone, Me-, in
1918, had its sequel at Marion, Ohio,
Monday in the arrest Of DR.. Dana
O. Weeks, 60, secretary Of the Mar
ion County Medical Society. DR..
Weeks, in an affidavit containing
$500 words, is charged by Miss Cor
ra E. Richardson of Blue Hill, Me-,
with being the father of her To-
months -old daughter, Mary Eliza
beth, born in a hospital at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. March Is. 1925. When
arraigned before Magistrate Joseph
M. Justice. the aged physician en-
tered q formal plea of not guilty,
waived examination and was held to
the September Grand Jury under
bond of $500, which he furnished.
DR.. Weeks is socially prominent
and q leader in church circles. He
has two grown sons, one of whom
Is a professor Of mathematics at
Western Reserve University, Cleve-
land. Miss Richardson Is a reg
istered nurse.
Miss Eleanor Burnham Of Bridg-
ton, has become quite famous in that
sacftou hv doing on ,1rrsua1 stunt
during vacation days, that of taking
a contract to paint the pumps of 40
gasoline stations in that region.