Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-08

Yellow. red and white
Yellow ones in buttercups,
Red In tulips fair,
White ones in the blowing trees,
Ounce and plum and pear.
Why? 1t is her birthday.
Do you know her age?
| Can you count her candles,
Fool or sage?
From Contemporary Verse.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has placed a final valuation OF
s1,359,427 on the property Of the
Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes
Railroad, as of June 80, 1915, says
| The Franklin Journal.
The music clubs OF Aroostook
county are making arrangements to
put on music festival in June at
the Littleton Camp Grounds near
| Houlton. Professor William r.
| Chapman will direct the chorus.
According to the plan for the
Bath approach to the Kenebec bridge
| the roadway for motor vehicles
would be just about even with the
1
! point where the approach would
make the turn around that building,
says The Bath Times.
| State ferry Governor King which
was given a trial on the river at
Bath Monday afternoon left for
Portland Tuesday morning at 7.03
| and was in charge of Capt. Charles
| w. Dingley. The boat made good
| time down the river and found a
| smooth sea outside. arriving in Port
land safely at 1908.
| Clarence z. Michels of Portland
has been engaged to fill the unex-
pired term of the late Fri Worcester
as superintendent of schools in the
| Philips district. Mr.. Michels is a
graduate of Bowdoip College and for
the past five years has held positions
in western Massachusetts and pre-
! vious to that in New Hampshire.
A series Of four or six concerts
under the auspices of the Maine Gen.
trail Railroad Co., will be broadcast
from nine to ten on Wednesday
nights commencing April II, through
station WCSH, Portland, John Grin
delrs Colonial club orchestra of
Bath has been engaged to play the
series.
At the annual town meeting of
Bigelow Plantation it was voted to
appropriate the sum of s6S5.52 for its
portion of the cost of the construc-
ton of the new bridge across Dead
River. The State, county and
plantation of Flagstaff will also
share in the expense. BigeloW
Plantation voted to appropriate $500
for the repair of the floating bridge
between Bigelow and Flagstaff.
An inconspicuous little item in the
Maine Weekly Industrial Review
conveys the rather startling Informal
ton that Maine has more members
belonging to the Farm Bureau than
all the rest of the New England
States combined. Add to that the
huge enrolment of the Boys and
Girls Clubs of the State and Names
numerous farmers cooperative as
sociations and organizations, without
parallel for real efficiency and SER
vice in any section whatsoever, and
the fuzzy old wheeze that farmers
can't get together and stick together
is, pretty effectually disposed Of
Franklin Journal.
An investigation campaign was
started Monday in Saco by State
Highway Inspector James A. Adams
of Saco, State Highway Patrolmen
Harold S. Coombs and Carl Weibe of
Westbrook to learn If all motor vehi-
Gle drivers have proper licenses for
operating their machines and also
If the registration plates are in the
right position. This campaign will
be carried on throughout the entire
county. aid later further investiga-
ton will be made by officers of the
headlights. All traffic passing Pep
perell Square was halted for several
hours Monday by the officers max
ing inquiries about drivers licenses
and registration plates.
An enlarged photograph, in an ap-
propriate frame, of the members of
the supreme court in 1921 has been
presented to the Penobscot Bar by
John A. Hayden, the veteran su-
preme court stenographer, and 1t has
been hung over the mantel in the at
torney's room at the court house at
attention. The photograph was taken
on June &c, 1921. at Pine Point, when
the Maine law court was sitting at
Portland. Two members of the nota-
BILE group have since died, Chief
Justice Leslie C. Cornish of Augusta
and Associate Justice George H.
Hanson of Calais. Mr.. Hayden is
the oldest court reporter In the state,
having been at the important work
for several decades and today is as
swift and accurate as ever, valued
man in court work.
What will probably result in an
other live wire service club in Lew
iston and Auburn was given birth at
the Dewitt hotel in Lewiston on
! Tuesday evening when the Civitan
club of Portland introduced the
"Civitan" idea to a group of Lewiston
men in an attempt to start the club
there. Support was pledged by
| visitors in assisting the local club to
grow. The evening was in the form
| of a regular meeting of the Portland
/! club with the Lewiston men being
guests. DIR. Alfred w. Haskell,
president of the Forest City organic
alton was the presiding officer. Sew
eral of the live wire members In the
visiting aggregation told their con-
ception of Civitan and in short talks
attempted to put the foundation of
| the club on q staunch base in order
that it get the right start.
The City of Portland was listed as
the plaintiff in one of the II civil
cases entered in the Cumberland
! County Superior Court Tuesday