Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-10

'WhistIing Oyster" a corporation
organized at Ogunquit and just ap-
proved at the Office of the attorney
general, surely furnishes something
unique for the name of a novelty and
gift shop.
Wooden blocks and other materials
to repave Saco's side of the Nam
street bridge, are on their way from
Nashua. n. H., and just as soon as
they sarrive work will be started to
repair the bridge and put It in the
best Of condition.
While Henry Hopkins, Junior at
Bates was attending the Ivy Hop at
the college, Monday evening. some
one took his Buick sedan, and at last
reports he had not been able to learn
the identity of the culprit. The car
was parked on the campus.
1t Is possible that when the ap-
proach to the Kennebec bridge is
commenced and it becomes necessary
to remove King Tavern that the his
toric old structure, once the home or
Names first governor, William KING,
may be preserved through the actiV-
tiles of the members of Colonel Dunn
mer Sewall Chapter, D. A. r., says
The Bath Times.
William F.. Boogar. cook on the
Mac MILAN schooner Bowdoin. signed
an application for membership in
Roland H. Smith post, American
Legion at Bath. and was elected to
membership at the meeting Tuesday
evening He served in co. + of the
Ninth Infantry in the Second Division
A. Z. f. He has not before Joined
the Legion even though he won the
Croix de Guerre.
| Giving warning that the continued
existence of Thornton academy as
now conducted is threatened by the
proposed constitutional amendment
to, be voted on this fall, alumni OF
! Thornton academy are urged ito eN-
ert every influence and effort in OPP
posing the amendment in a circular
letter sent out on Tuesday. The letter
is signed by judge George Addison
/ Emery, after whom the academy
/ gymnasium was named, and one of
! the NEST whole souled supporters,
financially and morally, Of the insti-
tuition, and Fred A. Lord. who has al
ways maintained a deep interest III
( his alma mater.
! Work is in progress at Basin Mills
( in Penobscot county, on the recon-
struction of the dam which was
washed out week before last, relcas-
! ing a small portion of a pile of 5000
cords of pulp wood belonging to the
| Orono Pulp e Paper Co. The dam
is being reconstructed with planks
, for temporary purposes to hold the
water in the basin which has been
familiar spectacle there for some
| generations. No estimate of the loss
of pulp wood sustained by the Orono
Pulp & Paper Co. has yet been made.
it is stated. but it is believed that
not more than 200 or 800 cords went
away, and much of that was salvaged
down river and caught in the boom
strung across the river above the
Bangor water works dam.
Harold T. Pitts Of Buffalo, n. Y,
who has reputation as rodent eX-
terminator in -ASores of American
cities, arrived in Portland Tuesday,
to carry on rat determination cam
paign there. This is the third time
he has visited Portland. He is work.
, ing in coopera ton with DR.. Thomas
Tetreau, city, health officer, and his
work mas the approval of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce. He will
probably spend 10 days there, first
making q canvass of the city, and
later working in those homes that
desire his services. He uses bariurn
carbonite in his work of warning on
the rodents. This substance is odo,-
less and tasteless and when used or
bait does not excite the suspicion of
the rat. 1t is in small quantities
harmless to domestic animals and yet
kill rats in from seven to "a hours.
Arthur e. Dunning, executive sec
rotary of the American Chamber of
| Commerce in Berlin, Germany,
| former resident of Bath, Maine, re-
| Gently few from Frankfurt to Berlin
| a distance that required II hours of
| railroad travel, in four hours and 80
! minutes including two stops of one
| half hour each. Mr.. Dunning went
! on invita- ton of the City of Frankfurt
and the Frankfurt Chamber of Com
MERGE to Wonsider the ACCESSIBILITY of
establishing branch office of the
American Chamber. Englan
France. the Dutch and the Danish
are all represented there. In letter
to his uncle, Charles w. Clifford. the
former Bath boy writes that he left
Frankfurt on his return at 80 A. NJ.
and arrived at Berlin at Las, includ-
ing the half hour stops at Erfut and
Halle, the latter stop being made to
connect with the plane for London.
This was MIR. Cummings third aerial
trip, having only few weeks ago
flown over Berlin in q 10-passenger
plane. Mr.. Dunning writes that the
German Airplane Co. last year trans
ported 10000 passengers at no loss
of life to passengers. Three pilots
We're killed during the year trying out
machines.
Great interest is being manifested
in the fact that the old Farnsworth
silver mine is attracting new people
to the locality of Pembroke in WASH
inston county. 1t has been a recog-
nized fact for many years that this
property had a large percentage of
silver and nickel bearing rock, but
the low price of silver and the high
cost of coal developed steam power
made the working of the mine pro-
hlb1tlve. Some twenty years ago
there was a party there operating
mining properties near Aver juno
ton and they tried to get control Of
TINS property, but the owner at that
time would not let 1t go at such price