Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-20

Mrs. j. S. Stevens of The University
Of Maine, dated July Q on board
the S. S. Ascania bound for London,
England, in which they stated they
were both well and having a fine
trip across.
Fifty children from Lewiston are to
be sent through the kindness of the
local Salvation Army to Christmas
Cove, the celebrated salvation Army
home down on the Maine sea coast.
for two weeks. They are to start next
Saturday and will be transported both
ways by the Lewiston Rotary and XII
wants clubs.
Announcement was made at San
ford Friday that until further notice
the weaving department of the San
ford Mills corporation will operate
on a four-day and a four-night
week schedule. Several hundreds
are affected. Also comes the an
nouncement that this corporation
has declared an extra dividend of 8
percent to their stockholders.
Mrs. c. Deane Ross of Guilford,
prominent Maine club woman and
member of the local school board, will
be the Democratic candidate for
representative from the Brownville-
Guilford class as a result of the
drawing by Secretary Frank w. Ball
to break several ties which developed
in the June primaries. Mrs. Ross was
tied with Charles G. Goodwin of
Brownville, each having q votes.
Mrs. Mildred F. WATSON of Ban
Cor. whose graceful and vivid writ
ings are familiar to many Maine
readers, is author of a novel which
is to be published July % by Hough-
ton, Miff1n and Company, Boston.
Its title is THE Big House." and
its scene is laid in Maine, although
no specific locality is designated. 1t
is not unlikely that Mrs. WATSON
had Bangor in mind. Those who
have read the advance proofs speak
in warm commentator.
The Franklin County Agricultural
Society will conduct a race meet at
Franklin Park, Farmington, We'd
nesday. Aug. 4, with races in the
ZIG, 2.20 and 2.2S classes, all mixed.
In the first race the purse will be
$780, and purses of $3.50 each are
| offered for the other two races. A.
l.. Adams of East Wilton, super
! intendent of the horse department
of the agricultural society has the
matter in charge, and the entries
will close July 20. National rules
will prevail.
Gratifying the desire of many
Bangor citizens, and tourists visit
ing that vicinity, who wished to see
/ the Pierce Memorial unveiled i'm
mediately. the committee in charge
! of the dedication arrangements has
| announced that this unveiling will
| be within a few days, as soon as
work of grading the embankment
! and lawn can be finished. The
| formal dedication exercises at Ban
gor will however, be held as orig
| inally planned. some time in Sep
! TENDER, after final work of prepar-
| ing the grounds. plants and shrub
| berry has been completed.
| John Black, an ardent Boston
yachtsman who used to visit the old
Kennebec Yacht club at Bath fire.
| quently as a member of the Boston
| Yacht club, now commodore of the
Boston Model Yacht club. sailed
from New York Saturday on the
| White Star liner Majestic for Cher
bourg and Southampton. Mr. Black
| is taking with him a model yacht
which will be entered in the Inter-
national Model Yacht championship
at Gosport, England, July 31-Aus. 3.
| The boat is about three feet long
and Is probably the smallest boat
ever carried ON what White Star
officers declare is the worlds largest
steamship.
Further proof that this. the age in
which the present generation is liv-
| ing, is truly q remarkable one, IN
which nearly all things are possible,
! was demonstrated recently when
Donald 3. Macmillan and his crew
now embarked on another Arctic en-
petition, and located at far off Labra-
dor, gave a concert, conversed and
otherwise, and it was all heard by AT
least one Bangor family, says the
Bangor Commercial A prominent
Bangor woman, who is a bit of a ra-
dio fan, almost accidently picked up
this Macmillan program. about 1885
/ in the morning, while twisting the
|
to locate suitable concert. Without
knowing what station she was re-
ceiving she was attracted to a wave
which, when in her megaphone. pro-
duced deep, ministerial voice reciting
a poem. At it's close voices of two
men who were evidently friends held
her attention. One Of these was
termed Mac" The others nickname
she made out as Jim. 1t developed
that the 'Mac" referred to was none
other than Donald Macmillan, ana
though the conversation was not very
clear she managed to pick up state
ment from the explorer by which she
interpreted that he and his crew were
stopping at hotel in Labrador.
| A sailors song, which Macmillan
announced was one of those which
he and his men sang when they
sailed out Of Pemaquid, came clearly
through the receiver. A conversation
followed, and 1t developed in course Of
it that Macmillan reported that all his
crew were well and healthy. The
name of the station broadcasting was
announced but not distinctly enough
| to be made out. 1t was presumed by
the person who received the concert
| and messages. that it was given from
aboard MacMillan's ship, in the Vi
cinity of Labrador.
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