Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-08

y 'uSlrlal history, 1nVolVlng approx
mately $165,OOO,000. Blair & Com
pan" Inc. and the Chase Securities
Corporation today acquired control
of the largest producing companies
on the Pacific coast.
New York, Feb. 6-(AP)-Making
public the volume of brokers' loans
for the first time in the history of
Wall Street, the New York stock eX-
change announced today that the
borrowings of it's members on stock
and bond collateral at the end of jan
uary totalled $3,513,174,154,
Dover, N. H., Feb. 6-Fire, which
started in an old fran building used
as an automobile repair shop, made
it's way into the garage of the Han
son Automotive Service adjoining, at
the corner of Central avenue and
Kirkland street this afternoon, and
before it was eXtinguished had caused
loss estimated at 5000, of which
$4,000 was on building and $4,000
on contents. The interior of the
structure was swept by the flames
and a dozen automobiles in the ga
rage were damaged by the fire. Fire
men succeeded in removing many of
the machines, but not before their
tops were burned off.
Eastport, Me-. Feb. 6-Mrs. George
H. Hayes of this city recently an
nounced the engagement of her
daughter, Margaret Whalen, to John
e. Frogge, a newspaperman on the
editorial staff of the New York
Times. The wedding will be held in
Eastport this month.
Nashua, n. H., Feb. Creme Maui
rois, driver of milk wagon, was ar
rested this afternoon. charged with ]
aggravated assault on Richard Tar
diff, IS. of 20 Seventh street. 1t is
charged that the Tardiff boy was
stealing a ride on the rear Of the
sleigh driven by Maurois. The
driver claimed that he warned
all the boys to keep off,. When
Tardiff refused to get off he stat
ed that he tossed a milk bottle at
him. The bottle cut a wound which |
pital. He was taken to the hospital
bv Maurois.
Throughout the United States this
week, approximately 100000 Boy |
Scouts and their leaders will cele- |!
brate the 18th anniversary of their |
movement, with special meetings. |
The celebration will start in most |
cases with Scout attendance at |
church in uniform and tomorrow at |
SIS P. NJ, it will be carried on in a |
unique fashion. Throughout the |
country, precisely at that hour, Boy |
Scouts and their leaders, wherever |
they may be, will stop. salute and |
recommit themselves to the Boy |
Scout oath and the Scout law.
Newport News, Va, Feb. ga rec |
ord will be established for American !
shipbuilding here next month when the |
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry |
Dock Company will launch nine ships |
and lay the keels of three others with
in three hours. Thousands of persons. |
including members Of Congress and |
others prominent in the life of the ma
ton, will attend.
Plymouth, Feb. 6-Eleven trucks |
laden with meat, fruit and fresh vege-
tables which left Boston for Plymouth |
Thursday morning before the storm |
reached it's peak and became stalled |
along teh route, began arriving in Ply !
mouth at 3 o'clock this afternoon. |
Meanwhile supplies of meat and vege-
tables had become scarce in sections of |
the town. Most of the trucks got |
showed in between South Weymouth |
and DuXbury.
Chicago, Feb. 6.-Rare "armorplat-
ed" Indian rhinos, royal Bengal tigers !
and other big game have just been OBJ
tanned by Col. Theodore and Kermit |
Roosevelt, leaders of the James Simp- |
son-Roosevelt expedition into central |
Asia for the Field Museum, during |
their final hunt in India, 1t was reveal
ed today in a cablegram signed
"Roosevelts," and received by James
Simpson, president of Marshall Field |
e Co., who is financing the now ma
nous natural history hunt.
Rochester N. Y, Feb. 6.-(AP)-A
copy of Genung's Handbook of Rhe-
torical Analysis" borrowed from the
old Rochester central library in 1894.
was received by the Rochester Public
Library today, returned without ex-
PLANTATION by the New Rochelle College |
of New York. where the book has been
during the last 81 years. Librarians
can not ascertain, nor do they know,
who is in debt to the extent of 1919 due
as loan charges.
J
Reports that d. c. Stephenson, for
mer grand dragon of the Ku Klux
Khan in Indiana, has escaped the In
diana state prison, where he is serv-
ing a life term for murder. were de-
MED today by Warden Walter Daily.
Warden Daily said that Stephenson
was working every day in the prison
chair factory and that he had not
been outside the walls since being re-
turned from Noblesville, Ind. last
November when he was denied a
new trial on the charge of numbering
Miss Madge Oberholtzer. an Indiana I
polls girl.
New York, Feb. 6-(AP)-Charles
Cason, vice president of the Chemical
graduate of Vanderbilt University.
was today elected president of the
Welta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
Warren 1. Lee, former congressman
from Brooklyn and graduate of
Hamilton College, was elected vice
president.
Sioux City Ia, Feb. 6.-(AP)-A
charge of first degree murder was
filed today against George Solomon,
70 years old, whose wife was found
burned to death in the furnace of
their home Wednesday night. Solo
mon claimed she met death accident
ally.
Rochester, N. Y, Feb. 6.-(AP)-t
The charter of the Rochester lodge OF
Elks has been suspended for one