Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-20

MAINE GOSSIP

Inc morning, :.
And make me break and toss my reed
See, how obedient, close the doorway
And button on this drab and proper
You would not guess that I had raced
And reaching, pulled a singing planet
Marie Kraft in Contemporary Verse.
Whether Portland or Bangor will
entertain the coming Republican State
convention will be decided at the meet
ing of the Republican State COMMITTEES
in Augusta today.
Maine Rotary clubs in the eighth
district were pleased to learn this
week that their district won out in
the contest with the Iowans in at
tendance, by a percentage Of 1921
against 90.65 in December.
Petitions are being circulated in
Bath to be presented to the incoming
city government as evidence Of the
will OF the people that the city coun-
Gil appropriate the sum of $500 per
year towards the support Of the Bath
city hospital.
The Lewiston Sun comments on can
apparent lull in enforcement activi-
| ties" in that section and on rumors
| that a rum ring has been conduct
| ing operations on an extensive plan. II
asserts that beer houses are reported
| to have been doing a thriving bust
| ness just on the outskirts of the city.
Miss Anne Kimball Of Bath has re-
| Gently accepted temporary position
| in New York as assistant secretary of
| Milton C. Work, the well-known bridge
authority. Mr.. Work and Wilbur c.
Whitehead are the editors of the
broadcasting auction bridge lessons
over the radio for several weeks.
| Associate Justice Guy II. Sturgis OF
Portland speaking the other evening
| on the subject, Law for the Layman.
before the members of the Mems Eel
| lowship League of the Saco Baptist
| church, declared that the hardest du-
| ty of a judge comes on sentence day
| At that time he has many offenders Ia
| sentence and the question is whether
| justice requires a severe penalty as a
| warning or a penalty of probation to
| perhaps save a life-wreck. But there
| is compensation. the justice asserted
, in the feeling that we are very i'm
portant way the right hand of law and
order.
State Senator C. Gardiner Chalmers
! of Bangor has just announced that he
will be candidate in the June Pri-
mary for denomination on the Repub-
lican ticket. During the last session
| of the Legislature he was a member of
| the committees on appropriations and
! financial affairs. hospitals and interior
| waters. Hon. Jarvis b. Woods, former
mayor of Bangor, will also be can
| didate for the Republican nomination
! for State senator from Penobscot. DR..
| Woods has been resident of Bangor
| for 90 years, an eminent specialist In
| the treatment of the eye. ear. nose and
throat, with an extensive practice.
Rev. John G. Rogers of Calvary
Methodist church, Lewiston. formerly
of Beacon Street church, Bath.
preached on playing Safe and Square
| with Tomorrow" before large con-
gregation Sunday. It's keynote was
| warning message to contented un-
, watchful America of the possible dam
gers of tomorrow. Rambling SOUNDS
| of disturbance in India. the increasing
uprising in China, ana the growing
strength of young progressive Japan
are to be reckoned with, or from them,
! as can come from some other source a
| sudden grave danger in the night.
| God had appointed his people his pro-
phets to speak Gods warnings. winch
| it Is difficult to make the world heed
| but whether the preacher or the Ialty'
| it is given to us to perform this duty
and to be watchful of the night. All
great men from Washington's time
! down. through Gods voice warned. and
with foresight and Gods power worked
for the bettefment of this country's
| future.
The beginning Of the third week
since the reopening Of the Peppereli
mills at Biddeford brought no demon
STATIONS at the mill gates, said the
Biddeford Journal. Union members did
| not congregate at any time and the
officers had little to do. Conditions In
| the mills are sai6to be more satisfac-
| tory than at any time since the mills
| were re-opened. Agent Whitehead
claimed Monday morning that there
| was a gain Of two loomfixers and that
! more weavers reported for work, so
| that it was possible to start up more
looms. He stated also that additional
| work was started in the carding and
spinning departments Monday to sup
ply yarn for the additional weavers.
Mr.. Whitehead said that the condt-
| lions are becoming so satisfactory In
| the mills that the corporation will
! soon be in position where they will
/ not care whether the union weavers
| decide to return or to remain out.
| More weavers are expected to report
! within the next few days. and the mill
| officials believe that more loomfixers
also are about ready to report for
| work.
| Union members stated Sunday that
| there is absolutely no truth in the re-
| ports that dissension exists within
| their ranks, and declare these stories
are being circulated with an idea of
making trouble among the union
| workers.