Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-16

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Julia Boynton Green. in The Forum.
Judging by winters inclination to
hang on, it looks like the official
opening of spring scheduled for
March 21st might be delayed!
Augusta and Koussinoc Chapter
will extend a royal welcome to the
Maine Daughters of the American
Revolution on Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week.
The 10th municipal government at
Bath was organized Monday morning
when Mayor Charles H. Cahill was
inaugurated as the city's chief execu-
tive.
According to Charles Whitworth,
gate tender at the Saco Main street
crossing of the Boston & Maine, who
holds the undisputed title Of official
opener and closer of the Saco river,
the river was open to navigation las.
year on March 3. Mr.. Whitworth
claims that this season the river will
not be open until the latter part of
this month, and no one seems inclin-
ed to dispute his word.
Capt. Harvey G. Berry Of the coast
guard station at Popham Beach re-
ports that the seas this Winter have
not changed the beaches there to
any extent, except that the beach on
the river side has been built UP
some. Capt. Berry reports that In
all his long years OF service at the
station he never saw so much snow
on the ground there in March as
is to be found now.
Phippsburg is talking Of having
another town meeting to make an
appropriation for the building of one
third of the road at Popham Beach
ordered constructed by the county
! commissioners. Under the order OF
! the commissioners the town has
! three years in which to complete
shore, at the rear of the cottages
J to the south shore and along there
! to the last cottage to the west.
The Houlton Agricultural Society
/ has signed a contract with the John
| B., Rodgers Producing Co., Of Hart
| ford, Conn. for the presentation OF
a pageant in Houlton during the
evenings of the Houlton Fair next
! fall. The cast which will include
I some 200 Houlton people will portray
| the early history of the town, sc
! rich in interesting data. The pre-
| sentation of the pageant will be
most spectacular. 1t is expected that
| the historical data will be furnished
by Miss Anna Barnes, librarian Of
Cary Library. and will begin with the
| coming of the first settlers up to the
present time.
| Maine schoolmates of William NJ
! Emery, a graduate of Bowdoin and
| now a member of the Board of Over
seers, will be interested to learn
! that he goes to the editorial staff OF
| the Boston Transcript from the Fall
River News of which he has been the
city editor for many years, coming
to that paper from the New Bedford
! Mercury. On the 25th anniversary Of
! his service on the News he was given
a complimentary banquet by as
| sociates and friends. Outside his
| newspaper activities Mr.. Emery has
successfully devoted much time tc
historical and genealogical research
| Mr.. Emery Is a member of the New
port Art Association and of the
Authors Club, London. Eng.
| DR.. G. E. Parsons, who was the
speaker at the Rockland Rotary lun-
cheon the other day gave highly in
teresting and informing talk upon
the striking advance made during
the past % years in the field Of
preventive medicine. DR.. Parsons Is
district health officer of the Maine
Public Health Department, with
headquarters in Rockland, and his
field the counties of Knox, Lincoln
| Waldo and Sagadahoc. He dis
cussed in particular smallpox and
diphtheria, as two diseases that one
| time ran riot but which are now sc
under control that smallpox Is
scarcely heard of and diphtheria is
on the way, to practical extinction
Vaccination has conquered smallpox
in spite of the opposition in some
quarters to that form of prevention
AS intelligence spreads and the pub
lie co-operates the day of the COM
plete success of preventive medicine
is to be celebrated.
| Plans are practically completed for
the Western Maine Pythian jubilee
to be held at the South Portland
high school April 10. The Western
! Maine Jubilee association was formed
in Portland in 1907 and is COM
posed of the Pythian lodges in
Cumberland and York counties, SC
this session will be the 10Th anniver-
sary of the association. 1t will be
an afternoon and evening session
and promises to be one of the most
successful in the history of the Or
der. The programme includes drills
by several crack degree teams OF
western Maine, both knights and
Pythian Sisters, Uniform ranks an6
the d. o. X. X. of Portland. Gov
ernor Brewster will be present and
deliver an address, and it is probable
! that the supreme chancellor of the
order will be present. The facilities
for holding the event in the new
South Portland high school are the
| best. from the fact that all the pro-
gramme can be carried out under one
roof.
Frank T. Swan, storekeeper at the
Maine Central's roundhouse in Ban
gor, has been railroad man for 66
years and is still going strong. He
did his first work on the first steam
railroad in Maine, which was also
the first in New England. This road
was the Bangor, Old Town and Mil