Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-30

Someone's tipped the willow maid,
Though the pines gloom, stff ana
staid!
Elms will rustic. shocked and prim. ),
BOLD. pert fapper! Wait and see!
Bluebird. Yes; she primps for him!
Downing fluff! Poor foolish tree"
Charleston dancing with the
The willow sly will critics. tease!
Ella A. Tanning in n. Y. Times.
Begins to look more like summer
on many of the hard surfaced high
ways!
Houlton is the receiving station for
radio messages from Europe and is
thus in a position where 1t can re-
ceive rush orders for potatoes from
Europe.-Portland Express.
A resident of Lewiston believes
that he has discovered new kind
of a bird. ut is the size of a robin
clear black and has long bill.
never saw anything like 1T before ana
wonder what kind it Is" he said.
A. L. T. Cummings Of Portland,
executive manager of the State
Chamber of Commerce, at the forum
| meeting of the Auburn Chamber OF
| Commerce this Tuesday evening. his
| subject being "Maine's Awakening :.
| He will address q meeting to be held
under the auspices OF the FARMING
| ton Chamber of Commerce on Thurs
day evening, April 1.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
| purchase of fire truck was voted
a the Machias annual town meeting
RECENTLY held. 1t was voted to in
definitely pastpone the article. ITO
see if the town will raise to enter
protest with the State Highway
| Commission against the relocation OF
| the trunk line highway between
| Jonesboro and Whitneyville.
Rev. Fred w. French. secretary OF
the Maine Council Of Religious Edu-
cation, is very enthusiastic over the
| prospects for the 1926 Eastern Maine
summer school of religious education
| to be held in the Machias normal
school buildings. He states that a
| fine corps of instructors has been
secured and a large enrolment OF
| SUNDAY SCDOOl WOI hSIS III liie,S wv
| ton of the State is anticipated.
Old Orchard will soon decide the
question of adoption of daylight saw
ing schedules during the coming
summer. Announcement has already
! been made that the postoffice in the
! town will go on daylight saving
schedule, April 26, this being neces-
| sary on account of the revised tram
| schedule which complies with the
| daylight saving time that will pre-
vail in Massachusetts.
Miss Ruth Hilton of Sanford. presi-
dent of the Sanford Business Women's
League, has sailed for Greece. where
she is to remain two years az oilice
manager and accountant of the Amer
lean Wor.en's hospitals in Athens.
Her opportunity to take up this inter-
esting new work came about through
the National Federation of Business
am. Professional Women's Clubs,
with which the Business Womens
LEAGUE is affiliated.
Frank l.. Besse, whose death IN
California has just been reported, had
the happy hobby of helping other
people and he rode it as hard as any
hobby ever is ridden. When by
shrewd management and hard work
he had wrung from an eXactins bust
ness an income more than sufficient
for his own simple tastes he began
spreading sunshine for others. Just
how much of this he did no one knows
for he was busy at it all the time for
years--Waterville Sentinel.
Sidney S. Smith of Corinna. inven-
tor of the railroad concrete tie which
Is being tried by various railroads,
has received an order from the Bos-
ton Elevated Railway for the build
ing of a large lot of ties under his
patent. Mr. Smiths manufacturing
concern is known as the Maine Con-
crete Railroad Tie CO., and many ties
will be Manufactured in Florida by the
use of his forms and formula. The
Bangor & ArOostook r. r. Co., has
been experimenting with a short
stretch of track at Hudson, some four
car lengths.
The Hancock Sullivan bridge, which
has been building for two years, is
all done but the finishing touches and
will be open<for travel in few weeks.
The bridge proper is 971 feet long, not
including the abutments and APP
proaches; Is 20 feet wide in the clear,
and is in five steel spans, resting on
granite piers. with a draw-span in
the middle. The roadway is concrete,
with a wearing coat" on top. The
Taunton river has made much trou-
BILE for the bridge builders, and it has
been a long, hard job. Such work as
had to be done at extreme ebb tide
was Catchy" as sometimes there
was but 20 minutes often not over
half an hour, between the last Of the
ebb and the first of the flood, when
any work could be done. The COM
pletion of this bridge is expected to
greatly increase tourist traffic east of
Bangor and be big help to the de-
velopment of Sorrento and other
! places on the eastern shore Of
Frenchmanss Bay.
May 4, and 6 are the dates set
for the State Conference of Congre-
! gational Churches which will be held
in Portland. Most of the conference
! sessions will be held in the St.
| Lawrence Congregational Wright
| MemoriaD Church on Munjoy Hill.
An outstanding feature of the three
| day meeting will be young peoples
| program to be conducted Wednesday
evening in City Hall, following a
banquet in the State Street Parish