Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-28

Whatever they may have to say
You will not forget.
IS. Bert Cooksley, in n. Y. Times.
Plans are being perfected for the
several auto shows in Maine this
Spring.
Another gift Of $500 has been re-
ceived here towards the building of
the new public library at South Paris,
a check for that amount having been
| received from Harry t. Jordan of
Philadelphia. formerly of South Paris.
The fund now amounts to $17,500.
J. A. Carnage & Co., investments,
will close their Lewiston branch. 46
Lisbon street, Feb. /. It is reported
the firm will open a new branch at
Houlton. Carnage & Co. is the second
to close its Lewiston Office within a
few months. The other was Kenney &,
Greenwood. Carnage & Co. has offices
at Augusta, Waterville, Bangor and
Boston.
| Rev. Samuel A. Evans of Bath, lis
tening in on the international radio
broadcasting Monday night heard the
broadcasting from station EATJ.
Madrid, Spain. on wave length of
1913 meters. He was able to hear the
/ announcer and a woman soloist. The
volume was weak and Mr.. Evans found
! it necessary to use earphones. The re-
| ception was 11.45.
Mrs. Thelma Banks, wife Of the
Rev. Dwight Banks, a missionary in
India for the last three years, died
Monday at Celavatrie, where she and
her husband were stationed, accord
ing to a cablegram received by her
father, Hiram Hawkes., of Windham
on Tuesday. Death was due to
fever the message said. Mr.. and
Mrs. Banks left for the mission
field shortly after their marriage.
Besides her parents. Mrs. Banks
leaves three brothers.
! The Lewiston Auburn Kiwanis
Club has now heard both sides Of
the Maine ydro-electrical question.
Two weeks ago, Senator Charles B.
Carter gave a talk before the XII
wants In which he stated that pro-
visions should be made in the
Fernald law which would provide
Maine with the privilege of shipping
only surplus power out of the State.
The opposite side of the question was
discussed yesterday by Representa-
tive George c. Wing, Jr., of Auburn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. B. Leeman
had a hard automobile ride to Au-
gusta, Monday where Mr.. Leeman
attended a meeting of the Augusta,
Gardiner & Boothbay Steamboat Co.,
of which he is a director, says The
Bath Times. Between Richmond and
Gardiner they encountered drifts In
some places five feet deep. Mr.. Lee
man was obliged to do a great deal
of shovelling. They encountered
about 20 shovellers on the way who
were trying to keep the highway
cleared.
Alfred Johnson, A. NJ, and LTD,
of Brookline, Mass, and Belfast,
Maine. will give an illustrated lecture
on Colonial Lighthouses, Ports and
Waterways Along Our Atlantic Coast"
at the rooms of the Maine Historical
| Society. today. DR.. Johnson already
| has completed a trip of 5000 miles in
| his boat, the Deeper Waterways, in the
| interest of the Atlantic Deeper Water
! ways Association and will also have
| something to say concerning the real
estate development from Maine to
| Miami. The quarterly meeting of the
! standing committee of the Maine His
torical Society will >be held today.
, The hopes of Miss Rose Emma
| T &c ;eIo ,hrf iaI
award in her $4,000 breach of promise
| suit in supreme court, Auburn, against
| Theodore Begin, of Lewiston, who has
been married 33 years and is the father
! of Is children, IL Of whom are living,
were shattered by jury on Tuesday.
She was awarded 81 with costs of %
cents. The plaintiffs charge that Mr..
Begin proposed marriage with her and
suggested elopement was countered by
the defendant with similar accusations.
A. E. Verrill appeared for the plain
tiff and Louis ]. Brann and Fernand
Despins for the defense. 1t is expected
the case will go to the Law Court
ExtricatinC himself from all sorts
of ties has generally been a COM
paratively easy proposition for
Alonzo Pettingill, known as Port
lands Houdini, but he met his
Waterloo on Tuesday when a defega-
ton of fishermen trussed Mr.. Pettin-
gill as he had never been trussed
before. This Houdini escaped from
the knots, but struggled in vain to
get out of the huge net of rope
which had been draped about his
body. His experience and his re-
sourcefulness in releasing himself
from knots. could avail him nothing
in this new situation. For the first
time, he found knots his master.
Roy Lindquist of Steep Falls, grad
uate of Maine Central Institute in the
class of 1925, has been nominated by
Congressman Carroll L. Beedy of Port
land as principal to take the examina-
ton for admission to the United States
Military Academy at West Point. He is
the son of Ernest K. Lindquist of
Steep Falls. At Maine Central Insti-
tute he was an excellent student and
exceedingly popular. He also was
an all round athlete, being especially