Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-14

her so
Why from our midst thus early did
Names best loved woman and her
busiest:
Was it because God knew she needed
rest?
But there is no rest on earth, neither
For one whose all is unto Others given:
She has just been promoted, since God
New tasks for her in purer realms
than these.
Well miss her, but all things Wen
In Gods own time, aye. and in Gods
Alice May Douglas.
The State ferry, Gov. King, Is to re-
sumo service on the Bath-Woolwich
route Saturday for the season.
Squirrel Island is to be favored with
the State tennis tournament again
this summer. It will be held the third
week in August. Squirrel has for years
made much of this popular sport aSd
it's courts are among the best, If not
the best, in the State.
A Find Yourself campaign for
interesting boys of high school age
in deciding upon their life work will
be put on for the boys of Portland,
South Portland and vicinity by the
Boys Work Department of the
Portland Y. M. C. A.
Bath, the shire town Of Sagada-
hoe county, was first explored by
George Weymouth in 1905, and was
decided to Rev. Robert Clutch. from
Salem, Mass, by Robin Hood, an
Indian sachem, May 20, 1860. Bath
was formerly part of Georgetown
and was incorporated the 41st town.
Feb. II, 1881. The population of
Bath in 1920 was 14,731, it's polls
were AGO. the value of its estates
were $12,143,4 63.
About $50 members Of the Auburn
Chamber of Commerce will leave in
automobiles at p. NJ. Friday for
Pennington where they will be enter
tanned for the evening. Judge Sumner
p. Mills of Pennington will preside.
w. G. Mallett, principal of the Farm
ington Normal school will give TO-
minute talk on Educational Matters"
and County Attorney Currier C. Hol-
man will talk on "Co-Operation." The
supper will be served by the ladies of
the Baptist church.
The old Noyes Block at Norway
has been stripped and is fast being
removed from the face of the earth.
More than a hundred years this
building has stood, and in it were
found many interesting things like
handmade nails, and pumpkin pine
boards "a to 27 inches wide cut out
with an old up land down saw. With
this building demolished the Weary
Club is at present without a home.
but certain members of the club
have purchased the northerly end of
the lot, and a neat club house will
go up there.
Charles loft, one of the older resi-
dedents Of Lubec, Washington county,
has received a letter from Governor
Brewster. making him a charter men,
Der of the Maine Three-Quarter Cen
fury Club. Mr.. loft, who is 81 years
old, has been in many ways a pioneer,
having been the first to introduce the
stationary steam engine as a motive
power into the town Of Lubec. The
small boiler which he installed in his
saw and grist mill about 35 years ago
was the only one in that vicinity. He
also brought the first stationary gas
engine there, one Of 12-horsepower,
put in to replace the steam boiler.
Mike Zoome appeared before Justice
Morrill, Wednesday at Bath supported
by Mayor Charles H. Cahill and
Sheriff J. Horace Mcclure. He was
after his final citizenship papers. If a
pleasant smile and gracious manner
would permit the naturalization of
Mike he would have been an American
citizen in five minutes. AS it was Mike
caused even Associate Justice Morrill,
to smile as he pleasantly admitted
reading the Constitution Of the Unit
ed States every night before going to
bed. Mike was Wasley Melnichuk in
the old country. Russia, from which he
came in 1907 and 1912. When he left
the court room as Mike Zoome, U. S.
A, he was unable to conceal his pleas
ure and insisted upon shaking hands
right and left.
Arrangements are being completed
by a committee from the Kiwanis
Club and Scoutmaster Walter A..
Clark of Troop 1. Boy Scouts Of
Biddeford to entertain the Boy
Scouts of York and Cumberland
county at field day in that city
Memorial Day. 1t is expected that
there will be an attendance of 500 or
more scouts from the two counties
and the plans are to make the day
one of the biggest in Scout history
in the country. Scoutmaster Clark,
and his assistant, Joseph Small, are
outlining program for sports and
exhibitions and contests in Scout
work. Some very attractive prizes
are to be awarded for the different
events of the day. The visiting
Scouts will take part in the Me-
mortal Day exercises with the G. A.
r.. and other war veterans organ
izations.
The first half Of the scheduled
Geographic meet between the Uni
versity of Maine and New Hamp-
shire University freshman track
teams was held last Tuesday after
noon, each team running off the
events on it's own field and ex-
changing the records by wire. The
meet was finished Thursday after
noon. This is the second year that
such meet has been held between
the two teams. the Maine yearlings
winning last spring by the narrow
margin of one point. The idea of
these .telegraphic meets. conducted
on the same basis as intercollegiate
rifle matches, developed among some
of the colleges west of the Missis-
sippi and was first used in the ter
rltory in the eastern part of the
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