Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

William Blow is blowing about the
record for the best-hook-catch of
smelts on the Saco river he having
bagged Ill smelts on Sunday.
Saco and vicinity is yet loyal to
the sport of horse-racing and is
scraping the ice on the river prepara-
tory for races.
Now the National Electric Light
ing Association has declared the
Quoddy power project to be sound
in theory. Good!
Representative John w. Leland of
Sangerville announces his candidacy
for the State Senate. His record
in the last two sessions of the
Legislature is one to which he need
not hesitate to point with pride.
John Lowry of Bath was looking
for gas leak Sunday afternoon.
He is now lying in the hospital as
sured there was a leak, although the
explosion interfered with locating 1t.
He was badly burned about the face.
Some will say boys will skate on
thin ice and slide in the path Of
motor cars. Others say boys who do
these things will be spanked if they
arnt first killed. The boys continue
to skate and slide, however-that is,
some of them do.
Get out your tape measures folks!
Mrs. Ella Bradbury Of East Brown
field has a seranium five and one
half feet In height and a begonia
leaf which measures IT inches in
diameter. How much do some OF
your house plants measure.
Wonder If the Hall of Fame has
heard that s. Settler of Auburn is
vice-president of the Maine Bottlers'
Observation-Disclosures Democrat. ~
Let's see, didn't Settler go out along
with certain other liquids, or does
seltzer lemonade yet effervesce in
oxford County?
A recruiting campaign il being
carried on in Biddeford and Saco
by Company A. 103rd Infantry. Every
man of the two cities, between the
ages of IS and as, who Is single and
naturalized or taking steps to be
naturalized will be visited by solicit
tors.
The two Boston policemen who
were arrested last week on charge
of a hold-up and robbery were under
the jurisdiction of Police Captain
Bradley C. Mason, who Immediately
suspended T.; em. Mr.. Mason Is . MAJ
tive of Paris and has been on the
police force in Boston for many
years.
A man past eighty in one Maine
town had to walk eight miles with
his horse to get him shod. as the
blacksmith shops nearer had been
changed into garages or gone out OF
business. The only feature of the
situation that Is not clear is, why
he had to walk when he took the
horse along.-The Oxford Democrat.
Bangor Man Invents- Machine to
Run on Road, in Water or atop
Snow Headline Bangor always
boosted of a "get-a-move-o on -pirit"-
not referring to the bottled variety
By some oversight the ability to fly
was not included in the list of capa-
bilitieS of this wonderful machine.
invented and built by George Nc
Laughlin of that town.
There Is talk Of a decrease in po-
tato acreage in Aroostook next year.
There has been talk in different parts
of the country about a decreased
wheat and corn and tobacco acreage
and little ever came of 1t. Has
Aroostook enough OF the Dirigo in
her system to lead the way? Aroos-
took's pretty poppy county, should
anyone ask.
Bangor is but three weeks from
the Convocation week services con.
Quoted by the Bangor Theological
seminary for II years with extraor.
binary success. The announcement
of the program for the 18th annual
Week gives every pre-
mise Of a rich intellectual treat and
indicates that the achievements OF
the past will be duplicated.-Banzor
Co1axneSciaL