Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-18

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| There is 80 very much Of you in every
plan I make,
For something in the smile Of you
can always seem to wake
| The laughter and the song of me-
your fingers on my own
Create for us garden place, where
we can walk alone!
There is so very much of you In every
faith I know
| Perhaps it is because my heart has
come to need you so!
by Margaret Sangster in Delineator
Magazine.
Records at Boston and Wiscasset
were examined in determining the di-
viding line between the cities Of Lew
iston and Auburn. In connection with
the controversy over the taxation OF
the Gulf Island dam and Auburn city
fathers now admit that 1t is "the
thread of the stream and not the
east bank.
The State Of Maine Publicity Blu
reau will continue to have its head
quarters at Its present offices in
Longfellow Square, at Portland and
win not move to the new building
of the Portland Chamber of Com
MERGE on Free street. This was de-
cided at a meeting of the bureaus
| executive committee held at the Fall
mouth Hotel in Portland, Wednesday
afternoon. Frank d. Marshall, chair
man of the executive committee, and
Perley F. Ripley were selected to
represent the bureau at a meeting of
the State of Maine Associates to be
held at Gov. Brewster's office at
Portland this Saturday afternoon and
at which the plan of having joint
[. budget for the bureau, the State
z, Chamber OF Commerce a. Agricul-
tural League and the New England
Council will be discussed.
Many prominent fair men. Including
! w. III. Gocher, secretary of the Ma
| tional Trotting Association of Hart
| ford, and c. A. Nash, general manager
of the Eastern States Exposition in
Springfield, will be heard at Bangor
| on Jan. IL and 10 when the Maine
Agricultural Fairs Association meets
for its annual sessions. Among
i other speakers will be \. w. LON
| bard, secretary of the Massachu-
! sets Fairs Association: Milton Dan :
zizier, assistant general manager OF
| the Springfield Exposition; Frank p
i Washburn, commissioner of Agricul-
| ture of Maine; Prof. l.. S. Cobett, G.
; f.. Simmons, o. NJ. Wilbur and l.. D
! Shibles, all of the University OF
| Maine, Frank Muzzey of Pittsfield
Y. H. and George 4. Palmer of Gull
ford. The local committee in charge
) of arrangements consists of George
! W. Prescott, Joseph Brown and A. B
/ Pecllham.
+, Bangor News$ This ancient and
| famous seaport is still doing business
despite all efforts of the celebrated
Ice King TO clamp on the lid.
| On Thursday the coast guard
steamer Acushnet came up from
Bucksport and cleared the way
| through various thicknesses of ice
slush and snow as far as South
! Brewer, for the motor taL.ser Bacoi
from Fall River, which passed in
Fort Point on Wednesday. The BacoI
| came along under her own power
| Thursday morning and had no trou-
| bic docking at the wharf Of the
Eastern Mfg. Co. wher0 all day she
was discharging her cargo of $4,000
barrels of fuel oil.
This morning the Acushnet will
again come from BuclSsport to loosen
things up in the channel and give the
Bacoi a good chance to get away, fol-
lowing her down the river.
| So far as anyone now knows. this
will be the last act Of the thrilling
| drama, The Sea of Ice, as played on
| tho Donnhc1of
Forrest G. spofford, probation Off
Ger at Biddeford, says: zone time
when 1 was boy several of us start
ed for Days Siding to hunt coons.
| We knew that there was a den of them
| in the rocks near the siding and so we
took a quantity of sulphur along to
| use in smoking them out. As | re-
member 1t I think that 1t was Christ
mas Day. We finally arrived at the
place and 1 was elected to crawl into
the den and plant the sulphur. got in
all right and started the sulphur burn
ing. I started to crawl out and as I
got little way l got stuck in the
rocks and couldn't move 1 shouted to
the boys who were with me and they
started to haul me out, but before
IHcy Coulu get NE started the names
from the sulphur burned my eyebrows
and singed my hair, burned my new
sweater that I had received for Christ
mas and made me a wreck generally.
The sulphur fumes were also fast
overcoming me when they finally got
mo into the fresh air. In that instance
1t was not the coons that got smoked
out. it was t.
Thomas H. Macdonald. chief of
the U. s. Bureau of Public Roads,
Washington, D. c., has accepted the
invitation Of the Maine Automobile
Association to be its principal speak
er at the annual meeting and dinner
Of that organization to be held at the
Falmouth Hotel in Portland, Tuesday
evening, Dec. 2S. Mr.. Macdonald,
who Is internationally recognized as
an authority on highway problems,
was chairman of the American
delegation appointed by President
Coolidge to attend the International
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