Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-15

gas and left the machine there and
walked into town. They evidently
had been afraid that the auto would
| be stolen during the night and left
| it in this condition to fool robbers.
Work is progressing rapidly on
the Bates College gym which is
expected to be finished by Jan. l,
1927, according to present plans.
The remainder of the cement for
! the foundation of the mems locker
building will be laid today. The
foundation on the gym is also well
along the way and the brick work
on the women's locker building was
started Tuesday. All three build
| ings are to adjoin the present
athletic building making one large
structure.
On Saturday the annual council
camp of Cumberland County Coun-
Gil, Boy Scouts of America, will OPP
en- and the regular program of scout
activities will be followed. The
| camp will be held this year at East
| Harpswell at what is known as the
Open Edge Camps. Camping trips
are planned for the near future by
several of the troops i'll the council.
Troop IA of St.. Luke's Cathedral
will go to the cathedral camp at
Porter next Monday. Troop 10 of
| East Deering will go into camp for
! several days at Forest Lake.
A II. Robbins of Biddefori, agent
of the Pine Tree Humane society,
made his regular weekly trip to
Portland last Monday night and
reports finding two cars of cattle
overloaded at Rigby. Mr.. Robbins
| states that in one pen which held
| sheep and a calf there was not
room enough for the sheep alone
| to say nothing of the calf. One of
| the cars was overloaded with AZ
calves. Mr.. Robbins notified the
authorities of the Boston & Maine
railroad and stocllmen were sent to
remedy the matter. Three carloads
were made out of the cattle and
sheep which before had been crowd
ed into two cars. Mr. Robbins
goes to Portland every Monday to
/ inspect the shipping of cattle and to
| be on the lookout for cruelty to
animals in crowding cattle into
cars.
| Monday mornings session of the
! Probate Court at Auburn brought
| to light stol of love for childpen
and of devotion to them, seldom
| seen, when Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew
/ F. Conway of Sabattus filed petit
tions for the adoption of three
charming little girls. Their action
grew out Of tragedy of the World
War, when their only son, Harry ].
Conway, was killed in action over
seas. Mrs. Conway, who is the
towns only Gold Star mother. was
nearly heartbroken. When the ap-
| peal was made to America to adopt
| war orphans she volunteered to take
| one of the poor little unfortunate
children who had been bereft of
their parents by what terrible
tragedy of the war one can only
conjecture. And so Veronica"
| came to Sabattus and entered the
home of the Conways eight years
ago. She is now IL years of age.
The second little girl, who Is about
IL years old, was found deserted
in a Portland hotel when she was
about six weeks old. MARY" found
as warm love as did Veronica and
as good hove. 1t was not enough
to take these two little girls but
last March the Conways opened
their home to another child-this
time a baby about two years old
MARY" was born in Biddeford. Her
parents, also are unknown. She
was sent to the Holy Innocents'
Home in Portland and from there
taken by the Conways. Three hap
pier children are not often found
in homes of blood parents. They are
having the carefree lives that all
children should have, good Christian
training and the advantages of edu-
cation. They return the affection
showered upon them with interest,
idolizing their foster parents. Who
shall say that the Conways are not
the real parents of these little girls?
Accident of birth does not make a
father nor mother-that takes an
understanding love; a sense of re-
sponsibiblity toward children and
the State, and a sympathetic knoWl-
edge of the heart and soul of the
child besides thoughtful ideals,
possessed by all too few parents.