Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-19
MAINE GOSSIP
MY Blessings

MY Blessings
Numberless as the golden stars
That in the heavens shine,
And countless as the desert sands,
Are the blessings that are mine!
More numerous cen than the dust Of
earth,
My blessings do I find;
For everything / see, or know
Seems a blessing to my mind.
Alice May Douglas.
The State ferry Governor King did
a big business carrying automobiles
between Bath and Woolwich last
Sunday. On one trip the boat
carried 20 cars.
HOLSTERS are now selling at 81 cents
a pound by down river fishermen. The
price has not dropped because they
are plenty but because the Nova
Scotia Holsters have commenced to
come into the market-Bath Times.
William s. Linnell and Mrs. Sara
p. Anthoine, Cumberland county
members of the Republican State
committee, have called a luncheon
committee for Saturday noon at the
Falmouth hotel in Portland. A chair
man and vice chairman of the county
committee will be chosen, organiza-
ton Of the committee perfected and
preliminary campaign plans made.
Two stuffed musk oxen, the gift
Of Donald B. Macmillan to his Alma
Mater. have recently been placed on
exhibition in the Science building
at Bowdoin College. The two musk
oxen. a big fellow and a baby an
imal, were shot on his last expedi-
ton to the Arctic and have attracted
much attention since being placed
on exhibition. On an earlier trip to
the Frozen North DR.. Macmillan
obtained polar bear which he had
stuffed and presented to the college
and which now occupies prominent
place in the trophy room Of gymna-
SUM.
City Manager Brinkerhoff Of Port
land, has received positive word from
Vice Admiral J. S. Mexican, that
three battleships, the Wyoming. the
New York and the Utah, with 600
midshipmen and 1400 enlisted men
and officers on board, will arrive in
Portland Harbor Sunday. June 20, to
stay until Tuesday, June %. The
committee of the city council will
proceed with its plans for entertaining
the sailors which have been delayed
by the uncertainty of the arrival of
, the ships. A ball will probably be
given the midshipmen at Portland
city hall Monday night. The officers
will be the guests at luncheons in
! various clubs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hodgkins Of
Bath have two old store bills dated
1851 which they prize highly. They
do not treasure them for their age
alone, but because the storekeeper
was D. D. Hodgkins, father of Her
bert and the customer was the grand
father of Mrs. Hodgkins. The store
was grocery and general store which
was located on Ferry street in a part
of the building now owned by o. NJ.
Redlon, plumber. 1t is interesting to
note from some of the items on the
| bill the prices charged in those days.
Butter was Is cents a pound. vinegar
20 cents a gallon cream of tartar %
cents pound, nutmegs II cents an
ounce. cheese 10 cents a pound, salt
pork II cents a pound, potatoes 30
cents a bushel. dried apples seven
cents a pound, flour Sc a barrel
/ There were two pairs Of boots charged
on the bill. one pair was $1.25 and the
other $3.50.
Speakers Of prominence including
a representative of the National
Federation of Business and Profess
sional Women's Clubs will address
! the delegates to the Maine Fedora
| ton BPW convention which will be
held at Houlton on Friday and Sat-
urday. May % and 20. 1t is expected
that the national officer present will
| be the national executive secretary,
Miss Emma Dot. Partridge. At the
| business session on the first day. the
Augusta club will present plans for
State Federation flag. Invitations
! for the next State convention will be
received. The banquet will be held
| that evening, Mrs. Jennie Flood
! Kreger acting IS toastmistress. The
| speakers will be Judge Charles P.
Barnes. Mary Arleite Penney, Flora
| e. Weed, and Dean Caroline Colvin
of the University of Maine. Reports
| from the chairmen in the various
committees will be presented on Sat-
urday morning, May 20.
Auburn's largest dancing pavilion,
located on the Danville road and
known as Oakdale, representing the
| investment of many thousands of
| dollars, has not been a financial sue
| cess 1t Is disclosed in documents con-
| nected with the petition of Harry c.
Hobbs of Auburn for the dissolution
of his partnership with Fred D..
Sands. which was granted by JUS
tice Morrill,, Supreme Court, Auburn.
| in an introductory decree filed at
the Clerk of Courts office, Auburn,
Monday. Justice Morrill,, after dis
solving the partnership, orders that
said cause be referred to Forest E.
Ludden, Of Auburn, one of the
Masters in Chancery of Supreme
Court, to take an account of all
assets and liabilities and report
the same. Mr.. Ludden is APP
pointed receiver to collect all out
standing claims due the partnership.
He is to file $4,000 bond. After the
partnership property has been sold,
either at public auction or private
sale. the balance, If there is any
after debts have been paid, is to
be divided equally among the former
partners.
A fight will be staged before the
Interstate Commerce Commission by
residents of Kennebunk and Kenne-