Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-04

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BY John J. MacIntyre, New YORK.
City.
The early days Of May give prom
Use of regular summer, after all.
SO far as learned, there were no
movie men present to film the
spectacular scene of the breaking
into the Kennebec county jail!
Grammar school boys of Bangor
and Brewer have a baseball league
all their own. Six teams will be
represented in the league. these being
| the same that formed the organiza-
| ton last year. Games Of the League
started yesterday.
Miss Mary McSkimmon Of Brook
| line, Mass, president Of the National
Educational Association, is to be
principal speaker at the annual BAN
quet of the Bangor Teachers Club,
May IS. Miss McSkimmon was born
and educated in Bangor, but sire has
never taught there.
DR.. John Hewat of Lewiston is to
speak at the monthly meeting of the
Portland chapter, Reserve Officers
! Association of the United States
which will meet at the officers club
at Fort Williams. Wednesday even
! ing DIR. Hewat was in the English
army during the World war and
served on many fronts in various
parts of Europe.
Five sailings between May 10 and
July from Portland for Pacific
Coast points by way of the Argu-
naut-Isthmian Line have been an
nounced by Fred f. Gignoux, local
steamship agent and broker. The
| first sailing will be the Steamship
Robin Gray on May 10. The Mont
gomery City will leave May "a. The
Felix Taussig, June Z; Mobile City,
June 2l; and Steel Trader on July D.
Driverless autos collided on North
Main street. Auburn. Saturday.. The
cars. owned by George L. Berube,
of 206 Sabattus street. Lewiston,
salesman for the T. A. Huston Co..
and Emery W. Elliott. of IL Howard
street, Portland, had been left parked
on opposite sides of the street. In
some unknown manner Elliotts car
| started to move. ran across the
street and smashed the left rear
mudguard of Berube's car.
The management of Bangor and
Aroostook Railroad, aware that there
is a great deal of dissatisfaction In
! Guilford on account of the early
train from Greenville on the new
time table missing connection with
the Maine Central train leaving Do
YER Foxcroft at $50 a. m, has an
nounced it will start bus service
between Dover-FoXcroft and Gull
ford, a distance of only eight miles.
The people of both towns will thor
I oughly appreciate the accommodation.
The Loyal Workers Societies of
Portland, .Westbrook, South Wind
ham, Kennebunk, Biddeford and
Goodwin's Mills will meet at West
brook Tuesday evening, May Is, for
their second interlocal meeting. The
meeting will be held at the Advent
| Christian Church, Main street, West
brook The feature of the meeting
will be a symposium by seven young
people of the Biddeford society en-
titled Christ at the Door" Special
music is planned by the members OF
other societies.
The Maine Farmers Almanac
has this to say about May, having
promised cold cloudy April, which
| was fairly accurate: May AS. fine
for few days; II. rain: 1919,
rather cool an. unsettled for some
days; rs, showers: 1929, more rain.
| The United States Red Cross was
| founded in Nav, 1911. The months
| holiday, as everyone knows, is Me-
mortal day. May "a Is noted as be-
! ing the birthday of Queen Victoria,
| 1919. The days increase from IA
hours II minutes on the first to Is
hours 1e minutes on the S1st.
! The installation of the Rev. Vim
cent Brown Silliman as the 10th
minister of the First Parish Unita-
rian Church at Portland, will take
| stallation sermon will be by the Rev.
DR.. Richard w. Boynton. senior
minister of the First Unitarian Con-
gregational Church of Buffalo, n. Y,
where the Rev. Mr.. Silliman was
| junior minister three years before
coming to Portland. The installa-
| ton prayer will be by the Rev.
, Louis C. Cornish of Boston, secretary
of the American Unitarian Associa-
ton.
Nursing adequate for the modern
community" will be the keynote of
the biennial convention of the ma
tional nursing organizations May II
to % at Atlantic City. Seven thou
sand nurses from every state in the
union including a large delegation
from Maine and from Hawaii. Porto
Rico and Canada will be present at
convention which will be held under
the auspices of the American Nurses
Association, the National League of