Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-25

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the Maine Central pockets.
Now that it has practically been de-
cided to abandon steamboat service
between Augusta and The ocean re-
sorts this coming summer, who will
be the first person to make application
for the establishment of a jitney route
from central Kennebec to Poothbay
Harbor and Ocean Point?
A Bath taxdriver reports that the
highway from that city as far as New
Meadows is a regular boulevard now
and from there to Brunswick is so
that cars are making the run through
in very good time. One five-passenger
car went through Monday night bring
| ing seven people in about half hour.
An absolutely thief proof Ford car
is possessed by Harold L. Karl and
| thereby hangs a tale. Friday night he
/ attempted to house his car but stalled
Fit hub deep in slush in the driveway.
| He thought he would get it out in the
! morning, but the thermometer dropped
| to zero and the car is still there
Rockland Courier Gazette.
Auburn is anticipating the erection
| of. a 100000 theater by William P.
| Gray, president of the Maine and New
| Hampshire Theater Company. The Au-
| burn city government voted Tuesday
| evening to sell the American Legion
| property, so-called, on Court street,
! opposite the courthouse, to Mr.. Gray,
| for $4,000.
Eugene Soucy Of Webster, who filed
| exceptions with the law court follow
| ing his conviction by the superior
| court, Auburn, jury on q charge of
maintaining a liquor nuisance, was
committed to the county jail at Au-
| burn Tuesday to serve two months
with four months additional in default
| Of payment Of a $500 fine. The law
court did not uphold his exceptions.
An estate located in seven different
counties Of the State and estimated
to be worth $114,336.eS, is that Of the
late Robain Arsenault Of Auburn,
the papers Just filed at the Office of
the register Of probate for Andro-
! scoggin county. For three weeks, ap-
praisers have been working on this
| estate gathering the tangled assets.
The estate Is divided into real estate,
! $S1,291; goods and chattels, $12.740
and rights and credits $20,305.9S. The
executors are endeavoring to keep the
estate from being bankrupt, bills and
liens are being constantly filed against
the estate.
Miss Julia NJ. Anderson, daughter Of
Anders A. Anderson Of Rockland, who
is Junior at Bates College. is one Of
the three girls in her class to have the
highest total strength. According to
the athletic department Of the college,
good muscle tone and health go to-
gether. They have found that the
girls with the highest total strength
have a good all round development,
the condition Of their nerves is fine,
and they more nearly approach the
average for their group in height and
weight. These girls are the athletic
leaders Of the college. Miss Anderson
made the first hockey team this year,
and has been out for volley ball and
hiking.
Tuesday marked the 1sSth ami
versary Of the Incorporation Of Pc
nobscot, the 10th town in Maine,
which extended from Buck Harbor to
the foot of orphan Island, distance
Of nearly Is miles. 1t was the first
town to be incorporated on the east
ern bank Of the Penobscot waters and
embraced the celebrated peninsula of
Major-beguyduce, now Castine. Pc
nobscot was number in the first
class of townships conditionally
granted by the Provincial General
Court in 1852, an effected settlement
having been commenced two years
before by eight or 10 families who
came across the bay from the neigh
borhood Of Fort Pownal.
A former Lewiston man who has
just returned from a visit to the an
thracite fields, where he made a study
Of conditions resulting from the strike
and those responsible for the settle
ment, has written the following inter-
estfng letter on the subject. He failed
to find any of the strikers in distress,
but all restless from months Of idle
ness and anxious to resume opera
lions. Contrary to the supposition in
many sections far removed from the
anthracite coal mines sections, the re-