Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-31

Why do people linger near 1t?
IT'S secret you can tell.
With a little cup we drink you.
Always willingly you gives
| Not allowing us to shrink you
But instead you live and live.
Those who've passed you won't forget
Many friends you'll always keep,
| And the rest who've never met you
VIII not give you time for sleep.
| What a wondrous little worker
You must be to sing and sing.
Never yet you've been a shirker,
All! Who could ignore r spring!
Forrest Storms.
skowhegan. Maine.
Montreal Is to be the meeting place
Of this years convention of the
Operative Plasters and Cement Fin
ishers' International Association.
Construction of a new roundhouse
to accommodate seven locomotives will
be begun at Lewiston by the Maine
Central Railroad In April. 1t will
occupy a site near the present build
ing which has five stalls. A new
coaling plant is to have an elevated
shed in order to permit rapid load
ing.
Work has been commenced on the
excavating for the construction Of
the Congress Square Annex, Port
lands newest hotel. The annex
which will be on High Street to the
rear Of the present hotel. will be IL
stories in height, constructed of
brick and limestone. Plans are made
to have the new annex ready for
operation by May or June Of 1927.
Rev. E. S. Ufford, author of the
hymn Throw Out the Life Line" re-
belled at the snow blockade and
| walked from his home in Union to
| Rockland IS miles away. An urgent
need for his long hike was the ex-
traction of two aching teeth and
| when this had received attention he
declared he felt better and started
back home by the way Of Thomaston
and Warren.
BY the repeal OF the tax law effec-
tive Saturday tax stamps are no
longer necessary on real estate deeds,
according to an announcement Mon
day for the benefit of the public by
| Register of Deeds Hiram T. Stevens,
Register Stevens calls-attention at
| the same time that under a new act
of the last legislature all persons
publishing notices of foreclosure
when attaching their signatures to
Tho document -Rafh TirpoS
! Representative Raymond S. Oaks
of Portland has made his formal
announcement Of his candidacy for
the Republican nomination for State
| Senator from Cumberland county
Representative Cakes is the 18th
candidate who has formally an
nounced himself for the four Cum
berland County Senate positions and
at least one more is expected to en-
ter the field. He Is lawyer, men,
| Der of the firm of Cakes & Skillin
and is at present chairman of the
, Republican City Committee. He is
the son of Judge Henry w. Cakes
Of Auburn. At the last session OF
the Legislature he was active IN put
ting through the House the auto
| AiOSilC iCSlpl Otlty Oil SpOuSOISO
other important legislation.
| At the regular service Of the First
Universalist church at South Paris
last Sunday. Rev. Chester Gore
Miller read his resignation thu.
terminating the second longes,
pastorate in the history Of South
Paris. Mr.. Miller requested the un-
animous acceptance OF his resigna-
ton which will take effect May 81
1926, completing a ministry of six
teen years and five months. He has
pastorates for nearly thirteen years
| that is the First Universalist
churches of South Paris and Norway
and he feels it would be for the best
! interest Of both his churches and
himself, in view of the greatly in
creased number Of calls for profess
sional services outside of his par
| tshes, II he relinquished his South
Paris charge, which now may have
| a minister who can devote himself
| exclusively to the needs of the
society.
In the report Of the Androscoggin
| county commissioners for 1874 on the
county jail one learns that a shop had
just been erected equipped with steam
! power. The authorities seemed to think
| that the cost of enforcing the law was
| so great. some means should be taken
to guarantee some returns to the
county from the prisoners themselves
to pay for this cost. They reported
that all wood had been sawed by
prison labor and that the washing,
mending and making of bedding had
been done by the female prisoners.
F. T. Fuller, who manufactured inner
| soles. tips and shoe counters had
taken the contract and had received
46l6 days labor of men under pay and
2S363 days that he did not have to
pay for.
The board and key fees were $3.50
OF, clothing, bedding and medicine
etc, s1519.41: total. s7S5s.4s. For la
Dor the county received $21S3.61; fines
and costs. $994.62: received from other
counties, $4e15; due from other coun-
ties. s466.7S. making s3624.15. So that
the prisoners had cost the county
$4034.27. The Jail had cared for 32S
persons; EOS males and 80 females. As
usual seven-eighths of the prisoners
had been committed because of intem-
perance or because of a low order of
morale. They had had Incorporate
parents who neglected them and
they had grown up unrestrained in ap-
petites and passions untaught in any
school save vice and ignorance.
At the age of five years. Eugene
G. Kicker Biddeford's 26-year-old
fire department chief, displayed his
first interest in fire departments. He
received a little red toy fire wagon