Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-16


And dance like flame
Through night-black woods.
With starshine in my hair.
But a little house needs tending:
Fires must be kept
White beds each morning
Must be made,
And porches newly swept.
And so I hush my hayward heart,
And cook and serve the meals,
But neighbors wonder
Why l wear
Gay slippers with red heels.
By Lexie Dean Robertson in June
Good Housekeeping.
The new Sesqui- Centennial stamps
are making their appearance on mail
matter coming into Maine. They
are long and done in red with a
picture of the Liberty bell on the
two cent denomination.
A Bath man working at the Kit
terry navy yard says that instead of
there being from 200 to 500 Bath
men employed there now that the
recent lay-off has cut the number
down to about Is.
Excursions from Boston and North
Adams, Mass, and Portsmouth, n.
H, added quite a number to the
crowds at Old Orchard beach last
Sunday. The day was the biggest of
the year at the resort.
Selectman Fred l. Luce OF Old
Orchard received a telegram Satur-
day noon fom the Boston airport to
the effect that the trial fight of the
prsuit planes from the army base
at Boston, which was to have been
held last Saturday, had been put
over to Saturday of this week. A
squadron of eight planes will come
to Old Orchard Saturday afternoon
and land on the beach.
Rev. Ashley A. Smith. D. D., pas
tor Of the Universalist church at
Bangor, had a busy Sunday, as in
addition to his usual services, he
had two out of town meetings to
attend, delivering memorial ad-
dress at Monroe and later giving
the baccalaureatc sermon to the
graduating class of Carmel, return
! ing to Bangor for the usual Sun
day night services.
Congressman Wallace H. White
was summoned before the Lewiston
board of registration Saturday, it
was disclosed. to show why his name
should be on the Lewiston voting
list. The directory gives his resi-
dence as Auburn, where he has
resided for the past few years, when
not at Washington. He expressed
| the wish to have his name continued
on the Lewiston list as he has al
| ways voted in that city. Decision
was reserved.
Col. W. w. Crosby, formerly OF
Bangor, and a distinguished gradu-
ate of the University of Maine, who
was honored with the degree of
| Doctor of Engineering by his alma
mater on Monday, will sail on July
| l, to attend the International con-
| ference of road engineers in Italy.
Col. Crosby was formerly state road
commissioner Of Maryland estab-
| fishing there a national reputation.
| He has been in Bangor for several
days, leaving yesterday with Gen.
! Mark l.. Jersey and Maj. Harry NJ.
| head Lake.
| Carloads of calcium chloride have
been unloaded by the State High
way Commission at Van Buren,,
Grand Isle and Madawaska. 1t is
| planned to sprinkle the main roads
! between Van Buren, and Madawaska
| and Van Buren, and Caribou with
| this chemical as an experiment to
see If it will lay the dust. For the
| first layer the commission expects to
use "a barrels to the mile and on
the second layer but seven barrels
! to the mile will be used. Should
the experiment prove successful in
laying the dust, then this will be an
| annual feature on all of the state
maintained roads.
Adolphe Pelletier; 81, formerly OF
Lewiston, was brought back to that
city by Chief Ashton, early Tues
day from Pawtucket, r. l.. where
| he was arrested on an indictment
| charging the sale of mortgaged
property. Pelletier was taken i'll al
Portland. Chief Ashton worked
over him for some time, Monday
evening. finally boarding the 9:05
Interurban. They went into a res
taurant and while there the man
suffered an attack Of acute indiges-
ton. He was taken i'll again on the
car and Chief Ashton took him off
at Deering. At police headquarters
there the man was attended by a
physician and was brought back to
Lewiston still suffering badly.
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The announcement by the g. D.
Warren Co. Of westbrook that they
were to build the tallest chimney in
New England has caused Biddeford
people to ponder upon how the new
chimney will compare with the La
coma mills chimney in Biddeford.
The Warren chimney will be on a
foundation 40 feet above the sea level
and will go UP into the air $50. feet
1t will be 4s feet higher than the
Sanford mills chimney, considered
the tallest chimney in Maine at the
present time. AS to the Laconia
chimney, 1t is 251 feet and 10 inches in
height. At the time 1t was claimed
that this was the second tallest CHM
ney in New England, the tallest at the
time being that at the Commonwealth
electric light plant near Boston, ais
feet high. The bore Of the Laconia
chimney is 16 feet. six inches on the
inside at the bottom and IL feet, six