Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-06

school building In one Of the biggest
building projects in recent years In
that city. This building has been COM
pleted and accepted by the city. and =
| formal dedication will be held In 3
few weeks. The past year has been
one Of marked activity In construction
In the city of Biddeford. The local con-
| tractors in addition to the work in
that city and Saco. have carried out
contracts for additions to hotels 1T
Old Orchard, and one OF the coptrac-
tors built an addition OF 50 rooms and
q dining hall at the Momentum at Ken
nebunkport.
Capt. M. r. Littiefeid and w. B.
Young, assistants to the United
States local inspectors Of fulls and
boilers, paid an unheralded visit to
i Bath Monday morning to look over
the state-owned ferry boats Gov.
King and Hockomoc. They express
ed themselves as greatly pleased with
the installation of the new shafts on
the Gov. King. relocation of certain
of its bulkheads and the general
also pleased with the general condi-
eAoAA ~ tiO AAoShOthOCAs DClOlC NC
F., parting the inspectors congratulated
Resident Manager Edmund p. Briggs
for the splendid condition and gen.
eral upkeep Of the two craft.
Owing to the fact that few Of the
ocean steamers now arriving at
Portland are carrying wireless oper-
ators, due to the strike at the English
ports, the Portland pilots are all at
| sea to when the steamers may be
expected. and are forced to put in q
lot of overtime outside, Watching for
their arrival. For more than SO
hours, they were laying outside the
port watching for the arrival of the
White Star-D Dominion liner Welsh
man. coming from Liverpool and
Avonmouth. The Welshman is
booked to leave Portland on Satur-
day next on her return trip, and
| following her departure, the next
sailing on the company's schedule
will be made by the steamer Colon
| ian, which left Liverpool yesterday
for Portland, sailing from Portland
op her return Jan. %.
Frederick r. Dyer. U. s. District
| 0tIoIASy 4OA 4udAhC LIdu 1OuI
years, is a native of Old Town. boy
hood resident in Canton. graduate OF
Hebron Academy, lawyer in Buck.
field and former representative In
the Legislature and more than two
terms county attorney of Oxford
County. He has a decidedly busy job
just now. far different mass and
class of duties devolvins upon the
job than before National prohibition
was enacted. A score Of really big
cases have come under his charge
as the Governments chief prosecut-
ing officer and he gets results. 1t Is
either a big fine or a long term In
Atlanta for the big bootleggers &C.
cording to his preference and the
| Court sustains him. He is a mem.
| Der OF Rumford Lodge of Elks. has
long time secretary of the Repub-
lican state committee. He has NOV.
| ed to the Deering district Of Port
land from Rumford and intends to
make Portland his home henceforth
| Stephen S. Bunker, city engineer of
Bangor, who is among the candidates
being considered for the city manager
ship of Auburn. is native of Bar
Harbor, about so years old and q grad
uate of the University of Maine with
degree of civil engineer in the class
Of 1897. After his graduation he was
| for time with the Rockland city engi-
neer's department, then went to New
York where he was three years on
railroad construction with the James
| p. Mcdonald Co. He worked on what
is now the Washington county division
OF the Maine Central, Also In Virginia
and other states. In 1900 he built an
| extension to the water-works in Bar
| Harbor, was for q year in Pittsburgh
! Pa, on street construction, built
| water-works at Jersey city and was
two years in railroad construction in
| Oklahoma.
| In 19O4-o5 Mr.. Bunker was chief OF
party in preliminary survey Of a rail-
road in the Andes, by the government
Of Bolivia and again went to South
America in 1908 where he was four
years in railroad building in the valley
| of the Amazon.
! In 1913 he was made assistant en-
| gineer with the Maine State Highway
Commission and continued in that Of
flee until January, 1922. with the ex-
ception of his period of war service.
| I1c was ~ HfOHluS AZ rTdHC0 III CHAR &c
Of grading and steam-shovel work at
| st. Nazaire remaining some time after
the Armistice to repair roads.
While with the State highway de-
partment he was in charge of improved
road building in concrete and bitumi-
nous macadam and built the concrete
road from Bangor to Orono. In Janu-
| airy 1922, with the consolidation Of the
! city OF Bangor street. highway engi-
| neering and sewer departments under
newly constituted Board of Public
works. Mr.. Bunker was elected city
engineer at salary Of $4,000 and has
since held the position.
His wife was Euna Sanford of Bath
and they have several children.