Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-25

The Eastport Rotary Club recently
celebrated its. first anniversary with a
program Of especial interest
Joseph F. Mason of Wells would like
to hear from a brother mason who has
been Free. Mason longer than he has.
He Joined the Masons in 1858 and he is
| now SO years, 10 months of age. He
Joined Mt. Taber Lodge, East Boston.
Bird lovers at Wilton are convinced
that a bird seen in the birches near
the Bass shoe factory is mocking
bird. Radio fans have heard talks by
Thornton Burgess lately in one of
which he stated that two hooking
/ birds were wintering in central New
England, and some two or three years
! ago newspaper article told of one on
the Maine coast, but so far as is
| known. this is the first time one has
been seen in the vicinity of Wilton.
Many Maine people here, and some
thing doing all the time" writes hem
! ~ A. Howard, who is wintering in st.
| Petersburg, Fla. I'VE are having more
cold weather than usual in Florida.
| Two large hotel openings take place
this week, including Hotel Rolyat, Jack
! Taylor's hotel at Pasadena on the
Gulf. There are also two art ex-
! hibits here this week. Most of the pic
! lures were painted on the Maine coast.
| The Monhegan and Mt. Desert paint
| ings looked good to me."-Rockland
! Courier-Gazette.
An onnianf
| priced possession of Albert Holbrook
| of Freeport. 1t is a wicked-looking
stick and in the hands of a quick
| moving Indian would be a match for
any tough antagonist. 1t is impossi-
| BILE to tell its age. but it has been in
| the hands of the Holbrook family for
q century and very little is known of
! its history. The instrument, if such
| it can be called was made from the
! root of a. white birch tree five sharp
| prongs or knobs fashioned perhaps by
! a sharp shell adorn the root which is
| about eight inches in diameter and
! the length over all is about two feet
| The likeness of an Indian has been
| ehiseled on the root while on the ham
! die leaves and ferns are plainly visible
be candidate for the Republican nom
ination for sheriff of Androscoggin
county. Sam o. Foss, Jr, executive
! secretary of the Auburn Chamber of
| Commerce, was asked by a newspaper
reported if he intended to resign his
! secretaryship in view of the Cham
! ber's adopted policy of being strictly
non-political. and he replied in the neg
alive. He seeks the office of sheriff
! on the issue that it should not be held
by any man for more than two terms.
! Mr. Foss has been executive secretary
! of the G. of c. since last summer and
prior to accepting the position he now
holds he conducted a barber shop in
Auburn for a number of years. He is
prominent in fraternal circles through
out the State.
The Hancock County Ministerial AS
ISOLATION will hold it's next meeting
! February 1 at the Ellsworth Falls
church with two sessions. In the
| afternoon Rev. Henry w. Conley will
| give an address on IF Again; What?'
This will be followed by discussion
Refreshments will be served in the
parsonage Rev. Isaac Brindley will
| preside at the evening meeting. There
| will be special music by choir and So
loists. Rev. George S. Brookes of the
| Ellsworth Congregational church, who
| is soon go to the Congregational
| church at Rockville, Conn, will deliver
! his farewell address to the associa-
| ton Rev. John S. Pendleton of the
| Columbia Street Baptist church, Ban
| gor, will deliver the principal address
| of the evening.
Although living conditions In the
lumber camps in Maine are vastly diff
| ferent from what they once were, it is
said to be increasingly hard to recruit
a crew for the woods, and the men
| are much more likely to leave
after they have once begun work.
Perhaps some conditions about the
camp are not just to their liking. or
| the cook doesn't satisfy them. But the
| lack of entertainment is one of the
| strongest factors in making the men
| restless. If there isn't village near
! by where they can 60 to the movies
| they are apt to leave their Jobs. Shades
Of the old-fashioned rip-roaring lum-
| ber-jack, who went into the deep
| woods in the fall, worked IA hours a
| day and lived on baked beans, came
| out on the drive in the spring-and
then blew his pay in weeks big
spree! But that hardy and pictures
| que character seems to be passing,
along with the COW puncher and the
tramp printer.-The Oxford Democrat.