Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-24

For them to venture out when WINDS
Are bullying and rough.
When walk down the mua s roap'
The flowers will be coming soon
They're fussier than wei!
In Portland Sunday Telegram.
Twenty-one pupils and several
friends Of the Jordan High school OF
Lewiston, are leaving this coming
! Friday on the annual trip OF the
senior class to Washington.
Two Maine students. sophomores at
Yale University. are included in the
announcement of scholarship honors at
at the close of the winter semester.
They are David Brown of Bath, sec
ond rank; and Ashley Temple Day or
| Freeport, third rank.
A new advertising proposition mas
been put before the Lewiston City
Council, this being q proposal to
eouip the city with rubbish cans for
81. with the right to sell advertising
to go on the sides of the cans as well
as to exclude other similar advertise
ments. The matter was referred to
the corporation counsel and then will
go to the highway committee.
A new wrinkle in home surgery has
been successfully performed by Mrs.
Myron E. Huff of WATERFORD in re-
moving a long darning needle and
piece of thread from the throat of a
pet cat. Last Christmas, Mrs. HUFF
lost a needle and thread which she
had been using to sew up chicken
after stuffing. Recently an abccss
formed on the neck of the household
cat. While washing this with disin-
fectant, Mrs. Huff felt. the needle, and
extracted it with a pair Of pliers.
Elmer NJ. Campbell. director of the
! division Of sanitary engineering.
Maine State Department Of Health,
of Augusta, was the speaker at Tues
days meeting of the Bath Rotary
club. His subject was Water Anal
ysis and Colonization" which Is of
particular interest at. Bath now ow-
| ing to the belief by some that the
extensive loss of plants at the Ken
nebee Greenhouses was due to the
chlorination of the Bath water
| supply.
/ Aunt Rebecca P. Roberts, the old
est resident in Westbrook, who died
Monday morning at the age of . 81
years, was the first woman to regis
| ter in that city when women were
| given the vote. She was well IN
! formed on National affairs and was
proud of the fact that she was Re-
4, hos fnr, hoy
of Presumpscot Grange of Portland,
and helped to organize Cumberland
| County Pomona. For three years
she held the gold headed cane for be-
| ing the oldest member of Pomona.
| Rockland is having a theater battle
of it's own and the city government
has set March 20 as the date for
| hearing the matter. The Strand
Theater, represented by Ensign Otis,
will contend that the Park Theater' S
large billboard recently begun ad-
| jacent to the Strand property Is a
fire menace to the Strand, which up
| to this time has been regarded as an
entirely fire proof theater. While
making this their contention, the
Strand Theater owners. Joseph Dom
| dis. has made no secret of the fact
| that he resents the rival theater
erecting a billboard in such posi-
ton that it will obscure his own adj
vertising space.
The Norway and Paris Kiwanis
Club had little session of play last
Thursday, greatly disguised as pi-
rates and other more or less pleasant
| individuals. Members met at Asso-
citation Hall and marched to Odd
Fellows Hall, where's the banquet
was served. Where so much hirsute
unadornment was secured Is not ap-
parent from the outside looking in
One of the members was supposed to
be impersonating Hiram Kicker. and
all of them might as far as whiskers
were concerned. The entertainment
following the lunch was furnished by
the members themselves, and afford
ed lot of sport.-The oxford Demo-
crat.
The State ferry boat, Governor
King, had it's boilers inspected Mons
day at Bath, by the federal steam
boat inspectors of Portland. The
King goes to Portland April and
will be put on the marine railway
to have new rudder put on and her
bottom recaulked and painted. The
rudders have been made for her at
Bath and are already to be hung.
The big ferry boat has not been out
of the water for five years, for for
| tunately in fresh water the marine
| growth of barnacles, eel grass, etc,
does not gather the same as in salt
water. A new steel shaft Is now
| ready. and her engine has been thor
oughly overhauled by the Hyde
| Windlass Co.
| Maine Is represented by Attorney
| Frank D. Marshall Of Portland and
Perley F. Ripley of Norway at the
| National Conference of Street and
Highway Safety which Is being held
| at Washington, D. c. Mr.. Marshall
is well known attorney and chair
man of the executive committee of
the State of Maine Publicity Bureau.
| Mr.. Ripley is a member Of the execu-
tive committee Of the State Pub
| Lefty Bureau. They were appointed
| by Governor Brewster to represent
| the State at this important meeting
which opened yesterday to continue
three days. Representatives of every
| state in the Union are in attendance.
| Herbert Hoover. secretary of COM
| merce, will preside as chairman. All
sessions will be held in the building
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
| United States.
| Such matters will be discussed as
| uniformity of laws and regulations,
| law enforcement.~C CAUSES of accidents