Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-10

the tuberculin test and were ordered
condemned.
The plan to use Lewiston city's
fire trucks, with wing plows at
tached, for the removal OF snow.
proposed by T. Martin Kerrigan,
fire commissioner, has been endors-
ed by the Lewiston Chamber OF
Commerce.
Judge Benjamin F. Cleayes OF Port
land, executive secretary of the AS
ISOLATED Industries, was chosen
president of the Kiwanis club of
Portland for the ensuing year at the
annual election, Tuesday. In q brief
speech of acceptance he urged con-
structive criticism as well as CO.
operation from the club members.
An unusual sight was seen by c
H. Eastman and Edgar feathers IL
the latter's field at Exeter. Dec. 3
when two hounds chased a perfectly
white fox into the open. Once, many
years ago, while working at the
| Chamberlain farm, Mr.. Eastman saw
a fox with white hips, but one en-
| tirely white Is rare even in Maine.
An interesting paper on "Old
Schoolhouses and Churches in Bath
was read before the members Of Col.
Drummer Sewall chapter. D. A. R..
| (Bath) at the monthly meeting
| Tuesday afternoon. Professor Will
| mot b. Mitchell of the English de-
partment of Bowdoin College will be
the speaker at a meeting scheduled
| for Jan. 4.
The good roads organization which
has been formed in some Of the
counties east Of the Kennebec. seems
to be making good progress in
creating interest in its membership
and purposes. With united forces
in that section considerable should
! be accomplished there in the in
terests Of better highways.-Bath
| Times.
One Bath man who for more than
a half dozen years has brought food
to his office every morning after the
snow came, to feed the sparrows,
| brought his first lot for this year on
| Monday, following Sundays storm.
| While the birds had not been fed
| from his window since the snow left
| last Spring, the food had been put
| out but few minutes before the
little feathered pets arrived and got
their monday meal.
"A large group of Newbu4y street
| property owners in Auburn, rep
resented by Herbert E. Holmes,
Lewiston attorney, appeared before
the Auburn City Council Wednes-
day night and detailed their accusa-
lions that a junk yard and dumps"
| on Newbury street create dust and
smells and are infested with rats,
| filth and organic matter. The City
Fathers, City Manager Ford. Health
| Officer Dumont and City Solicitor
Lancaster will view the premises
/, within two weeks.
Professor John NJ. Bris zoe OF the
University of Maine will be the
speaker at the next meeting Of the
Cumberland COUNTY Fish and Game
| Association to be held at the Lafay-
cite Hotel in Portland, Dec. Is. Pro-
fessor Briscoe is connected with the
State Forestry Department as well
as the university and the subject OF
his talk will be Our Maine For
ests." Officials Of the Forestry De-
partment of the State of Maine and
of other New England SITES will be
present, together with a representa-
ton from several pulp and paper
mills. Members Of the State For
estry Association have been invited
to attend. Several reels Of motion
pictures will be shown.
| The joint convention Of the Cum
berland and York County Teachers
association will be held in Portland,
Feb. II, it was decided at a meeting
Of the executive committee of the
two associations Tuesday afternoon.
| The committee arranged to DIVIDE
the convention into the same
groups as in previous years and
chairmen will be appointed to ar
range for the separate meetings of
each group. Groups for rural.
primary, upper elementary, second
airy and special teachers have been
established. Meetings of each group
will be conducted and speakers as
signed for each type Of teacher, No
decisions have been made as to
speakers for the general sessions.
Several excellent speakers are un-
der consideration and will be asked
to attend. DR.. Augustus o. Thomas,
state commissioner o. education,