Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-03

Flora L. Bishop.
Winthrop, Maine.
Patten has organized new fish
and game association whose object is
to create a healthy sentiment toward
protection and propagation of fish
and game of State and community.
Patten is said to be one Of the finest
fishing and hunting districts in the
State. Ira r. Howes is president Of
the organization.
Governor Ralph o. Brewster has
accepted an invitation to speak at
the commencement exercises at East
Maine Conference Seminary, Bucks
port, in June. and Attorney General
Raymond Fellows will be one of the
speakers at the alumni banquet. The
baccalaureate sermon will be deliv-
cred by the Rev. DIR. Forman, pastor
of st. Paurs Methodist Church in
New York City.
A Bath man who has given con-
siderably study to antiques says
that a great many more of the old
fashioned slate tombs are found in
cemeteries along the coast than
farther inland. This. he says, is due
to the fact that years ago many
American ships took cargoes abroad
and not getting sufficient cargoes to
load them and needing ballast they
brought back the slate tombs in
slabs, ready for erection, once they
reached this side of the Atlantic.
Reports from Lake Moxie indicate
that the ice will not leave that lake
much before the second week in
cur. The lake is stocked annually
from the State Hatchery located at
Troutdale, and trout up to six
pounds, with locked salmon
up to eight pounds in weight are
not uncommon catches. Augusta
| men control the accommodations
there Frederick Owen, Jr.. run
ming a hotel at Lake Moxie. and
Edwin c. Lee managing the Trout
| dale Cabins.
c. E. Churchill of Brandon, VT.
member of the Senior class at Bates
| College. has accepted a position for
next year as instructor in science
! in the Lincoln high school. Franz
| ingham, Mass, where he will also be
| director of the city evening schools.
Mr.. Churchill is prominent in
| musical activities on the campus,
having a fine baritone voice. He Is
| president of the college choir. man.
ager of the Garnet Quartet and
| two years he has been principal of
! the Auburn night schools and dur
| ing his college course he has acted
as student pastor in several Maine
| communities, including Minot Center
| and Raymond.
| In a copy of the Lincoln County
News of Dec. 26. 1889, which has
| been given to the correspondent, an
| interesting editorial concerns the
| progress of Waldoboro. The editor
| speaks of the opening of the new
| shoe factory where one hundred
| operatives were employed. the build
| ing of two large four-master schoon-
ers, two new steam mills in opera
| ton, eight new tenement houses and
| three cottage houses. the Waldoboro
Canning Company and the Waldo
boro Granite Company and stimu-
lated trade in all branches. Yer
itably them was the happy days"
in the old town.-Lincoln County
News.
Announcement of seniors who
have been elected for class parts at
| the Glass Day exercises in June has
| just been made.
The successful candidates are:
Valedictorian, Ralph r: Parkman
| of Hartland; chaplain, Wallace H.
Elliott of Presque Isle; historian,
Fred C. Newhall of Lexington,
Mass: orator, Kenneth w. Mac
| Gregory of Brockton, Mass: poet,
Pearl r. GRAHAM of Bangor;
prophets, Cora Emery of Bar Har-
Dor and Myles Standish of Gardiner;
| curator. Douglas E. Donovan of
Turner's Falls, Mass: presentation
of gifts. Kathleen Hunt Of Portland,
and Arthur Hillman of Island Falls:
| senior marshal, Paul D. Lamoreau of
Pressure Isle; junior marshal Fred
H. Thompson Of Millinocket.
The Bangor Bird Conservation
| Club has recently become incor-
! porated. This insures the clubs
permanence and stability and widens
| it's field of action. 1t can now own
real estate and handle investments.
The club has begun at once to look
for a possible site to be acquired for
a Bird Sanctuary, which shall also
be a sanctuary of all wild life. both
fauna and fora. 1t is now in a posi-
ton to receive gifts and requests.
The Bangor club, which was the
pioneer among the bird clubs Of the
state, has ever been active in fur
thering the purposes for which 1t
was founded. Briefly stated those
purposes are the study and protec-
ton of our native wild birds. 1t
adopts as its own the motto Of the
magazine "Bird-Lore:" "A bird in
the bush is worth two in the hand"
Not since the war has Islesboro
seen such season as that of 1925
and the coming summer bids fair to
be equally as busy. Already practic-
ally all Sthe big cottages which will
not be occupied by their owners are
leased, with perhaps four still in the
market. This is remarkable for so
points to a big season. The con-
yacht club for the Tarratine Club,
at the Western jetty, has been
awarded to w. H. Glover Co., Of
Rockland and work will be rushed in
order that it may be ready for the
opening of the yachting season in
July. True to tradition. the Charles
Dana Gibsons will be the first TO ar
rive this season and they are due
about the middle of May. They will
entertain during the summer their
son. anghorne and family also their
daughter, Mrs. George Post. Runner