Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-09

gathered from I'VE mines in this vi
cinity never seemed to give that a
thought. 1t is hoped to clear a way
to the men by Sunday.
Springfield, Mass, Aug. I'm or
der to insure to the travelling public
every safeguard that can possibly be
placed about the roadside stand, inn
or tea room, and also as means of
assuring member stations of super
vision by constituted state authori-
ties, The Approved Wayside Sta
tons, Inc, Of this city has obtained
official certification from Vermont,
New Hampshire and Maine, and has
similar applications for certification
pending in Connecticut and Rhode
Island.
New Haven, Aug. 7.-After spending
yesterday with President Coolidge in
Plymouth, VT, Congressman John @.
Tilson of Connecticut, floor leader in
the House of Representatives, said at
his home here today that the political
situation nationally is reassuring
While he declined to state what topics
were discussed with the president, It
Is known that they reviewed the cast
ern situation with special reference
to the new position created for Con-
gresham Tilson as director of the
campaign for the election of eastern
senators and representatives. Colonel
Tilson will open an office in New York
City on Monday in taking charge of
this campaign.
Washington, Aug. 7.-P)-A. ].
Hanlon. special investigator, has
been placed in charge of anti-rum
running operations at Detroit, after
having reported that conditions are
wide open" there. He supersedes the
regular prohibition administrator at
Detroit, and is expected by officials
here to tighten materially the patrol
against river smuggling.
Woodstock, VT, Aug. IA certain
laundrymah has let it be known that
President Coolidge wears an old-fash-
toned cotton night shirt. He has
never caught up with the modern
fashion of wearing pajamas. The pres
ident's night shirt almost touches the
ground and is made high in the neck.
Some years ago the president aban-
utl6u lHe Ola tlHle carpet slippers
which were once so common in this
country for a pair of soft leather foot
coverings.
Buffalo, \. Y. Aug. 7.-(P1-An un-
identified woman leaped from the deck
of the ferryboat Jamaica in the Mag
ara River late last night and was
drowned. The swift current is sup
posed to have swept t he body over
the falls. The victim was about 40
years old. Her clothing indicated she
was in deep mourning.
Paris, Aug. 7.-(P)-Parliament will
go to Versailles on Tuesday where
both houses. sitting as national as
sembly, will solemnly put into effect
Premier Poincare's bill for assuring
autonomy for commission to control a
sinking fund for amortization of
Frances internal debt and guarantee
ing the necessary resources for that
fund. s5s.ssaE ~
Washington, Aug when the ku
Klux Khan holds its national conven-
ton here next month considerable at
tention will be devoted to blighting
the presidential prospects of Governor
Smith of New York. There will be no
ceremonies and no parade. Khan head
quarters said today. 1t will be bust
ness session bent on averting the dis
aster that Smiths nomination would
involve to the Klan and on improving
the orders political position generally.
Winsted, Conn, Aug. Mrs. Ma
rion Heming, comely divorce, smiled
today when Deputy Sheriff Dudley
Manchester served legal papers or
her in the "love cabin" at Highland
Lake. naming her defendant in suit
for $1,000 damages brought by her for
mer admirer. Louis S. Griffing, Hart
ford business man, and his mother,
Mrs Nettie Griffing, whose detec-
! ttves last month boarded up all win
dows and doors in the cabin after
cutting the telephone wire and shut
ting off the water supply in an at
tempt to force Mrs. Heming to Va
cate.
WASHINGTON, Aug An applica-
ton by Henry Ford to unite the De-
troit and Ironton and the Detroit,
Toledo and Ironton and Toledo-De-
II oft railroads. was denied today by
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
together with an application for issu-
ance OF s23 294.3o0 of capital stock for
the proposed merger.
Champaign, Ill. Aug. 7-(Pl-
Charged with murder In connection
with the death of Mrs. Anna Carmo-
dy wealthy widow, Jacob Michaels,
former chief of police, was near death
in hospital today after attempting
to shoot himself last night. He fired
twice, one shot penetrating the brain,
when coroner's jury recommended
that he be held for murder.
Damariscotta, Aug. George W.
Wheeler, Jr., of Portland was SEN
fenced to pay a fine of 500 and costs
and to serve two months in Jail when
arraigned in court and pleading gull
~ on the charge of opera ting a mo-
tor vehicle while under the influence
of liquor and was committed. He was
arrested Friday by Traffic Officer
Harry l.. Thompson of Bath, and tes-
tilted that he had allowed himself to
he treated to a mixture of alcohol and
Moxie, and was on his way to Rock
land looking for work when arrest
ed. going by way of Augusta, Togus
and Waldoboro.
Rye. y. Z, Aug. 7-(P)-The Army
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