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

Or things like that.
-Winona Jenkins.
Augusta. Me.
The Maine master plumbers con-
vention will be held Tuesday and
Wednesday Of next week at Port
land.
Many Maine radio fans on Sunday
evening heard DIR. Donald B. Mac
MILAN speak in New York and tell
some of his experiences on his last
voyage to the Arctic circle.
In anticipation of a long town
meeting at Phippsburg Monday, the
Mothers club of Winnegance took
along 40 dozen doughnuts and made
several gallons of coffee which they
dispensed at noon, netting thereby
sum for the treasury to be used in
helping equip the village school.
Charles Plant of Bath went on his
wood lot Friday morning. the day Of
the thaw last week. When he enter
ed the woods he stuck q stick in the
snow and cut a notch at the snow
level. When he came out at night he
looked at the stick and found that
| the snow had settled foot during the
| day.
Talking over the telephone the
other day with their daughter and
her husband. who are residents of
Fontana, California, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank S. Goodwin of Biddeford
| found it no more difficult than car
rying on phone conversation with one
| of the outlying sections of the city.
Mr.. Goodwin Is manager of the
| Biddeford offices of the New England
Telephone & Telegraph Company.
While the beam TRAVELLING fleets are
| finding plenty of fish. the Portland
| fishermen are experiencing very hard
| luck, the weather conditions outside
being such Monday that the boats
| that went out Sunday night all re-
turned without making net. The
| present Winter has been one OF the
worst ever experienced by the Port
| land fishermen, who for a week at
! time have been unable to make a
catch. going out two or three times in
succession only to be driven back by
| boisterous winds and heavy seas.
The Falmouth hotel in Portland
has been selected az the place for
the next meeting of the New Eng
land Council on March 26. this coun-
| Gil consisting of u members-a dele
| cation of IL leading business men
from each of the New England states.
There will be an all-day session with
luncheon served at noon, and many
| problems of Importance relating to
| the development of New England
will be discussed. The initial meet
| ing at which the New England
! Council was formed, 1t will be recall
| ed, was held in Worcester. and a Sec
ond meeting in Providence. Portland
| is the third city and Maine the third
/ state to be privileged to entertain
this group of business and financial
| leaders.
Inspector James A. Adams Of the
i, state highway police has been noti-
fed that Henry A. Parker, alias AL
fred Lewis. known to the police of
| Poughkeepsie, N. Y, as Souca, Is
wanted in that city on a charge of
| passing bad checks. 1t has also been
found out that his father is not a
contractor in East Boston, but that
Souca Is well known to the police of
that city and is wanted on a charge
of theft of an automobile. Inspector
Adams has two warrants out for
Souca, both being for the passing of
spurious checks on the Feeney Bros
of Saco. amounting to s1,s5O. A very
! extensive search is being made for
this man and the highway police
of this state are confident that he
| Will soon be aODrphended
Taxpayers of Kennebunk have
read with great interest in the annual
reports of the officers of Kenne-
bunk page from the 1856 report,
reproduced to permit the taxpayers
to make comparison of the sums
of money raised to conduct town
business 20 years ago and the i'm
mense outlay that is necessary to-
day. In 1856 there was a local
agency for the sale of liquors and
| 1t appears that the town received
$250.51 from this source and there
was also due in Boston the sum of
$15l.91 for liquor purchased. There
| Is one sentence in the reproduced
page that has started the whole
| town to laughing. 1t reads: Amount
of liquors on hand, uncertain" The
selectmen of '56 were evidently men
that were wise in their day and gen.
GRAFTON. No chance of tripping
them up if some opponent decided
! to Set trap.
| Nomination papers as a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
State sen; from Cumberland
county were taken out Monday BY
Representative Arthur Gilman Spear
of Portland. Representative Spear
is at present in Miami, Fla, sand the
papers were taken out through his
attorney, Edward S. Anthoine of
Portland. The repeal of the inheri-
lance tax levy and increased pros
perity for Maine through the
continuation of a constructive pub
llcity policy will be advocated by Mr.. |
Spear. He lans to leave sometime |
this week for Maine and, on his |
return, will begin an active canvass |
for the senatorial nomina ton. Real |
estate selling is dropping off some /
what at Miami at the present time,
Mr.. Spear writes. Nearly $500. 600 |
changes hands daily at the race |
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