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Hon. James Archibald is seriously ill at his home in Houlton, having suffered a paralytic shock. Mr. Archibald is well known over the state and has been judge of the Houlton municipal court for several years. In the United States district court at Bangor, Frank E. Parker of Houl ton pleaded guilty to the sale of one quart of whisky and paid a fine of $500. Lois Moody of Houston, Vinal Shaw of Fort Fairfield and Joseph Paradis of Long Pond each paid a fine of $100 for unlawful possession of liquor. Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Noury of Haverhill, Mass., wedded hut _ five weeks, who were arrested at Dun stan Wednesday night when 24 gal lons of alcohol were found in their car, appeared in the municipal court, Portland, on charges of pos session and transportation. Their case was continued and bail,set at, $1,000 each, was not furnished. They were taken to jail. Harris {. Kelley, 41, a native of Salem, Mass., died Thursday at the Maine General hospital from an ill ness that the police believe was caused by partaking of denatured al cohol punch Wednesday night. Po lice and deputy sheriffs are investi gating a number of alleged resorts in the vicinity where Kelley is said to have bought liquor. Kelley was married. Employes of the Portland Termi nal company and Maine Central rail road have failed to reach an agree ment with corporation officials in re gard to a restoration of a wage scale fixed by the United States railroad labor board in July, 1921, and the controversy, according to an an nouncement at a meeting of workers Thursday, has been referred to the labor board at Chicago. Isaac Osier is at the city hospital in Bath recovering from injuries re ceived when he and Ralph Seckins fell with a painter's platform, which gave way while they were working on the new store being built on Washington street by Otto F. Rull mann. Osier,sustained a broken nose and other injuries. Seekins was not injured and rushed his companion to the hospital in his automobile. People living in the lower end of Phippsburg are excited over the re port that Evie Carlson, a Parker Head farmer, has uncovered some rock on his farm which he believed contained gold. He sent specimens to an assayist and has received a re ply that the assay shows that there are both gold and silver in the sam ples submitted. Mr. Carlson inetucts carrying his investigations further and now his neighbors are prospect ing for gold on their farms. With the initiation by the Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi chapters, commencement at the University of Maine formally opened Thursday af ternoon. Following the ceremonies, there was a banquet in Balenide hall in honor of the four purely scholas tic societies in the university, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi, Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta, agricultural, and Tau Beta Pi, engineering. Dean Harold S. Board man of the College of Technology was the toastmaster at the banquet, and the speakers included Prof. Chas. }. Weston of Tau Beta Pi, Prof. Geo. D. Chase of Phi Beta Kappa and Dr. Whitman H. Jordan of the alumni. Miss Mary C. Perkins of Portland, William C. Sawyer of Westbrook and Donald F. Alexander of Bangor were the student speakers. At the opening session of the Maine Library association’s annual meeting in the Bangor public library, about 600 library workers were in attendance. The delegates were wel comed by Dr. D. A. Robinson, a member of the trustee board of Ban gor library, and an address on the library and the community was given by President Clarence C. Little of the University of Maine. State Libra rian H. EK. Dunnack suggested that local librarians gather and forward to him lists of points of historic in terest in their communities, together with maps on which the locations are indicated. Committees on nomina tions and resolutions were appointed by President Elmer T. Boyd of Ban gor, who presided at the opening ses sion. At the night session addresses were delivered by Miss Adeline YZa chert, director of school libraries in Pennsylvania, and by State Librarian Dunnack.A feature of Friday's programme was a talk by John Clair Minot of the Boston Herald, who dis cussed the new novels.
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Biddeford Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Fri, Jun 08, 1923
Page 2
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