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Maine’s tribute to her soldiers and sailors, the memorial at Kittery will be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies today. Armistice day, and the occasion will bring crowds from all sections of the state as well as a large number of visitors from her neighbor state, New Hampshire. Former governors, representatives in congress and persons distinguished in civilian and military life will be the guests of honor at the exercises.
The memorial park at the end of the new inter-state bridge, the gateway into Maine, is about 200 feet wide and 600 feet long. The beautiful design for the memorial tablet, which will be erected in the park, is being prepared by Miss Baska Paeff, the young Boston sculptress, whose drawing won in competition with prominent sculptors from Washington, New York and other cities.
Atlanta Wants It, and Savannah, Macon and Valdosta Expected to Put in Bids.
Atlanta, Nov. 9. —With Atlanta already In the running it looks as if there will be several strong competitors for the next State Fair in 1905. Directors of the State Agricultural Society feel assured that Savannah is going to make a good bid for the fair, and it is thought also that Macon and Valdosta will lay claim to it.
Hon. Dudley Hughes of Danville, Twiggs county, president of the State Agricultural Society, appears to be anxious that Atlanta shall have the next fair. As the result of some correspondence between himself and George W. Parrott of this city a meeting of fifty prominent Atlanta businessmen was held, and ft committee of seven Atlantans will be appointed to continue the correspondence with Mr. Hughes.
Man Also Suffers Possible Fracture of Skull; Condition Is Reported Critical.
Harry Valdo, 40, a window washer, plunged from a window on the third floor of the Finance building, Nineteenth and Dodge streets, to the cement flooring of the court Saturday afternoon. He is in a critical condition at Lord Lister hospital.
Dr. Walter Bleistein Coming Here to Enlist Aid of Federal Government.
Co-operation of the United States Government and American scientific organizations in a proposed Arctic expedition of the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin will be sought here this week by Dr. Walter Bleistein. secretary and treasurer of the Aero-Arctic Society, who arrived In this country from Europe recently. Dr. Bleistein probably will arrive in this city tomorrow and will remain here two or three weeks, it is expected.
Dr. Bleistein will request the assistance of the War Department, Navy Department and Weather Bureau in arranging the details of the expedition, in setting up fueling and servicing depots and in maintaining communications and weather forecasting services while the big dirigible is in flight over the areas mapped for exploration. The scientific party aboard the Graf Zeppelin probably will be headed by Fridtjof Nansen, noted Arctic explorer. The Graf Zeppelin is to leave Friedrichshafen, Germany, its home base, some time in April, according to present plans, and proceed to Tromsoe, Norway, where a mooring mast has been erected.
THAT THE TIMES is Catholic—that it is fighting not the Ku-Klux Klan, but the Protestants—is the declaration from Klan quarters as a result of the attack being made by The Indianapolis Times against the Klan.
It is the same declaration that always comes when the Klan is under fire.
Now—
Just as a matter of information:
It so happens that every stock-holder (and there are no bond-holders) in The Times is Protestant.
It further happens that at the present time every corporate official and every operating manager of The Times is a Protestant.
Automatic safety signals are being Installed on the Sand Hill and Brick Yard crossings on the Maine Central Railroad in Winslow. Several months ago hearings were held at the Winslow town hall relative to making these crossings safer and the decision rendered was to Install two electric safety signals at the Sand Hill crossing and one signal at the Brick Yard crossing which is on Bay street.
Two Vessels Captured After Early-Morning Battle in Long Island Sound.
NEW LONDON, Conn., October 25.—Guns aboard Coast Guard vessels blazed away yesterday in a hectic battle, fought in the darkness of early morning, with two suspected rum runners.
With five craft already to their credit as the result of previous encounters earlier in the week, the Coast Guardsmen in yesterday’s engagement riddled the liquor-laden speed boat Helen of Newport with machine-gun bullets and one-pound shells and captured a second speed boat, the Pueblos of Bridgeport, believed to be a sister ship of the Helen.