Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05
Maine Gossip
Never Hibernates.

Never Hbernates.
| I looked for the fool who rocks the boat
And l found him in a trice,
Away, away out on a deep deep pond
A-Skating on thinnest ice.
Boston Transcript
Bates college has enjoyed its last
! long winter vacation, for next year it
will be cut to two weeks.
| The magazines have been full of a
| Michigan lumber camp missionary
| lately, but Maine has man whose
work has been equally as strenuous.
| 1t is ]. W. Thompson of Kineo. who
works during the summer in order to
| get funds to support him While preach
| ing to the iumbermen in the winter.
The resignation of Robert Macarthur
removes one of the oldest mill agents
in Maine. For % years he has been
agent of the Pepperel Manufacturing
Company at Biddeford and has been
prominent figure in the educational,
religious and phiianthropic activities
of the city.
IN Portland the Young Mems He
brew Society takes a very prominent
part in all sporting events, especially
baseball and football
Boston papers have been printing
story to the effect that another storage
| dam would be built at the headWaters
of the Androscoggin near Pontoocook
| Fails.
| The strangest vigilant society and
organization for the detection of crime
| in Maine, and which has been in exist
ence nearly century, will probably be
dissolved at a meeting to be held in
Bridgton this week. 1t is called the
Stop Thief Society, and like those Ia
nous vigilant bodies formed in Cali
| fornia during the troublesome days OF
| 1S49, it was organized to meet the
| emergencies Of the time. The secre-
| tary, who has been in office since 1913,
| is George +. Chadbourne. When the
society was formed at North Br1dgton,
| it was chartered under the laws Oh
Massachusetts, of which State Maine
was then a part The inhabitants OF
| the little village of BridgtOn, some 9o0
! in all, had no organized way of detect
| ing crime or Furnishing criminals, Tor
| they were scattered over a large area.
| A Rridgton writer has given out the
following interesting bit of history OF
| q well-known Maine family:
| "Many years ago there lived in
| Bird geton a family named Plngree, a
widow, l think, with a family OF hVe
| small children, three boys and TWO
| girls The names of the boys We're
| Asa, David and Thomas. The widow
| did not possess many acres OF land'
| either wild or tame, and it was WIN
difficulty she managed to exist anu
| keep the family together. But one
| lucky day a long lost brother turned
| up who proved to be Captain Ihonds
| Perkins. q wealthy East Indian ner
| chant, with ships at sea and bags vi
| gold, ard no family but this one slstei
| TO share his wealth. He lmmedlateiS
transplanted the family to new nome
J in Topsfield, Mass, educated the poys
| and gave each a good start in me- anu
all filled honorable positions III ,ls
state and town of their adopt1on'
During service at the Cathedrai vi
| the immaculate Conception at PORT
| land Sunday, a sparrow flew mo 'n'
big auditorium and fitted about
among the worShippers
The Portland Argus thinks It mas
| discovered the secret of Hon. Waiter
B. Clarke's political strength 1t
seems that there are seven bro1hers
and three sisters in the Clarke fanny
and they are all husky. wide-a"ahe
lot and when they all pull together d
they generally do, things come their
way very easily. Recently Mr.. Clarke
| entertained his six brothers WIN d
sort of informal family reunion, 1t pc
| ing the first time in years that the!
have all been together.
| Word has been received from a Bos-
| ton museum that the hog which
weighed 1850 pounds when it was
| shipped from Harrison, weighed just
1850 pounds when it arrived on the
museum platform Strange how a
railroad journey will affect the growth
of hogs.
Nathan Goold of Portland, a his
torian of note, has presented the
Windham Circulating library with 6
number of volumes which will find g
place on the library shelves. Mr.. Gool(
has been a frequent contributor to the
institution of which his mother was
one of the founders.
| A Portland man has owned up t.
having played "hooke" from schoo
one day in 1861 and never having gone
back to the building until last week
1t is the longest case of truancy OF
record. but inasmuch as the truan
enlisted in the 18th Maine Volunteer
just as soon after he left the schoo
building as he could, he was doubles
, forgiven long ago. The truant wa
Henry s. ThraSher,