Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-25
Maine Gossip
"A Word EitlY Spoken

"A Word Fifty Spoken"
JOY linked with Virtue hand-in-hand
II one day
Adown life's pathway wandered side
Made all the roseate hours swiftly
glide:
Eased all the heart-achos and made sad.
So joyousiy they passed, March seemed
| as May.
In their sweet presence through the
| whole earth wide.
| Bloomed every virtue-every evil died,
Until pure love held universal sway.
Care never lifts its head where virtue
! dwells-
Hate dies with every word in kindness
a word of praise, where praise is
Names him who gives it as one who ex-
| cells
And knows the value of so true a
Names him who helps the world,
| and me, and you.
Stockton Bates, in Boston Transcript.
+. L. Tapiey, for nine years prinei-
pal of the high school at Oakland, Me
and now principal of the state model
schools at the Wiliimantic Normal
Training school, has been appointed as
| supervising agent for the Conn. State
Board of Education. Mr.. Tapley will
begin his new work November 1. and
will make his home in Hartford.
Relative to paragraph which ap-
peared in the Kennebec Journals
Maine Gossip" column, Oct. %, which
stated that Frank Gerald and Elmer
Clay Of Lincoln dug by hand and put
into the cellar, in one day, loo bushels
of potatoes, ii looks as if C. l.. Call
of Pittston goes them one better In
a note to the Journal. Thursday. Mr.
Call sayst"I dug in October. 1908, by
hand, 60 bushels, picked them up and
bagsed them and put in the barn. in
one day, and was at that time 81 years
years eff age. l think l could make
the boys go along some now sI 81
The old aud reliable Maine Farm
ers Almanac for the year 1913 has
been issued from the press of Charles
Nash & Son, Augusta. and is now
ready for distribution. The current
edition OF the almanac is its 95th, and
while its title page and cover have
remained unchanged by time and still
same old COW, the same old pillow. and
the same old load of hay ready for
tire NOV. the book itself contains a
large amount of valuable information
relative to the coming year.
Michael Gardner and James L. Rice,
young Bangor men, left at noon, Sat
urday, on 3500-mile horseback ride
across the continent to Spokane. Card
ner and Rice have seen considerable
service as cowboys and plainsmen and
are expert riders and well up in the
business. About three weeks ago they
reached Bangor after riding across
from Idaho. They will use the same
horses on the return trip, and expect
to make about so miles day. They
sleep wherever night overtakes them,
rolled in their blankets, plainsmen
style. Their route takes in Boston
follows the shore lire to New York
thence TO Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland,
Chicago, and Minneapolis, thence
across North Dakota and Montana,
where they expect to strike some VIM
ter weather They hope to make
record for continuous horseback riding.
Their horses are fine animals of good
weight, young and powerful.
The Bar Harbor correspondent Of
the Bangor Commercial says that the
friends of Vernon G. Wasgatt, assist
ant treasurer of the Bar Harbor Bank
ing and Trust Co, were having niue
fun at his expense, wednesday, on ac-
count of a little error in judgment on
his part by reason of which the BANK
officials were unable to open the BANK
vault until about noon, on "Wednesday.
The directors of the bank held a meet
ing, Tuesday evening, in the banking
rooms, for the purpose OF making lhe
annual examination of the banks al
fairs. required by law, and the vault
was closed and the time lock WOUND
and set about 8 O'Clock in the evening
several hours later than the usual Gus
tom. The result was that the vault
could not be opened, "Wednesday, uh-
til some two or three hours after the
usual hour for beginning business at
the bank. The First National bank
came to the assistance of their neigh
Dor with funds and the temporary dif-
company officials had to stand copsld-
cradle chatting.
Portland Express: Il was talking
with a master mechanic of one OF the
railroads having terminal In Port
land" said a mechanical engineer as
| he came from a lodge meeting feia-
tive to the work that is being CONDUCT
| ed iii Portland this fall. Ee told me
that extensive repairs was being made
| to one of the large smoke stacks from
| the boiler house and that the work Is
progressing satisfactorily. what sur
| prised me was a statement ne inaat
| regarding the sway of the CHIMNEY
| during storm. He informed me tha'
the hig tube swings fully seven ieet al
| the top during Il heavy blow
They are raising some 'punkins oNei
in Raymond, this season, also othe'
| things in the line of vegetables ans
fruit Here is what a Raymond cor
| respondent says about some OF th'
products of that section: Sidney Eos