Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-19
Maine Gossip
enrinn,s Rards nnd Rirds.


The plowmans honest industry.
The burghers staid sobriety,
From every bloom rooted waystde nm.
Now heaven may forgive your sin.
Spring drunken waifs.-bHt none may
win
Earth's pardon for such Icvity
You hards and birds
When winters sleets pierce plume and
Then comes the plowman's turn to gsin
In loutsh ed-faeed jollitN,
Ond fat paunched bursher whee2e to
These shivefing tune fools starved and
Poor bards and birds! -, c..
The Kennebec Yacht club Of Bath
under its new commodore, James T.
,,edyard, is showing great activity, and
a,neng the new features introduced
IS a lunch each Sunday afternoon at
Inc clubhouse, after which the mem
hers gather around the open ire anu
discuss plans for cruises the coming
summer. one plan which Commodore
! edward has suggested, and which has
moi with favor among the members Is
+baf on one afternoon the coming sum
The disposal of the children Of the state
soldiers K Sailors, orphans asylum
and that a sail down the river ana
nicnic be given the young folks. Mayor
elect I,arrabee, who is one Of the tfu7-
tees of the home. and also a former
commodore Of the club. was ihuci
pleased with this suggestion ana mas
offered his aid in carrying out The plan
r It. Patten at Eaton Mountain
farm. SkoWhcgan, has started raising
crop that promises to mean much 10
forming and especially to dairying nc
10 raising the soy bean which is used
&C feed something after the style OF
ensiiage He IS the first person IN
Maine TO raise the crop and last year
raised n small piece of it SO successful
IN that this season he will plant about
an acre. II win be planted in co-epera-
lion with the agricultural department.
At Washington. His eXpefieh II N
most any soil is good and it can be
rlanted or soWn broadcast ana aPFe.ii
10 grow without much difficulty as lii
IS any kind of weather Is coii'ei si'"'
executing frosty weather.
The nth annual reunion and banquet
If the Maine Kents Hill Alumni AS
sociation is scheduled for Thursday
evening, Mar 90, at Riverton PARK Va
sine. Tho reception and socailHine
start at eco, the business meeting is AT
90 and the banquet at seven o'cloch'
, enoeial car leaves the park upon lne
.ctnrn ut 1890, so everyone Will take
cora of the transportation end. All 'oyal
cons and daughters of Names elaeAt
rron school are invited 10 be present
Rath Times: Frank T., Seavey oil the
Tufts College faculty has recently had
honor conferred upon him. lie mas
heen selected as one of three 10 write
hook in the interests OF the collese. NJ
renresents the student BODY Oh tie
faculty. This additional work heeps
Mr. Seavcy extremely busy, for ne Is
not only instructor of Engllsh III t'e
engineering department. but IS tahlhs
. two years course OF special WORK AT
Harvard He is a graduate of BoWdoin
and married Miss Georgia duncan Oh
this city.
one of the enterprisirg young RABBIT
hunters of Freeman, writes cores
poneent of Maine Woods, is Alton Il.
Soper, . years old. Alton uses rliie
for his rabbit hunting, although there
are many old time shots who claim
that they need a shotgun for this work
LLOYD Doliver of Seawall recently