Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-19
Maine Gossip
Autumn.

Autumn.
MAINE Sanatorium News)
The skies are changing these autumn
To gray from the summer blue.
The song birds haste from the sylvan
/ ways
Just as they always do.
The rusticators, with pockets shrunk,
\ Have HE'D them back to the homeward
| bunk.
And the baggage jugglers have smashed
| each trunk
Just as they always do.
The story is told from year to year;
| There's nothing entirely new.
/ The fairest blossoms must disappear,
| Just as they always do,
The statesman grave and the hummer
Arrange for the annual display
And the people prepare to politely pay.
| Just as they always do.
| The receipts at Topsham fair are
now reported to have been as follows:
First day. s174S; second day. s4s25;
third day. $1,000, making a total of
$685. This handsome sum, while 1t
| will not clean up the entire debt, will
| give the fair management an oppor-
tunity to wipe out a large part of the
encumbrance and also allow some OF
| the needed changes. additions and i'm
proyements. The fine weather of Fair
week was a god send to Topsham fair,
\ for the officers were each Juggling on
| their shoulders about all they either
| wanted or could handle.
Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Spear of East
port on Monday Oct II, quietly OBJ
served the SD anniversary of their
marriage. Mr.. Spear was born so years
ago in Eastport. He followed the s,
for some time and enlisted in the oath
Mass. Inf, serving to the end of the
Civil War. For over 20 years he was
then in the fish business in Eastport.
| Mrs. Spear was Miss Sophia E. Prime
of Eastport, and was born in December
| 1880. They have three sons, John NJ,
Jr., Ernest and George, and Is grand
children and one great-grandchild.
Some local politicians Thursday
evening according to the Bath Times,
were engaged in a discussion as to
whether or not the next Legislature
would partition off Sagadahoc, giving
| the portion east of the Kennebec to
Lincoln, Topsham and vicinity to Ken
nebec and Bath and its suburbs to
| Cumberland. They were having an
enjoyable session talking it over.
! So far as the following from the Bath
Times is concerned we'd Just as soon
have chicken as have it"
Frank Ridley sent up to market
Thursday four handsome mackerel
caught in one of the Small Point
weirs Thursday morning. Fishermen
of so years experience say that this
is the latest time of the fall that they
ever knew of shad being caught off
the near coast.
Herbert F. Hunt of West Waldo
boro is utilizing his spare time by
making more artistic an old stone
wall near his residence He has con-
verted an unsightly nuisance into
useful and attractive partition by
simply laying up the rocks in a regu-
! lar and uniform position. Bath far
mers would improve the appearance
! of suburban drives and that of their
| homes by following this example.
Fred Meservey, an elderly man be-
longing in Wiscasset, has cherished
for several years an ambition to go
to Boston to visit his daughter whom
he has not seen in a long time.
Wednesday he thought his ambition
was about to be realized, for having
scrimped and saved for months with
out end until years had been created,
he managed to save $50. a small for
tune to him, representing as it did al
most endless toll and much self
sacrifice. He gave much time to
preparation for the trip and at last
when the details of this wonderful
journey had been completed he left
Wednesday for his daughters home.
Unfortunately for him he found,
when it was too late, that he had
taken the same train as did a gang
of crooks which has been holding
forth at Topsham fair. The newt
| able happened. A pickpocket, stepped
in and when he had finished with the
elderly gentleman the man from Wis
casset found his fondest hope shatter-
ed and when he realized that he had
been relieved of his money he was we'll
nigh heart broken. Arriving in Port
land he told his story to the police
officer on duty at Union station He
had not a suspicion who had taken
his money and efforts to locate the
thief proved a failure.
Visions of olden days when Ameri-
can clipper ships sailed to all parts
Of the world in search of cargo were
revived in New York recently by the
announcement that the American
schooner Adelia T. Carlton would
clear from that port Oct. Is for the
west coast Of Africa to barter for
ivory and other products of that
country. The venture is to be under
taken by the American Tropical