Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-03
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip
The Maine Reason.
He led his class at oxford. yet was MI
nus degree.
He never heard of Cicero or plane &C.
ometry.
He'd travelled oft and early. all his life
was wont to roam.
Despite the fact he'd never stayed a.
week away from home
He'd tobogganed in Palmyra. tried the
Deemed Paris disappointinsly provincial
While China. on the other hand. he found
That gave it reputation as a hustling
little place.
Although his jaunt through Norway
He never saw the famous fjords nor
viewed the midnight sun;
And while from Dover to Calais he'd
often made the trip,
He'd neither suffered NAL de mer nor
been aboard a ship et
He'd visit in Denmark. but he never saw
a Dane
For, truth to TELL he never stepped out
side the State of Maine.
Edward A. Barney in Boston Globe.
Nov. is the date when Henry A.
Wise Wood and Henry 'Moorehouse
will visit Portland to meet the local
committee having in charge the prop
osition to locate an aeronau tical base
somewhere within the limits Of Casco
bay, probably at Flag island. John
Hays Hammond, Jr.. cannot come at
that time, and Mr.. Moorehouse, who
is the governor of the Aeronautical
Club Of America and editor of the
Aerial Age, is to come in his stead.
1t is probable that Orville Wright may
be in attendance at the session. as he
has been asked to come.
Rev. E. v. Stevens of Urbano, ILL.,. has
recently been called to the First Univer-
salist church of Columbus, Ohio. The
Urbano pastors Union recently honored
DR.. Stevens bya luncheon and compile
snentary resolutions. -Dr. Stevens, who is
now just IS years old. was a North Tur-
ner boy and resident of Maine until II
years ago when he went from Oakland,
Me-, to Lyndonville, VT. and from there
to Herkimer, n. Y, where he remained
eight years. He resigned the pastorate
at Herkimer to accept the call to Urbanp.
ILL.,. six and a half years ago, where he
has since remained. DR.. Stevens prac-
ticed law in Androscoggin county for
several years. He was executor Of the
estate of Benjamin Keen, late of Turner.
He quit the law for the ministry about
20 years ago. His first pastorate was at
| Oakland, Me. The Columbus. Ohio.
church is one of the strongest Universal
| list churches in Ohio.
A Canadian firm which manufac-
lures moccasins, larrigans, high tops,
ETC., makes offer to locate in Calais.
provided the Board Of Trade will re-
pair the Trimble factory SO as to
bring its valuation up to $4,000 and
then subscribe for $4,000 worth Of
the company's stock. The company
would employ in time 800 to 400
hands, but as the machinery installa-
ton on the part Of the company
would be but about $4,000, the Calais
Board of Trade does not see the adj
visibility of accepting the offer.
The new theatre building to be erect
ed at Bucksport by H. o. Hussey will
be 77x100 feet, two stories front ele-
walton, with aSfat roof and located on
the site of Emery hall, destroyed in the
recent fire. 1t is understood that Mr..
Hussey will later add to the building
to accommodate the Masonic bodies.
May the Lord be with the crew of
any train that may be hit by Engineer
Bert Halls freight train over on the
Knox & Lincoln branch, when Charlie
Hersey\is firing for Hall. Why? Well,
Hersey is only six feet tall and he only
weighs $50 pounds. Something will
surely happen when his train bumps
another or incidentally, if he himself
should hit anything or anyone.
1t is estimated that the summer peo-
pie of Rockport are expanding at least
100000 in improvements about their
summer places, outside of the thous-
ands being laid out by A. H. Chatf1eld
of Cincinnati on his extensive prop
critics.
A Camden correspondent writes to
| TIE Bangor NEWS. III articles APP
pearing in regard to DR.. Lionel E.
Dudley being paroled from the State
prison to attend the funeral Of his
cousin, J. Perley Dudley. in Houl-
ton. it has been stated that the case
is unprecedented in the history of
the State Of Maine. According to
reliable persons now living in Cam
den, this is not the first case. In the
spring of 1863 Daniel Blake shot and
killed his brother-in -law, Freeman
Patterson, in Camden, and in May he
was tried and sentenced to be
hanged. His aged mother canvassed
the State with a petition and pre-
sented it to Governor Abner Coburn,
who committed his sentence to life i'm
prisonment. Later, his devoted mother
in her last moments on earth, ex.
pressed a wish to see her son and
through the kind hearted warden he
was allowed, under care Of a compe-
tent officer and under cover of dark
ness, to visit her, a distance Of II
miles. He was greeted by a few old
friends here, now deceased. Blake
was pardoned before he died"