Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29
Maine GOSSIP
The vaeatien Girl.

The vaeatisn Girl.
Sunburned to a blister!
Freckles mixed with tan!
Has as. seen en- 60 many people Ine
Still she tells her story,
Like some 'customed rhyme
Thoughtlsssly repeated:
Had . lovely time!''
Brother has a headache,
Mother has the blues,
Father has check book
That he rather breads to use.
But Ethelinda's wearing
A smile that's quite sublime
And telling all the neighbors,
Had q lovely time"
A man apparently about so, walked
| into the Portland police station Satur-
day night and asked for lodging.
Turnkey Hans Smith, who has a re-
markably good memory for faces, said
| to him, When were you here LAST
and he replied. Fifteen years ago last
winter. when the police were in anoth-
er building. and next day they made
| me shovel snow from the sidewalk"
He practically admitted he has been a
professional tramp for many years.
| and did not deny that his long alb
sence from Portland was largely the
result Of his unpleasant experience
with a shovel Is years ago.
The lack Of a Flagstaff on the GUS
tom house at Bath is to be remedied,
after many years. according to in
formation received by Postmaster
Hyde, who also receives the following
| pleasing information from the post Of
/ fiee department that the approaches to
the building on Front street will be
placed as soon as possible. with
Strengthening Of the line. granolithic
walks. new grading and pretty flower
plots.
| The Arab Patrol of Kora Temple,
Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine, of Lew
iston will start on the New York ex-
press next Saturday evening on long
| pilgrimage across the continent to at
! tend the annual session of the Shrine
at Seattle week after next. The Shrine
has been preparing for this pilgrimage
for the last four years. raising the
fuEds to take the patrol to Seattle, it
being expected that at this melting j.
Putnam Stevens Of Portland. a past
| potentate Of Kora Temple, will be
elected imperial po,entate Of the or
der. and it being the desire Of Kora
to have its patrol act as his escort.
| The party from Maine will number
somewhere about $50. as there will not
only be the members of the patrol, but
many members Of the Temple. with
ladies. and some others who will take
advantage of the opportunity to make
the trip. who are not members of the
order. They will be about week on
the road, will spend another week in
Seattle. and with numerous side trips
will be absent from the State about
month.
| Two of the most interesting old Ia
dies in Maine are Mrs. Ursula Butter
field Of Molupkus Plantation and Mrs.
Lucy Ann Merrill of East Winn. Mrs
Butterfield is So years old and is en-
is &c. Both are exceedingly smart, re-
tanning their interest in public mat
tiers. Mrs Merrill has to depend on
others for her knowledge. as her sight
is gone. Mrs. Butterfield was born
Dec S, 1881, in the town Of Harmony
She has one son with whom she makes
her home when at Molunkus. She was
married when 90 years of age. Mrs
Butterfield used to weave cloth to sell
weaving 500 yards during one fall and
winter Mrs. Merrill, whose maiden
name was Lucy Ann Mallett, was born
in Topsham May 2, 1925. twin sister
to George w. Mallett of that town
Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Mall
EFT. moved with their family from
Topsham to Lee when Mrs. Merrill
was years old. making the trip with
oxen. They were among the first set
tiers of Lee. Mrs. Merrill was mar
ried July S, 1876, to Levi B. Merrill of
Lee. a native Of Minot. There were
born to them eight children. Three OF
these children died on the same day,
Sept rs. 1862, at the time of a diph-
liberia epidemic. Two more died in the
year Of 1911. leaving at the present
time only two. Veazie S. of Leomins-
ter. Mass, foreman of the Danforth
Chemical Company. and Harris N. OF
East VIM. who has been in the lum-
Der and manufacturing business about
~ years.
| A pathetic but impressive ceremony
in the recent graduating exercises Of
the Rockland High school was the
awarding Of a diploma to the late
Randall Haskell. by placing it in the
vacant chair" which in his honor oc-
cupied a place in the centre of the
circle. The chair was hung with a
laurel wreath and in it were placed
his books used In the high school.
Young Haskell would have been the
class historian. He was taken ill just
at the time his classmates left for
Washington in March and died a few
weeks later. He was brilliant schol-
ar and a great favorite, attaining the
highest rank In the class Of "a stu
dents.
Recent commitments to the state
prison at Thomaston have brought the
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