Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-18
Maine GOSSIP
"Eat a Potato"


Please buy a bale of cotton
Twas passed along from mouth to mouth
Til many bale was 'boughten."
The girls were clad in cotton gowns
To make the stuff sell better,
And cotton thus soon went the rounds,
All needed to the letter.
And as We people Of the North
With tubers now are flooded
We should with slogan venture forth
To show We are red blooded.
Eat six potatoes every day,
'Tis good for brain and muscle
Eat six potatoes every day
Twill help you get a hustle
They're better far than mea, or fish
When served with cream or butter
What greater dainty could one wish?
Their praise We fail to utter.
Then eat potatoes every meal,
So boil and bake and fry them,
QUILL be rewarded for your zeal
Now just go home and try them.
Eat an apple is the cry
That greets our many senses,
To conjugate to eat Well try
Through all the moods and lenses.
Instead Of apples We will take
AS object OF our eating,
The good potato. boil or bake,
Its joys will not be feeting.
EPILOGUE.
You'll gain in strength. you'll gain in
health,
Your brain will keener grow,
Then take this slogan, it is wealth,
Just eat a Potato.
John Palmer, formerly of Bangor
and since 1890 manager Of the Hotel
Imperial cafe in New York City, had
his first vacation in % years the other
day, when ne took a solitary day off
TO celebrate with Mrs. Palmer, the
25th anniversary of their marriage.
Mr.. Palmer is a brother Of Caleb F.
Palmer of Bangor. The record is not
being absent a day from his duties for
IS years and in the employ of one firm
for the entire period is a remarkable
one.
A handsome new dormitory has
been completed at Higgins Classical
Institute to replace the building
burned Jan. 7, 1914. The building,
while arranged somewhat differently
has the same number of rooms. It is
divided for boys and girls apartments
and the boys part is equipped with
shower baths. Howard Fogg, steward
Of the old Tibbetts hall, has had full
charge Of the construction and will
serve as steward of the new building.
1t will cost about $4,000. most Of
which was contributed by friends.
Very handsome steel engraved invi-
tations to the opening Of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition are
being received in Maine from the
president Of the Exposition Company,
Charles c. Moore, on Saturday Feb.
goth. The invitation is a plain but
rich piece of work, bearing all the
printed matter on the first page and
two splendid steel engravings OF two
Of the finest groups of statuary to be
seen at the Exposition.
, Sympathy will be extended Geo. E.
Bracket Of Belfast, who, through the
aid Of some unknown party, recently
lost a pocketbook containing the jan
uary notes for his meteorological rec
ord kept by him for the past 40 years
and from which Mr.. Bracket has fire.
ouently sent valuable data to the Ken
nebec Journal The pocketbook also
contained other valuable papers and a
sum Of money, but the owner would
gladly say nothing about the money
il he could only recover the papers.
Word has been received In Bath
from the Waldoboro Lodge Of Moose
that a delegation Of the members viii
be in Bath next week and take the
remains Of the late VIM. King. who
lost mis- life in the recent fire at Shuey,
to Waldoboro, where they will be In.
TERED. King was a member OF the
Waldoboro Lodge. Funeral services
will also be held in Bath by tho Bath
Lodge Of Moose.
Friends all over the country will re-
greet to learn Of the serious illness Of
Capt. H. C. Chapman at his apartments
at the Bangor House.
The Aroostook farmers are certainly
hard hit by the low price this year Of
potatoes, but many Of them are making