Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-08-21
Maine Gossip

Name GOSSIP
A Street Car Miracle.
The baby laughedIsnd through the a;sssfs,, car
Tho little silver ripple ran.
And in its wake the smiles began.
Like sunshine over waters dreary.
| The baby laughed-and shoulders bent.
Meath weight Of toll and trouble tragic
Strengthened, with motion swift anu
A. II that burden, carried long.
Had lifted been by merry magic!
The baby laughed,and one who came a;na
Looked wondering down the crowded car;
! "How brave, how kind, these races are:
| He thought. with hope and faith up
-M,nnie aI Leona Upton, in the New York
Sun.
William Caldwell, young man
from Maiden, Mass, who is summer
ing at Sawyer's Island house. res
cued Wednesday afternoon little Nora
Hutchinson, the f1ve-years-old daugh-
ter of Mrs. Albert Hutchinson OF New
Jersey, a summer resident OF Isle OF
Springs. The little girl had slipped
from the float and had gone to the
bottom for the third time when Cald-
we'll, aroused from nap in his room
at the hotel by the women's cries,
reached the shore and dove boldly In
the direction which several nearly
crazed women indicated the girl had
been last seen. He brought her up
across his back, and taking her to the
float doubled the unconscious chlld
across his knee and pushed and pound
ed the water from her lungs. Warm
applications and restoratives applied
at the Sawyer's Island House brought
her back to life.
Aroostook Republican--While hay
ing in this county is practically COM
pleted, some farmers have several
acres yet to cut. All barns are full,
and much Of it is stacked in fields.
In numerous instances farmers are
blowing under hay, one man ploWlng
under six acres of good clover. One
, large farmer who has three teams, had
them all busy Tuesday at diversity
of work. One team was haullng IN
hay, another was being used in spray
ing potatoes and the third was hauling
a potato digger.
Aroostook Republican-B. F. Giber-
son, who now owns the C. Brundage
farm in Maysville, marketed Is bar
rels of fine new potatoes Monday. Aug.
Z, which is the earliest date known for
potatoes to be dug and marketed from
any field in this vicinity in any year
Mr. Giberson has sold 80 barrels in all.
but will not begin digging in earnest
unit some time later.
The George Popham day celebration
at Popham Beach on Saturday last
drew a big crowd and a splendid pro-
gram was carried out Special eXcur-
sion trips We're made by the steamers
and public Improvements" at Pop
ham derived a substantial sum for its
work First settled in 1907 by Sir
George Popham, made fishing settle
ment in 1917 by Pejepscot proprietor
and named Augusta, later depopulat-
ed during Lovell's war with the In
dians, resettled about 1887 and lncor-
porated as Phippsburg in 1914. being
named for Sir VIM. Phipps, Popham
Beach is one of the most interesting
historical places on the Atlantic coast.
| Lisbon Enterprise: Don't grumble If
your paper is not always flush up to the
high standard of your ideals. Charitably
remember that no editor is capable of
getting up quite as good paper as you
| could yourself
! An occultation or eclipse Of the planet
Saturn by the moon is due in the early
hours of Friday, Aug. 25. beginning about
3.2O in Maine. and visible with good
weather conditions. The last eclipse OF
a planet was of Mars on Jan. 2S, 1872 and
the last of Saturn was on July 10. l9oo
| Thirteen seems to be generally consid-
cred an "unlucky" number and in this
case the unluckiness seems to have hit
the togue as the Piscataquis Observer
| tells it:
! Mr.. and Mrs. Caleb H. Weston, Harold
Weston and Miss Margaret Mccormick
of Bangor were at the First Buttermllk
pond last week. While there Harold
caught togue which was 1913 lnches
long and weighed IL pounds. 1t furnished
a dinner for 13 at Camp Cozy. the Sepec
lake camp of Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Davee
| Of Orono.
| Editor L. P. Evans Of the Piscataquis
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