Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-13
Name GOSSIP
To NV Mirror.

Where has our old-time friendship fled?
Your heart which vis.oned honied
That turned a bit my little head
Now quite another story sings.
I've asoHsht you oft in h ,Se os e aS
mood,
Still more and Eore you grow unkind.
Sometimes you're positively rude.
l used to like to find you near.
Yea. counted you a blessed boon.
Today ran from you in fear,
surely shall detest you soon.
What's that you say. you're friendly
still,
And: A., true friend but speak the
Go, cruel glass. Go work your will
Upon the hardihood of youth.
RUBY Bartlett Stevens in Boston Tran
script.
officer Lorenzo D. Feltjs. asains:
whom charges OF inefficiency were re-
Gently made b. Mayor j. E. Drake.
VAS removed from the police force
Thursday evening by to vote Of
the Bath aldermen. for the good of the
service" The regular pay is granted
h m from the date Of suspension. Aug.
15,. to date.
Fourteen hundred and forty barrels o:
potatoes ON . acres. or ls0 barrels
per acre is the mark set up by Mr.>
would seem hard to equal on an acreage
of this size, says the Houlton Times.
The potatoes were the popular Comet"
variety. anG the fact that only one ton
per acre of 10 potash fertilizer was
used on of the acres. 4-s-4 on ?
acres is tribute to the excellence
Of Mr.. Watson's land and methods Of
farming.
The Pennington chronicle-Journal
says:
There is a great dispute on as to
which river in Maine was responsible
for the original punkin freshet. An OK
flrd county man says it was on the
Swift river in 1853; another man says
SAGE. and stiu another gives the honor
60 to the Kennebec. Now we always
it vas on the Saco, and still an
o:her gives the honor % TO the Ken
netec. Now we always supposed
that the Sandy river held that dis
tinction. for It has from time immem.
mortal been on such rampages in DC.
tober. but 1880. lsso and 1869 seem to hold
the palm. Anyway the people here
shouts called them punkin freshets and
the punkins doatec down the stream
until they passed into the Kennebec and
so out to sea That probably accounts
FOR the Kennebec claim.
The Aroestook Republican Of Caribou
says: We have before mentioned in
these columns some Of the freaks which
seem to grow every year In the garden
Of H. e. Ward, summer street The
present season. however. seems to be
the banner year for all kinds of freak
ish freaks. some Of which are worthy
Of mention.
On one stock Of sweet corn 1--WE we'll
developed ears grew. all safely en-
eleeed In one husk. Five cabbages grew
on single stem. One large tomato has
ripened. the vegetable having the Pc
culiarity Of possessing a core. in which,
incased in hulis similar to those found
in an apple. were eight seeds-all the
'1ove apple" possessed.
The triumph IN the World Of Freaks,
however. Is the wonderful pranks or
contortions performed by two cucum-
bers Of the white spine variety. These
cukes. If they had grown the natural
way. straight ahead would probably
measure nearly three feet in length.
But the contrary pair did some serpen-
tine stunts worthy of any ring per
former. twisting. curling and bending
themselves into all kinds Of curves,
forming the word. plainly observable,
"Ward"-prohabiy out of re-pect to the
owner Of the garden.
Captain L. E. Fcss. who commands
the Maine Central steamer on the Rock !
land. Dark Harbor and Castine routs. |
last week completed his 18th season OF |
that route and in all that time did not !
miss a trip by accident. illness Or
weather and gave the bells h'msslf for
svssy laadiak.