Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-29
Maine GOSSIP
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JNuI1e OOSSp
The Bee
How doth the busy social bee
Improve each shining hour,
And fit from tee to tea
And sample every flower;
Just like the sister of the hive,
She buzzes all day long.
From morning dip to evening drive,
The same insistent song
Still like the banded bee, behold.
She breezes into view,
Arrayed in stripes of black and gold.
While from her chapeau new
A gauzy veil upon tho air
Floats at her back like wings;
But of her honeyed words beware.
Bee-like. they carry stings!
--Minna Irving in Cartoons Magazine.
Three lodges of instruction will be
held this year by the Grand Lodge of
Maine. Free and Accepted Masons. as
follows: At Bath, 10 A. NJ. Wednes-
day. Oct. 10: at Sanford, 10 A. M,
Thursday, Oct. 81: at Portland, 10
A. NJ, Wednesday, Oct. 81. Instruc-
ton will be given at the forenoon and
afternoon sessions and in the evening
work will be performed and the local
lodges inspected by their district
deputy grand masters.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Quinn of No. Z
Montgomery street, Portland, on
Monday celebrated their Golden We'd
ding. receiving friends from , to 10
p. M. High mass of thanksgiving
was sung at $50 by Rev. FIR. Houli-
han at the Cathedral of the I'm
maculate Conception, with large at
tendance. Mr.. Quinn was born in
County Tyrone, Ireland. coming when
a young man to America and for years
being in the employ of the Portland
Company. He retired II years ago.
Mrs. Quinn was born in Portland,
educated in the. public schools and
the Notre Dame School. East End.
Eight are living of their Is children,
with Is grandchildren. p. T. kerwin.
Mrs. Quinn's brother. who was best
man at the wedding, and three
other brothers and Mr.. Quinn's three
sisters were all present at the cele-
bration.
Mrs. Matilda Libby of Lincoln has
received a letter from her son, DIR.
Walter E. Libby. saying he expected
to arrive. accompanied by his wife and
infant son. on Wednesday. Sept. 90.
DIR. Libby comes directly from Wahu
district China. where he has served
nearly FIVE years as medical mission
airy.
A: the hearing in Wade Tuesday
forenoon before the county commits
stoners on the petition Of John A
Wright to build a road. about 81
miles in length, connecting the towns
of Wade with Ashland. the prayer Of
the petitioner was denied. there be-
ing some objection on account Of the
expense involved. To our mind the
curtailing Of expenses. where the
natural and consequent increase Of
wealth, is poor business policy
Aroostook Republican.
A last yesr's potato picked up on
the cellar Hoor by Everett r.. Mason of
Kennebunk has eight sprouts and 25
branches with 81 potatoes of small
size growing thereon.
The old block house in Fort Nc
clarsy at Kittery Point is in sadly
deiapidatcd condition, through the in
austriousness Of curio seekers and
common vandals. A movement. has
been started to have it repaired and
put in condition to last for years. 1t
is one Of the very few relics Of the
old Indian days left in Maine.
George w Fenley of Portland has
laid aside his composing stick and rule
after over half century of continu-
Gus employ with the Portland Argus.
Chief of Police Wilder S. Irish of
Camden is said to be the only ex-
sheriff in Maine who has officiated as
a legal executioner in Maine, having
had the disagreeable duty of hanging
the last three murderers executed in
this State-Capon and Santoy, two
Italians. who murdered a fellow coun-
tryman and robbed him of S72. They
were hanged in April. 1885. Wilkin-
son. who shot and killed Policeman
Lawrence at Bath about 1883 and was
hanged in October 1885, the last man
executed in Maine.
Boothbay Harbor last week had a
strange visitor. a lightship for the
first time entering that port, being
the vessel just built for the govern
ment by Rice Brothers Corporation
at East Boothbay and going to the
Harbor for hauling out on the marine
railway. preparatory to being turned
over to the government. She was
built for service on the Great Lakes.
The Methodist church members at
Southport will hold a grand ceIebra-
ton at Town hall on Wednesday eve
ming, Oct. 6, to commemorate the
freedom from debt of the parish. The
burning of the mortgage will be the
feature. The annual Harves. supper
Will DO held At the same time.