Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-12-29
Maine GOSSIP
why Boys Leave Home

| well, stranger. since you've been so
I'll roll aside the hazy plank.
I left my dad. his farm. his pillow
Because my calf became his COW.
left my dad; twas wrong S;s Of fo COURSE
left my dad to sow and reap,
Because my lamb became his sheep.
I dropped my hoe and struck the fork
The garden truck that made grow
! Was his to sell, and mine to hoe.
| It's not the smoke in the atmosphere,
Nor the taste for life that brought me
Please tell the platform, pulpit. press
| No fear of toll nor love Of dress
Is driving off the Farmer Lads,
Woodstock Chamber Of Commerce
| journal.
! Judge j. H. Thompson presided at
his 239th term of the probate court
last Tuesday and that is a pretty
good record. for he has served as
Judge of probate for 20 years and in
that time has missed but one term.
about a year ago. reports the Farm
ington Journal of Dec. "a. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thompson left on Wednesday to
pass, the holidays with Capt. and
Mrs. Harold King and children in
Baltimore.
| Around the big box stove. sizzling
at intervals with streams of tobacco
juice. were grouped the regulars. dis
cussing the trouble at the launching,
and the previous good luck Of the
shipbuilders, when someone had to
tell of the luck of Capt. Horace Crit
fin on a voyage long ago to the
Grand Canary islands. writes the
! Stockton Springs correspondent of
the Bangor News. Lying in the open
roadstead, he was caught in heavy
easterly blow and the ship began to
i drag slowly and irresistibly to certain
disaster in the breakers. Nothing
could be done, but suddenly the an
Choir held and the ship rode out the
gale. Sand from the African desert
covered the decks. When eventually
he hove up his d-fa shoined anchor
to leave port, he beheld to his amaze
ment that the stock was gone making
the hook" useless, but the fiukes had
caught in a snarl of chain attached
to a big anchor which some unfortu-
nate predecessor had lost, and so held
fast. Thus Lady Luck presented
him with 4 good anchor instead of a
beached wreck. Saved by fluke, as
it were.
The late Miss Susan o. Curtis.
funeral services for whom were held
on Monday afternoon at Garland, was
known to thousands Of people as
Hope Harvey, that being the pen
name which she used in the old Port
land Transcript. Rev. Carrie Ride
out of Milbridge off1ciated. Inter-
ment was in the Village cemetery,
Garland.
A man after .Roosevelt's own heart
is Edward Gagne of Lewiston. who
dropped into the office the other day,
relates The Express Stroller. He is
the representative from Lewiston in
the State Legislature. And he Is the
proud father of IS children, IA Of
whom are living. He also has eight
grandchildren. Gagne is only 80
years old and his wife happens to be
the same age. He's a trained nurse
by profession and at present is on a
case in one of the Portland hospitals.
He has a little sanitarium of his own
in Lewiston. Both he and his wife
were born in Quebec. They were
married when each was 10 years old.
Rockland claims to have had the
largest community Christmas tree in
New England, the tree measuring 60
feet high, with a spread of IS feet.
1t was "a spruce and feet through
at the butt. Yes. quite bush!
Carroll Richardson of Hartland,
who left his home early in Novem-
Der for the woods to cut firewood, is
still missing. Failing to return home,
a big searching party searched far
and long, without avail. His wife
and two little boys are very anxious.
He is "a years old, about feet tall,
weighing about 100 pounds. He has
light blue eyes and auburn hair.
If We had goose for Christmas, dig
out that breast bone, scrape it and
hang it on a nail at the back door,
as in days Of old. when they were
used for barometers. 1t is supposed
to turn blue about "a hours before a
storm, your nose to follow suit on ap-
proach of the storm.
Driven from Home by Fire
When the bungalow of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry M. Chaplin at Thornton
Heights, South Portland, burst into
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