Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-17
Maine GOSSIP

Maine Gossip
The Pine
see upon the hill so high,
A vivid mark against the sky,
There it stands so straight and tall,
An awe-inspring sight to all.
1t stands :
Sublime,
The Pine.
Time tested soldier tree of Maine.
Centuries of homage for its claim.
A symbol great twill ever be
OF goodness, strength, integrity,
: All Hail,
Be Thine.
o, Pine.
When in a foreign land we roam,
Our thoughts will ever be of home,
Go North, go South. go East or West
The Pine Tree State, that State is best.
The tie
That binds,
The Pine.
M. A. Cole. Gardiner, Maine.
The Bangor &, Aroostook Railroad
on Thursday reported 80 cars of po-
tatoes shipped from all points on it's
line, the smallest number yet re-
ported. The price at Houlton on
that day was so to $3.50 per barrel,
with fair amount being hauled in,
the farmers wishing to clean up,
preparatory to beginning their plant
ing.
You are probably shivering any
way, but just note what the follow
ing dispatch on Friday from Kenne-
bago says: ut showed hard yester-
day in Kennebago and a second win
ter was in evidence. The ice is as
solid as ever hereabouts and early
this week, Captain F. c. Barker
walked across Rangeley lake on the
ice and saw no signs of weakness.
The talk about an early spring has
subsidized and people are beginning to
ask what time in June fishing will
Begin
Our West Montville correspondent
writes under date of May 10: During a
long drive we found many patches Of
snow in the woods. In one place in Pa
lerrlo we drove over yards of 6-inch
snow. On May 10 Strawberries were in
blossom
Mont Harlow of Mercer cut large
pine tree on his farm on the valley
road. The tree measured feet at the
butt. The first cut was 16 feet long and
measured SO inches at the top of cut.
This cut scaled 7s5 feet. The second cut
scaled over 600 feet. The whole log
scaled 200 feet. Mr.. Harlow estimates
that 100 feet could have been saved in the
band saw. The value of the tree was
about 500.
The famous old sloop Clique built
for the late Capt. George Wiggin of
Bath and sailed by him for many
years in Portland harbor and fire.
uuently in Boothbay Harbor, and
later owned by Commodore Reuben
X. Dyer of the Portland Yacht Club,
a former Bath boy, is now the prop
erty of Leroy Jones of New York
City. Although the property of a
New Yorker it is expected the
Clique will remain in Maine waters,
PeaJs Island. The Clique has been
in The fleet of the Portland Yacht
Club the past % years and during
that period has won enough trophies
and cups to fill a couple of steamer
trunks. Besides winning many races
| in Maine waters, the Clique fire.
quently carried off cups and trophies
in the cruises and races conducted
by different Massachusetts clubs.
The first deed in the registry of
deeds for York county bears date of
March 16, 1647. 1t covers but half
a. page of the book, while a deed re-
Gently recorded filled 100 pages with
solid matter. The deeds in the vaults
at Alfred number about 700. The first
, Indian deeds recorded, in the latter
part of the 18th century, were by Rob-
in Hood, an Indian chief. The sigma
ture was a bird. Other signatures on
property titles are drawings of an
Indian, a man in a boat and other
crude designs. Miss Grace Ridley,
1.-the chief clerk, has been in the office
for 80 years. Her sister, Asenath
Ridley, another clerk, has been there
"a years.
The school census Of Brunswick
shows 1896 boys and 1887 girls of
school age, an increase Of II over
last year.
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