Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-31
Maine GOSSIP

| Name Gossip
Millinocket has a new athletic field
which was opened this week with
| fitting celebration. The field is said
to be one of the best in the State
and will be used for a children's
playground as we'll as for athletic
sports. The celebration ceremonies
included a parade by the school
children, flagraising, band con-
cert and ball game.
| A monument to the Evangeline of
Longfellow's poem has been I'M
yelled at the village of Grand Pre-,
Nova Scotia, the home of the heroine.
The statue is a copy of a small one
modelled in clay by the late Philippe
| Hebert, a French Canadian sculptor.
| The adventures of Hebert's ancestors
provided the theme of the poem.
The old safe key of Names first
governor, William King, is to be pre-
scented to the city of Bath during the
centennial exercises next week. The
key is made of brass, six inches in
length and fitted the door Of a heavy
i iron bound oak safe which was in
Governor Kings office. The key has
for some time been in the possess
sion of Rev. Francis w. O'Brien of
New York.
| Demonstrating that not all edu-
cation is to be henceforth devoted to
vocational training and solely to en-
phasize money making the Univer-
sty of Maine is to offer two new
courses this fall. One is to be a
course in preparatory Latin devoted
! to the works of Cicero and Vergil,
and the other is to consider the Bible
as literature. The latter course will
teach familiarity with the contents
of the Bible and it's influence on Eng
lish literature.
/ The new schooner Robert L. Bean,
which was launched from the Bean
shipyard last winter, like all the
/ fast sailer, as she recently made a
trip across the ocean, that so far as
is known here, is the quickest trip
across ever made by a sailing vessel.
Several other vessels, leaving New
York at the same time were badly
istanced.-Camden letter, Knox
| Messenger,
! Thirty years without vacation is
the service record of Frank S. Sher-
man of Rockland who July 81 rounds
out that many years with the Eastern
steamship Corporation. Mr.. Sher-
man was for seven years agent for
the company at Camden and since
leaving there has been successfully
agent, general agent, and superin-
tendent at Rockland
The passenger steamer Governor
Cobb for many years on the New
York, Massachusetts and Maine sum-
mer runs of the Eastern Steamship
Lines out of Boston, was sold Mon
day to the Peninsula & Occidental
steamship Co. The Governor Cobb
will be delivered about Sept. | and
placed permanently on the Key
West and Havana service on which
she mad been operated on charter.
during winter months for several
years.
A touching little story is told of a
dog who lives on lonely Matinicus
Rock. The Rock is far out at sea
and is hardly more than foundation
Tor its famous lighthouse The in
habltants are the keepers of the light.
Recently they left the island to take
/ some visitors to the mainland. I'M
| known TO the dog who had been en-
Joylng the unusual activity of the
/ place while the visitors were there.
when he had made a round of the
island and found his new friends
gone it was said that there were ac-
tually tears in his eyes.
Houlton friends and relatives of
Mrs. Alice IngersoN- Stuart have re-
ceived news of her recent marriage
at Amiens, France, to Captain Sid
ney E. Thornton of the Royal Dub
lin Fusilesrs. Mrs. Thornton was
born in Houlton and when war broke
out her husband enlisted and was
killed in service. When the United
States entered the war Mrs. Stuart
went overseas with the Red Cross,
She was very active in relief work in
France and was five times decorated.
Her marriage to Captain Thornton
was solemnized in the hotel de Vile
at Amiens and in accordance with the
French custom was followed by a
ceremony in the Protestant church.