Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-26

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l TERNAI aches and ills.
Maine Gossip
/ Up the Trail
Far UP the trail there stands a hut;
II has the look of housing sin.
With two high windows boarded shut,
And one low door Knocked in.
And there the silence seems aware
OF its own hush: The fir trees lean
Away. as though they might see there
Evil they once had seen.
What signs of life were lef. within
Wild things and winds cleaned long
ago,
But what they were and what the sin.
No one will ever know.
Hazel Hall in Sunset.
I'VE have had" said Charles Dunn.
Jr.. superintendent Of the State School
for Boys. the best season in all re-
spects for at least the last 10 years
All our crops are abundant. especially
the hay crop. while the pasturage has
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was never in better condition. Alto
sether it has been a great season for
the State farm. No frost has yet come
and we are still gathering flowers
from the gardens. The schools have
opened again and our 10 boys appear
to take hold of their studies with a
good will; there is at present no sick
ness at the place. which il noteworthy
considering the fact that We number
all told 200 people"
an open-air school in Bangor. Many
physicians and prominent citizens have
meetings have been held to consider
plans The Maine Public Health AS
sociation offers $1,000 to assist. in start
ing SUCH an institution.
All kinds of late fruits and yege-
tables are now being reported TO both
daily and weekly papers, yearly &C.
currence. but Limington seems to
have all the rest of the State BEATEN
to standstil. for Mr. and Mrs.
! Harry L. Boothby Of that town had on
Saturday green peas to eat, picked
! from their own garden. They also last
/ week had fresh green corn right out
of the field. The peas we're of late
variety, planted some time ago and
coming to maturity in time for eating
. on Oct. %.
; The generation float in th}
Moose River Centennial parade con
tanned the following persons: Mrs
Eliza Holden Craft, aged rs; SYLVIA
nus Holden. aged So; Walter Holden.
about 80: and his sons, Neil J. D. and
Carl, 10 and years, They are all de-
scendants of Captain Samuel Holden,
the first settler.
! Hen thieves are so bold at North
Pownal that one Of them the other
| night drove a man out of his own
barn at the mouth of a scvolver. Sew
eral coops have been emptied and nc
clue has been found.
Peaks Island residents are anxious
over their coming winter transporta-
ton. The Peoples ,Ferry Co. which
| operates the ferry Swamscott. says
though its manager. Edgar E. Rounds.
! that il will not run the Boat at loss
| and has asked the city government for
| $4,000 subsidy. the same as given last
! winter.
| Congressman Louis F. Goodall OF
the First Maine District has recently
returned from 25,000-mile journey
which took him through the orien,
and during which he passed. six weeks
in China and Japan.
Next Friday evening viii be oh.
served as Back to Bates Night by
the alumni of Bates College. being one
of the two things definitely decided
upon by the newly organized Alumni
| Council. The other is the publication
of an Alumni Magazine, to be issued
/ quarterly. probably beginning abou,
January.
! Final registration figures at the Uni
versity of Maine show 1927 students
or 40 more than last year. Every
county in Maine is represented, all OF
the New England states ana Argentina
| China. Japan and the Philippines.
, The Rockland Veteran Fireman's As.
sociation. organized recently is now
| thinking of buying the old General
| Berry tub. formerly owned there but
| now out OF the State. or tub owned
| in Manchester. y. Fl.
Three Caribou men a partridge hunt
ing went, meaning to hunt to their
hearts content. One rife and the two
shotguns carried, and with their auto
no longer tarried A handsome bucK
the party spied; they fre-a, hit in
throat and side. Bullet and bucksho,
| much blood did split. each gunner
claiming he the buck did kill. No
| partridge killed. homeward they sped
and the Dragging done was i'm
| mense. tits said Selah.
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