Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-05
Maine GOSSIP
What I Know About You
New York Times


New York Times
You let good chances pass you by,
Then kick about your luck.
But what You really ought to try
Is pluck.
At all times. l can see;
In fact, YOU are an erring man
Like mo!
CHARLES HORACE METERS.
evening to Edwin H. Lemare, munich
pal organist of the city Of Portland,
by the Portland Chapter of the New
Eng land Guild of Organists, about $50
greeting Mr.. and Mrs. Lemare. Lunch
con was served. The Rossini, kotZ-
SEMINAR. Mcdowell, Marston and Port
land Mems Singing Clubs were we'll
represented.
The fve-masted schooner, Cora F.
Cressey, sailed from Rockland on
Thursday, after a seven-months stay
at anchor in that harbor, for Newport
News. Va, to bring coal to Bangor for
$l.30 per ton. An offer Of $4,000 is
the vessel, which cost her owners in
war times about s2S5,000.
The historic old bridge spanning the
Saco river and marking the line be-
tween Buxton and Dayton was blown
up with dynamite Thursday noon. The
bridge was erected about so years ago,
being 112 feet long and IS feet wide
on the floor. A modern steel bridge
has been erected to care for traffic, To-
Gated on the old road to Portland. and
$50 feet long and Is feet wide. The
explosion was of Is sticks Of dyna-
mite and 10 pounds of powder, the
latter being used to cause the smoke
effects needed by a motion picture
company, which filmed the affair. A
big crowd witnessed it.
The money for highway and sewer
work in Bath having been exhausted.
over 100 employees of the Board of
Highways and Sewers We're laid off
Thursday morning when they reported
for work. Secretary c. r. Oliver re-
tanned so to complete emergency work,
part of whom will be laid off today.
Twenty-four men are on the State
highway work and will be retained.
Secretary Oliver told the city govern
ment Wednesday night that he would
be one of 1000 to deposit 81 a week
each or one of 500 to give 50 each, to
keep the work going
Sumner E. Coleman, who in dis
was reported as having been missing
from Maine since last April, walked
into the Globe Office Saturday noon to
deny that he had disappeared while
on trip to Boston, with $4S.000. Mr..
Coleman, whose old home is North
kennebunkport, said he reckoned
somebody was handing out a little
bunk in kcnnebunkport. He laughed
at the story that he came to Boston
with a roll of $4,000. Mr.. Coleman
said he had been stopping with a
friend on Massachusetts avenue, Bos-
ton. since early in the summer. Prior
to that he stayed at the Crawford
House for several weeks. He said he
had visited Portland. Me, several
times during the summer, but that
he had been too busy to make a call
at kennebunkport. Mn Coleman stat
ed that he called County Atty Tit
comb on the telephone Saturday
morning to tell him what he thought
of the story in circulation to the eff
feet that an investigation had been
started to learn of his whereabouts.
Mr. Coleman is camera man in
the employ of motion picture house.
A large meteor recently seen by
numerous people up in Penobscot
county caused much speculation as to
the direction in which it was moving
and where it landed. Mrs. J. {.
Dresser of Stetson writes the Com
mercial and apparently furnishes
clue to the present whereabouts of
the meteor. She writes:
Il saw an object flying through the
air at lightning speed. which looked
like a golden arrow about IL feet in
length. exclaimed: oh. What is
that?' But before my husband who
was in the room could turn to the
window it struck the gr6dnd in a
neighbours field across the road and
was out of sight"
Leases and rents, rooms and baths,
and all the high cost of housing have
no worries for the Lafayette National
Park beavers who have recently con-
structed for their snugIy chinked
com pa CtlY- built hnuSe at Beaver Da m