Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-10-14

Yet potent still to make US feel and
know
That as the stage is set twas set Of
ST. looked and spoke the actors long
ago!
Comes such a haunting memory to tell
That once OF old as now. 1 knew you
-Roseile Mercier Montgomery, in New
York Times.
And along comes Neal Lapierre of
Van Buren with Spaulding Rose
potato of his raising. weighing 5
pounds and ~ ounces.
The Longfellow house at Portland
was on Wednesday closed for the
season, although it will be reopened
for the three days of the teachers
convention late this month. Over
1890 people paid during the 1921
season for admission, well up to the
top of the list for the last 20 years,
with of course the exception of Cen
tennial year, 1920.
Congressman Wallace H White,
Jr, announced Wednesday that the
postma stership Of Lewiston, made
vacant by the death of Postma ster
Menander bennett would be pernaa-
nently filed by competitive e.anaina-
tion, soon to be held. The appoint
ment of Assistant Postmaster Ralph
p l>owe to the position is temporary,
to await the result of the exaraina =
tions. upon which recommendation
fora permanent appointment will be
made.
A Bath lad was going TO Boston to
visit his sister-so he went. The
brief outline Of his trip, received by
the father a well-known bath man
indicates that the boy is fully able of
making a trip around the world,
alone and without assistance. He
wrote the following on q postcard to
his dad:
Dear Pa: I arrived in Boston
about I o'clock 1t cost me 81 cents
not including dinner of course.
took the six o'clock car from Bath
to Brunswick 27 cents. From Hill =
side to Portland in a Hudson. From
Portland to Biddeford in Buick
Biddeford to kennebunk in a Ford
Kennebunk to Portsmouth in Hup-
mobile roadster. Portsmouth to
Newburyport in another Hupmoloile
roadster. Newburyport to Lynn in a
Buick Lynn to Boston narrow
gauge 10 cents Some trip. All IN
Will write later w"
The three lighthouse tenders sta.
toned at Portland are busy taking
coal and supplies to the stations on
the Mains and New Hampshire coasts
The Zizania returned to Portland
Tuesday from an eastern trip and the
Shrub left IN the same direction. The
Hibiscus. also left on Wednesday with
$50 tons of bagged coal for stations
near Mt Desert
It certainly was a good percent4 ge
of the automobiles in Stockton
Springs, according to what the types
made the correspondent from tina,
town say in the Bangor News cot the
81 automobiles owned in town at least
IS went to the Belfast celebration OF
the opening of the new bridge Tn
figures if not accurate We're strongly
suggested by the appearance of thr
village on Saturday afternoon"
ne the RnStnn E,ycY1 y q
Traveller Of July -. 1855 wasa found
by worknen tearing down the bell
tower of the United Baptist church in
Lewiston, evidently left there when
the church vas built, about that time.
It was water-soaked from the previous
days rain and but little more than
the title line and date could be read.
DR.. George A. Gregory of Booth
bay Harbor. the well-known surgeon
head of St. Andrews hospital in that
town and a member of the Execu-
tive Council of this State, has been
notified that the Board of Regents
of. the American College of Surgery
has passed favorably upon his mans
for a fellowship in that honorary
society, the highest in surgery in
America. This honor has been con-
ferred upon but few surgeons in
Maine and Is a recognition and an
honor much coveted The fellow
ship Will be conferred on Friday
evening, October Is at Philadelphia
The Martinicus correspondent OF
the Rockland Courier Gazette
writes:
The fall migration of the seabirds
has begun. Advance focks of sllags
ducks and brakes, coot and numer
Gus other birds have already arrived
and the lodges will soon be swim
ming with them. Then will the gun
ners get busy. Did you ever hear
Dan Sobel's famous recipe for cook
ing coot? He says, You take a
coot and put him on a piece of plank
and roast him; then eat the plank
and throw the coot ell away"
Evidently he had never partaken OF
one of those delicious stews which
our women folks know so we'll how
to concoct.
Wednesday, Oct. 19 next will be a
day of celebration for Mrs. Patrick
Cox of kennebunkport, born in
Fly1npton, Digby county, Nova Scotia,
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