Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-07
Maine Gossip
Your Town

1.-The tsiG hiltd ~ q tON SOb iIhN'
! You needn't slip your clothes in grip
And start on long. long hike;
| You'll only find what YOU left behind
! For there's nothing that's really
t new:
It's a knock a, yourself when you
Z knock your town
/ 1t isn't your town--it's you.
Real towns are not made by men
Lest somebody else gets ahead:
When every one works and nobody
shrks,
You can raise town from the dead;
And, II while you make your personal
stake
Your neighbor can make one. TOO.
Your town will be what YOU want to
1t isn't your town--it's YOU.
Portland fishermen furnish Some
interesting items. The first horse
mackerel of the season has been
landed, delicate little fellow weigh
ing but els pounds, caught by George
Richards. 1t was sold for the New
, York market, where it is said to rival
halibut and swordfish in demand.
Fred Stanton, known as the lone
fisherman" arrived back Tuesday
| from u INo-udSo tItp AZ iiSD AAoiAeS''-'
boat, with err pounds of fish from
the Cape Elizabeth llghtship grounds.
which brought him s179.56, he strik>
ing a high market.
Eastport then comes along with an
account of ii visit from a strange
looking fisherman from Digby, y. s.,
Oh, Of q C.f o.
schooner. but CT feet long and 16 feet
beam. with two gasoline engines de-
veloping IS horsepower, for extra
power, she having no topmaSts or
topsails She is just 81 tons and had
cargo of $4,000 pounds of fresh
goldfish for Gloucester. Mass. East
port thinks her arrival will make the
Gloucester fishermen sit up and take
notice, saying the craft is dlHefent
from anything ever before seen IN
the Border CITY.
The Thoma ston Daughters of the
American Revolution will quietly but
fittingly on July y observe the birth
day anniversary Of General Henry
Knox, Washington's chief OF artillery
and later the first secretary of war in
the new republic.
Boothbay camp for boys and Mer-
rymeeting camp for girls, both on
the kennebec. the former on an
island Just above the Narrows, Bath,
and the latter at the Chops, lower end
Of Merrymeeting bay. are open FOR
the season. They are always OF IN
terest to travellers up and down the
river the young people giving every
evidence of thoroughly enjoying
their summer outing. over 10 boys
and 50 girls are expected for this
season Most of the girls are from
Cincinnati and the boys are also from
Ohio.
Custer Post No. I, C. a r.. OF Lew
iston, held its regular weekly meet
ing at the Post hall, Saturday after
noon. with the usual attendance. IT
was an important meeting as the
monthly reports were read, and res
olution adopted calling for a mimi
mum pension of $72 per month to al!
soldiers OF the SlNtl wal nv NSNSA
ans are now dying at the rate OF 100
per day and they cannot last much
longer Al the present inflated prices
of all the necessities of life, the pres
ent pension rate cannot be made 10
nav living expenses of the old soldiers.
There is a general impression all over
the country that such bill will soon
pass.
Aroostook leads the State in hay
with a production of $4,000 tons. 1t
leads it in wheat with a production
of 120, 900 bushels, 1t leads it in buck
wheat with $500 acres, and if course
il leads in potatoes. but they are too
we'll known to talk about here, re-
marks the Fort Fairfield Review
just like that.
Cyrus H. X. Curtis, the well-known
publisher, donor of the kO,zschmar
memorial organ. and former South
Portland resident, is among the men
who have recently joined the State
; Chamber of Commerce. Mr.. Curtis S
membership WAS secured by Scott u.
Bailey, chairman of the Cumberland
County committee of the State Cham
ber Few former Maine men vino
now live outside the State have d
deeper interest in Names advance
, ment than Mr.. Curtis.
Relics of the famous SLAYER ship
Wanderer. which was owned by Cap
tain Israel Snow in Rockland,- are in
possession of his son, another Israel
and at present on exhibition in his
Office in that city. There are two sets
Of leg irons that were used on the
SLAYER. pair of scales used in weigh
, ing out rationS on the craft and q sec
ton of panel from the after cabin of
the vessel. Captain Snow owned the
vessel while she was in commerce
along the Maine and New England
coast. not while she was a SLAYER
The dories build by the veteran
builder, A. w. Poole of South Bristol
are in use all along the coast from
Portland to Quebec and two are. going
the Macmillan to the Arctic. while
another now being built lis going to
the Northern seas to be used in hunt
ing Polar bears and WalruSeS He Fha g