Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-10-05
Maine Gossip
II We Decide to Farm

My wife and l were on farm
About two months ago.
For US there is a lovely charm
In watching green things grow;
But we were shocked, I must confess,
At many things we saw;
The farmer never thought, l guess,
Or didn't care a straw.
But what a waste to plant the corn
In rows so far apart:
The ground between all pioughed and
torn;
1t nearly broke my heart
! told him how we SOW our lawn,
To get it nice and thick.
Perhaps he heard while choking on
That tiny piece of stick.
His cattle were a brutal crime.
1t made dear Ethel rave
To see poor pigs all caked with CRIME,
And not a tub to battle.
While little lambs We're a disgrace!
III bet that not a soul
Had ever washed a darling face:
For they were black as ccal.
1t surely hurts the gentle cows
To have tine milk pulled out;
And eggs are hunted in the mows.
While poor hens weep about.
When we got home. dear Ethel sat
Just sobbing on my arm;
So | declared we'd change all that
If we decide to farm
james A. Fitzpatrick in Farm Life.
The first shipments for 1921 of deer
through the Bangor inspection station
were five, coming from Greenville
and being tagge6as follows: J. Bow
lin, Milo, one; II. Snow, Thorndike,
one; Batchelder G Snyder, Boston.
two: NJ. E. Grant, Portland. one Re-
ing prospects are exceedingly good.
both for deer and partridges.
Nov. 8 TO Is inclusive are the cor
rect dates for the coming annual ex-
hibition of Maine farm crops in the
City hall, Bangor Through error the
dates have been given as during the
month of October. 1t will be we'll to
rote the correct dates in your memo
book
The Portland city council Monday
evening passed orders authorizing the
Deering High School Commission to
proceed with the acquiring of Pre-
sumpscott park as a site for a new
Deering High school building, enea ge
an architect. obtain plans and ad-
vertise for bids for construction. be-
side appropriating 100000 for the
purpose.
Sixty-three divorces were granted
by Justice Smith at the September
term Of the Penobscot county su-
preme court at Bangor. which closed
last Saturday and of them 34 were for
cruel and abusive treatment. Is for
utter desertion, 10 for adultery. three
for gross and confirmed habits of in
toxication and one for non support.
Forty eight of the petitioners were
women.
Edward H. Pierce. keeper of the
range lights at Doubling Point in
the kennebec river for the period of
% years lis happy over his being
transferred to the light, fog and
weather signal station at Marshall
Point, near Port Clyde. Mr.. Pierce
is one of the veterans of the light
house service in Maine. having en-
tered the ranks in 1891. He has at
least one spectacular feat to his
everlasting credit. that being the
rescue of the entire crew of the
British schooner Aurora during a
six-hour bottle with the wind and
weather.
Edwin H. Lemaire, the new mu-
nicipal organist for the city Of Port
land who is to arrive about the mid
die of October is weary Of globe
trotting" and glad to settle in a
city which he says hold much Of
promise for him. In letter to the
Portland Express Mr.. Lemaire
states that he was considering an
offer from a big firm Of concert
managers in Melbourne. Australia
when the invitation to come to Port
land arrived. His wife's council