Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-06
Maine GOSSIP
Spring Co1ors

IF. r. Jerome)
Spring walked to see:
Swift cardinals all ruby plumed-
Blue ripples of the bluebird's
The orioles all golden groomed-
Wrens brown as twigs on which
they swing.
And quietly
She limned on field, in silent glade,
The blue and brown, the ruby,
gold,
OF birds that carol unafraid
or you and me, and all the world.
Registrar Of deeds Gould at the
county building, Auburn, has recently
received a letter from Cairo, Egypt,
which, he thinks, is a long distance
record for Maine deed registrars. 1t
was mailed May 10, and reached Au-
burn May 81, and is a request from
Miss Grace Burgess for copy of
deed made in 1866. The letter was adj
dressed to the Registrar of Deeds,
Lewiston City Hall, Lewiston, Maine,
U. S. A, but Notwithstanding, it
reached the Auburn buildings safely.
The Piscataquis Oil Company has
engaged a New Brunswick man to
come here this month and start oper-
ations on the drilling of an oil we'll
at the old Merrill farm near Norton
Hill in Dover says the Dover CORE
spondent of the News. Those inter-
ested in the oil project were disap-
pointed in the driller from Pennsyl-
vania who had been engaged to have
charge of the drilling, with the result
that representatives of the company
went to Fredericton, N. B., where
they visited the fifty odd wells in OPP
peration at that point and made a
trade with an experienced driller who
will report here on or before June
18th.
The Lewiston Salvation Army has
purchased from Mrs. Sarah A.
Mallar lot of land on Middle street,
that city, as a site for permanent
Army home. The price paid was
about $4,000.
Former Sheriff Pennell told a good
story on himself the other day, says
The Stroller in the Express. One
day the teacher of his class was
quizzing her pupils in history and
asked a little girl who settled Phila-
delphia A bright boy who wished to
help the girl out whispered to her:
William Penn, its founder"
The girl did not get the whispered
prompting quite right, but she made
stab at it and answered the uues-
ton.
Il know" she said. willie Pen
nelrs father
Lubec is to have a new civic board,
patterned after the State Chamber of
Commerce and Industrial League, the
Board of Trade being defunct. OFF,
GERS have been elected as follows:
President, Robert j. Peacock; vice
presidents, H. B. McKenney and
James w. Getchel; Sec, H. L. Wal
ton; treasurer, j. p. Mabee; directors,
S. B. Stuart, j. P. McCurdy, H. e.
Saunders and Charles Leighton. r. J.
Peacock was elected delegate to the
transportation problem meeting on
June of the State Chamber Of Com
merce in Augusta.
The Eastern Maine General Hospi-
tai on June 1 went under new man
agement. DR.. George Fl. Stone be-
coming it's superintendent, coming
from Boston, where for the past six
years he has been assistant superin-
tendent of the Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital. He is native of Portland,
graduate of Bowdoin, 1905 and the
Medical School, 1908. He formerly
practiced in Clinton, Mass.
Biddeford Pool is on the list of
summer resorts that will invite Pres
ident Harding to establish his Sum-
mer Capitol in it's limits-and he
could not find finer or more pleas
ant spot.
Some New Englanders will proba-
bly, be little short on their immedi-
ate supply of contraband liquors, at
least in the neighborhood of Van