Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-22
Maine GOSSIP
April

Come. @ Come, cloud shadows do: the
Long wished for sunbeams cheer us,
Enchanting songsters seek the homes
Most gladly welcomed. friend. by you
and /.
Ere&hile green Ministries pipe in pool
and mere;
Now echelons Of crows wheel here and
there:
The knocking sapsucks orchard beetles
seek
Across the meadows tinkling brooklets
veeries chant sweet melodies, and 10;
Encircling hawks above the meadows
sweep:
Now fash the trout in ev'ry woodland
stream;
Upon the limpid lake the looms ta ha
Eerily mocks US. Well go fishing soon.
F. S. in Lincoln County News.
George w. Roos of Vanceboro,
known to practically everyone in
Maine. has gone to Montgomery, Ala,
| to take his old position as legal ad-
juster for Howe's Great London
Shows. with which he has been for
years.
Major E. E. Philbrook was chosen
chairman of the Agricultural Bureau
OF the Portland Chamber of Com
merce Monday evening at the annual
meeting. The bureau has invited the
! Maine Pathological Society. Maine
Dairymen's Association and the
Maine Corn and Fruit Show to
hold their next fall meeting in Port
land. The Maine State Poultry and
Pet Stock Association is also expect
ed to meet there.
Mrs. Hannah Giles Farris. who died
at the age of 80 years, is believed to
have been the oldest woman in that
city. She was. up 20 week ago. in
! remarkably good health, active in mind
Thomas c. Farris. Nephews and
| nieces are the surviving relatives.
She was member OF Ali Souls Con-
| gregational church.
Henry f. Merrill, chairman of the
State Pier Commission. and James
Q. Gulnac, president of the State
! Chamber of Commerce and Agricul-
! tural League, went to Washington,
| Monday, to attend an important
| hearing before the Maritime Asso-
| citation.
Mayor Newell Of Lewiston was
presented a silver loving cup at the
! final session of the outgoing city
! council Monday morning as tribute
of their high esteem for him, both as
man and as their mayor Alder
man Wiseman, president of the board
made the presentation with remarks
apropos of the occasion. Mayor
| Newell spoke briefly in uttcrancc OF
his appreciation for the thought
back Of the deed.
A little gray squirt climbed a
power pole very early Monday morn
and caused short circuit, burning
off the wire-immediatcly causing
all kinds of trouble for electric cur
rent users in Bath, Woolwich, Wis.
casset and vicinity. All this happen
ed about 1915 a. NJ. and it was
o'clock in the forenoon before the
linemcn found and remcdied The
trouble
L. ~ n 4
contractor has taken the job of NOV.
ing a 10s-foot brick chimney abou
l. feet to a new location. The joi
will take several weeks.
Bath will early in April become
the pulpwood center for the Pejep
scot Paper Co., and about $4,000
cords will pass through that city
coming by water. The company ha
bought a second tugboat, giving i
two tugs and eight barges to ply be
tween the Provinces and Bath.
William w. Roberts. who died las
Saturday in Portland, aged 81, wa
probably the best known man in tn
stationery business in Maine. IL
had Travelled the State over and ha'
been in that line for 81 years il
Portland and previously six years il
5 Ohio. He was a 3od Degree Mason
, an Elk, Odd Fellow and *. of 2.
1t is estimated that Bath radi
operators have about $4,000 investe
in apparatus. The Bath Radio Gu
has secured rooms in the Y build
, ing and plans to install one Of tn
best equipments in the state.
Twenty-Five contestants from tn
Bangor public schools entered tn
, bird house contest there last week
. the Bangor Bird Conversation Gu
offering six prizes of 81 each
The winning houses are on eXhibitio
at the public library.
An inauguration ball was hel
Monday night in Saco, the first in tn
history of the city. The women Q
'Iic ltiHoCIdliC party WcIc III CHdi 3
and Mayor w. J. Gilpatric was tn
guest Of honor. Everyone was invit
cd. irrespective OF party.
CANAAN
A library meeting will be held II
Canaan Town hall, Monday, Marc
81, at $50 +. NJ, to elect officers 70
1922, 4 librarian. etc. Unless tn