Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-21
Maine Gossip


UN(<IIEG 0OO OID
OF three
who sat in the dooryard sun.
One said I'D like hill
When this Is done.
A place where 1 can look around.
Provided I'm not sleeping sound"
'Hill or vale. what's that to me?
I'd like a place beneath tree.
And when the spring is hereabout.
I'd climb up with the sap and shout
But the third said:
I'll take the dip
In the old wood lot.
Where I can lie in peace and rot
Until, some day, as those things 60,
Some one will pinch my dust. just so.
And say. Why. man. this stuff viii
Albert Frederick Wilson. ii The
Century.
More votes than voters were dis
covered after a special town meeting
in Harpswell on the bridge matter.
II was found that while 512 were
eligible to vote, SIS votes were cast.
1t was decided to adjourn until
later Tue udl0 " NC dAUOQHSSu.
Capt. Cushman, keeper of the light
house at Scituate Breakwater, re-
Gently decided that it was not right
that man should live alone. So he
hied himself to Bangor, passing up
the Bay State bellies, and there got
himself bride. Now the light burns
brighter and the honeymoon bells are
ringing over the Breakwater.
One Of those Hub papers are tell
ing about a school teacher from
Cape Cod, who resigned her position
as a teacher at Peru Hill, Oxford
county, after being in the class room
for an hour and a half. She gave
as her reason the absence of a me-
ton picture house and other forms
Of popular amusement.
Anything which Harry NJ. Jones,
the Old Orchard aviator does, is in
teresting to Maine folks in general.
He it was who carried the first aerial
mail from Portland to Augusta where
it was received into the hands of
Postmaster F. w. Plaisted. Just re-
Gently, Jones made a trip from Kineo,
where he has been for the summer,
to Portland, a distance of 10 miles
in 113 minutes.
The Lewiston Armory is assuming
the proportions of reality. Work
was begun Tuesday morning in clear
ing the lot and the erection of the
necessary Office and outbuildings.
The building is to be erected jointly
by the city and the State of Maine.
The contract was let to T. +. Moreau
& Co., for s200,992. 1t is to he COM
pleted not later than June 1, 1928.
The Armory will be located on the
lot at Campus avenue and Central
avenue.
The bears and the deer and such
had best look out or they will get
a smasher between the lockers. No
less parsonage than Jack Dempsey,
worlds heavyweight champion is at
Ok Bow camp in Aroostook county
for an outing. Jack, his brother and
his trainer are guests of Walter D.
Hines of Portland at the latter's
camp. After cleaning up the game
in that section of the State they are
planning to leave the last part of
the week for New Brunswick to pass
two weeks hunting for moose.
A girl, aged 16 years, married
man, aged so and they have been
living in Porter. Last week she went
to Boston and announced so that it
got into the Boston papers, that she
is there for bath and a divorced
Her name is Mrs. Maxine Hartnett
Hadlock. She went to Boston and
established herself in a fashionable
Back Bay hotel, registering under an
assumed name in order to avoid re-
porters. But evidently it didn't work
because they found her out. up in
Porter there is nothing but darkness
after supper and old people"
Evangeline Booth, beloved by Sal
walton Army folks from coast to
coast, who is soon to make fare
well tour of the country, has espec-
tally endeared herself to Maine peo-
pie upon occasion of her visits to the
Pine Tree State. A little Portland
miss. Bertha Eveleth, has gone to
New York City where she will take
20, %,.o; 1, 4.
ton Army work at the Training col
lege. The course calls for nine
months of study and training. She
will receive the title Ct lieutenant.
She has sister in the work in CAL
ifornia.