Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-20
Maine Gossip
Sap Time


Sap Time
Frosty night an sunny mornin':
Mounting warm as 1T can be:
] don't need no palmer warnin'
That the sap is runnin' free.
Always right on hand fer tappn'
Soon's the sun gets warm an bright:
Can't ketch Uncle Silas nappn'.
When the signs is pintin' right.
Got my spiles all set an ready.
Pail a-hangin' on each tree:
Don't mind workin' hard an steady
When the sap is runnin' free.
UNCLE 81.
The Bangor & Aroostook collection
of hard woods. one of the best COL
lections of manufactured woods in
New England, which has been placed
in the custody of the State Chamber
of Commerce, is now on exhibition
at the offices of the State Chamber
in the City Building. Portland. The
collection includes maple, beech,
birch and yellow birch. all grown on
the line of the Bangor & Aroostook
Railroad. The collection includes
a large number of pieces showing
how readily the Maine grown woods
take the beautiful polish.
J. Frank Hopkinson, one of Fort
Fairfield's Oldest and most respected
citizens, was d pleasant caller upon
the editor. of the Review the other
day. Speaking of the weather and
season. Mr.. Hopkinson said he is not
much of judge of what an Aroos-
took winter ought to be, this being
only the 10th winter he has spent in
this county.
Schoolhouses are rapidly increas-
ing in Maine. Damariscotta next
Monday at it's townmeeting will dis
cuss the proposition of raising $780,
coo for a new building, to replace
the old one, which is old, unhy-
gicnic and unsafe. The State De-
partment of Education has served
notice that certain sanitary changes
must be made and it is felt that much
expenditure on the old building
would be money thrown away.
An eagle which fell on the deck of
the Cairnmona, transatlantic liner.
900 miles off the coast of Scotland,
fluttered overheard from its cage
Tuesday at Portland and was
drowned before rescuers could reach
it. Its tail feathers had been clipped
and it was intended to put the bird
in some museum.
Mrs. Elizabeth Warrington. who
recently celebrated her Oath birthday
at her home in Arlington, Mass, was
born in New Sharon in 1928, a daugh-
ter of Benjamin and Sophia Mayhew
She married James Manning VIM
chcll Warrington, who died in 1898.
Mr.. Warrington was a printer md
associated with such prominent men
/ as Wendell Phillips and William
Lloyd Garrison. He was later court
reporter of the First Session of the
Superior Court in Massachusetts,.
Mrs. Warrington went to Arlington
to live with her son. Wendell P.
Warrington, a Boston wool merchant.
more than 20 years ago from Chelsea,
where she resided for many years,
being an active worker in the Church
of the Redeemer, First Universalist
in that city. She has remarkably fine
health and is out of doors when the
weather is mild. She reads with the
ald of reading glass, scws and knits.
The $4,000 check which was picked
up from the mud of the gutter We'd
nesday noon by Howard F. Hall of
21 Cumberland Avenue, Portland,
turned out to have had no actual
value as it was written by boy who
| got hold of the blank check book in
| scme way. In a spirit of fun he made
out the check to his chum who was
with him and signed it evidently at
random. The peculiar part of it is
that he did strike the name of 4
former Portland man, Clayton w.
Ramsey, in signing the slip of yellow
| paper.
| The total registration this year at
Bangor High School is 1880 of which
542 are first year students, according
to the new catalogue Of the school.
This number is considerably in ex-
| cess of the capacity of the building.
| erected in 1911 on plans which con-
| templated caring for the attendance
for many years to come.
| George +. Thompson a we'll known
! Faith business man for more than
30 years. who recently purchased a
small farm in East Brunswick, has
decided to engage in the poultry
business. He purchased a few days
ago a building erected by the gov
eminent during the war designed as
| a mess hall in the barrack system
for the troops that were sent here
to guard the ship yards. The build
ing measured los feet in length and
was carefully taken down piece by
piece and hauled to Mr.. Thompson's
farm where it will again be erected
and used as hennery.
Miss Nan E. Brown, for many
years we'll known newspaper wom-
an, having worked on Maine and
Vermont newspapers. was last week
elected town clerk of West Bath.
She holds the distinction of being
the first woman ever elected to this
Office in the town. Miss Brown. i'm
mediately after her election. COM
menced a study of the statutes to ac-
quaint herself with the duties Of her
Office.