Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-01-31
Maine GOSSIP
Shooting stars

break,
And the city would build memorials
And people mourn your loss?
If you feel this way just step out some
Into the clear, cool air,
And gaze aloft at the myriad stars
That nightly shine up there,
And if you watch a while, ere long
you'll see
One shoot across the sky,
Leaving a beautiful brilliant trail
Soon to fade and die.
But the world goes on and the stars
Into the dark of night.
And we never miss, in that great ex-
The star that ceased to light.
So l sometimes think in this worlds
big plan,
That maybe you and I
Are very much like those shooting
You watched up in the sky. .
Justice Smith. in sentencing
Charles H. Gallagher to a fine of $500
for causing the death last Oct. is of
James Kelley. a 9-year-old Bangor
boy, by running him down with a
truck, said:
Il believe that so per cent. of the
men driving automobiles on the
streets of Bangor are driving faster
than they should and it's only good
luck that more people aren't killed
than are"
The Emergency Fleet Corporations
houses at Bath, built during the war,
which are soon to be sold at auction,
include 67 brick houses or 1O9 tene-
, ments and the governments share of
the Dixie schoolhouse, built jointly by
the government and city. Only II OF
the houses are now occupied.
Lewiston has adopted a regulation
requiring all public school pupils who
are absent three or more days on ac-
count of illness to have a certificate
from a physician that it is safe for
him or her to return to school. II
was first proposed by Dr. Dumont,
health officer, and is intended to pre-
vent children with contagious dlseas-
es from returning too early and
spreading the disease.
Willis j. Abbot, newly appointed
editor of the Christian Science Monl-
tor is a grandson of the, Rev. John 5.
Abbot of Maine, whose Typography
of Napoleon Bonaparte" was fam
f, GUS book of the 10th century and
whose History ofsChristianity" was
one of the works in the library OF
/ Mary Baker Eddy. Albert Field Gill
| more, simultaneously elected editor
in-chief of the other Christian Sci
ence publications, was born of New
| England parents, being educated IN
| the schools of Maine and at Bates
| College. He has long been men,
ber of the governing board of that
| institution.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph n. Cox of
Rockport celebrated their 50th we'd
! ding anniversary Tuesday. Jan. "a. at
the home of their daughter, Mrs. Fred
]. Parsons, who gave a dinner party
in honor of the occasion. They ex-
pected to be the only guests, and
great was their surprise when they
arrived and found family gather
ing with covers laid for Is, and a de-
licious dinner awaiting them. Mr..
Cox is a native of Appleton and Mrs.
Cox was born in Lincolnville, the
daughter of the late james and Eliza
Metcalf.
I Governor PercivaI P. Baxter,
| Mayor Carroll S. Chaplin and DR..
Morris H. Turk, pastor of Williston
church, were speakers at the 4Oth
| annual banquet of the Maine Com
mercial Travellers Association at the
Lafayette Hotel, Portland. Saturday
| night. Past President Churchill
O'Donnel presided as toastmaster.
| Music was by the Harvard Male
Quartet and orchestra. More than
| 125 were present. At the business
meetings Charles w. Hamilton was
elected president. Claude N. Mills,
vice president. Edward o. Baker,
Ralph w. Kimball Horace J. Dunlap
and Fenwick n. Winslow, directors.
Edwin Bateman Marshall, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. l.. Marshall. South
Portland, is something of pianistic
! prodigy, for although only nine years
old. he has a repertoire of 25 pieces
| perfectly n1emoriZed, all of which are
two pages or more in length. Not
only this, but his achievement is all
the more remarkable in view of the
, fact that he began studying only a
| few months ago.
KennebUnk, Me-, was one OF the 752
places in the United States that Sc
cured the village mail delivery serv-
ice when it was first installed in 1913
/ and its citizens are naturally much
perturbed over the recommendation
of Postmaster General Hays for "the
discontinuance of that service in
communities where not covered by
either city or rural delivery service"
on the ground that the expenditure
of public funds is not warranted by
the benefits received.
The latest postmaster possibility in
Saco is said to be Robert A. AleXand-
| err, employed by the York Manufac-
turing Co., and chairman of the Re
| publican City committee. Nearly a
dozen candidates are now in the field.
The death rate in Portland for
1921 was a fraction over IA to a
thousand, according to Health Officer