Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01
Maine Gossip
M OWING Day

He had no say of whore 10 live,
No choice in what to do,
So moved into a tenement
Extremely red of hue.
In architecture it was built
Upon an ancient plan,
And had no new conVenitnces
Designed by modern man.
1t was not done when he went in
state of things absurd,
And vet despite the circumstance
lie never said word.
The neighbors murmurcd, Bless his
heart,
For him may long delay
The day on which he moves from out
His tenement of clay"
ANNE c. NAUDE, in New York
Times.
Rev. William s. Jones of Bath, a
retired minister, attended the ses-
sions of the Maine Methodist Episco-
pal conference in spite of his being
80 years old. He has missed but
few sessions since he became pas
, tor in the conference in 1863, SO
years ago this month, when the
Maine conference was held in the
Chestnut st. church in Portland.
The late Bishop Simpson presided at
that session and welcomed Mr.. Jones
into the conference. He is the old
est member of the conference.
A monster lobster weighing "a
pounds, caught in the harbor of
PASSPORT, was A inches across both
big claws and body, 90 inches from
tip Of nose to tip of tail and length
OF largest claw, 90 inches. CirCum-
ference of body, Il inches. Circum-
ference OF large claw, inches.
Length of largest hand" on claw. 2
inches. While a Holsters age is not
exactly known, it takes six years to
reach nine inches in length and they
grow one inch each succeeding year.
This big shellfish was purchased by
Oscar H. Brown, Bangor news deal
CT, to add to his collection of curios.
Telephone Topics says: George T.
Dinsmore of Auburn has been with
the \. F. T. & T. Co, since July l.,
1894. He was made wire chief in
Lewiston - or 3 years ago and has
been a real one ever since. He has
served as an alderman in Auburn. a
fact which is mentioned only because
Auburn is one of the few cities VIC
know of where it is not an insult to
be known as an alderman. He is an
expert gardener and if caught for
jury duty a few times more ought al
SO to be an expert on court procedure
as he proceeds. The most touching
believes him
George Allan England, the WELL
known Maine writer, who at one time
lived at Bryants Pond, is on trip to
the north for material for sealing
stories. He left Newfoundland sew
eral weeks ago on a sealing steamer
and spent 81 days in the ice fields.
He is reported as saying that the yes
sci secured catch of $4,000 seals,
in the Portland Express, and added a
facctious remark that in addition
to wealth OF material for his sto-
ries and' nearly 200 photographs he
is also bringing back fine crop of
| blonde whiskers.
Rev. Carl H. Raupach, a beloved
pastor of the Fort Fairfield Metho-
dist church from 1903 to 1907, who
has been the successful pastor of the
-,
| for some time, was recently given the
pastorate Of the church in Ipswich,
Mass, so many old Fort Fairfield
friends will be interested to know.
Rev. James Ainslie, who has been
the active pastor of Grace church,
Cambridge, Mass, for the past year,
has just been reelected again to that
pastorate. Mr.. Ainslie has been re-
markably successful in his pastoral
work thus far. He is pleasantly re-
membered by Fort Fairfield people
as for quite long time the strong
and beloved pastor of the Fort Fair
field Methodist church.
At a meeting Wednesday night Of
Minerva Lodge of Odd Fellows in
Lincoln it was voted to accept the
plans for the new hall submitted by
L. s. Dixon and II. c. Jarvis, engi-
neers and architects. Eastern Trust
Building of Bangor, these being con-
sidered by the building committee as
being the most practical of the vari-
Gus plans submitted and most fully
meeting the requirements Of the