Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-12
Maine Gossip
Unbidden Guests

MU1De GOSSIP
unbidden Guests
Ny thoughts are not my own
Cnbidden guests. they crowd
Upon me when alone
With footsteps soft or loud.
And some I would drive hence
With scourgings if | could,
But | have no defence
Against their hardihood.
And others I entreat
With pleading tears to stay.
Alas. their timid feet
Are swift to haste away,
GRAY, in the Satur-
day Review.
Veteran smokers were provided with
a thrill and a laugh one night last
week as a pretty young lady and
three year old youngster entered
popular Court street Auburn, tobacco
establishment. The youngster was
weeping audibly; the young lady was
blushing furiously and cndeavoring to
reason with the boy but the latter
would not be comforted by words.
Its a pipe he wants." said the young
lady to the clerk. For goodness
sakes give him ono and perhaps we'll
be able to get by the next pipe display
without another scene" The crowd
laughed and watched with amazemeN
while the youngster selected the larg-
est. blacklist and most ferocious look
ing pipe i'll the whole display, stuck it
contentedly between his teeth. swag-
ND mo Cd MD
ly out of sight. his indignant escort
trailing sheepishly behind.-Lewiston
Journal.
Capt Richard Quick, 500 Washing
ton street, Bath, is one of the best
mariners who ever took the deck of
sailing ship. He has record at sea
which reads like fiction. A man who
has circumnavigated the globe 10
times, been as many times around the
Cape of Good Hope, rounded Cape Horn
As times, visited nearly every country
in the world bordering on oceans and
is at present enjoying life with his
family. He has not retired, however,
only awaiting orders from The Texas
Sled HSnlp To-, III whose enploy ne
still is, to go to sea again.
Capt. Quick is reluctant to tell much
about his life for publicity. 1t was
through a world of hard knocks that
Capt. Quick attained distinction IS one
Of the foremost navigators of deep sea
craft. He was not born with a silver
spoon in his mouth, rather it was pew
ter. Only once in a while will the
captain loosen up and tell Of his ex-
periences and the audience has to be
someone he knows we'll.
The following boys who are mem
bers of the Mechanic Falls 7. NJ. c. A.
group associated with the Baptist
church, have the highest average in
credits gained during the past eight
weeks work on the County Emblem
Test Program: Whitney Rawson,
Philip Strout, Howard Mitchell, Her
bert Hartshorn. Donald Tripp. At the
next meeting the regular program will
be followed, a part OF which will be
given to first aid daging
Mrs. Bertha Taylor Goodridge, who
has charge of the craftsmanship classes
in Portland High school, finds nothing
quite so Accordingly interesting as
craftsmanship itself, and is trimming
over with enthusiasm for her work. She |
has popularized selling to such an ex-
tent that Portland has an exceedingly
large number of embryo statesmen and
saleswomen whose trained analytical
ability may be expected to prove OF
service to modern business following
their graduation in the spring.
Prominent among the social welfare
workers of Bangor section, anJ one
who has had much experience before
coming to Bangor TO win the success
she has already had as executive sec
rotary of the Bangor Family Welfare
Society Is Miss Anna NJ. Nation.
Watertown, Conn. In her native city |
Miss Nation attended the public |
schools and then graduated from Pratt |
Institute where she took a general art
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