Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-02
Maine GOSSIP
When Ma Gets Back

Mas been away for most all day.
An my. we've had such lots of fun:
We've romp2d upstairs and every
where's.
Pulled up the curtains every one.
An scared the cat so badly that
She yowled an yowled an ran an ran
About the place an broke a vase.
An then upset the ashes pan:
Right on the back-hall carpet. too.
An now we don't know what we'll do
When Ma gets back.
I wish we hadn't heen so bad
An turned the whole house upside
down.
An ate the cake and tried to make
An army tent of Mas white gown.
We're gettin scared, an if we dared
We'd go to som" dark place and hide
An keep as still an wait until
Ma pitied us-I wish we'd tried
TO he good boys an girls for now
.. Omm, won't there be an offul row
When Ma gets back.
Mrs. A. Il. Palmer from The North
ern.
1t is expected that during the COM
ing summer extensive repairs will be
made upon the Supreme Court room
at the court house in Dover FoXcroft,
and about $1,000 expended in making
the improvements which have been
, badly needed for some years.
Bangor reports that he has received
no calls for fires for more than a
week. This is rather unusual for
| Bangor, as the average is about three
calls a day. In January the firemen
We're on the jump all the time.
Bangor eX-service men. who We're
! members of the famous Goth, or Yam
! kee Division, are talking of forming
| a Y-D club. About 500 former mem
| bers of General Edwards division
are now residing in Bangor. Old
! Town and Brewer. and it is likely
that some steps will be taken.
The newest sensation in Rock
land is the discovery of green grass
! and dandelions growing out of doors
! at this period of the year. This was
| the discovery of snow shovelers TINS
; week, The grass and dandelions
were nesting beneath the snow ana
| appeared as green and vigorous as in
the spring.
Captain and Mrs. Horatio Hall OF
| Bowdoinham celebrated their Goth
! wedding anniversary, Wednesday by
entertaining with a family dinner. IN
| the evening scores of neighbors ana
| friends surprised them with an Old
| fashioned serenade. captain anu
Mrs. Hall were the recipients OF Slits
from many sections of the country.
We hear a great deal now days
about Portland cement. Many Won
| der. if it got it's name from Portland
Me. or Portland, Oregon. 1t is not
named from the place OF ITS origin
however, but from it's resemblance 10
| a widely used building stone from the
| Isle of Portland off the coast or Eng
| land. But in the mean time, poIh
Portland. Me-. and Portland. oregon,
got more or less publicity from the
name.
An experience of DR.. Philip r.
Thompson of Portland, during the re-
cent severe and frequent snow
storms, surely has it's place among
many unique happenings reported by
doctors during the storms. y pallenI
had an acute attack of appendicitis
and it was necessary to rush her 70
the hospital. DIR. Thompson couid
neither secure an ambulance nor a
taxi, and when he tried his own car
i and got stuck. he rushed to nearby
house, borrowed a toboggan. bundled
| his patient onto it and ran with II
! to his auto which had been dug out.
| The patient was transferred to the
auto and taken to the hospital.
| Ex-Jnited States Senator George
c. Perkins, 81 years of age. died at
| his home in Oakland, Cal, on Mon
day, Feb. IS. This notice is of in
terest to Maine folks because George
Clement Perkins was born in kenne-
i bunkport, on Aug. 90, 1889, and lived
IN that place until he was Ii years
| OF age, when he left Maine and be-
came a sailor before the mast" His
, first voyage was on a sailing vessel
to New Orleans. after which he Wis
tied nearly every part of the world.
& The regularity of Mr.. Perkins at
tendance in the Senate was almost
remarkable, for the record of his %
years of service, shows that he miss
ed few roll calls.
Boy Annoys Girls, is Fined