Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-04
Maine Gossip
If You Have Been in Maine

If You Have Been in Maine
Have you ever been where sunset is
like fire,
Or where the fishing is good?
You'll surely come back as you desire,
If you have been in Maine Ill bet
YOU would.
Have you ever been to Washington
Bald Mt,
Where look out stations protect the
There material for stories can be OBJ
tained,
If you have been in Maine as a
tourist.
Have YOU ever been in the kennebeo
Or where the potatoes grow?
You'll call your vacation jolly good
rally.
Helen Norcross, - Bridge street
Augusta.
Poland Spring. will be the scene OF
lively gathering early in September
when the Rotary clubs of New Eng
land will have their annual fall con-
clave there.
The Auburn tax rate for the year
was not announced at the recent
special meeting of the city council
and the board of assessors. The
meeting was held to discuss the re-
valuation work which has been IN
progress several months under the
direction of Charles \. kimball and
Charles Thurston special assessors
The rate is expected to be announced
at the regular council meeting next
Monday night.
Just as soon as the rumble of the
SIS train stopped in the Bath station,
Thursday morning, there was anoth-
CT noise which made one think they
were in a barnyard for 600 chicks be-
gan to chirp just as soon as the par
Gel post packages, they were in, were
handed out the mail car. They had
wonderful time and evidently were
pleased with Maine. They are con-
signed to Frank L. Leavitt OF Winnie
sance and came from New Jersey in
cartons of 100 each.
In the Pcjcpscot historical room
Just opened at Brunswick are already
some 800 exhibits, some of them
priceless. Birch bark canoes, old flre
apparatus, curios from foreign lands
brought by some of the towns Ia
NOUS sea -farinS men of olden days,
and numerous coins, documents,
books, pictures, etc, are on view.
Each afternoon for the remainder or
the summer, the rooms will be open
from two to five o'clock, Sundays eX-
ccpted. No admission charge IS
made. The rcopening was in charge
OF Miss Annette Merriman. the Old
est member of the present society
and one of the very few members of
the original society. In the three
days of it's opening this week 81 WIS.,
itors were recorded.
While Bath has been selected as
the site for several new industrial
plants within the last few weeks, it
is good to know that other manufac-
turers are considering the advantages
which the city offers for the location
of their plants and that some of them
appear favorably disposed toward
Coming here. 1t IS said, by those
who are on the inside, that the plants
which are considering Bath are those
which would employ mon in their
activities and this sounds good TO
Bath people. for. when men are
brought into q city it usually follows
that they bring families, and this not
only adds to the population of the
city but may be the means of, proVid-
Ing more women and girls for work
in the plants which are already es-
tablished here. or which VIII be IN
operation within a few wceks.-Bath
Times.
For years there have been quanti-
ties of wild rice in MerrymeetinS bay
which has made it one of the favorltc
feeding and breeding grounds for
black ducks which is to be found
along the Atlantic coast. A few years
ago Omar Perry and William Work
sowCd a considerable amount OF Wlld
rice, which they purchased in Boston,
along the shores and marshes at the
southern end of Winnegance creek,
where a few birds were occasionally
found. For the last few years the
number of black ducks in the creek
has increased annually and last fall
there were hundreds of them, which
leads many to believe that perhaps
the planting of this rice has had
something to do with it. Game
Warden Herbert Spinney says that, II
money was available to plant such
foods as ducks enjoy in some OF the
creeks and bays along the lower Ken
nebec! he believes there would be
great numbers of these birds come
in every season to feed and rear their
young.
Mrs. Florence Best LcProhon OF
Portland has presented to the Maine
Historical Society three dresses, one
a hand embroidered wedding dress.
made in 1920, which belonged to her
great aunt, who was before her mar
riage, Miss Elizabeth Best, and who
married an Emery. There are two
silk dresses which were worn by
daughter of this marriage, PAMELA
Emery, and which were made about
1880. An old autograph album of the
year, 1918, filled with the names of
representatives Of various old Port
land families, is also among this
group of relics presented to the socie-
ty. and a water color picture of Mrs.
Emery. done by herself whcn she at
tended boarding school. Mrs. Le-
Prohon has kept these old treasures
in the attic of Ter home on High
street. but has decided that they
should go to the Maine Historical So
ciety where they will be preserved.
Mrs. Emery was born in England in
1897, and came to this country with
her family when she was but two
years of age Another relic that Mrs
LeProhon is to present to the Maine
Historical Society is a bit of wood
from the pew of George Washington.
President Stills of Bowdoin college,
i'll tribute to the late Charles
Boardman Halves. says: His death
is a very real loSsSto the 1torar,, lfa