Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-05
Maine GOSSIP
Three Farmhouse Brides

When Grandma trOd the garden path
That led 10 Grandma's house, brand
new.
she wal<cd through rows of mignon-
Lovc-in-a-mist. all wet with dew.
Within their home bright candle
sho@ E.G'''' Them fulhllmont of her
When Father brought our Mother here,
With orange blossoms III her hair
They stopped beside the SNOWFALL bush,
And stood long time, whispering
Rosy glow from the parlor lamp
Drew them in from the fragrant
damp.
This night. electric beams shine out
Whore two arc coming up alone:
Slowly they wander up that way
On toward the twinkling lights of
homo.
They pause 2 while in that same sweet
For t~tdos of June don't change a
But the some light burns that shonc
for three
Loves altar fires, through eternity
Esther Price StoCkWcu III Detroit
Free Press.
Cranberry pickcrs are getting 50
bushcl for the Berries picked on
their marshes in the vicinity of Bath.
No"thcrly winds have made gun
ming the last few days at Merry
meeting bay more interesting than
it has been for a week. The birds
have been more numerous there
since Saturday. although many of
them leave the bay at sunrise and
do not return until dusk. Most Of
them 20 to the coast during the day
time, whore they are safer from
molcstation.
Tic close time on raccoons has
expired and now the gunners can
have chance to take shot now
and then at these animals. Years
a~O Bath had number of coon
hunters who owned good coon dogs
and on moonlight nights used to go
out into the woods and pastures and
capture many of the animals and
these trips WeYc usually followed a
TOW nights later by a coon roast.
Bath Independent.
Portland, who died June s. left an
estate valued at s2,11S,564.14. accord
ing TO an inventory which was filed
in tho probate court Wednesday by
three appraisers. This is the
largest sum mentioned in an in
ventOrY filed there for the past eight
years, it is known. The estate con-
Sists entirely of stocks and bonds.
In Mr.. Buffers will he bequeathed
nearly a million dollars to public in
stitutions. He left s250,000 to the
American he'd Cross. 100000 to Har-
ward University. 100000 to the
Portland Children's Hospital. ap-
to the Portland Public Library,
$1,000 to the Good viii Home As
ISOLATION of Hinckley. $4,000 to the
trustees of the Portland Ministry
at-Large.< and $4,000 each to the
salvation Army. Home for Aged
Women and Home for Aged Men of
Portland, $4,000 each to the District
Nursing Association, Diet Mission
aud Fresh Air Society. 100000 to the
Female orphan Asylum, and the
residuary estate to the widow. Eliza
beth S. Butler.
Tie Ninetieth Anniversary of the
establishment of the First Baptist
Church at RockIand will be observed
on October 1925. The great
feature of this celebration is to be
the dedication of the now organ,
shortly to be installed. For some
months the work of raising funds
with which to purchase an organ has
been under way. The church ladies
have held numerous sales and sup
pers, the proceeds from which were
put into the organ fund. But the
active campaign began last Sunday
1t is Il campaign for $1,000, the
amount needed for the purchase of
the organ. Under the leadership of
the Rev. Il. =. Browne and Executive
Chairman r. S. sherman. over three