Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-29
Maine GOSSIP
THE TICKET AGENT


Like any merchant in a store
Who sells things by the pound or score,
He deals with scarce perfunctory
glance
Small pass-keys to the worlds Ro-
nance.
He takes dull money. turns and
hands
The roadways to far distant lands.
Bright shining rail and fenceless sea
Are partners to his wizardry.
He calls off names as if they were
Just names to cause no heart to stir.
For listening you'll hear him say
q. and then to Alden and Bonn
Or Frisco first and then to
Nome,
Across the Rocky Mountains
And never catch a voice to tell
He knows the lure or feels the spell.
Like any salesman in a store,
He sells but Understanding more.
And casual as any clerk y..
He deals in dreams; and calls It
n.
Harper's Magazine. ,a,,
Charles L. Clement, superintendent
of Frycburg, Brownf1eld, Denmark
and Stow schools, has been elected
to the superintendency at Lisbon.
Gen. Greedy can understand better
than any living man the advantage
that radio communication Will be to
an Arcl,c explorer" The Portland
Evening Express asserts.
The Tooth birthday of the town of
Dover will be observed August 9,
when both Dover and FoXcroft will
unite as one municipality in it's OBJ
Servance. FoXeroft academy is to
observe its centennial on August /.
Major Henry a. Shorey. dean of
Maine Journalists, is about to retire
from the active management of the
Bridgton News, founded by him in
1870. Major Shorey is So years old
and thinks it's about time to take a
little vacation.
Historical Houlton for over one
hundred years was wildly portrayed
in the celebration of the seventy
fifth anniversary of the founding of
Houlton Academy and Kicker Classi-
cal Institute. on Tuesday afternoon
on the Kicker Campus. when a pag-
cant OF events in connection with the
founding of the town and the school
was given.
of Westport, who was noted as a
"pushcr" when he sailed the briny
deep, is exhibiting the same qualities
in the way he carries on an excellent
vegetable garden at his home, IS
Berkeley street in Portland. On
Tuesday he Toasted on green peas
out of his garden. something that
most of the amateur farmers in that
vicinity have failed to do Is yet.
The pods were well filled, and there
were a lot of them.
Bath will shortly have a new
manufacturing plant, the Commercial
Trading Co. of 80 Otis street, Boston,
WHICH Ids pant DIT NluluCS, Mass,
having decided to occupy the big
backing factory building in the
Shipping City. The firm will manu-
factGre khaki, cotton and wooden
trousers and cotton work shirts. The
company hopes to start work with
IS people employed and gradually
increase this number to from 175 to
200.
Prof. A. M. Thomas of the faculty
of the State Normal school at Farm
ington is enjoying a years leave of
absence and during his absence he is
teaching in one of the leading Ameri-
can schools in China. This is in ac-
cordanct Na,n ltn plan Tor ~ ~
American teachers who visit the
Orient, and advantage was taken OF
the opportunity TO secure Prof.
Thomas whose years Of experience
in teaching and his work in the
Pennington school Lave contributed
to the value of the service which he
is able to render there. Prof.
Thomas is accompanied by Mrs.
Thomas, and they are both enjoying
their visit to the Orient.
The settlement of Smith Mills in
Standish. which embraced 80 build
ings. will be no more within a few
DAYS In order to nrotecf fhe ouritv