Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-06
Maine GOSSIP
The Woman With q Fan

The Woman With O Fan
The moons gay coquette tonight:
She wears Silken scarf of blue
Her red hair piled high on her brow,
And fastened with a star or two.
And wherf the wind with magic lutte
Whispers OF his wanton love,
She hides her face behind a fan
OF silver lace. Her eyes above
It's f1lmy rim are stern and dark:
The wind signs low And
all the while
Behind that fluttering fan I glimpse
The phantom of her golden smile.
-Whitelaw Saunders in Tempo.
Strawberries so large that ten fill
ed quart basket were reported by a
Bath grocer, who picked at the rate
of two baskets full in five minutes the
other morning. The best of the ber-'
ries will be gone after this week, the
farmers report.
Every indication points to a very
successful island season around Port
land. Reports from the lower bay are
to the effect that the hotels and
boarding houses on the various is
lands are better filled than they have
been at this time of the year for a
long period, with July and August, a
good business being expected to con-
tinue right up to and beyond Labor
Day, which this year comes on Sept
ember 3.
Beginning her teaching at the age of
II in a rural school, Miss Loretta
of
43d year of teaching and has never
been employed by any other town. She
has taught three generations of tho
Conner family, and there are countless
instances where Richmond fathers and
mothers started their school life under
her instruction and who have since
sent their youngsters to her to be ini-
tiated into the experiences of school
life.
At recent meeting of the Board of
Education of the town of Houlton,
Milton B. Lambert Of Auburn was
elected to the principalship of Houl-
ton high school. Mr.. Lambert was Sc
lected from, large list of strong cam
didates including out-of-state city
school men prominent in the State of
Maine. lie was CQuCdleu at Bates
College, served as principal of Alfred
high school. 1876; principal of Mex
leo high school, 1861; principal of
Aroostook Central Institute, Mars
Hill, 1928.
Brunswick has a regular automo-
bile show every Saturday night with
cars lined up on both sides of Main
street for it's length, from a point
near the mall nearly to the Cabot
mill. AS the street is wide, and cars
are run in end to the walk, it makes
Il number of hundred cars parked
along there. Even down in Boothbay
Earbor on Saturday night the num-
Der Of cars parked is almost remark
able, many people coming in from the
surrounding resorts to do shopping or
to attend the movies.
Aheriole Glen 192339, George Blan-
chard, owner, Cumberland Center,
has completed a record which gives
her the honor of being the oldest Jer-
sey to ever complete an official Reg
lister of Merit test. This cow started
test at is years, months of age and
ir one year produced 9106 milk and
$3.50 butter-fat. During the first
four months of test she exceeded so
pounds of butter-fat, and was listed
in the 50-pound list as the Oldest COW.
There are nine cows which have
completed tests exceeding 500 pounds
at Is years of age or over and Aher-
iole Glen is eight highest.
An interested crowd was viewing
a curiosity in locomotion on the
tracks of the Sandy River and
Rangeley Lakes Railroad at this sta
ton, Monday morning, the work of
superintendent Orris NJ. Vose. It
consisted of a Ford chassis, of the
1921 vintage, equipped with iron
wheels, such as are used on the mar
row gauge rolling stock, the body
being surmounted by a platform on
which was a plush seat taken from d
car that had been thrown into the
discard. Superintendent Vose had
arrived on this conveyance that
morning and said that it had worked
to perfection and he had no doubt
but that there was sufficient power
to haul a freight car. We have long
felt that gasoline could be used on
short hauls most economically and
successfully and this experiment by
Superintendent Vose may in a way
solve the future of the Sandy River
road.-Farmingto news In Franklin
Journal.
Maine people will see one circus
this summer, but the prospects are
that next season this State will be
given the go-by by the large tented
attractions on account of the Circus
Tax Act passed by the S1st Legis-
lature, which imposes a tax of $500
on each circus exhibiting in the
State. Several big shows. including
the Sells-Floto and Ringing COM