Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-21
Maine GOSSIP
Country Girl

SPOi tilC iCStiSSo SioNS SOui
mind.
You dream Of palaces where feelings
spend
Their naked splendor, careless of the
end.
And thoughts peer into men. no longer
blind.
And Yet the clear. green scene through
which you stroll
May hold a beauty that could purify
The strivings and complaints within
your heart
If you could find the white eyes of
your soul
And turn them on the lines of leaf
and sky,
You might discover power long I'M
Maxwell Bodenheim, in Harper's
Magazine.
Phillip LeBoutillier. executive sec
rotary of the Auburn Community
Service has rendered his resignation
to the Board of Directors of the
Auburn Service. Mr.. LeBoutillier,
or phil" as he is better known, took
up the work in Auburn in the late
fall of 1922. coming from Cleveland,
o. Since becoming head of the Au
burn Service he has been offered
positions in recreational work at
Cornell University and various NUM-
Cipal systems.
A conference attended by Cover
nor Baxter, Mayor Brann of Lewis
ton, the State Armory commission,
the Lewiston building committee
and representative Lewiston citizens
will be held in the near future
ucnha hIy OF ncfo II
announced Tuesday. The meeting is
aimed to promote an understanding
of thu respective rights and privi-
leges of city and State in a State
owned armory constructed as was
the Lewiston Armory under the
State Aid law. The Lewiston Armory
is the first to be built under the law.
Lubec is to offer the auto camping
tourist his choice of three Sites on
which to pitch his tent this year. The
first one offered possesses many ad-
vantages situated as it is on Dia-
mond Point. a mile west of the vii
lage. The other two sites are situa-
ted respectively at North Lubec and
South Lubec. The former location is
a high wooded plateau near the
phone, etc The latter is on the shore
of the Nickerson pond, on land of
Mr. A. Joy. and shore privileges may
be enjoyed at all three sites.
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Another wildcat has made its ap-
pearance in Kennebunkport. and the
local gunners have been hunting for
the beast since Feb. 49, On that day
John Greenwood, wood dealer, saw
the cat in the road leading from
Fletcher street to Hope cemetery, a
distance of less than three quarters
of a mile from the postoffice. Ralph
Curtis one of the hunters who fol-
lowed the tracks after being notified
by Mr.. Greenwood, found the remains
of rabbit near Virgins pond which
had been partially eaten. It's body was
warm, Charles Hatch, another hunt
CIR did not locate the cat, but brought
down a fox on the same afternoon.
Bananas ", the black bear mascot
of the University of Maine athletic
teams, is having a vacation just at
present and enjoying an all winter
sleep in his den in the bear house,
where he lives summers, when not
strolling about the campus. This is
an abandoned pump house with no
floor. The bear dug a deep hole in
one corner and crawled into it leav-
ing the mascot job for the winter to
his sparring partner. Jiggs, the bull
dog, That is why Bananas did not
figure in the winter carnival, but he
was not forgotten for a statue of
him, heroic in size, done in snow
xx,lNi nl, To- 1. e
looms up over the hockey rink, az
natural as life. This is the work of
Nalentin Henneman of Bangor, ar
fist and sculptor. The statue is now
solid ice and, unless some vandal
despoils it, will probably remain I'M
til late in the spring.
George w. Thorne of Lewiston,
probably has the distinction of being
one of the few persons living in this
section of the country having in his
possession newspapers of the time
giving accounts of the death Of some
half dozen of Presidents including
the deaths Of Washington, Lincoln
and Garfield. Mr.. Thorne has well
preserved copies of two newspapers:
one being the Ulster County Gazette.
published Saturday, Jan. 4, 1900. and
carrying a full account of Washing
tons death and burial. George
Washington, the. first President of
the United Stata died Dec. II, 1899.
The other paper was a copy of the
Maryland & Baltimore Journal. pub
lished under the date of Friday.
Aug. 20, 1878, thus making IT ISL
years old. Mr.. Thorne said that he
had received these papers along with
several other old news dailies from
his mother, Mrs Rachael Thorne, SO
years ago. Though burned out sew
erA times he has been able to pre-
serve these copies, in the possession
of which he takes great pride.
A good story is told by an official
Of the Maine Central on the speed
mania that some motorists seem TO
possess for trying to beat a train at
crossing. In this case a big car
was speeding toward railroad
crossing when n fast moving freight
came into sight. Immediately the
two men in the front seat began an
argument as to whether or not they
could beat the train.
Don't get excited" cried the
driver. Il tell you / can easily make
it."
And I tell you you can't" shout
ed the other. That train will beat US
ter it"
The man at tbe uheeT eteppcd IN