Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-29
Maine GOSSIP
The Prairie Town

Lovers or beauty laugh at this gray
town.
Where dust lies thick on ragged
Curb-Side trees,
And compasS-needle streets lead up
and down
And lose themselves in empty prairie
seas.
Here is no winding scented lane. no hill
Crowned with steepled church, no
, garden wall
OF old gray stone where lilacs bloom,
and fill
The air with fragrance when the
May rains fall.
, But here is the unsoftened majesty
OF the wide earth where all the wide
streets end,
And from the dusty corner one may
The full moon rise, and flaming sun
descend.
The long main street, whence farmers
teams go forth.
Lies like an old sea road, star-pointed
north.
Helen Santmyer in The Bookman.
Some local potato fields are yield
Ing 200 barrels of potatoes per acre,
while many have yield of $50 bar
rels. Aroostook will raise q humper
crop but conditions existing in the
outside" markets are having
marked effect in the low price paid
the farmers. Michigan is now rush
ing potatoes into the New York mar
ket while New Jersey still has about
one third OF her crop in that state
yet to ship. If the farmer can wait,
store and be patient. it does seem
that the price will ''come back
Aroostook Pioneer.
Dealers in antiques say that the
demand for old furniture is greater
of late than for long time. Many
are seeking old wooden cradles to be
used for woodboxes in front of open
fire places. Many of these appear in
the rooms Of the old Wayside Inn at
South Sudbury. Mass, which was
purchased a year or more ago by
Henry Ford. This Inn is open to WISH
tors and many Bath motorists pass
ing that vicinity the last few months
have stopped there to inspect it and
round wonderful collection of
antiques. Every room is fitted I'D in
Colonial style.-Bath Times,
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The Bangor Theological Seminary
opened its 109th year with a chapel
service conducted by President Moul-
ton. Many Of the old students. as
we'll as those entering this year, were
present. The following list of appli-
cants was posted at the chapel: Har-
old L. Arnold, Bangor; John E. Be-
SAINT, Boston: Harry r. Butman.
pan: Miss Edith l.. Kempton. Bos-
ton; Ernest A. Lilley, Chicopee.
Mass: Mrs. Alexander C.. MacRae.
Orleans. VT: Lloyd E. Marbel, Brew
or; Alfred l.. Murray. East Machias;
Harold w. Nutter. Winter Harbor:
Corwin H. Odds. East Corinth; Fred
er1ck E. Stacey. Hampden High !
lands: Francis D. Wallace, Geneva.
N. Y; D. A. E. Gilbride, winthrop,
Mass.
Forty years service in one factory
In Belfast is the good record and
long service of Byron B. Greenlaw of |
that city. a resident OF Northport |
avenue who is just retiring from the !
mill of Mathews Brothers. Mr..
Greenlaw is an expert workman of |
mas Tor many years been in charge Of |
the cabinet department of the mill, |
which is owned by Mayor Orlando !
e. Frost of Belfast. He first went to |
work for the late Sanford H., and !
Spencer H. Mathews. who make up |
the firm of Mathews Brothers. in |
their wood working plant. For e5 ,
years. however, he has been en-
ployed by Mr.. Frost. He will now
engage in cabinet working at his |
home on Northport avenue. Before
starting his own shop on Northport !
avenue he plans to take a few weeks
vacation.