Daily Kennebec journal., 1924-12-03

And l listen all the time,
Sometimes l even dream
Those adventures were all mine.
But just you go a'fshin
With either of them two,
An by gosh. I'll betcha--
They'll get darn small few.
bernard Fabrizi, Jr.
Miss Harriet Low of Kennebunk.
Me-. a prominent member of the
1928 class, has been chosen to play
the leading role in Radcliffe's
greatest dramatic production, "Maitre
Cierre Uatelin."
Earl Mitchell and two companions
of North Anson returned from a
hunting trip recently with two fine
bucks, the laws limit of partridges,
and white hedgehog. This last
animal is seldom seen in the Maine
woods as an albino.
Residents of Sweden think they
have a rare animal in their midst.
1t is a black "bobcat" Experienced
hunters don't think he exists; but
two or three residents have caught
n glimpse of him and one man
claims to have approached within
few feet of him, and says the
"critter" was there and was black.
Lewiston, December 1.-The bob
cat was voted the Bates College to-
tenn by nearly the entire student
body at the college here today. when
the matter was presented to them
4 To-, IN II,z ,l, ~.
man OF the totem committee of the
Bates varsity club. Several weeks
ago the subject of n college totem
was suggested to the undergraduates
that they might consider the matter
fully before finally making their
choice. A vote was taken and the
bobcat received 490 votes. Other
animals. which received votes were
the leopard, panther, moose.
At the request of Senator Hale
of Maine, United States Fish Com
missioner Henry OMalley is ar
ranging to stock Highland Lake
commonly known as Duck Pond
about eight miles from Portland.
with two kinds of trout, Rainbow
and Red Spots. He promised Sen
a tor Hale today to start large
shipment of these fish to Portland
in April, They will be consigned to
Edward L. Brown, and Brown and
Berry. who will see that they are
placed in the pond. Arrangements
are being made to have the young
fish sent from the New Hampshire
Fishery. 1t will be the first time
this lake has been stocked by the
Federal government.
President Clifton Daggett Gray, of
Bates College, has offered a silver
loving cup as an award to high
schools whose graduates are attain
ing a high degree of scholarship at
Bates. This award is to he called
the Presidents cup. 1t will be pre-
sented annually to the high school
whose three graduates in the fresh
man class at Bates, have the high
est average rank for the first semes-
ter of their college course. The
names of the winners will be in
scribed upon the cup. II one high
school wins it two years out of three.
the cup will become the permanent
possession of this school, The pur-
pose of this award is to stimulate
interest. in scholarship among the
members of the entering class.
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Ralph C. Griffin, South Portland.
returned from a hunting trip up
county with one of the oldest
trophies of such an expedition that
one could imagine-a / watermelon.
\ Maine grown Watermelon, it was
too, and it tasted as good as If il
had been taken from the field in
midsummer. In the home where he
was staying up next to the New
Hampshire line, there is bright
!oungster; who proudly displayed
seven large water melons of his own
growing stored away in the attic.
They had ripened rather late in the
season and the boy wanted to keep
them as long as possible. so to COM
pete with the other folk who have
been telling stories of this unusual
season. Mr.. Griffin didn't want to
come home empty handed and he al
lewscd that next to bringing back a
deer there was nothing he could
boast with keener enjoyment than