Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-21
Maine Gossip
October

A s'SH like drifting sggtd dust ,ints the.
And dales at harvest time; the, pun
gent scent To-
Of burning leaves and dying BRUSH
wood fills
The sparkling air. Departing song
bids fy
Across the sky.
Sweet mellowed fruit ard luscious rip
Breathe forth their perfume: far-off
shadows, dark.
Like misty purple gauze, sublimely
drapc
The fragrant woods OF evergreen the
pine &'
And trailing vine
The trees have donned their brilliant
scarlet Shawls
And proudly wear their golden
yellow gowns,
Into gaudy red leaf falls.
W here. like tiny fame that bright
1t floats and dreams,
By Helen Bayley Davis, in Baltimore
Sun.
Gasoline is selling for Is cents a
gallon at one filling station at Lewis
ton.
Ray Palmer and Edward Park of
Somervillc. Mass. hunting on Gordon
mountain at North Hartford shot 20.
pound lynx
AS we write this, it is showing at a
rate that will cover the earth within a
lew hours. And across from our home.
four rods distant. the Holy Rollers are
preaching fire and birthstone. which
VIII, perhaps, mel. the snow and give
the farmers chance to finish dig
gInS potatoes. Let lis hope so.-Mars
lli'i correspondence i'll Portland Press
Herald.
Very impressive vas the ordination
service which marked the evening ses-
sion Sunday Of ;he Maine Advent Con-
ference. at the Turner Street church
in Auburn. These we're for Fred Il
Ciothey. WHO IS going into mission
work, and for Charles c. Dow. who viii,
enter the regular ministry. Both
Young men are re sidents of Auburn.
The ordination sermon was preached
by Rev. /. +. Banks pastor of the host
church. Following. a reception was
given the outgoing missionary, Mr..
C!othey ard his wife.
MI schuman. representative of The
New London County Nurseries, New
London, Conn. was n FNebu.g last
week with three assistants. taking UP
transplants from the forest plantation
OF I. CLIFFORD Eastman. The planta-
ton adtoin the Western Maine Forest
Nursery and was started BY Mr.. East.
man when he was studen: in FRYE
purg Academy. Mr. Schumau ard his
associates TOOK UP and Transported to
connecticut by trucks 1909 eight-year
old white pine Sransplants and IS 10
year old Norway piues He has placed
an order for severa; hundred of the
latter to be shipped by rail for the
market in Connecticut
For the 44th year. William J. Ryan,
widely known blind man OF Portland.
Will commence his anuua, tour OF this
city and Maine. distributing the Maine
Farmers Almanac the proceeds of
which will he turned over the Maine
Institution for the blind. AS soon s
the books are received. Mr.. Ryan, a
familiar Portland figure. will begin this
years tour of Portland. Following
this he will journey about the State.
his itinerary to include such towns g
Old Town, Lewiston. Doyer-Foxcroft.
Dexter. Pittsield. Belfast, WatervilIe.
Augusta. Brunswick. Bath. Livermore
Falls and Pennington Mr. Ryan re-
quests that secretaries of the Oranges
OF the State send their orders either to
him or to W. f. Travis. superintendent;
OF the Maine Institution for the blind.
.soI Park Avenue, Portland
DR.. p. A. Calvin Of Auburn, derma-
tologist. chiropodist and psychologist
and q former. thera pc utical practition-
er. has just returned from a three