Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-15
Maine Gossip
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I should have known better
Than to have had anything to do
With a person who spelt her name
In that icksfnanner,
But when I first met her
It was. Alice. not Alyce.
And when she changed
The spelling Of her own name
1t was not extraordinary that she
The spelling Of her beaus.
She did just that
From Tom to Joe.
Tom, in New York Sun.
As a result of Mayor Brann's veto
of the order unanimously passed
by the aldermen awarding the city
garbage collection contract at Lew
iston to Edmund Turgeon at $500
a year for a term of three years, it
is reported that five of the aldermen
have signed a move to override the
mayors veto. Mayor Brann will in
sist that the garbage contract be
awarded through competitive bids.
He has received offers from two
Lewiston farmers, each Of whom
would like the garbage job at from
$500 to $4,000 a year. e.
President c. c. Dorr of the Penob-
scot Valley Fish and Game associa-
ton, has received word from Com
missioner Willis r. Parsons Of the
Inland Fish and Game commission,
that he will be in Old Town, April
20, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to
open hearing on the petition to the
commission to establish game
sanctuary in Old Town north Of Gill
man Falls, avenue, wherein the live
be safe from the menaces which at
tack them in other sections Of the
forested areas.
Since the announcement Of an Of
fer for the Twin Village Water
Company by James L. Bryne Of Bos-
ton, there has been quite an awak-
ening of interest among the towns
people according to a dispatch from
Damariseotta. When the bid OF
SIS, 600 by Mr.. Bryne was brought to
the attention of the court, three
other offers from local people were
made, Samuel l.. Huntington, Leon
A. Dodge. and Kendall M. Dunbar
and Daniel E. Bisbee presented Of
fers. The original cost was $lQ.060.
The water was first turned on in
the system January !, 1897. The
gross annual income is about $se0e.
Hudson Vannah, valedictoriaa of
this years graduation ciass at Lin
coin Academy, Damariscotta, Is an
l-around American boy with a
good business head, as we'll as being
an ambitious scholar. He lives in
Noblebore, and walks two miles to
to care for large flock Of poultry
which he has developed from q
nucleus Of two chickens given HIM
by his grandmother. He Is the son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Kelder A. vannah.
Doris Goudy, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry H. Goudy, to whom has
been assigned the salutatory, has q
strain of viking blood inherited from
her maternal grandmother. She Is a
good scholar and an athlete, play
ing basketball in her freshman year
and being greatly interested In
Winter sports. She plans to teach
two years. and then go to Colby Col
1ege, where she viii specialize in
mathematics.
A copy Of the Maine Historical
and Genealogical Recorder. pub.
lished in 1854. by Stephen N. Wat
son.. then librarian of the Portland
public library, contains an article
headed "The Poor Widows of Port
land in 1906" It appears that the
widow Of Brigsdier General Jedediah
treble, Mrs. Mehttable Prebie, Who
died August s. 1906, In her win be-
queathed $3s3 Ia to the poor
widows Of Portland. This money
was to be distributed among az
many poor widows and In such
proportions as should be designated
kellogg and Timothy HiliisYd. Tie
ilaensF was paid to a5 ~idsvs IN
sums ranEins from S. l-s to SIS.
The bsnsAciaries signed paper
acknowledging the receipt 'ffem
Enoch PIsble of the suass plscsd
against their names. The use Of the
x mark shows that 1s Of these peer
widows could not write. But that
WAS lis years ago.
Senstpr Frederick o. Eaton Of
Ruu1ferd will net be csnliaats
for recollection this year. Mr. Eaton
has Represented Oxford eoupty Of
Augusta for six years, tvo Years s.
q member OF the House Of Rep
and four years an. .
OF the Senate. Dusing hjs
ternds at Augusta, he has been gerry
prominent In Legislative doinSt and
has served On impoytant comNaitteiS.
&. Chandler Bu3xeil % FrYebqF&
former chairman Of the 0xfot1
county camnissioneTS and = mem:
Der OF the, board for six years. has
announced his candidacy for the Of