Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-29
Maine GOSSIP
October Chant

Mu1ue OOSStP
October Chant
Springs a slim green lady
Fathered in the town,
Autumn Is a farmers iaSsie
With her hair down!
Scarlet is her homespun,
Bare her brown young feet.
And her lips are stained with berries
Red as bittersweer.
She has golden eyes to lure YOU.
Sleepy, slow and warm.
And her briar tattered jacket
BareS white soft arm.
Blue smoke from the leaf fires
Di.ns the frosty air
If you crush her close and kiss her
She will never care.
She's no prim and proper
Lady Of the town,
Autumn is 4 farmers lassie
With her hair down!
kathryn Worth, in New York Times
A cameo of Peleg Whitman Chand
Ter, class of 1884, has been lent To
the Walker Art Museum. Bowdoin
College by his granddaughter Miss
oIdAC SlIdlluISl bdI L fIS
was done py THOMAS Ban.
Apfopos of the snow furry of Oct
7 20th, it Is noted that last year the
first snowfall was ON November I 8.
October IA has held the record for
the past Il years as the earliest
date and Sept. 20. 1874 Is the
earileS&marh.
The Bangor Railway and Electric
Co., has just completed u $500 horse
power unit at its Ellsworth plant in
creasing the plants capacity by 80
per cent. The new machine was
Lullt 10 take care OF the neavy loau
, Oh water III the spring months, anu
Will run ABOUT two months Year.
The following telegram on the
condition OF Harold NJ. Sewall vi
Bath, National Republican commit
tee from Maine who recently sub
united TO Il MAJOR surgical operation
III New lorK was received ny the
Lewiston journal Saturday: MI
Sewall is getting ATOMS nicely
1SfSA thIH5 appears ullG.
a tiny tropical island far south in
the Pacific Is TO be the temporary
home OF Francis Jack Clukey. OF
Bangor, who with group OF
Marines lett Qudntlco, Va, recently
Tor Guam. He Will probably remain
at this military outpost tor a year or
longer, visiting the Philippines,
Japan and the Hawaiian Islanus De-
fore he returns to America.
James E. GoWen of Biddeferd,
veteran expressman of that city, has
lost his two horses. their death due,
he believes, TO canned heat" OF
soliditied alcohol, used for fuel IN the
small alcohol heaters. This canned
heat has become a popular drink OF
that town, and Il certain gang has
been mixing the drink at the water
ing trough where the horses got
their water, and it is believed that
in the process of getting the alcohol
out OF the mixture, they poisoned
the water in the trough.
L. L. Fogg of South Thomaston
claims 135 first cousins. He writes:
My paternal grandfather had II chill
dren. Sixteen of them grew up TO
be heads of families and all of them
except one lived to be old people.
The 16 had 1877 children. OF my
brothers and sisters there were IL,
which subtracted from the l27
leaves me lis first cousins. OF my
maternal cousins there were 20
which added to the lis, gives me 1876
first cousins.
Hon. George n. Stevens of Ken
nebunkport. chairman of the senate
committee, and George D. Boulter of
kittery, chairman of the house COM
mittee of the Maine legislature.
are completing arrangements for the
dedication of Maine Memorial bridge,
crossing Of the Piscataaua river at
Kittery. to take place Armistice
Day. Tuesday, November IL. with
all-day exercises of literary
nature, and at which the Maine
monument to fallen soldiers at the
RErfER WIVES ANN Anrucoe