Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-18
Maine GOSSIP
Glass Houses

Learn If you must, but do not come to
For truth of what your pleasant neigh
Dor says
Behind you of your looks or of your
ways,
Or Of your worth and virtue generally;
Eeing the same to him; and let your
Be tranquil. having each the others
And each his own opinion peaceably.
Two brothers once did love each other
we'll,
Yet not SO we'll but that a pungent
word
From each came singing home to the
wrong ears.
The rest would be an o.Srfiow to tell,
Surely; and you may slowly have in
That we may not be here a thousand
Edwin Arlington Robinson in the
July Yale Review.
c. E. Tallman of Richmond, Me.
writes, "a man in this village has
three cows which he carries to and
from the pasture daily in an auto
mobile truck"-Boston Globe.
Among the freshmen in the Kenne-
bunk, Me. High School there Is but
one girl wearing long hair.'among the
sophomores but three, among the
juniors but four and among the SEN
Tors but five.
The annual Gypsy tour and frolic
Of the Massachusetts, Motorcycle As
ISOLATION opened here Sunday and
continued until Tuesday. with more
than 500 motorcyclists in attendance
from all parts of Massachusetts.
High tides have carried away the
sidewalk on the east beach at Pop
ham from the Fuller to the Delong
cottages. The tide now comes in
close proximity to some of the cot
tages on the east beach at high wa
ter.
The airplane owned by William A.
Turgeon of Auburn, Me-, is being
given new coat Of silver paint and
a thorough overhauling, for in the
latter part of the month he and Miss
Lucinda Narcotic will make their
wedding trip by airplane, the first
honeymoon of the kind ever schedul-
ed for Maine so far as known.
Speaking Of trout, they claim up
at Middledam. Andover without fear
Of contradiction that they have the
champion fish Of this variety. 1t was
caught at the pond in the river last
week by j. F. Gordabout of Robin
Hood and weighed II pounds and ten
ounces when pulled out. Dressed. it
tipped the scales at 10 pounds and
six ounces.
Sunday was a notable date in the
lives of the Passamaquoddy Indians
at st. Croix. With picturesque tribal
ceremonies, while dressed in native
garb, they paid homage to Chief John
Nicholas. Chief Nicholas was OBJ
serving his 102d birthday and with
all the aplomb of royalty, accepted
the tribute from his people. many of
them his descendants. Chief Nicholas
is feet inches in height, weighs
las pounds, speaks French, English
and his native tongue fluently, and
mot only is the oldest member of his
tribe, but Is the oldest man in East
ern Maine.
The general committee in charge OF
the Odd Fellows jubilee in Brewer
on July 4 is fast shaping up its pro-
gram. and the event promises to be
one of the biggest of it's kind in that
section for many years. Features of
the celebration will include two base
ball games at the Easterns' Park,
and there are to be parades at nine
in the morning and two In the after
noon. All the fraternal orders invited
to participate have accepted, and
with special rates granted on the
railroads. plans are being made to
care for thousands of guests here on
the holiday. The celebration win con-
clude with a grand ball in the eve
ming and two bands will give con-
certs on Main Street.,