Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-28
MAINE GOSSIP

Lament
Oh, how I wished I had it now.
The money I have thrown away
For things didn't really need
Or oply~wanted for . day,
The wasted dollars have spent;
They would come in so handy now.
To buy some coal, or pay the rent!
But so it goes We see thing.
We think we want, and buy it quick,
| Then later, when We know we've peeh
Extravagant, it makes us SICK!
Yet what's the use! The moneys gone;
We swear that we'll rerorm-ahu
In spite Of all our earnest vows.
We do the self-same thing again.
Extravagance. It is our ban eno ,rave,
| From early childhood TO the grave
It's SO much easier to spend
Unwisely than it is to save.
| oh how / wish I had one-half
| The money l have thrown away
| For things I didn't really neeu
The way | need that coal today!
| "o Leon Pulsifer.
East Pittston, Maine.
Picking 2751a barrels of apples IN
| eight DAYS is the record set up py
Carl Upton, the champion apple
| picker of Norway.
The awarding of a prize to the girl
having the smallest foot on the dance
floor. featured a dance held recently
ar the American Legion hall at B1dde-
ford. The contest resulted In tie
between Miss Florence Mansfield and
Mrs. Arnold Bedard of Biddeford, both
having n size one-and-a-half shoe.
Strawberries and Snow-drifts are
not everyday occurrences. and yet +.
H. Reed of Fort Fairfield boasts OF
box of delicious strawberries
which he picked in his garden while
in some parts of the town there
were snow drifts two or three feet
deep.
Teachers of surrounding towns as
we'll as of Brunswick are taking ad-
vantage of the Harvard Extension
course being given at Brunswick. rms
course consists of two hour lecture
on Friday evenings and two nour
lecture the following Saturday morn
ing, on every other week, for perloo
of IA weeks. The work itself encom-
passes Subject Testing and Mental
| Testing.
| Members of the Loom-fxers' Union
and weavers have been discussing at
| length the multiple weaving system
| which is to be introduced in the Pep
perell mill at Biddeford. John b. Be-
| mott of Taftville, Conn.,, arrived In that
city last Saturday to take up the mat
! ter with the union workers. 1t mas
been decided by the mill officials TO
| put the system into effect on small
scale at the start SO that 1t may De
studied.
Radio fans are interested In the
announcement by Adelbert w. Cor
don of Augusta, secretary Of the
Maine Teachers Association, that
il is quite possible that the program
of the evening sessions Of the 23rd
annual convention of the associa-
tion on Wednesday. Thursday and
Friday of this week at Portland
NAV be broadcast from the citation
at the Congress Square hotel.
A. B. Knight of Kennebunkport Is
the owner of the neckerchief' that
was given to h is grandmother by
Commodore Edward Preble when
before her marriage she was living
in his family. She married Daniel
knight of Alfred and passed her life
in that town. To her son, Joseph
Knight. she gave the neckercnier
and he gave it to his son, the pres
emit owner. The neckerchief Is
thing of beauty, printed in coiors
adorned with devices OF various
kinds and contains the names or the
signers of the Declaration OF IN
dependence. -
A service Of especial interest In
every Penobscot county city and town.
is offered by the Maine Public Heath
Association in the three-day heart ana
chest clinic to be held at the Eastern
Maine General hospital, Bangor. NOV.
2. and s. The hours of the clinic Will
be from s o'clock each morning untiI
noon during the three days. There VIII
be no charges Of any sort ana the
clinic is purely for diagnostic pur-
poses-in other words, to locate the
trouble, if any, and suggest ways In
which remedial measures may DC APP
nlied. All persons who have come In
contact with a case of tuberculosis are
especially invited to come to the clinic.
The increasing use Of the motor
truck for freight hauls is the out
standing reason for the decision OF
the directors of the Wiscasset,
Wateryille and Pennington Railroad
to cease to operate the road begin
ming December ]. There Is no pros
pect of a train schedule being re-
sumed, at least under the present
, management In the readjustment
which includes not only the finding
of employment by the personnel or
the road, a means of transportation
of freight and mails will have to be
devised within a months time. Elev-
en- postoftices are due to be cut on
except by horse and motor drawn
vehicles. 1t is proposed to supply
four of these. Sheepscot. Head
Tide, Alma and Whitefield by mes
senger route from the Wiscasset Of
flee. Those further inland present q
more difficult problem that is yet to
be worked out.
Believing that she may have gone
to Chicago, friends are conducting
awide search for Anna Goldman OF
Bangor, Is years of age, who disap-
peared from her homo last Thursday.
The young lady had been cores
ponding with young man residing
at Chicago. A reward for informa
ton has been offered. it being stated
that her father is i'll. The girl took
all of her clothes, showing that she
left Of her own accord, but her par
| ents fear for her safety. If she will
not return to her home at Bangor
she is asked to communicate with
her Aunt Ida, rs Essex street
| Chelsea, Mass. According to the