Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-08
MAINE GOSSIP

The autumn leaves are falling
And trees will soon be shorn
OF all the wealth of verdure
Through spring and summer worn,
And branches. gaunt and lifeless,
Against the frosty sky.
Will tell in ''mournful numbers"
That wintry days are nigh.
But there is compensation
In ALL the things we dread
And when the trees are tossing
Their BARE LIMBS overhead,
There'n be fewer on the Sidewalks
To blush at-as we pass.
For they'll HAVE to wear SOME
When there snow. instead Of grass.
Augusta. Me-, Oct. 8.
Westport's Poultry and Horticul-
tural Association will have its annual
fair at the town hall on Saturday eve
ming Of this week.
The Goodall Hotel at Old Orchard
beach. originally built by the Goodalls
Of Sanford. is to be greatly enlarged
and remodelled during the comm win
ter season and when the 1925 summer
season rolls around, 1t will be one OF
the finest houses Of its type and size
in that section of Maine. Herbert w.
Rhodes Of Portland is the architect,
and when the building is completed 1t
will represent an investment Of at
least 100000. The hotel is located at
the corner Of Lake street on the ocean
front, at the upper end Of the beach,
and is owned by Nelson b. Mckenney
Of Old Orchard.
Susan Fairfield Of Durham has a
deed that was her fathers, dated
Aug. IS, 1910. in which Francis
Powers ''of Canaan, County OF SOM
erset in consideration OF seventeen
hundred dollars paid me by Alpheus
Fairfield Of Canaan conveys a GER
tain tract Of land situated in Canaan
containing one hundred acres" The
paper is yellow with age, but the
the writing Is as distinct as on the
day the deed was given. There are
also some ancient books. an Ameri-
can Reader dated 1911; another
American Reader with the long Ne
shaped" "eses," which is much older.
This one bears no date on IT. There
is an English grammer dated 1922.
and a Bible with calfskin cover OF
thesyear Of 1928.
The decision of the Rockland school
authorities whether or not children
under FIVE years and nine months and
over Ave years Of age can enter the
first grade, still hangs at loose ends.
It was planned to get the school COM
mittee together directly after the
school teachers convention closed
there, but it now seems probable that
another week will elapse before the
committee can be assembled. In the
meantime the children of disputed en-
trance age are missing their school
work. The controversy over the age
limit arose when certain Rockland
people challenged the right OF the
school authorities to set the age limit
at five years and nine months when
the state law required the attained
age of five years. The matter was 10
have been put before DR.. Augustus u
Thomas, State commissioner OF educa-
ton.
There will be no time off for pupils
Of the public schools of Bath to at
tend Topsham fair next week, the
members Of the Board of Education
of that city at the monthly meeting
Monday night taking the ground
that because Of three holidays during
the month to allow the teachers to
attend conventions the pupils would
be given all time off that they can
afford, On the other hand the Board
endorsed the observance of the week
of Oct. is as Constitution week when
the pupils will be afforded an oppof-
tunity to contribute and assist In the
school drive for funds for the re-
building Of the famous old ship more
popularly. known as sold Ironsides,"
and in whose hands the work of re-
construction has been given to a
Bath man, Lieut.. John A. Lord, U.
S. N. Each child contributing PEN
nv or more will be given a button to
wear COMMUNICATING the famous old
fighter Of the seas.
Captain Charles P. Garland Of saco
and DR.. Albert W. Foss Of Portland.
both we'll known members of the Bid
deford and Saco Country Club, left Old
Orchard Tuesday morning with Capt.
Harry Jones in the latter's plane, for
Mitchell field, Long Island, where they
will attend the air races this week.
They planned to make one stop at bos-
ton for gasoline and then continue on
to Mitchell field. arriving there that
afternoon. The day was ideal for
flying and weather conditions could
hardly have been more favorable.
Captain Garland has made several pre-
vieus trips to New York with Aviator
Jones. The plane in which the trip
was made Is that in which CAPTAIN
Jones has been carrying passengers at
Old Orchard. He estimates that TO-
900 passenger flights have been made
In this plane, which he believes to be
record for passenger-carrying planes
f., this section Of the country. They
plan to return to Old Orchard next
Sunday.
Engineer Dexter P. Cooper left
PASSPORT early this week for Ottawa