Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-15
MAINE GOSSIP
The Lay Of the Farmeretts

The Lay OF the farmeretto
The dust lies thick on the mantel
And on the parlor table.
While I 60 out and hoe.
The beans go dry. the pudding burns,
While l go out and hoe.
But what care for dust and beans,
1 must and will have my good greens,
So / go out and hoe.
There'll still be dust,
There'll still be beans,
When I no more can don my jeans,
So I go out and hoe.
Maud A. Chesley in the Oxford DEM
ocrat.
The contract for the construction
of the new terminal pier Of the Ban
cor G. Aroostook railroad, at Mack's
Point, Searsport. has been awarded
to the Aver Johnston Engineering
Company Of Philadelphia.
Bath had 16 telephones in 1885.
while the number in Brunswick was
eight, as shown by a section of the
New England Telephone & Telegraph
Company's telephone directory Tor
the Maine Division for December,
1886. This directory was recently
found by Manager H. A. Starbird OF
the Bath telephone office.
Eastport is proud Of its rev camp
ing grounds which are now being put
in readiness for the summer season.
The spot is convenient to the shore
of the harbor where boats can be had
and plenty of deep fishing enjoyed
not far from the shores. There is
OPEN space for baseball an other
sports and the lot is perfect for the
pitching Of tents.
A lightning bolt in a heavy thun-
derstorm the other day cut Off two
electric wires in front of the home
Of John Seabury at Yarmouth, and
as a result all of the milking ma
chimes operated by hydro electric
power on farms in that section were
as useless as a locomotive without
fire in the box and water in the
boiler.
Word has been received by the
College of Agriculture that the oth
annual Long Island potato tour Will
be held this month, June "a, 70 and
26. This year the inspection VIII
cover Nassau and Suffolk counties
Suffolk county alone reports mar
ket for about 100000 bushels OF
seed grown in different sections OF
the country. A great part or THIS
seed in former years has been pro-
duced in Aroostook county, so Maine
potato men take particular inter-
est in this tour as a means or max
ing contact for more of the Long
Island seed districts.
Miss Mary c. Robinson, dean OF
Bangor High school. has just re-
ceived the honorary degree Of Mas
| ter of Arts from Smith college,
| Northampton, Mass, at the COM
mencement exercises. Miss Robin
son was a graduate of Smith in the
class of 1890. The coming occasion,
ON which she is to receive her honor
airy degree with several other chosen
! graduates, will mark the cot, ami
versary of the college. For many
| years Miss Robinson has been asso-
ciated with Bangor High school, CEN
tering her duties to the English de-
partment in addition to serving as
efficiently in the capacity of dean.
| Aroostook county folks are Won
dering If Hon. Frank A. Peabody OF
Houlton will be reappointed as a
member of the State Highway Com
| mission when his term expires In
July. The Houlton Times asserts
| that at seems to most of the resi-
dents of Aroostook county that the
entire State would be the loser if Mr..
Peabody is not reappointed." The
paper points to Mr.. Peabody's valu-
able service in that capacity for the
past ten years. While Mr.. Peabody Is
Democrat politically and was first
appointed by Democratic governor
he has twice been reappointed by
/ Republican governors.
| That the Rev. John Gregory Muir
ray. the newly appointed bishop Of
Portland, will make most desir'
able addition to the citizenry Of
| Maine, as we'll as an able and eff
cient administrator of the affairs o.
| the diocese, is assured by the higl
compliments that are bestowed upor
| him by his fellow citizens of Con
| necticut. The new bishops admin
| istrative and spiritual duties will O
| course be his chief concern, but {
man who is honored by being callet
'the most popular clergyman o.
Connecticut with all races and sects'
! is certain to possess qualities tina
will win for him the love and es
TEEN of the people of Maine among
whom he is to live. He will receive
most cordial welcome here an(
there will go out to him from al
best wishes for his success and hap
| piness.-Portland Sunday Telegram
Work has been started on the au-
tomobile road to the top of Cadillac
Mountain at Bar Harbor, the highest
mountain on the Atlantic coast, and
when finished thousands Of tourists
will go there to view the wonderful
panorama of ocean, bay, lake, noun
tain and forest scenery spread out