Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-27

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| MAINE GOSSIP |
The Man Ne Really was
I'd known him for year or two
Just in q business way
I really thought the world Of him.
Until he called, today.
don't know how 1t came about.
can not tell the cause;
Yet I found out he could not be
The man I'd thought he was
Twas just word l heard him
He cursed a little ohild,-
He thought it passed unnoticed, and
He turned to me and smiled.
But disappointment stabbed my heart, |
1 scorned his smile. because
saw beneath his outer-self,
The man he really was.
Real estate owners in Old Orchard
predict a busy summer season. The
first real estate transaction took place
a few days ago and numerous in
quiries are being made regarding cot
tage homes.
One of the trees standing In front
of the Bass residence in Wilton has
recently been cut down. These trees
have stood for more than a century |
and many people of the town regret
that one of them had to be sacrificed.
An electric saw mill is to be erected |
at Midtown near the bog on Water
Street. Lumber has already been |
hauled for the erection of the mill. |
The product OF the mill will be long |
and short lumber.
Miss Marion l. Stanley Of Watervilie
and Winslow, who has been in Boston
the past three years studying with
the famous vocal instructor, Isidor
Braggiotti, sailed for Europe last Sat-
urday where she will study music.
After nearly % years of continuous
operation the lumber mill of the
Penobscot Lake Lumber Company at
Van Buren,, discontinued operations
Tuesday. having been forced into the
hands of receivers last year.
The Caribou Driving Club stable
will be located at the Maine State
Fair grounds in Lewiston this sum-
mer with Roy Grattan as the headline
performer and Monte Gerow, driver
and trainer in charge.
"Spicy" books and magazines are
and Brewer as result Of the cam
paign made by the clergy and civic
bodies Of these places. in their at
tempt to check tbs sale and spread
Of "fiagrantly indecent" material.
A ruling has recently been made
in Rumford, that no teacher who
marries will be eligible to continue
her work in the schools Of that town.
and that at the time of her marriage
her appointment automatically ceases.
ITO be, or not to be. that is the ques-
tion."
At the Gypsy Ball given by Mrs.
William Hearst at the Ritz-Carlton
hotel in New York in honor Of Alex
ander P. Moore, American Ambass-
ador to Spain, four hundred pine
trees from the forests of Maine were
set up In the hotel to provide gypsy
background for the ball.
The statement issued by the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress
reminds us that Maine is allotted but
one Of the new projects authorized,
that on the Saco river. On the list
of surveys authorized Maine Is to
have one and that in Portland harbor,
Colts Island channel.
The Jordan High school paper 1.-THE
Booster" was awarded first prize
at a conference Of Editors of Maine
school papers held at the University
of Maine last week. THE Booster"
was regarded as being the most mod
ern high school paper in Maine and
outclassed SO other high school
papers.
1t is reported that Harvey p.
Moores of Augusta is to drive the
stage over the Star stage route from
Waldoboro to Liberty. He is a vet
eran driver, he and his father, Robert
C. Moores having carried the mail on
this route and the one from Razor
willie to Augusta, for more than 80
years.
The three-masted schooner Harriet
E. Of Providence, II. l., bound for
Lubec, struck on Liberty Rocks at the
lower end of Campobello Island, OPP
posite Lubec, late Monday night. This
happened at high tide and when the
tide went out the schooner parted in
the middle and will probably be
total loss.
The New England Crop Reporting
Service of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture forecasts an s
per cent reduction in the potato acre
age of the New England states the
coming season, and it is said that
Maine, the largest potato producing
state of New England, is planning
10 per cent reduction.
Miss Mary Lat'lieur Of Biddeford
has been employed in No. l Spool
room of the Pepperell Mills i'll that
city for 81 years, going TO work in the
mill when she was but IA years OF