Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-15
nAu,y xrNNrBrc ,ouRNAi THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS 1925.
MAINE GOSSIP
Autumn Fire


Last night rain fell and still it
splashes slow
In heavy drops on walk and window
pane
And yet fire burns all along the hill
A flame Of scarlet through the sheets
of rain.
A ruddy blaze losses it's tongues OF
gold,
Unquenohed by rain--the fire Of the
A maple in an ecstacy of flame
Undaunted sumac by the old stone
wall.
May Charlotte Billings. Bowdoin-
ham, Me-, in Boston Post.
general housekeeping and stock
taking is going on at the plant Of the
Bath Iron Works, Ltd, in the Ship
ping City, under the direction of the
recent purchasers.
The intensity of the light in Cape
| Elizabeth lighthouse, Portland Har-
| Dor, during the first part of Decem-
| Der, will be increased to 50O,00O
candle power The duration of each
| flash will then be 0.03 seconds.
The tenth annual fair of the Leeds
| Agricultural Association was held
with old man sun smiling down
| on a crowd of over 600 people on the
grange premises at Leeds Center OH
| Tuesday.
Small Point Gun club, composed Of
men from Boston and vicinity are at
i their clubhouse at Small Point near
Bath enjoying Fall shooting. Mon
/, day they shot 40 birds of various
| kinds.
In an address before the Rotary
Club in Brunswick. 1t. Comdr. Dom
aid b. Macmillan told of his explora-
lions in Greenland and the far N1rth
! last summer He says the discovery
| of ASCENT Morse ruins more than
repaid the expedition.
| The occupants. of the Bingo Farm
house in Martinsville were some
what surprised one night recently,
! when at about dusk partridge
| walked up on the front porch and
| peered into the windows, then turned
and walked around the house.
One of the first Maine prep schools
to sport. an animal mascot is Maine
Central Institute Of Pittsfield. The
! football team is accompanied by a
goat which manifests considerable
speed and strength and is always
4 butting in.
Two attorneys were admitted to
practice in the courts Of Maine by
Associate Justice Norman L. Bassett
! of Augusta IN the supreme judicial
| cout at Portland on Tuesday. They
are Howard A. Duffy Of Old Orchard
and william Collins Hatch of MARI
boro, Mass.
Mrs. Joseph D. Small of West
brook, president of the Maine Par
ent-Teacher Association. will be the
guest of the two local associations at
! Bath next Tuesday evening. MRS.
| Small will give an address and 1t is
also planned to have Philip Kimbali
of Brunswick address the aesocia-
tions. Members Of associations IN
Brunswick. Wiscasset. West Bath
and Topsham are expected to attend
this meeting. After the addresses
there will be q reception to the State
President.
At 4.1o Tuesday morning at Bath
/ Patrolman Langdon Green captured
John e. Martin Auburn. formerly Of
Bath, who is wanted in Portland for
the alleged theft of Buick roadster
| owned by the High Street Garage.
Il Is alleged Martin hired the car
Oct. 1 for four hours and never re-
turned 1t. The Buick was also re-
covered by Patrolman Green. The
| Portland police were notified and an
officer went to Bath to take Martin
and the car back to Portland. 1t is
also alleged that Martin is a desert
err from the U. s. S. Ossipee.
Ernest L.. Jones who served as
chief of police at Old Orchard the
past summer and made good was
given another big testimonial at the
beach the other evening when so
members of the board of trade and
their invited guests rendered Mr..
Jones and the members of his 1925
summer police department compile
mentary banquet at the Old Orchard
Golf and Country club rooms. During
the festivities Chief Jones was pre-
| scented with beautiful and costly gold
watch by Rev. John E. Clancy in be-
half of the guests assembled for his
faithful services performed during
| the past season.
Benjamin F. Cleaves Of Portland,
executive secretary of the. Associated
Industries Of Maine, will leave next
Tuesday for st. Louis. where he will
attend the meetings Of the National
| Industrial Council and the National
Association Of Manufacturers. The
council meetings will be held October
| 20 and "a and the meetings OF the
| Manufacturers Association. October
26, ~ and % at Hotel Statler. Sec
rotary Cleaves will speak upon Pub
| lie Relations at the council session.
Upon his return home. he will make
| a brief visit in Kansas City with his
| brother, the Rev. James H. Cleaves
pastor of Methodist church In that
| city. The occasion will be the first
time that the two brothers have met
in A. years.
Noted State leaders in religious
education representing every denom-
nation in Maine, representatives Of
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