Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-10-31
MAINE GOSSIP

Father
Poets have raved Of the love Of a
Whose beauty and goodness we
They have likened her love to the
ocean,
It's unselish devotion to show.
Her praises resound from the pulpits,
In music and art she has fame;
But I'm asking ye sons and ye daugh-
terS
Where does Father come in on the
game?
Poor father tolls silently onward,
Day in and day out at the mill
On the farm, in the store, in the office,
There is always place he must fill.
The long hours sometimes are weary.
But the back bends again to its
task:
Is the only thing left him to ask.
OVERWHELMINGLY. gladly and always.
To Eleanor, Hazel and Bob;
For ticket to movie or lecture,
Dear Father" is there on the job!
He-the unseen figure in Khaki.
The power behind plow or pen;
Salute him-the Father of men.
Grace II. Parmenter.
Edwin Phelps, director Of young
peoples work for the Northern Bap-
tist Convention, is making a four
days trip through Maine with speak
ing engagements at Lewiston, Saco,
Houlton and Bangor.
It will be noted in the Bath.
Forty Years Ago" column In the
Times of Thursday night that
Holsters were selling at seven cents
a pound in those earlier days. They
are now bringing 40 cents pound
when bought of the fishermen.
Tn Bridgton we hear of branch of
ripe raspberries found by Jeanette
Fessenden, a dandelion in full bloom
found by Mrs. Edward Wallace and
Irene Rolfe claims a wild daisy as
one of natures afterinaths which
caught her eye.
A Northport boy, Bartlett ]. Whit
ing, son of Mr.. and Mrs. M. B. Whit
ing and a graduate of Harvard '25,
who is on a study trip abroad on a
Harvard scholarship, is now in Ber-
lin, Germany, at the University. He
has rooms at the house of an old lady.
whose husband, now dead, was the
physician to the Kaiser.
Officials of water districts all over
the State are interested in the an
nouncement of the November meet
ing of the Maine Water Utilities As
sociation which will be held Nov. 3
in the common council room in the
city of Waterville. The program will
include a paper on Cleaning Cast
Ironp Water Mains" by Harry Fuller,
engineer Of the Portland water dis
trict; and another on 'Androscoggin
River Crossing" by +. 0. Walker,
Superintendent of the Rumford- Mex
leo Water District. There Is to be a
discussion of problems arising from
increasing use of f1ushometer toilets
to be introduced by J. w. Graham,
general manager of the Portland
Water District.
Representatives Of the Lewiston
and Auburn Chamber of Commerce
and the Mechanic Falls. Norway
and South Paris Boards of Trade met
in special session at the Auburn
Chamber of Commerce Friday to
urge State road between Auburn
and Norway. This important high
way, especially between Auburn and
Mechanic Falls has been far from a
first-class road for a long time and
it's well known deplorable condition
diyertS motorists along longer but
smoother routes between the busy
and prosperous townships. 1t
should have been a State road, first
class, a long time ago, it is claimed
but it has not been until now that a
concentrated effort has been started
to have it improved and kept i'm
proved.
Criticizing the conditions now ex-
listing in Maine which makes it
"comparatiyely easy for parents to