Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-27

| Then, in the rustic hollow,
| At hide-and-seek they played,
| The party closed at sundown.
And everybody stayed:
Professor Wind played louder:
| They few along the ground;
! And then the party ended
| In Jolly "hands around.
| George Cooper in Lewiston Sun.
PASSPORT is a region of great charm.
! Within a radius of % miles adjacent
! to the town and along the Canadian
frontier, lie more than 80 islands OF
every conceivable characteristic
| fanked seward by the mighty GIFTS
of Grand Manan. At Eastport Is the
record tide variation on the Unlted
States Atlantic Coast rise ana Iail'
| at some seasons. OF over 70 ieet'
I Some of the residents Of Veazie,
about $50 Saturday morning, who are
accustomed to being up at that hour'
were somewhat surprised to see DIG
| bull moose weighing about guy POUNDS
at his ease in their door-yards, VINO
after wandering about for some time
strolled to the river and aIter
! thoughtful consideration swan to the
| opposite bank and finally disappeared
| in the underbrush.
Mayor Charlie d. Crosby Of Bangor
who has filled that Office for the past
two years, will be a candidate Tor
reelection on the Republican ticket
at the municipal election to be held
| in about two months. Both parues
are preparing to make things lively
| in the political line from now until
! election and some real contests are
anticipated for seats in the city
! council and for offices in the gift OF
the city fathers.
| Various circumstances have delayed
the completion of the bronze statue
! for Bangor of Hannibal Hamlin, de-
signed by Charles E. Tefft of New
! York, and. owing to the lateness OF
| the season, it has been decided to de-
, fer the dedication until next summer.
The bronze group representing pe-
nobscot river log drivers, for the
| Pierce Memorial Fountain, also the
| work of sculptor Tefft, is completed.
! and is expected to arrive in Bangor
within a few days. The fountain
structure will be ready for the bronze,
and the entire structure will be COM
pleted this fall. but it has been de-
cided to postpone the dedication until
May or June of next year.
Mrs. Joseph Small of Westbrook,
state president Of the Parent-Teach-
ers' Association, is to speak at the
meeting of the Brunswick Parent
/ Teachers Association at Wheeler hall
| Tuesday evening. Mrs. Small on her
| arrival in Brunswick will be enter
| tanned by the executive board with
| dinner at Hotel Eagle. The program
at Wheeler hall will be opened with a
selection by the Brunswick high
school orchestra, following which
group of pupils from the Brunswick
grammar school will give short DEM
! onstration of the physical training eE-
ercises which they are learning under
| the instruction of Miss Maybelle
Beach.
President e. H. Thompson Of the
| Federal Land Bank has been en-
gagged as the speaker at the seventh
annual meeting Of the Aroostook
| County Farm Bureau which will be
held at Houlton Grange hall, Friday,
| Oct. 80. Mr.. Thompson is well ac-
| quaipted with financial conditions in
| the country and has some figures
which should be interesting to the
| Aroostook county farmers. Bust
ness matters to come before the
| meeting consist of report of the work
| done by the Farm Bureau during the
| past year, adoption of a budget for
! 1926 and plans for extension work.
Plans are under way for discussion
of alfalfa and handling practices in
particular. A baked bean dinner
will be served by the Houlton
! Grange.
| A copy of the New Portland, Som
erset county, printed by ]. McKown
of Portland, in May, 1903, the same
year that New Portland was incor-
| porated as town, is owned by the
Maine Historical Society. New Port
| land, it will be remembered, was one
of the last townships granted in 1871
| by the General Court of Massachu-
| sets to the Portland sufferers from,
| Mowats bombardment in October,
1775. There were about 80 families
in the township in 1871. the first set
| tiers coming there in 1888. The pres
emit population Of New Portland is
about $40. The other township was
located in Franklin county, and was
| nrSt settled IN 1877. IL was 1ncorpordt-
ed a town in March, 1908. and named
| Freeman, after Samuel Freeman of
Portland, one Of the principal owners
at the time of the settlement. Present
population 1922.
Just now engineers are taking bor-
ings in the Kennebec river and upon
their findings will largely depend the
location of the new Kennebec bridge.
Once that location has been definite
ly determined by the Bridge Com
mission the matter of approaches
will come UP for serious attention.
This is something in which Bath
PEOPLE should take great interest for
largely upon the establishing of an
attractive and convenient approach
to the bridge on the Bath side of the
river will depend the real value of
the bridge to the city in years to
come. Once an approach is estab-
lished it will be too late to make
changes and citizens and the Com
mission should see tn IL that due