Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-14
MAINE GOSSIP
Backward, Turn Backward

"A season to sow and season to
reap"
Give us summer of sunshine and
cheer.
Instead of frost every month in the
year;
With a warm harvest moon in mild
Not a S nTomise eN Of snow for the last of
July.
Oh for the days which our fathers
have known!
When beetles and bugs let INA"
Nature alone,
When crops were abundant and prices
When the farmer and grocery man
each had share.
Give us the days of the old-fashioned
dance,
When girls wore the skirts and the
men wore the pants!
When the wife made the home instead
of Bazaars,
And left man the folly Of pipe and
cigars.
Bring back the days when the people
one knew
Had time for a word and a smile, or
Chew"
With a friends CHEEKY greeting 1or
Instead of ..Hey, road HOG" or, "step
on the gas"
Backward, turn backward oh time,
Send back the Icebergs and turn on
Grace H. Parmenter.
Weeks Mills, Maine.
Edwin McCorison Of Northeast
Harbor raised some sunflowers THIS
summer II feet high, II inches across
tho heads and some of the leaves
were IS inches wide and rs inches
long.
The storm of Saturday and Satur-
dav night sent the coots into the
bays along shore and made the nrst
good coot hunting of the season
Monday morning, says the bath
Times.
Capt. J. Horace Mcclure and Lieut..
Edward Hartnett of Battery u
(Bath), Coast Artillery, will be-
among the speakers at an officers
school to be conducted in Rockland
on Nov. 81 at which the companies
e, F, G, and H will be represented.
A "Beaux Art Revue" will be stag
ed by Rumford people Oct. 20 and ~
at the Strand theater in that town
under the direction of the Rumford
Business and Professional Mems AS
ISOLATION and Philbrook Productions.
The show will be produced as a mid
night review, starting about lO.3o
each night.
Samuel L. Hitchings, formerly
boys work secretary Of the Bangor
Y. NJ. C. A., has been made town
clerk Of Burlington, where he Is now
residing. He and Raymond s. Ben
nett. formerly assistant physical d.
rector of the association, are conduc-
ting a store. sporting camp and an
old fashioned inn known as Ye Olde
Maine Tavern.
A 14-year old girl, former resi-
dent of South Berwick, whose father
left her more than a year ago and
whose mother has been dead for sew
eral years., has asked her friends to
help her locate her nearest of kin, an
aunt, who is believed to be living in
Boston. This aunt was Helen May
berry. The girl is now making her
home with Winifred Hunt at San
ford.
Franklin county orchards were
hard hit by the storm Of Saturday
and Sunday. One orchard Of SO or
T,o, two f<,v
owner unknown, was completely ru-
ground. Many other orchards fsuf-
fered in like manner though not to
quite the same extent. Hundreds of
bushels Of fine apples still on trees
were destroyed or rendered fit only
for canning or for cider.
The Journal Is glad to receive
letter from it's old friend, Senator w.
S. Knowlton, Newport, Me-, in which
he remarks that he is still on earth
and kicking" and is looking ahead to
another birthday anniversary. Read
ing further we find: wv. s. Knowlton
and wife will observe the S1S6 an
niversaries of their birthdays octo-
Der %, 1925. They will be pleased
Senators Of 1907-1909." The Journal
would take this occasion to wish
them many happy returns Of the oc-
casion.
Laying particular stress on the ac-
tivities of the organization in mould
ing worthwhile citizens and the evil
dences Of it's helpful influence on the
national life, Rev. M. P. Montgomery,
pastor Of the Calvary Baptist church
at Haverhill, Mass, addressed the
Bangor branch Of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People last Sunday evening.
An d-fashioned fair will be held
by the East Dover Grange on Satur-
day Of this week. An invitation is
extended to "cum in We OK teams and
go carts to see once more an old
fashioned fair"
Philip Plummer, Is years old, of
South Paris. won the chicken killing
contest at the recent high school
contests, held at the College of Agri-
culture, at Orono. Philip defeated
representatives from nine other
schools in the state as follows: East
ern Maine Institute, Washburn High,
Unity High, East Corinth Academy,
Houlton High, Patten Academy, Nor
way High, Lee Academy and Leavitt
Institute. Philip is a sophomore this
year at South Paris High school
where he is studying agriculture. He
says that he is going to the Univers-
ity of Maine and continue with his
agricultural work.
Mrs. Rex w. Dodge Of Portland
who is sailing from Southampton
Tor nome after a season of travel
abroad with her mother, Mrs. Louis
Cassard of the Columbia Hotel and
Mrs. DOdge'S daughterS iS IN 1ead