Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-26
MAINE GOSSIP
Thanksgiving

Lest we forget. in life's full mart,
The many blessings shown,
A day each year is set apart
For Glad Thanksgiving own.
holy day, when in the homes,
Bright fires CLEAN on the hearth
When st autumn wancs, and cold be-
And kin comes back SO welcome.
With prayer and feasting. as of old,
in families, friends. together. ia
with loves rekindled, hearts once cold
Join, welcoming each other.
Each year brings changes, ere it
Well gather families now: -, f.. .
For peace and plenty praise We'll give,
In thanks our heads well boy II
November 1925.
While Mrs. Elmer Tufts of Linz
erick was getting breakfast Morday
morning. she saw a big seven point
buck in the dooryard. She called TO
her son, Wallace, who got his rlne,
raised the window and shot the deer.
Justice Cakes, superior court, Au-
burn, Tuesday heard the case of the
town of Lisbon VS.. the town OF Minot.
involving the sum of S60.6S claimed
to have been expended assisting a
family at Lisbon whose legal resi-
dence is alleged to be Minot. Decis-
| ion was reserved.
Students of Edward Little high
school at Auburn who are taking the
course in practical interior home fur-
nishing gave a demonstration at one
of the local stores Tuesday decorat-
! ing the booths. This was to test
their ability for matching up ana
| fitting any room to their liking with
| the proper furniture.
! Ten of the business men of Dover
Foxcroft are pooling this season and
will buy one Of the fastest race horses
that they can procure. They have
| engaged the services of Harry Sever
ance as trainer and driver and as
soon as the Piscataquis straightaWay
| is frozen it is expected that there
will be some very fast racing. This
ice racing has been proving popular
| during the past two winters.
|
| A correspondent from South Free
|
are suffering a plague Of rats, great
big fellows, not so large as horses.
| but about as noisy. They are in the
! cellar have eaten UP bushels OF ap-
pies in q bin, more in barrels, about
twenty pounds of butter. carried
away a whole heap of carrots and so
on Can any wise one give a rem
edy? We never were plagued so be-
! fore.
The Maine Farmers Almanac for
1926 is out. The year begins on Fri
day and ends on Friday. Whether or
not this is to be taken as an unpro-
pitious sign of a bad year is not stat
ed. Both months have five Fridays,
as does April which ends on Friday
and October, which begins on the
inauspicious day. There will be only
| two eclipses for the year. both of the
sun and both invisible in Maine. The
total eclipse in Jan. Il. the annular
eclipse on July 8, Easter comes on
April next year.
Fishermen in the vicinity of Port
land are talking of forming a combi-
nation to market their catches, ex-
/ pecting that they can get better
prices by SO doing. They claim the
prices they are now receiving does
not afford them Il living. Fishing
schooners that arrived at Portland
on Monday and kept their fifish on
board rather than sell ut prices Of
. fered. sold Tuesday getting "a cents
Il pound for their ha.1dock. or half
Il cent less than they had been Of
Tered by the dealers the previous
day.
| Bates College closed for the
Thanksgiving holiday at $50 We'd
neslay afternoon and classes will be
resumed Friday morning at 7.45, as
| has been the custom in recent years.
Many of the students and the college
paper have been urging the adoption
of a new policy this year for the clos
! ing of the college from Wednesday
night until Monday morning, so that
students living at some distance from
the city should go home for their
Thanksgiving dinner. A petition con-
! tanning the names of about 400 stu
dents requesting the extension of the
Thanksgiving recess was presented
! to the faculty. but after some con-
! sideration was denied.
Scallops are again available and
recently had been selling at So to 80
4 cents a quart for at no time are they
plentiful and it is slow work for the
few fishermen and boatmen who
gather up the monster shell fish from
many sections of Passamaquoddy
Bay. although they seem to be more
oil ~,
/ Cobscook river. For the winter
/ months it is possible for Eastport
/ families to buy and enjoy scallops,
/ although only part of the hinge, or
| muscle. is cut out for eating The
! rest of the Scallop is TOSSED back into
the deep as worthless Even the big
I shells DO not seem to have any par
/ ticular value. Perhaps later the by
i products will be Eastport
correspondence in Bangor News.
I a rough passage of "A days from
Turks Island was reported by Capt.
4. d. Comeau of the three masted
British schooner Rose Anne Belle
vcau, which anchored off Portland
Head Monday night, and was brought
to Portland Tuesday morning by the
tug Cumberland and later taken to
( the wharf of the Burnham- Morrill, Co.,
| where her entire cargo of 9.S05 BUSH
els of salt consigned to the w. II.
Shurtlef Co., will be discharged.
This is the third cargo of Turks Is
| land salt that the schooner has land
ed there Tor the Shurtleff company.
she having been here twice In 1924.
On this trip strong head winds and
heavy seas were encountered, and
I
Jured, she suffered some damage to
her sails, the mainsail being badly