Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-19
MAINE GOSSIP
The Deciding Hour


lower;
Comes a pause in the years occupa-
tion,
When / think of Southern tour.
I hear on the roof above me,
The patter of rain and sleet,
So l know that winter is coming
Sure, and cold, and fleet.
From my window see the forests,
Leafless, lonely, and bare,
And L think of the Sunny Southland
With so many of my friends down
there.
Do you think, oh thoughts Of the
Southland,
Because you are fresh in my mind,
That am going away this winter,
And leave all Of the fun behind?
No, I'll button my overcoat closer
And keep rubbing my frosty nose.
I'll stay up north in New England,
In Maine, the state l chose.
And 7 guess Til stay here forever
Until my earthly career is DER,
Yes. Spring, Summer, Autumn and
And yearn for the South no more.
Il. w. Huntington.
Belfast, Maine.
With all due respect for the Children's
Hour.
Five hundred cars crossed on the
ferry in both directions last Sunday
between Bath and Woolwich. This is
probably the record for the middle of
November. For the first time in sew
eral weeks there was a line up on
each side of the river for a short time.
1t was summers day and autoists
made the most of 1t.
The toll bridge connecting George
town and Arrowsic is believed by
many to be the only toll bridge over
tide water in Maine. The bridge is WIS.,
ible from Bath (south end of the city,
and through its draw river steamers
carry hundreds to Boothbay Harbor,
Squirrel Island, Macmahans, Five Is
lands, Southport, Linnekin Bay,
Christmas Cove and Cape Newagan
every summer. The bridge marks divi-
sion of Kennebec river as the other
side of the old structure is known as
Sasanoa or Back river, famed for seem
cry along its shore.
Residents of Lincoln and Market
streets, saco, are wondering what kind
of animal is wandering about the
dump which is located between the
two streets. Several people have seen
the creature, which is described as be-
ing black in color, about three feet
long, with short legs and a peaked
face. Several men have gone to the
dump at night with guns, anxious to
get shot at the beast. Some claim
it is a coon and others figure it is
some sort of water animal. Dogs
hat "a lar, Of ioh nd n
a continual barking which has COM
menced to get on the nerves of some
of the residents of the neighborhood.
Efforts to raise $4,000 in stock sub
scriptions to insure tho opening of a
new industry at Ellsworth have been
successful, through the efforts of the
Board of Trade and if all goes as we'll
as expected Ellsworth-made shoes will
be shipped from that city by Feb. l..
The new Rowen-Moore Co., which has
a factory at Calais, whose proposition
has been taken up, will begin at once
to equip the factory of the Carroll Felt
Shoe Co., which has discontinued BUSH
ness land was originally q shoe fac
tory. Some of this equipment can be
utilized, it is said. The concern will
employ from 200 to $50 hands when
up to full production, local help as far
as possible.
The text of the address entitled
maine the Beautiful" given by Pres
ident Hodgdon C. Buzzell Of the Maine
Senate and broadcast from radio sta
ton WIN of New York Feb. 20 last, is
published in the October November
December issue of Sprague's Journal
of Maine History. There is also an
account, with historical reference, of
the dedication exercises for the mem
orial boulder and tablet, July 10 at
Dresden, marking the site of st. Johns
church in old Pownalborough and COM
memorating the services Of it's mis-
sionary pastor. Rev. Jacob Bailey; to-
gether with the text of the address
given on that occasion by Bertram e.
Packard of Augusta, deputy State
commissioner of education.
Edward A. Harris, executive secre-
tary of the Maine Typothetae, secre-
tary of the Advertising Club of Port
land and pastor of the Bethany Con-
gregational church at South Portland,
is to leave Portland within a short
time to take up duties as manager.
ton plant in Milwaukee. Mr.. Harris
came to Portland about five years ago
from New York, having been an inter-
national field man before being select
ed as executive secretary of the Maine
Iypothetae, which he placed upon the
map in Maine. He has been a hard
worker for success in this office an
elnclent secretary of the Ad club and
earnest church worker. Last year he
was elected secretary of the Interna-
tional Printing Trades Secretary
Managers Association and also in
charge of the association publication.
AS yet no successor to his position
with the Maine Typothetae has been
named.
Dr. A. M. Card OF Alma reports last
Fridays storm the heaviest that he
recollects in SO years. Seven buildings
were blown down in his section in
Guiding three barns on Dyer's Neck be-
tween Sheepscot and Newcastle. Many
trees went down and were blown
across the roads. The Sheepscot river
reached freshet pitch on Saturday
morning and cafried away many
fences: His record shows october to