Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-14
MAINE GOSSIP
That Old Bus Of Mine


That Old Bus of Mine! The first I
ever owned.
A crude device-satanic for which
bled and groaned;
I love it for it's errors and, were it but
here today,
I'd ditch my new leviathan and throw
the keys away.
The Old Bus tried my soul, 1 know.
but it had good traits, too,
And so, First Motor Car Of Mine, I
long today for you.
That Old Bus of Mine! 1t gave new
friends to me,
That understanding motor clan with
fellow-Sympathy.
When it went dead along the road the
first that came along
Contained a fellow-voice that said:
Hello. old pal, what's wrong?"
He helped me worry with it, offered
wild suggestions, too,
Then lowed me to a smithy's shop to
see what he could do.
That Old Bus of Mine! We went on
runs" galore;
Sometimes we'd go for fifty miles
now worlds are at our door.
We gazed on hills and valleys green
through goggles made to be
to all us journeyerS across
dusty sea.
My good old linen buster, too, COM
pared with just one JOY
The first long pants my mother made
to make a man of boy.
That Old Bus of Mine. 1 ''honked"
with much delight,
Then stopped andTled old Dobbin by
to ease he of a fright.
joyed to see my neighbors look with
envy as / passed.
1t seemed to me 1 heard them say I'd
lost nv mind at last
Today they all have motor cars, but
none will ever know
The "growing pains" of motoring some
twenty years ago!
William Herschell in indianapolis
News.
The ice went out of the St Croix
river last Saturday morning, the
earliest date for many years.
The first moving van to come
from Boston, passed over the
ferry at Bath, Thursday with house
hold goods for parties in Nobleboro.
At present only eight scholars are
the Jordan school in Au-
burn and it is likely that the school
will close if the attendance does not
pick up.
An unusual honor is to be accorded
a 10-year- old Auburn boy, Nelson
Burgess Record, who is a promising
violin student. He will broadcast at
the Auto Radio show at the Armory,
in Lewiston, on Monday, March 10.
Echo, the hound owned by Clinton
Perry of Masardis, has just recently
caught her Tooth bobcat. She is six
years old and in four years has
caught 100 cats. On March 6, she got
the largest ever seen by her master.
the cat being five feet, six inches long.
The largest catch of fish landed by
a local vessel for many weeks was
brought to Portland Wednesday by
the Eleanor, having 10000 pounds.
This, with the catches brought by the
boat fishermen. totals to nearly 100,-
600 pounds of fish landed on that day,
the market going lower, as might be
expected.
Miss Helen Virginia Broe of Port
land was one of the party of ieght
students Of the American Archeologi-
cal school of Athens, Greece. which
was attacked by a band of brigands
near the Albanian border early this
week. Miss Broe was uninjured but
was a party to a very thrilling eX-
perience.
The first statistics of the 1925 quin-
tennial census of agriculture were an
nounced Wednesday by the census
bureau and showed that in Piscata-
quis county there was an increase in
the number of farms but decrease
in acreage, while the valuation of
land and buildings showed an in
crease, their total being $5,27d,653.
Little Lena Roccatano of Lewiston,
will probably have the distinction of
being the youngest broadcaster in the
state, if not in New England. after
next Tuesday night when she Will
play a brief solo with Prof. Testa's
pupil orchestra, which is one of the
features of the program at the Auto
Radio show at Lewiston next week.
DHo IS IlOI quite SlA years Oiu anu
shows unusual musical talent.
The Church on the Hill" in Sabat-
tus is being torn down by it's recent
owner. Joseph Z. Sullivan, to be used
for building supply in his business.
This church has stood since the early
days Of the traders and was built by
Isaac n. Davis, a trader, who. think
ing he did not have the prominence
in church affairs his position as a
trader entitled him to, built the
church for spite and it was at one
time called the spite church" After
Davis death the church became the
property of the Baptist society and
was afterward sold to the Masonic So
ciety who in turn sold it to Mr.. Sulli-
van. And SO passes one of Names
historic landmarks.
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