Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-25
DAILY KENNEBEc JOURNAL. FRIDAY, sEPTEAiBEE 8, 1925
MAINE GOSSIP

Gsraniums
OF all the flowers East and West
I like reraniums the best.
In Bingham gowns they seem to dress,
Yet lose no whit Of comeliness.
Of wholesome things they make one
OF annIes and new milk to drink,
And pleasant neighbors met to talk
About the porch and garden walk.
And Joan and Darby. smiling, still
At posies on their window-siH.
They are as commonplace and right
AS hooks and tea and candle-lfght.
And all about them is the scent
OF home and comfort and content.
Roses and romance s nave h snea p fsce
And who would trade SO good tn1ng
For all the brief coquettes Of spring!
of all the flowers East and west
I like geraniums the best.
|-Theodosia Garrison from Every
body's Magazine.
Fishermen note that Lake MoXie
is to have new fish screen.
The frost of this week got to the
Franklin county corn in good shape
and as a result the cornfields up that
way, stand stark and lifeless.
Bowdoin will have the largest
freshman class in the history OF the
college and none of the other educa-
tional institutions in this State are
reporting a shortage of pupils.
The price of $3.50 per barrel for
seed potatoes isn't tempting the
Aroostook growers. who are OF the
oninion that potatoes will be pota-
toes this winter.
farmer in the town Of Morrill,
tells of finding ice by the roadside
Wednesday morning that was half
an inch thick. OF course ice an
eighth of an inch thick would not be
one sixteenth as good a story.
Maine folks visiting at the Hub,
these days, will find an interesting
sight to see in the big American
steamer Leviatlan, which is in dry
dock there, undergoing an overhaul
ing.
The Auburn shoe factories are
looking forward to busy winter as
a number of large orders are on
hand. This prospect Is in common
with that. of Haverhill and other
Massachusetts, cities.
"Your young Governor is making a
mighty effort to tell the world that
Maine has something to sell. Stand
back of him in his efforts" This
from an authority on advertising ad-
dressing the Advertising Club OF
Portland, and well expressed.
Hitched to the mainmast Of the
two masted schooner Cameo, horse
owned by Captain Trenholm OF
Boothbay, took a ride to sea and de-
cided that his sea-legs were not In
working order. The horse was hav-
ing a fine time, sailing over the deep
until he suddenly became sea- sick.
But before getting back onto dry
land once more, he recovered MS
sea-legs.
For 80 years, H. S. Boyd has been
located with the Chapman National
Bank at Portland. He entered the
employ of the institution two years
after it was organized and he has
the longest record of employment
among the members of the present
staff. This week his associates pre-
scented him with a basket of roses
and best wishes.
Another monarch of the sea is to
soon come under the hammer as the
famous old clipper. Benjamin F..
Packard, built in Bath in 1853 by
Goss & Sawyer, is offered for sale at
a sacrifice. For number of years
she was engaged in East India
trade out of New York but for a
number of recent years has been
owned by Pacific coast parties and
used in Alaskan fishing interests.
A good way to solve the winter
housing plan, according to one
Thomas Kelley at Rumford, is to
punch the judge on the nose-the
law will do the rest. Having passed
a major portion Of the summer in
Jail. Kelley returned to court and
told the judge that the Judge was
going to make him pass the winter
also in jail. Three punches were re-
| ceived by the judge and Kelley was
placed under arrest.
Not pretty sight, that of a youth
wearing the uniform Of the U. S.
Navy and pleading guilty to boot
logging alcohol because he wanted a
little money. Evidently this was in
the mind of the Portland judge, >vho
disliked to send the youth to Jail.
The naval authorities, however, ap-
preciating the smirch on the uni
form. probably, wished him prose-
cuted and he was given 80 days in
Jail.
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