Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-03
MAINE GOSSIP
Autumn

And, from tangle by the woodside
stream,
A scent of wild-grapes fills the racy
air.
| Comes Autumn with. her sun-burnt
| caravan,
Like a long Gypsy train with trap
! And tattered coIors on the Orient,
| Making slow-footed through the
| dreamy hills
ghe Woods of Wilton, at her coming
Tints Of Rokhara and of Samarcand;
| The naples glow with their Pompeiah
The hicEories with burnt Etruscan
And, While the 'crickets hfc along her
Behind her banners burns the crimson
Bliss Carman.
Referring to the fact that in some
places in the northern part OF Maine
and in New Hampshire there is
nearly a foot Of snow, the Bath
! Times expresses the belief that there
| is1yet chance during November Tor
| a fine Indian summer, even II II 10
| short.
Edward M. Blatchford. director OF
THE Syria Palestine area of the Near
East Relief, who Is visiting his
brother, Charles II. Blatchford OF
| Portland, went to Auburn Monday TO
deliver an address before the minis
| tiers OF the two cities 1t the Auburn
r. NJ, G. A. on conditions a. no nnds
them over there.
Max w. Bishop Of Fort Fairfield
has just purchased the large Hop
lsins Brothers farm. one Of the big
gest and richest in Aroostook coun-
ty. the price being $4,000. This IL
! one of the biggest real estate trans
fers that have taken place in Fort
Fairfield for some time. The farm
contains about 500 acres OF land in
the best possible condition from the
keeping Of so much livestock upon 1t
for years back.
The annual County Club contest
of the boys and girls agriculture
and home economics clubs of Pts
cataquis County carried on under the
direction Of the Extension Service IN
cooperation with the Farm Bureau,
was held Saturday at Central Hall.
at Dover Foxcroft. This year l41
boys and girls enrolled for club work
and 131 completed their course, CIV
ing Piscataquis county the highest
per cent. finishing OF any county N
the state whose annual contest has
been held to date.
! The Lewiston highway commission
has control Of the> streets Of that city
according to an Interpretation Of the
statute as submitted to the city
council, Friday evening, by Frank T.
Powers, corporation counsel. When
petitions for gasoline tanks were re-
ceived the city decided to find out
whether the council or the commits
sion was in power, and submitted the
facts to Mr.. Powers. His ruling is
qualified by the statement that,
should the petitioner be dissatisfied.
he may appeal to the court for a final
decision as to the jurisdiction in this
matter.
mot all is gold that glitters." In
these days when SO many stories are
heard Of farmers receiving enough
from their 1925 crop OF potatoes to
square up all back bills with Q nice
little bank account left over. there
are occasionally heard instances
where the pathway of some is cover
ed with thistles and the roses all
plucked. One man In particular
comes to our mind. This man bought
fertilizer, giving a crop mortgage for
his fertilizer. For some reason his
crop was very small, but few barrels
to the acre, and he had to buy $50
barrels of neighbor to make enough
to pay his fertilizer biil.-Aroostook
Republican.
The steamer Governor Dingley Of
Eastern Steamship Corp. made her
last trip Of the season when arriving
at PASSPORT early Saturday morning
from Boston and leaving q short time
later for st. John, New Brunswick,
for the return direct trip During
the past season the passenger lists
We're somewhat larger than in recent
years and satisfactory mixed freights
were carried but during the long
winter not much freight Is available
as the principal shipments from that
frontier seaport are sardines and all
factories are now closed until after
April Is. In the mea ntime there Will
be no steamer connections between
Boston and st. John, N. b.. via. East
port and Lubec, although PASSPORT
had two round trips daily by mail.
A fox hunt is suggested by the
Biddeford Journal in view of the in
formation given by the receivers for
the Gordon fox corporation that the
800 foxes on the various ranches are
in danger of starvation as there is no
money available. The Biddeford
Journal suggests: "Why wouldn't 1t
be a good idea to assemble the in
vestors, armed, on a certain day and
in a favorable place, turn the foxes
loose and allow the aforesaid inves-
tors to shoot at them as long as their
ammunition lasted. Or the investors
might be allowed certain number of
shots for every share they own in
the enterprise. BY this means the
investors would get a run for their
money and, If shots were well placed.
beautiful fur piece as a souvenir
for remembrance sake"
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OF special interest u the lumber
trade will be the sale by auction in
one lot of the st. John Lumber Com.
pany plant at Van Buren, today. The
sale includes not only the complete
ana modern manufacturing plant
which Is one Of the largest, IL not the
largest, spruce plants in the east,
with a capacity Of one-quarter mil
lion feet Of long lumber daily, but
also the very large and safe natural
holding ground in the st. John river
extending up stream some five miles
from the plant and having capacity
OF one hundred million feet of logs;
a farm at Violette ga miles rorther.
~ from the plants which is of inn