Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-10
MAINE GOSSIP
Barbarous Fetch - yer


Out of the country, rich with dust,
Comes an old Ford, covered with rust;
Her tenders bent, her top is torn,
Her windshield broken and tires worn.
With plenty of rattles and lots of
speed
She moved along, at her drivers heed;
She coughs, and sputters and hacks.
Then stops dead still, while the driver
dams.
Out of the seat the driver jumps
Out of the Ford with a thousand
bumps
Catches the crank and twists 1t round,
And the flivver starts with a mighty
bound.
Over the hills and out of sight,
On she goes, whether day or night.
Back to the country. covered with dust,
BY Claude L. Bonsey, Surry, Maine,
in the Ellsworth American.
Motorists will be interested to
learn that the new bridge connect
ing Bucksport and Verona island has
been completed and opened to traf-
fic.
Hc pen uSSd py 1ONeIuUr bTcWs-
ter in signing the Kennebec bridge
bill has been on exhibition at the
Masonic temple at Bath. for the
last few days and has attracted con-
siderable attention.
Baths new battery is making a
most excellent showing and has this
xrooIr Yoooiyad ,,,ora an,,;p,,oapf Dot
terry H now has nearer it's full COM
plement in personnel than any bat
terry in the regiment, says The Bath
Times.
Mrs. Mary Greenwood Of Saco has
something unusual in her garden in
the form of rosebush that con-
tains a second blooming of roses this
season. Those versed in horticulture
state that this happens infrequently
and are unable to account for it.
The annual convention of the
Aroostook County Teachers will be
held at Caribou, Oct. 1916 The
session opens on Thursday afternoon
with a business meeting at o'clock
followed by a general session in the
evening. Friday will be given over
to departmental sessions in the Sec
ondary and elementary groups.
Charles e. Tefft of New York
sculptor of the Pierce Memorial
which is soon to be put In place on
the big granite base erected on the
Bangor Library lawn. was in con-
ference Thursday morning with
members of the PIERCE Memorial
committee. He expects the bronze
casting of the gigantic. memorial
will be ready for shipment from
New York in about two weeks.
Four Sebasco young men were
convicted before judge Keegan in
Bath police court Thursday morning
Of digging clans in West Bath with
out first obtaining a permit from the
selectmen according to the terms OF
special legislative act. Their ages
ranged from Ia to 10 years and in
view Of the fact that they appeared
ignorant of the law and did not
break 1t with malicious intent, Judge
keegan suspended payment of fine.
Oxford University meets Bates
College in international debate In
Lewiston city hall, Monday evening,
Oct. IL at 8 o'clock. The three Bates
debaters who will take part. John P.
Davis, Harold II. Walker and Fred
I. Googins, were members of the
team which Bates College sent to
Great Britain last spring. Also this
engagement with Bates is the only
debate which the Oxford team will
have In New England on the sub
ject Of Prohibition.
A meeting of the Association Of
Municipal Court Judges of Maine
was held Thursday afternoon at
Bangor, fifteen judges from different
sections OF the state being pres
emit. Joseph E. Hall of Caribou is
president Of the association and Will
c. Atkins Of Gardiner Is secretary.
The constitution and bylaws pre-
scented by the committee were FORM
ally adopted and there was discus
sion on topics of interest to the
members pertaining to court work.