Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-07
MAINE GOSSIP

| MAINE OVOOll
Learning
You came-and went away.
/ did not know, till then,
The sky could be so gray
That day could seem SO drear,
And night so sad and long.
How could 1 know-till you had
gone?
You went--then you returned!
That skies could be SO blue
Till then 1 had not learned.
That days could be so joyous
All like so wrapped In song,
/ had forgot-while you were gone!
Harriet f. Chandler, in New York
Sun.
Senator Hale Of Maine is planning
to leave Portland about May 16 to
inspect the Navy Yards on the Pa
cific Coast in his capacity as chair
man Of the Senate Committee on
Naval affairs. He will visit Hawaii
while on the West Coast and wit
ness the wind-up of the big naval
maneuvers in those waters.
One OF the interesting landmarks
on the Quebec Road from Bingham
is the tablet which was placed there
in 1915 by the Kennebec Chapter.
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. This tablet marks the place
where Colonel Benedict Arnold with
his soldiers left the Kennebec River
October ITS and marched from the
hntr n nIahpC.
california is all right, but the
State of Maine for me after all, and
I cannot resist it's appeal" says Mrs.
Charles w. Brown of San Diego who
arrived the other day for visit with
her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Wilson of Sebasco, Me.
Mrs. Brown Is an Fastener who
went to California % years ago and
this completes her sixth round trip
across the continent. Her husband
and their son Ralph are planning to
motor across the continent later in
the season.
Down at Dromore, Phippsburg. on
the Rogers farm. is something which
attracts attention of many people
every spring. Far over on tho hill
side, several hundred feet west of
the highway, about Is years. ago
the owner of the farm spelled his
name on the grass by sprinkling
wood ashes. The letters are several
feet high and read IS. H. Rogers"
In the spring, when the new grass Is
just coming up fresh and green, the
letters are particularly distinct and
can be read easily long distance
away. 1t is said that only twice
since the letters were originally
made, have they been given fresh
coatings Of wood ashes.
Considerable stir in Rumford was
caused in connection with the unique
case heard by State Highway Com
missioner Innes the other day when
John Orino Of Rumford was sub
poenaed to appear on the charge of
running over a fire hose which was
in use while the Rumford depart
ment was fighting a fire one day last
March. At the time of the incident
Officer Patton of the State Police
held up Orino and an argument
arose relative to the action. Judge
Stevenson of Rumford refused Off
Ger Patton a warrant for Orino and
the arrest of the officer on complaint
by Orino followed charging Patton
with false arrest. The Patton trial
is due to be heard at the May term
of court converting in Rumford. The
Highway Commission has not rem
dered its decision on the case heard
by Commissioner Innes.
Miss Dorothy Budd, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel Budd of
Portland, has been appointed dan
cling instructor and pageant director
of the Portland Fairgrounds for the
summer season of 1925. Miss Budd
is graduate Of the Sargent School
Gymnastics in Cambridge in the
class of 1924 and for the past year
has been an instructor at the Wash
ington State Normal School at
Machias. The Fairgrounds are to
open June % and there will be Is
under the commission this season.
In addition to the Fairgrounds an
innovation in the nature of bowling
green will be opened at behring's
Oaks on the level green between
Park and Deering avenues. This will
be plot 120 feet square and there
will be room for four alleys. Since
the first announcement OF the OPEN
ing of the bowling green Mr.. Lee has
received many interested inquiries
concerning it as this ancient pastime
has sprung into popularity in this
country in the past few years.