Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-25
MAINE GOSSIP
A Word to the Man Who Works

A Word to the Man Who Works
}, When business and work have been
u shattered,
And sma shed to the very last root.
When all the banks have been plum
Il dered,
And everyone's shared in the loot.
We shall pause-when our last cent
And say, With a sad, hungry sob:
| 1--WE were lured by the third party
Now, 1 wonder who'll give us job?"
BY Charles Z. Hood.
Recruiting for the U. S. marine
corps has been resumed in Maine
and an Office has been opened in
city building, Portland. This Office
was closed last January. YOUNG
men at the age of Is years may en-
Est with parents consent. j. l..
Slack, sergeant In the marine corps,
who has been in Maine on recruiting
trips several times in the past, will
have charge Of the recruiting.
The will of Weston L. Davis. late
OF Lewiston, who died last week,
was made public yesterday. by the
sole executor. Judge Ralph w.
Crockett of Lewiston. No estimate
of the value of the estate is an
nounced, but 1t is bequeathed in its
entirety to Ashlar Lodge Of Free
Masons Of Lewiston to promote and
further the application of the Ma
sonic teachings of Charity and
Brotherly love-. The estate consists
of a modern two-apartment house at
lSe Sahattus street. Lewiston, sew
eral valuable lots Of land and other
property.
The directors of the Weber Hos
pital Association of Biddeford have
voted to erect modern and up-to-
; date three story building to be used
as a home for the nurses of the hos
pital training school. The building
Will be of brick and will compare in
architecture with the hospital. The
building will contain 25 single sleep
inE rooms in addition to other rooms.
The Ste. Marie home on Elm street
and the other house near the en-
trance to the hospital. Will be sold by
the association. 1t was voted that
the cost Of the new building shall not
exceed $4,000.
. AS a momento Of the occasion
Governor Ralph o. Brewster has
presented Frank w. Wardwell, presi-
dent OF the Cumberland County Fish
g. Game Association, the pen with
which he signed the One-deer bill,
which was recently passed by the
State Legislature. Mr.. Wardwel
plans to have the pen framed and
add 1t TO the already large and in
teresting collection of momentoes
that he has on display in his office
a
Wardwell has been interested in fish
and game activities for many years
and was one of the advocates Of the
!, one deer bill.
There are probably few Maine
people who would desire to eat
clans twice a day the year around,
but there would be plenty of clans
: to allow all Maine residents to eat
them as often as that if all available
clam fats in Maine were properly
: cultivated. is the belief of II. ID.
erie the Maine director of Sea and
Shore fisheries. Mr.. Crie thinks
. that Maine coast dwellers are
, neglecting the lowly clam and tells
of one experiment in Knox county
where a quarter of an acre of clam
fats was set off and closed for three
| years. Inc revenue from tnlS llttie
, plot the next year was $500. MIR.
Crie claims that with adequate care
clam farms would average 1000
bushels to the acre and would prove
very profitable variety of farm
ing.-Bangor Commercial.
, Sagadahcc county's oldest woman
! Mrs. Margaret l.. Mcfarland of Bath
was 1913 years old Wednesday, but on
, account OF failing health no special
observance was made of the birth
day at the Old Folks Home where
she has been one of the family
several years. Mrs. Mcfarland
, passes most of her time in bed now
, and for this reason no party was ar
ranged as last year. Mrs. Nc
Farland was born in Grand Manan,
y. T.. April % 1922, a daughter of
/ James Kendrick. She married John
Mcfarland when 20 years old and
went to Bath 20 years ago and has
seen the city grow from a few hun
dred population up through the war
time when the population was about
, 1900. After the death Of her hus-
hand Mrs. Mcfarland continued to
live alone in her home on Drummer
street for u number of years and did
, all her housework up to the age of
80 when, after one or two serious
, falls and a serious infection in her
foot, she accepted an invitation to
enter the Home where she has been
: happy.