Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-12
MAINE GOSSIP
She would ana She wouldn't

And little brown wren's modest
ways.
She happens to fancy gay parrakeet:
So painstakingly, bit by bit.
| She has borrowed the parrakeets
feathers mad ways
Neither manners nor feathers will
fit!
o little brown soul, Haunting strange
ly bright plumes,
| You struggle so bravely-and then
You make but sad parrakeet! You
A perfectly charming brown wren!
B. Y. Williams in Ladies Home
Journal.
At the regular monthly meeting OF
the Bangor city council this week an
amendment to the city ordinance was
adapted providing for an increase IN
the salary of the mayor from $1,000
| to $4,000, to take effect in the next
municipal year.
Smelt fishermen are busy every day
at South End wharves at Bath and
some try their luck on the New Mea-
dows river. The catches have been
| light and the fishermen say that
| colder weather is needed to improve
| the fishing. The fish bring 20 cents
a pound.
! "The worst germ in the world Is
worry" said a. Portland physician
the other evening. yes" he contin-
ued, worry is the most fatal bug in
i the world. Worry will make the most
robust patient an invalid in quick
| order. AS complication with any
! other illness, it is fatal. When you
see q man or woman, particularly In
ripe old age, survive long after their
| allotted three score and ten, and con-
tinue in good health, you may be
F, quite sure that their minds are right,
happy and serene. In word, they
| have never worried"
The largest sardine factory on the
coast is being operated daily and will
not be closed until about Nov. II, al
| though the general closing Of Names
| Al canneries took place on Oct. l5
after a small pack had been made for
| the entire season, and is now esti-
| mated at nearly 100000 cases, prin-
| cipally oil sardines Of 100 cans to a
case. The st. Croix Frontier Can
ming Company's large factory locat-
| ed on the shores of Robbinston, Is
miles from Eastport, and on the
border river st. Croix within a mile
| of Canadian frontier, was not opened
| until August, although the legal can
! ming season of Maine runs from April
| 18th to Nov. 80, and usually there had
been majority of factories operated
in past years from the first day Of
the season to the final, but in recent
| seasons smaller packs are found
more satisfactory aud easier dispos-
ed of at a profit. Herring continue
plentiful and at no time this season
were they, scarce in Passamaquoddy
Bay or along the st. Croix river,
there being $50 weirs owned alone n
the latter river on both sides of the
international boundary line and al
| ways handy for boating to the Rob-
binSton cannery. While Canadian
fish prices are $40 hogshead, since
June 1924, and not many fishermen
across the line care to break that
government fixed price for fear of
losing their fishing privileges and
weir license, it had bothered many
Canadian fishermen this season when
Maine fishermen sold frequent sup
plies at SIS to Sc a hogshead. While
the Dominion herring fishermen do
not break prices there Is no law to
prevent them from giving extra mea-
sure when seeking fish at $40 a hogs
head and it Is said that 1t was not
overlooked this season, allowing Ca
| nadians to compete with Maine
| caught fish during such an abundant
season.
Representative men and women
from all parts of Maine will gather
in Portland on the evening of Nov.
20 for the Golden Rule dinner of the
Near East Relief which will be a pre-
lfminary to the statewide, nation
wide and worldwide observance Ct
Golden Rule Sunday on Dec. Is. Mrs.
Percy V. Pennybacker, former pres
1dent Of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, who has in charge
MI 4 NJ A