Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-20
MAINE GOSSIP

MAINE GOSSIP
There Are Others
If times are hard. and you feel blue,
Thing of the others, worrying, too;
Just because your trials are many,
Don't think the rest of us haven't any.
Life is made up of smiles and tears,
Joys and sorrows, mixed with fears;
And though to us it seems one-sided
Trouble is pretty Well divided.
If we could look into every heart
We'd find that each one has Its part,
And those who travel Fortunes road
Sometimes carry the biggest load.
The annual reunion OF the alumni
and friends of Lee Academy will be
held Friday, Aug. A. at Lee. A fine
program is being arranSed and the
various classes will mold meetings at
the town hall. Several athletic events
are being arranged for the forenoon.
Congressman Ira G. Hersey re-
turned recently to his home at Houl-
ton from trip to st. Louis, Mo. He
was a member of the judiciary COM
mittee working on the governments
investigation of the case of Judge
English of the Illinois Supreme Court.
Larkspur which has reached the
unusual height of 10 feet and heads
of lettuce measuring IS inches In
diameter are growing in the flower
and vegetable gardens owned by Mr..
and Mrs. Franklin j. Thrasher of
Hallowell.
According to S. P. Morrill,, Lewis
toms celebrated weather prophet,
there will be another eclipse of the
sun this Monday. This eclipse will
not be visible here but will be seen
in Eastern Australia and the South
ern Pacific. This particular eclipse
will be of the annular type and is
very rare, The greatest number of
eclipses of the sun and moon that
can possibly occur in year is seven;
five of the sun and two of the moon.
Mr.. Morrill, says that there will be
five more this year. there already
having been two.
The advancing season finds nearly
all available houses at Bar Harbor
rented and late corners looking for
dwelling places find but few to choose
from. All the large places have rented
especially well this year. and even
thus early there are rumors of sales
which will probably be confirmed
later on. Two years ago the lot of
sales was an unusually long one and
it is believed that this years may
be a close second. Property owners
are forming the habit of early COM
ing and late staying and many COM
Portable homes are open for six or
seven months of the year. July is
quiet month so far as large events
are concerned, though much enter
tanning is done, but most of the pub
lie affairs are left for August which
| is always crowded
A Lewiston man who has stock
in the Dr. Gordon fox farm has been
! looking into it and he says that in
! his opinion, the business can be made
a profitable going proposition on the
pelting and foX-breeding basis. He
has never received any of the big
dividends on the pup-buying plan,
He went in too late. He has been to
Augusta to see Mr.. Pattangall about
it and he believes that if DIR. Gordon
! is left alone, to work it out or if the
! parties who have been considering
the new plan, decide to go into it, the
thing will pay large dividends on the
income from pelts. 1t costs about
| $4,000 a week to run the ranches.
| He says that so far as he goes, he is
| willing to go along and give it a trial.
| The goods are there; he owns his
| foxes and he sees no reason to worry.
| if the business is carefully guarded.
Lewiston Journal.
Some of my hardest jobs" said
Narcisse P. Renouf. Bddeford insur-
ance man, have been connected with
my experience in catching whales. A
| lot of these trips gave me all the eX-
citement had longed for as a young
boy.
| Perhaps the most exciting of my
! journeys was AZ years ago off the
coast of South America. l was living
in Lewiston at the time and got a
| job on a whaling schooner. | was one
of a large crew to make the trip. One
! day s of us were out in a 28-foot
boat not very far from the schooner
| looking Tor signs OF whales, When We
suddenly saw and harpooned one of
the largest l had ever seen. The
whale began to haul us at a fast rate
and in no time we were out of sight
of the schooner. We were lost in this
way for 36 hours in boat, with none
! too much for provisions. We finally
tired the whale out and managed to
| get back safely with him.
Another time when we were in the
schooner with no sign of whales. the
/ sea seemed to grow suddenly black
all around us. For half mile on
| every side the ocean looked literally
packed with whales. They bumped up
against the bottom of the boat and
broke it in. Fortunately there was a
double bottom to it, the inner one be-
ing made Of cork For some time we
| f1oundered around in the great ex-
panse of sea with nothing but that
cork bottom to hold us up. However,
when we at last arrived on land, we
! had tie schooner with U.S."
Rivers Mouth Fault