Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-30
MAINE GOSSIP
STATE OF MAYHE

I am proud of thee in Autumn,
My native State Of Maine;
Your sunny skies and laughing brooks,
They ever look the same.
Before the SHOWS Of winter
49, Have left the hillsides fair
The Pussys and Mayflowers
Are found most anywhere.
When Spring has laid her carpet
OF green upon the ground
And scattered violets. blue and white
Everywhere around.
And the little feathered songsters
From the South have come again
To stay with us all summer
Because they love you, Maine.
Oh, Maine! you're very beautiful
In apple blossom time
The air is filled with sweet perfume
Like that Of tropic cline.
Your stately trees of oak and elm
. And beautiful evergreen
The maple bright. and wild rose, too,
None fairer can be seen.
No other state can fairer be,
Though there be scenes more rare,
Thy granite hills and swaying pines
To me are ever fair.
love your grand old forests,
Your cliffs and rock-bound coast
That night and day keep watch DER
And guard thee like sentinel host.
Clara NJ. Friend.
The dates for the Maine Music
Festival in October will be Oct. Ia.
at Bangor; Oct Al at Portland; and
Oct. SO at Lewiston.
Golf enthusiasts at Popham Beach
are very pleased with the progress
that has been made on the new
course there.
Bath men numbering 125 are now
employed in the navy yard at Kit
terry and the amount which they re-
ceive in wages is not far from $4,000
every week.
Rumford takes pride in it's new
s$95,000 theatre which will be opened
early in May. Those who have in
spected the interior report that it is
one Of the most attractive and mod
ern theatres in that part of the State
Several thousand fish were caught
at the opening of the alewive season
at Damariscotta a few days ago. The
first fish dipped at the locks, about
1000 in number. We're taken out two
days earlier than last year. On Sum
day night 1000 were caught.
Fish received early this week by
Portland dealers from netters and
boat fishermen sold at very low fig
ures when brought into markets.
hake selling at three cents a pound,
cod at two to two and a half cents,
and cusk and haddock bringing only
two cents.
The steamer Rangeley. built in
Bath and used for many years on the
Maine Centrals Bar Harbor division,
has been sold to the Hudson River
Day line and has been named the
Chauncey NJ. Depew in honor Of the
former Senator who recently cele-
brated his 9th birthday.
The boys of the Portland Y. NJ. G.,
A. will hold their sixth annual drive
on Thursday, May Z, to solicit funds
for running the Portland "Y" sum
mer camp, the North Star, at East
WATERFORD. The North Star Camp
since its inception has increased its
Facilities for caring for boys during
the summer months so that now Sc
boys may be cared for during any of
the periods. The boys solicited a
total Of $500 for this purpose in the
fourth annual drive.
The Oldest practicing physician In
point of service in Oxford county and
with but few matching him in the
state, is DIR. Charles Melville Bisbee
OF Rumford, who is just rounding
out of years OF practice in that coun-
", ~ OF which have been in Rumford
Dr. Blsbee is a graduate Of the Bow
dom Medical School, completing his
studles there in 1871, and practiced
medicine in Peru and Sumner before
going TO Rumfori. For several years
ne mas been on the consulting staff of
the Central Maine General hospital at
Lewiston. For 16 years he was U. S,
examining surgeon for pensions.
An English pheasant, probably from
the Massachusetts preserve, was seen
'this week by II. A. Boothby at An
burn. The bird which was in a field
when he first saw it, appeared quite
tame, but as he approached, it ran
swiftly away until it took flight in
tne direction of Lake Auburn. The
Pheasants were introduced at the
massachusetts, preserve several wears
ago under strict protection where
they have multiplied in great num-
pers. a year or two ago they were
released and have been reported in
increasing numbers to the north.