Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-22
MAINE GOSSIP
Sun Spots

Sun Spots
Sometimes I pity you, though despise
The way you look upon the world,
your eyes.
Which seem so clear, are only trained
Dull things. for light to them is
mockery,
You note the cloud upon the burning
blue.
The brightest day brings shadows to
your view;
| You are an astronomer who has begun
To study sun spots and forgot the
| sun.
I-Elizabeth Scollard in New York Sun.
| William Oliver, who has recently
! taken the contract too carry the mail
from Bath to Parker's Head, has
been a stage driver TO Phippsburg
| for 80 years.
At the Days Ferry school in Wool
witch an uncle and his nephew are
among the pupils. The uncle is
/ Woodrow Miller. aged eight, and the
nephew is Irving Miller aged five.
| 1t is expected that Ringing Broth
ers and Barnum & Bailey's circus
will appear in Portland after touring
some Of the southern cities. Begin
to save your pennies, boys.
In conjunction with the Kindness
| to Animals Week which was OBJ
served last week, $1,000 booklets on
the proper care of animals were dis
tributed to the school children of the
state.
Edwin Smith. the last native Wis
casset Civil War veteran. passed
: away last Thursday at his home in
that town, where, with the excep-
ton Of his war service he has been
lifelong resident.
| Fred f. Briggs of Jacksonville,
! Florida, a former Maine man, who
has already donated 500, 900. for the
Maine l. o. o. F.. Home, will donate
! another equal amount to the fund.
SO the Maine Odd Fellows have been
| informed.
| Camden is getting ready for an
Old Home Week which is to take
place three days in August. 1t is re-
ported that two bands have already
been hired and the town will do
everything in its power to make
everybody welcome.
! An Interscholastic Baseball League
was recently formed in Washington
County by the leading secondary
| schools, who met at Machias High
School and organized, electing Prin-
cipal Raymond c. Wass of Machias
High as President
| The Cosmos Club of Rumford has
offered prizes for the best answers.
submitted by the pupils of the town
schools. to list of 100 questions on
the history and the geographical
features of the town. Some of the
, questions date back to the time that
Indians raided nearby territory.
Hotel Phoenix in Bath changed
hands last Thursday, being sold to
John j. Burke who is attached to the
Maine squad of the United States
Internal Revenue department with
headquarters at Bath who plans to
put in manager and maintain the
motel on the same high plane from
which it achieved an enviable ,rcpu-
tation many years ago.
a new idea is being tried out in
Crosby. High School in Belfast. A
jury of five has been elected from
among the students, with another to
act as judge. All cases of misCon-
duct which occur during the unsup-
ervlsed fifth peTiod in the study hall,
are tried before this judge and jury.
Harold Cross has been chosen to act
as judge.
Ida Thurlow of East Machias was
the only one in that town who had
Easter Chicks. She had previously
set two hens on IS eggs each from
which she goe 36 little chicks There
seems to be difference in opinion
between the hens as to whom the
chicks belong to, however, and the
result is that one hen is motheriny
"a while the other is caring for two
Edward A. Hartman believes that
great money could be made i'm the
clam industry at the mouth Of the
kennebec river. He says that one of
the greatest troubles is that those
digging for clans leave the smaller
ones on the flats where the black
ducks and other water fowl come bv
the hundreds and feed on them. They
should be covered to the depth of