Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-07-09
MAINE GOSSIP

| MAINE JVSSlT
The Little Houses
I love theslittle houses
On a newly opened street,
Where rosy wives with child or two
Their homing husbands meet.
Toys are on the new front steps,
And a baby cart chokes the hail,
Velocipedes are the only cars,
And like birds the children call.
The little house is a house of hope,
And of love and faith also;
There's a busy hum there all day
And the hours like moments 60.
The stately house has all achieved,
1t is dull and weary, too;
The little house is aglow with dreams
That may, perchance, come true:
Mary Olicia Owen, in Twilight
Hour"
United States Senator and Mrs.
Walter E. Edge of New Jersey are
visiting with Mrs. Edges sister, Mrs.
John Winslow Williams at Small
Point near Bath.
A Bangor branch Of the National
Identification Bureau was established
Tuesday, when r. D. Grove, Of Ban
gor, was appointed an active men,
Der to assist Bangor people in finding
friends and relatives who may be
missing.
The news report that the airplane
fatality at Parkman, July 4th, was
the first to occur in Maine is in error.
A Portland lady, a passenger in an
airplane was killed several years ago
at Prout's Neck in an airplane crash.
All fervently hope the Parkman
tragedy to be the last if rot the first.
A black bear and a cub have been
seen recently around Dingley's island,
East Harpswell. The first party who
saw them was doubtful of his eye
sight and went for neighbors to come
and verify his statements. Since that
time others have seen them, often
times in the water.
Eastport had a wild night before
the Fourth when the merrymakers
found new way of celebrating by
tossing liquid shoe backing about,
not being content with throwing con-
fetti, tafcum powder and corn starch
at one another. Police took a hand
in the matter, conserving the black
ing for it's legitimate use.
A Bath teamster got an involun.
tary bath the other day when the
wheels Of his jigger collided with
hydrant breaking off the nozzle used
for filling street sprinklers. The horse
was SO well behaved that in spite of
its nervousness it refused to run
away, but the driver who was stand
ing on the floor Of the jigger was in
the way of the full force Of the
stream.
Cottagers were amazed Tuesday
afternoon at Sebago Lake when for
the first time in many years a water
spout coursed up and down the Jor-
dan bay section of the lake. 1t was
fully so feet high and was clearly WIS.,
IDLE as it reared itself suddenly in the
centre of the lake and started at a
whirlWind speed for the North Wind
ham shore, where several small boats
were anchored. After proceeding five
miles, it quickly changed it's course
and evaporated as quickly as it was
created, without causing any damage.
Six towns in this state are observ-
ing Centennial celebrations this year.
Barring, Alexander, Charlotte and
Whiting in Washington county,
Franklin in Hancock, and Hudson in
Penobscot. Barring, Charlotte and
Alexander, close by each other on the
st. Croix RIVER, began their celebra-
tion the night before the Fourth, with
a dance; Saturday. the Fourth, was a
gala day Of parades, band concerts,
sports and public dinners, with plenty
Of noise and fireworks in the evening,
and Sunday they held literary exer-
ciSeS in the churches.
The old Portland Observatory. con-
structed on Munjoy Hill in 1907, is
again open this season for the enter
tainment of visitors, and Mrs. Emma
&. Higgins is for a thira time the
caretaker and guide. From the sum-
nit of the observatory a vista of 40
miles of country in every direction
around Portland is stretched out, as
If observed from an airplane. A tele-
scope of fine lens is installed in the
tower, Thus far this season, the num-
Der of out of town visitors mas eX-
ceeded the total for a simila. period
of 1924
Miss Margaret Helena Hartford Of
Saco has applied to the Maine Board
of Bar Examiners for admittance to
the bar of this state. The examina-
ton will take place in Port
land the first Wednesday in
August. Miss Hartford recently
graduated from Boston University.
While in college she became well
known and at the commencement ex-
popular girl in the class. She is a
graduate of Thornton academy and
| obtained a scholarship for good work
in her studies during the four years
| course. At the close of her course at
college she passed the Massachusetts,
bar examination.
Miss M. Evelyn Oliver of Bath, a
member of the class of '26.. Mount
Holyoke college, left Tuesday for
Cambridge, Mass, where for two
months she will do research work in
the field of primitive religion, assist
! ing Prof. Mary linda Hussey, Ph.D.,
who Is a professor in the Bible de-
partment in Mount Holyoke college.
Miss Hussey is field secretary of the
Fund for Oriental and Archaeological
Biblical Research and also an author
ity on Semitic religion. Miss Louise
Eby, Union Theological college, a
graduate of Mount Holyoke, is also to
| assist Miss Hussey, and the three are
to complete a source book on print