Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-07
MAINE GOSSIP

Lift up their eyes as IL to seek the
or Loves eternity. and some Just
laugh and play and jest
Along the way, unmindful of the ST.
lent, waiting Guest.
lie Baron Cooke. in THE Spur"
Labor Day is past and that chore
is done.
The penalties of eating excessive
ly of green corn didn't depart with
the vacationists.
Those thieves that stole fishing
tackle from an Auburn store are
forehanded. Getting all ready for
Spring.
Maine motorists visiting the White
Mountain section report that snow
can be seen on Mount Washington
from a point as far away as Frye
burg. This is unusual at this season.
Wonder II the boys and girls be-
ing hurried homeward from vaca-
tons in Maine will profit more from
SCIlOOl 1OT TIC ACl WV VEINS Shhh
they would have done from remain
ing here.
To a woman taken i'll in Portland
came her husband from Philadelphia
to Boston by airplane and thence by
train: came also surgeon fror
Montreal by high powered automo-
| bile part way and airplane the rest
Cranberry picking season down on
the Cape is starting early owing to
danger Of frost. A succession OF
| cold nights with the mercury down
| in the sos has made this necessary.
| Cranberries picked before ripeninS
will mature after harvesting. 1t is
said. So Maine will probably get
i new cranberrieS earlier than usual.
| The valuation of real estate and
personal property in Biddeford has
| been increased over a million dollars
since last year. For 1925 the valua
r ton of the city was S13,007 1856 and
/ the new valuation is S14,134,13S, a
net increase for this year of s1,126,-
I suit OF the work upon which the as
SCISSORS have been engaged since the
! last assessment known as an equali-
z2tion of taxes.
The question before Recorder Will
! ford G. Chapman. Jr., in the NUM-
cipal court. Portland, Thursday was
who ate the holes in Mrs. Herbert
| NJ. ParKer's best tablecloths?
! Mrs. Parker. through her attorney,
! Clement f. Robinson, insisted that
the linen was in as good condition
as when it came from the looms,
before she delivered it for cleansing
! into the hands Of the Eveleth Laun-
| dry.
The laundry. through it's lawyers.
! Eugene F. Martin. asserted that it
| specializes in the doing up of table
| clothes, is famous for such work.
and could not be guilty of the charge
Of mishandling. Mice, according to
the laundry, must have got in their
work before the tablecloths were
I'cleaned. The rodents were found
not guilty of the crime by Recorder
! Chapman. however. and he assessed
damages of $40 for Mrs. Parker. The
laundry appealed and the Superior
Court will be asked to determine the
matter 1t may reach the Maine
Law Court.
Mrs. Almatia Bennett of Chicopee.
Falls, Mass. who will reach the
century mark in her age next
Wednesday, has a date" with Lieut..
John Kelly, former round the world
f1ier to fly over Portland on her
Tooth birthday.
Grandma Bennett, as she is known,
made the date upon the occasion
of her Oath birthday when she flew
with the former Army birdsman
over Portland at the 1920 celebra
ton there of the separation of
Maine and Massachusetts.
| All arrangements for the fight
have been made according to Grand
ma Bennett and members of her
family.
Grandma Bennett was believed to
be the Oldest person anywhere ever
to fly. Her present contemplated
flight will. without doubt, esta blish
a new one if the previous one has
been eclipsed.
The aged thrill seeker" is the
| oiuest resident In the Massachusetts,
connecticut valley and probably one
OF the oldest natives of Maine. She
was born at Freedom, Sept. s, 1926.
and lived there until she was IL.
She went to Chicopee Falls with
her parents and secured occupation
IN her tender years as a sweeper in
local textile factory. She worked
from II to 16 hours daily. At is
Years she married and became the
mother OF two boys, both who have
since been outlived by their rugged
mother. ee'o
She stopped the task of doing her
own laundry when she was 50. She
still aids in the preparation Of the
meals, helping her daughter.
| She spends great portion Of her
| time at the radio receiver and
| tw1ddlin" the dials.
| Grandma admitted the one NOR.
thrill she is hoping to realize when
she finishes her flight next WedneS-
DAY. She wants to take a fast ria.
| on motorcycle. "A noisy one :"
Grandma Bennett stipulates.