Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-27
MAINE GOSSIP


To nray for things they don't deserve,
AS long as conscience has stain,
The prayers of men will be in vain.
So, humbly, Lord, we ask OF Thee
That princely gift--Sincerity,
And may we use II through life's span
To build on earth a better man.
And should we crave for gifts more
royal,
That we may give to those we serve
A measure full as they deserve.
And make us rich with eager zest
To give our work the very best,
To know the wheat, reject the chan,
TO have the nerve to stand the gait. g
o Lord, in mercy intervene
To keep our hearts both young and
clean,
The will to give man a lift;
Make this, Q God, our Christmas gift.
BY Roy T. Soule in The Northern.
Lester II. Shibles, leader Of the
State Boys and Girls Clubs, will go
to Portland today for a conference
with representatives of the State
Chamber of Commerce regarding
sending a large group Of boys and
girls from his clubs to the Eastern
States Exposition at Springfield
next September. This enterprise was
sponsored successfully by the State
Chamber of Commerce last Septem-
Der and the organization wishes to
continue. This meeting will be held
at the office of A. L. T. Cummings,
secretary manager. in Portland City
hall.
Throngs of interested spectators
gather daily at the intersections OF
Front and Vine streets where the
concrete is being poured by The
Foundation Company for the high
way approach to the Kennebec
bridge, says the Bath Times. The
forms have been sunk deeply into
the ground and with nearly 40 men
hustling throughout the day, these
forms are rapidly arising in the
shape of concrete walls which are to
be the outer edges of the road ap-
proaches. IT is easy to see just what
course the Vine street approach is to
take and also the Front street ap-
preach. Trenches have been sunk
some II or 10 feet and these will as
sure a stronge edge or curb for the
roadway that leads directly on the
bridge, as the concrete walls will be
approximately six feet wide. AS the
work on the bridge at this end pro-
crosses 1t Is becoming more and more
evident just what the nature of the
huge construction will be, especially
on the land, and no little interest is
manifested. The entire group of shore
piers leading to the road deck of the
bridge are now nearly complete, the
one nearest the waters edge being
encased in solid interlocking metal
plates. One noticeable feature is
that the approach to the bridge is
going to be handsome bit of archi-
lecture.
Two Houlton, Me, youths were
on the way home from Boston, the
other day, and just before they left
and the doors of Charles street Jail
swung open to allow them to go free.
they sang in what Is commonly
known as harmony, for the edifica-
ton of jail officers, song that had
to do with a scarcity of bananas,
says the Boston Herald
The youngsters had left their
homes when the lure of the sea and
the smell of the briny spray, follow
ing reading Of "Moby Dick" be-
came too much for their wanderlust
spirits. The resolved to follow the
sea.
They got as far as Boston and
found the only ocean they could see
was Boston harbor and that from the
banana wharf on Atlantic avenue.
They had no money so they n
sumed bananas for three meals a
day. 1t became so monotonous that
they couldn't look a banana in the
face, so they went begging for food.
At the back door of the first home
they went the woman offered them
bananas.
Then they met an officer who said.
You boys seem to like bananas"
Then they t0l I their stories.
AS a result they appeared before
Judge Cohen in central court, who
ordered them held while their pa
rents were notified. So they sang
Of having no bananas In Sheriff
Kelliher's Jail and used this means
of thanking the sheriff for not feed
ing them tropical fruit with which
they had become so well acuua 'nted
the past few cold days
The two adventures are John
Hanlon and John Sheehan.