Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-26
MAINE GOSSIP
IF We Understood

w ny lie CoHldlIio 81 HluIh VI doupN
and strife
Before we reach that happy promised
land
While yet we travel Ger the roads
Of life.
If, for all mysteries we held a key.
Could see before us out of life's
dark night;
If we could all Gods plans and work
And always we could tell the wrong
from right.
I wonder; If we'd frown 50 much and
When burdens fall upon us--oh so
/ wonder, IL we'd stop so long to cry
And grumble cause the yoke we
wear seems hard.
Would we go on through life discour-
Or show a bit more patience day by
Renew, Increase our efforts up the hill
Or stumble helpless all along the
Methinks, II we could only understand
We'd say that after all, perhaps
'twere best;
Wed try a little harder Just to stand,
And do our work until-God gives
us rest.
Frances Atwood.
May Goth, 1926.
Prof. Charles II. Whitman, a for
mer Bangor man and brother of
Henry F. Whitman Of that city, in
the annual class voting by the
senior class at Rutgers College. New
Brunswick n. j.. was elected the
most brilliant professor on the
Rutgers faculty.
1t is doubtful If there Is another
clergyman in Maine who has such
fine collection Of fishing tackle
as has Rev. Samuel A. Evans of
Bath. Much of it has been present.
ed to him by friends who know his
love for angling. Parson Evans
hopes to go to his camp at Belgrade
Lakes this week to try the fishing.
The case Of Miss Florence Os-
borne, teacher of Latin in the Jor-
dan high. Lewiston, who was drop
ped without hearing from the list
of teachers at the recent election,
will be re-opened by the school
| board, probably at the next regular
meeting. Members of the board as
sured friends of Miss Osborne sew
eral days ago that petitions would
/ not be necessary. Already il is
claimed the Osborne petitions bear
nearly 1000 signatures.
w. E. D. Stokes, owner of Hotel
Ansonia and noted clubman who
died Wednesday of last week, was
the father of w. L. d. Stokes. Jr.,
who had a Seawhanka boat built at
| the Bath Iron Works last year.
Both the father and son visited in
Bath while the boat was being built
and the son stopped for two weeks
| at the Alpha Delta Phi house in
| Brunswick. He had a high powered
! foreign make car which was con-
| spicuous on the roads in this vicin-
ity at that time.-Bath Times.
Thirty five bushels of certified
! Green Mountain seed potatoes have
| been treated with corrosive subli-
| mate by the boys of the agricultural
! department of South Paris high
! school during the past week The
| boys who are to have the potato
| project are planting / "a A. in all
I Lawrence Merrill has practically
! completed the preparation of his
! land for the planting. The boys
| who are to plant sWeetcorn have
secured their seed corn from the
! local factory and are testing each
ear for termination by the rag doll
method.
Maine leads the New England
| states with a total of 65 listed
! campsites for motorists, it is point
/ ed out in the June issue of the
! Motor Camper and Tourist Magazine.
New Hampshire has AZ listed camp
! sites; Vermont, 35; Massachusetts,
! II; Rhode Island, 3: Connecticut,
| Fl. With the opening of the 1926
| tourist season, motorists will find
| in the country. California is the
leading state with a total of 996.
There are 1862 town camps. 1000
! National forest camps, and 500 Ma
! tional Park camps listed.
| Georges Nadeau, proprietor of the
| Kindle Wood Comp. Co., of Lewis
ton, had a slightly used but (almost)
perfectly good Buick. Boys dis
covered 1t and rode down the hill
| from the spot where it had been
parked all winter. Monday, answer
| ing a complaint. Capt. O'Connell of
| the Lewiston police found several
| youths busy wrecking the car. They
were equipped with sledge ham,
mers. monkey wrenches most
everything except hydraulic lifts,
and they had gone so far as to
| smash the cylinders. Mr.. Nadeau
/ said he planned to convert the car
| into a truck; that Is, he had plan
| ned, but has changed his mind.
The Teachers Institute Of the
Brooklin- Bluehill-S edgwick district
held at Sedgwick the other day was
| most interesting and profitable
session. The program was arranged
by Supt. E. l.. Linscott. The at
tendance was large. teachers COM
ing from all over the district. The
speakers included Miss Dorothy
Bryant, D. H, director Of dental hy-
giene, State department of health;
Miss Florence NJ. Hale, state agent
of rural education; Miss George of
Boston; DR.. VIM. Wilkinson Of
Colby College; Ernest w. Butter
fed, New Hampshire commissioner
of education; CRUDE Cornish, secre-
tary of state charities and correc-
tons: President Warren J. Moulton
of Bangor Theological Seminary.
The season in the Southern
States Is weeks backward and the
Florida sea son Is cooler than usual"
according to a message received
from Arthur Gilman Spear of Port
land, who is on a business trip to
Florida and other points in tho