Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-30

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/ The shaking roar Of motor trucks, and
calls
| OF women. shrill in gossip, fill the
days;
But slowly, bit by bit, a shining maze
Is woven, red and gold, as evening
| falls.
| This dingy street, seen as the rushing
cars
| Sweep from the tunnel mouth into the
| night
A ragged silhouette on either hand
| Its darllened houses stand, and fallen
| stars
Sprinkle the ground in red and gold
| and white
| And make roadway into fairyland.
-Rosalie Callan.
Herbert Young, the Hancock Point
fisherman, who has been missing
for about month since his power
boat was found adrift in French
| mans Bay, was victim of the sea.
His body was found Thursday after
noon on the shore of the Kettel es-
tate on the. schooner Head road by
some fishermen.
With the closing of Booth Fish
cries Company sardine factory at
| PASSPORT today the last of the 20
East Maine coast canneries are now
| idle and the season does not start
again until April Is. It was a short
| season for most Gamers, in fact less
than four months actual canning for
numbers and the Maine pack may
not reach 100000 cases.
| A 29pound bobcat shot by l. J.
/: Martin of East Auburn was hanging
; in front of a local sporting goods
!. store Lewiston, with a tag attached
] which reads, shot in self-defense at
| Pittston Farm by the mighty hunter.
I. j. Martin, mayor of East Auburn"
| The cat is a beautiful animal and
! hundreds of people stopped to admire
| it.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Khan
of Aroostook County assembled in
large numbers at Houlton, Wednes-
day and held an out of door initiation
| beneath a 45 foot fiery cross. The
members of the order, escorted by
band marched to the grounds a mile
and half outside the village. The
| Grand Dragon of Maine, DeFOrest
H. Perkins of Portland, delivered q
stirring address.
While the roads to Sieur de Monts
Spring, at Bar Harbor, have now
been closed, the Spring continues to
be the object of many pedestrians
| in autumn days. During tire first
! ten days of October while the house
was still open nearly 600 were regis
| tered, the two Sundays bringing
many visitors. The count for Sep
| TENDER was ,, 437 and October would
| doubtless have had a good written
I record for there have been many
visitors there.
| John II. stacy of Popham Beach
has received the plans for a log cabin
80 by SO feet which the purchaser
! of Salters island, at the mouth of
| the Kennebec river viii have erected
ready for occupancy another season.
| The purchaser of the island is Earl
| b. Bowman of Webster Park, Mo-
and it is expected that he will build
a number of the cabins on his recent
| ly acquired property which is one
{ of the best SeaCOaSt locations in the
vicinity of the mouth of the Kenne-
| bee river.
An inspection tour of the two sub
marines and mother ship at High
Head, Bangor, Friday morning,
proved costly to Mrs. Matte b.
/ Woodbury. of DOVer-F oXcrOft. Cross
/ ing a plank from one OF. the subma-,
! rines to the other, Mrs. Woodbury.
! slipped and fell in such a manner
that she fractured a bone in her left
! leg below the knee. First aid was
! administered aboard the mother ship.
! The police ambulance was called and
! Officers William Banks and Calvin
Knaide, Jr.. accompanied the injured
woman to the Eastern Maine General
hospital.
The first bear to be seen in Dam
ariscotta town for many years made
It's appearance in a grove on the es-
tate of w. S. Morang. Thursday aft
| ernoon. 1t was a huge black animal
and party of automobile tourists
! halted to watch it amble around in
the edge of the woods. Other cars
came up and halted and the bear,
| apparently uncOncerned over the at
tention which it attracted, finally
| turned and went off down among the
pines. Folks living in that neighbour
hood took care to see that their hen
pens were securely fastened that
night.
Miss Ruth Kennedy. OF Beacon
street and Miss Elizabeth Perkins of
West street. Portland, Maine, are
members of the freshman class at
Connecticut College for women. Miss
Kennedy was graduated from the
Deering High school and Miss Per-
kins was graduated from the Port
land High school, in the class OF
1926. Miss Kennedy was prominent
in school affairs. She was the Sec
rotary Of her class, a member of the
executive board, editor of the school
paper, and active in prize speaking
circles. She also took part in the
senior class play. Miss Perkins was
member of the Junior Executive
Board Of Portland High school and
secretary of the Circle Francois.
Miss Kennedy and Miss Perkins to-
bether with Miss Priscilla Clark of
Waterville and Miss Elizabeth Riley
of Brunswick, are the only students
at the Connecticut College for Wom-
en- from the State of Maine.
GUERNSEY States