Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-03

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| Who hides among the trees,
| And frolics with the butterflies,
| And birds and bees.
The autumn. crowned with purple
And robed in gold and blue.
All frost and fire and fickleness,
| Is katherine the shrew;
And winter wailing of his woe,
! Unwanted, gray and drear,
| With draggled ermine at his heels,
| Is old King Lear.
-Minna Irving In the New York Sun.
The largest deer shot in Sagadahoc
county this season was brought
down by Aubrey E. Sylvester of Dur
ham. who got 25O-pound buck with
II points.
| Chester H. Blethen, retired Auburn
fire department chief, had banquet
given in his honor Wednesday night
by present and past members of the
city government and other friends
He was pesented with a handsome
| smoking stand and box of cigars.
| The Christmas house parties at the
fraternities at Bowdoin College will
be held Dec. Fl and %, with the ball
in the gymnasium on the evening of
the 22nd. The Christmas plays will
be given that afternoon at the Cum
berland Theatre. +
Collector John r. Gilmartin has
collected SO cents on every dollar Of
the 1925 tax commitment in the city
Of Portland. This years tax levy
was $3,743,260 and he has collected
| s3,629, 900. November collections
We're $1So,o00 and though $4,000
less than in November last year, the
collections are $4,000 ahead of last
year up to the first of December.
Fish receipts at Portland We'd
nesday still continued to remain
light. The New Dawn with $4,000
pounds of groundfish was the only
large fare delivered. The schooner
Lochinvar arrived with 1900 pounds
and the meters Pofisco. Anna c. and
the U and came in with small
catches of 1000 each. The majority
of the fleet remained tied up at the
fish piers awaiting fair weather.
The Good Roads association which
has been formed IN the counties east
of the Kennebec intends using its en-
ergies in getting better highways in
that section of the state and all of
this will tend to take more traffic
through Bath once the Kennebeo
bridge Is completed. The better the
roads In this section of the state the
more travel there will be over them
Bath Times.
The Stevens family held a reunion
on Thanksgiving day at the Congre-
gational church vestry at Portage
Lake and all enjoyed a delicious din
ner at IL o'clock. The tables were
arranged to form a and appropriate
| Thanksgiving decorations were used.
Little colored baskets filled with
nuts were set at each place as fav-
ors. After dinner there was a short
program.
Rufus Hitchcock, Ward Hitch
cock, Elmer Stetson, ST., and Elmer
Stetson, Jr., Of Damariscotta, went
hunting Monday. They found tre-
mendous hollow hemlock with two
large holes in it, about so feet from
the ground. BY aid of smaller hem
lock near by, young Elmer managed
to get where he could look into the
upper hole and saw fat coon. He
induced the coon to go down and look
out of the lower hole, and a rifle shot
did the rest The coon weighed Fl
pounds.
It was reported from the Eastern
Maine General Hospital at Bangor
that the condition Of George Yates,
two-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Yates of Lakeville who was
brought there suffering from lock-
| jaw, as the result of being kicked by
a horse, was little changed. The child
| was playing near q horse which was
loose in the camp yard, and while the
exact manner in which the injury was
inflicted Is not known, 1t IL believed
the youngster seized the horse by the
foot and in pulling away the animal
lifted its foot and struck the child in
the face.
Lester Betters Of Brewer, who con-
biles in Bangor and Brewer recently
and who Is believed by the Bangor
police to be- responsible for at least
two more thefts of cars. was before
the Bangor municipal court on We'd
nesday on three charges of larceny of
cars and was held in bonds of $1,000
in each case for the upper court. In
default of bail he was committed to
Jail. The arrest of Betters was due
to excellent work on the part of Pa
troll Driver Elmer Hopkins Of the
Bangor department and Patrolman
w. u. Johnston of Brewer early on
Wednesday morning.
Names participation in the New
England Sportsmen's Show was the
subject of discussion at q meeting
Wednesday evening in the assembly
room of the Maine Central Railroad
offices at Portland. Gov. Ralph O..
Brewster attended this meeting as
did Philip r. Shorey, Maine pub
licitN director, Maj. Gen. Mark L.
Hersey, managing director of the
State of Maine Associates, who
was arranging for the affair. Willis
E. Parsons, commissioners of inland
fish and game, Neil Violette, forest
commissioner John P. Hayes Of the
Great Northern Paper &C., and
Arthur Clark Of the New ENGLAND
Sportsmen's Show. New Brunswick,
1t has been learned. has appropriated