Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-21

The friendship which to youth is dear
Fits poorly. life's maturer year.
Paternal pride bears many a patch,
Children are gloves that do not match.
And, when we cannot have the new,
We mend the old and make 1t do.
Margaret w. Jackson in Farm Life.
Two OF Eliot's churches are in a
grateful mood because of recent be-
quests, a $1,000 each, while another
church gets $500.
The Old Orchard selectmen are
proud of a new piece Of road from
Ocean Park Avenue to Union Avenue,
cost $4,000.
A farmer down Dayton way has
loaded his gurf and placed 1t where
it's handy. Last season he lost lot
OF fine pullets and this fall thieves
have taken four barrels of nice APP
pies from his orchard. We hope that
gun is loaded with good rock salt and
that he gets fair aim at the thief.
Officials at Hancock were blasting
in the bay Tuesday to raise the body
of Herbert Young of that place who
was presumably drowned after his
motor boat and tender had been found
adrift on the following day after he
had tried to make his mooring in
the darkness the night before. The
body had failed to come to the sur
face.
One who has driven 100000 nails
in the past 2S years is warranted to
giving that fact some consideration.
Albert Borneman of Rockland cham
pion trimmer" drives 35 nails into
each barrel of lime and handles 100
barrels daily on the average, though
he has been known to trim 249 casks
in nine hours. Furthermore, it is es-
timated that during this period he
has lifted $3.50 tons, Four hoops have
to be pounded down solidly and nailed
Then each head has to be driven tight
and nailed in with streamers. During
these operations the barrels have to
be turned often and lifted twice
Bangor Daily News.
Within the past week the very I'm
portant State highway bridge at Red
Beach, about 20 miles from Eastport
along the frontier river st. Croix, has
been open for auto traffic. For num-
Der of weeks following the disastrous
! fire which entirely destroyed the once
famed Red Beach granite and plaster
works a long detour had been neces-
sary through a very rough and often
| difficult pasture and cars had to be
held up for some time to allow the
passage of autos from either end
without having tos attempt passing
through the pasture detour. There are
hundreds of cars passing along the
| Red Beach highway each week be-
! tween PASSPORT and Calais, distance
/ of % miles. BY next season it is ,ex-
| pected that the State of Maine will
| have a much wider and more sub
| stantial modern bridge built over the
| narrow stream.
! It has been revealed that there are
| in Biddeford consciences, real live
! ones, and some of these have been OBJ.
| serving a sort of pay-up week. Per-
| haps those having consciences and
| living In other communities may
profit from the suggestion underlying
| this in the Biddeford Journal:
| THE MISREPRESENTATION either
who sent check to the city the Other
| day in payment for a piano tax due
since 1919 evidently started some
! thing, as two other checks We're re
! ceived Monday from citizens who ha6
not paid their piano taxes since 1921
| These contributors did not know
whether or not they had paid the taxes
and upon finding that they owed the
money they readily donated to the
! fund. Many others have found thai
! they have allowed tax bills to remair
unpaid for back years, and others die
not know that they were indebted t
the city. These are coming forward
to help swell the conscience fund
! which the auditors state is growing
| every day and now totals a consider
| able amount"