Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-22
MAINE GOSSIP
The Old familiar Gate

Where the elmS long branches bend,
Where the lilac blooms in spring time
And the perfumed zephyrS blend.
Where our dreams are constant play
ing
Down the old remembered track,
As we launch the bark of memory.
And a thought comes drifting back.
It's the old enchanting hamlet,
Arbor hung in rustic grace;
Land of early dream and fancy,
Land of childhoods warm embrace.
Hither come we in our dreaming
From our labor seeking rest,
From our long and varied wanderings
To the land of early quest.
Here the ferns of memory flourish.
Here the stream of musing flows,
Here our fancy findeth solace.
And that solace is repose.
Here We view. with raptured fancy
While all other memories wait,
That ideal habitation
BY the old familiar gate.
-Wilmot S. Ames.
Gardiner. Me.
Authorities It Morse High school,
Bath, were obliged to mete out pun
ishment Monday t. several boys who
considered the open season on ducks
more important issue than atten-
dance at classes.
The Kennebec bridge directors are
to have an important meeting at
King Tavern at Bath. Thursday at
II a. m. when matters pertaining to
the purchase of property necessary
for rights Of way for the bridge and
its approaches. both In Bath and In
Woolwich, will be considered.
Mayor Walton, of Auburn, during
a discussion by the Auburn City
Council Monday night about a site
for the new school to be built next
year at East Auburn said he believes
it will be "only a few years" before
Lake Auburn is closed to boating.
He added that interest in boating
and fishing at the source of the Lew
iston-Auburn drinking supply is rap
idly on the decrease.
County Attorney George F. Eaton
Of Bangor, has received his commits
sion as county attorney for Penob-
scot. having been appointed to fill
the unexpired term of Artemus
took the oath of office before Mat :
thew Laughlin, dedimus justice. On
January l, Mr.. Eaton will succeed
himself in Office, having been elected
on Monday of last week to the Of
flee for the next two years.
A special convocation Of the Grand
Royal Arch Chapter of the State of
Maine will be held in Masonic hall,
New Gloucester, on Saturday, Oct 9.
at 6 p. m, for the purpose of con-
shutting Boaz Chapter, No. 70, which
was voted a charter at the annual
convocation of the Grand Chapter of
Maine on May S. The ceremony will
be conducted by the NJ. E. Grand
High Priest, who will have the assis-
tance of the Grand Officers.
Maine Boy Scout executives will
attend the fourth biennial conference
Of the Boy Scout Executives Of
America to be held at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, next week. Representa-
tives from mo. than 600 Boy Scout
States will take part in the delibera-
tons in promoting plans to provide
leadership for the boys. furnishing
them with an incentive for better
citizenship and higher ideals of man
hood.
Bangor is complaining regarding
the high rate of speed at which some
motorists drive through the princi-
pal thoroughfares. There Is a traffic
ordinance which limits the speed of
motor vehicles, but it is often ignor-
ed, and the principal offenders-al-
though by no means the only ones
are drivers of delivery trucks, The
Bangor Commercial asserts Several
narrow escapes have been witnessed
on Main street in the past few days.
Some Of the cars travel 80 to 35 miles
an hour through the business section
of the city.
According to letter sent out by
F. Y. Gilbert of the Cumberland
County Fish and Came association If