Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-28
MAINE GOSSIP


Work. my lad. when there's work to
Don't ,s shirs, my lad but carry it
You'll and there is time for play. -.
Tackle that job that you dread the
Don't be a slob and give up the ghost.
But stick to your text. and stay.
And soon you will find there is moth
ing to do,
'Twould have ranked your mind not
to have carried 1t through.
And how you'll enjoy your play.
If you've tackled that dreaded old
task with vim,
Not slid out from under. and left 1t to
him."
When you piAched into work to stay.
For "dreading" is worse, you will find,
than the doing"
Dread" is the yeast that sets trouble
brewing,
A brew that spoils many a day;
you're at 1t,
But when you've measly 5ob-just
combat 1t,
Just stick to your text. lad. and stay.
&C. r. Mills in Norway Advertiser.
South Paris music lovers are look
ing forward to Chapman concert
,, on May II.
Considerable acreage Is pelng
cleared on Brunswick plains which
will be devoted to BURBERRY culture.
Several new roadside markets are
| being constructed along the Bath and
Brunswick highway preparatory to
the opening of the tourist season.
| "River Rising, Ice Gone, Boat To-
day" is the newsy headline in the
Bangor News over an item telling OF
the change from winter to summer
conditions on the Penobscot river.
Speaking Of the scarcity OF
Holsters, the Bath Times states that
one fisherman from down George
town way. pulled over 80 traps last
Saturday morning and found only
nine Holsters.
The annual meeting of the Frye
burg Academy alumni will be held
on Friday evening. May Z. at Hotel
Bellevue, 81 Beacon street, Boston
The secretary is Mary Barrows
Huntington avenue, Boston.
Hon. Rupert H. Baxter Of Bath
left Monday noon for Portland tc
join his brother, ex-Gov. Percival P
Baxter, for a brief trip to Washing
ton, d. c., where they are to be
guests of U. S. Senator Frederick
Hale.
A Bath man working in chain res
taurant in another city writes homo
that ON account of the high price Of
potatoes the restaurants owned by his
concern are not serving potatoes, ex
cepe on special order, and that instead
of potatoes rice is served.
During the past week large sup
plies Of new cans, salt. cottonseed
oil and other necessary equipment
for carrying on the sardine industry
have been received at the large
factory of Booth Fisheries. Company
located within a stones throw from
the post office at PASSPORT. Crews
for all departments numbering about
$50 men and women, were ready fol
the first arrival of herring Monday
morning. 1t was the first of East
ports IL sardine canneries to be
started, also the first factory along
Eastern Washington county coas
where there are 80 canneries.
| The annual session of the Crane
Lodge Of Maine, International Order
of Good Templars, will be held ir
Biddeford Wednesday and Thursday
May II and 10. Headquarters during
the meeting will be established al
Hotel Thacher. Special visiting Of
ficials and members from other states
will be present at the meeting. 1t is
expected that large delegations from
Portland and other nearby places
will attend. Many important matters
pertaining 0 the work of the order
in Maine are listed for discussion
The election of officers for the ensu'
ing year also will take place during
the sessions. Tuesday evening, May
IL. meeting Of the Grand Council
will be held in *. of p. Hall, MAR
street. Several In portant topics are
scheduled for consideration.
The Citizens Military Training
Camp Association of Maine announce!
the quotas for the different counties o.
the State, the number Of application.
received and the number of those &C
cepted by the Association. The figure!
are correct to April 20:
Applications
County Quotas Reed Accepted
Androscoggin 81
| Aroostook 81 33 8:
Cumberland SO 81 q
Franklin 3
kennebec 81 IS i
Knox IL 2
Lincoln 0
oxford 10 9
Penobscot Al 81 q
Piscataquis 10