Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-27

Reading a newspaper item a few
days ago regarding old fashioned
cents, o. H. Curtis of Woowich has
brought to The Bath Times Office
a collection Of eight of them from
1919 upward. He has had them in
his possession for nearly 40 years.
Earl Smith Of Kennebunk report
ed to Patrolman Orren L. Mayo,
Sunday night, that a Massachusetts,
driver bad run over a valuable dog
on the kennebunk road, breaking
two of its legs and going on without
stopping.
The ninth annual field day of the
York county Farm Bureau and York
county Pomona was held on Thurs
day at Pine View farm. North Ber-
wick, of which II. E. Wentworth is
the proprietor. Charles NJ. Gardner
of Springfield, Mass, high priest of
Demeter Of the National grange, and
Glen c. Seavey, editor of the New
England Homestead, were among
the speakers.
Members of the Jacques Cartier
Institute of Lewiston and of the
snoWshoe club and the social club
connected with it expect to close a
deal for the purchase of the Golf
farm near Lake Sabattus and will
establish club house for the use Of
the members. The farm has about
80 acres and its location is said to
be ideal for the purposes of the
clubs.
The late Senator Bert NJ Fernald
was the first honorary member of
Baths well known Colonial club.
In 1912, when the club observed it's
tenth anniversary with a fine BAN
quet served in its rooms, Senator
Fernald was the principal speaker
and at the conclusion of his remarks,
Harry c. Weber, first president of
the club, proposed that Senator
Fernald should be made an honor
airy member and a rising vote with
cheers accorded him the honor of
being the clubs first honorary mem
Der.
DR.. E. E. Gibbs, a Saco veterinary
surgeon, in speaking of his boyhood
experiences, says: up in Brooks in
Waldo county, where I went to
school I had to walk three miles to
school every day. And there was
no such thing as a no-school signal.
We had to go in sunshine or in six
feet of snow, and I waded through
snow nearly as deep as that many a
morning. l have gone to school in
the morning when the ground was
just as bare as it is now and it
would snow all day and at night
have to wade through it to get home.
Many times 1t would take two hours
to make those three miles. We
never got out early and no matter
if it started showing as soon as
school started with the prospect of
storming all day we had to stay
right up to o'clock"
Miss Elwyna Haskin Of Saco was
one Of party Of six young women,
five Of them school teachers on vaca-
ton. who recently returned from Los
Angeles and San Francisco, making
the round trip in two automobiles
in seven weeks. The other members
Of the party are residents Of Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut. The party
left June %, their first objective
being Springfield, Mass. The party
then headed for Philadelphia, where
they attended the sesqui-centennial.
They then struck southwark, through
Washington, Maryland, back to
Pennsylvania, across the Alleghanies,
to Columbus, Ohio. The trip to the
West coast, after side trips through
middle western states and Colorado,
was made via the southern, or Santa
Fe route. The six travellers arrived
at Los Angeles on July 20, one day
ahead Of their schedule, and spent
four days there. They then went to
San Francisco, and after a short
stop they started East, crossing the
Pacific ranges, across the Nevada
desert, to Yellowstone National Park.
The remainder of the return trip was
made over the Lincoln highway.
The party camped along the road
both to and from the West and re-
ports wonderful camping facilities,
especially along the National Old
highway, as the Santa Fe route is
named. They said that people were
kind and hospitable in the roadside
auto camps, and that the trip was
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