Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-20
MAINE GOSSIP
A Dutch Sketch

ana Iullp-laQen boats lag down
TWlxt vine-hid hamlet and red
And a flock of the children Reubens
knew
Lace cap and shoenen and kirtle blue
Go Gathering, chattering, knitting at
| play,
With a pfennig to spend this glad fete
Beneath their cart the gaunt dogs
pass
With market green's and fagons of
brass,
Red apples and cheeses and little
To tempt young Jansje from her cares.
Gnarled. bent old women with wrin-
killed. face
In every doorway sit making lace.
Gertrude Huntington McGiffert in
"a Florentine Cycle and Other
Poems"
Committees are working on the
proposition Of the consolidation of
the Chambers Of Commerce of Lew
iston and Auburn into one large
progressive organization.
President Mary McSkimmon of the
National Education Association. who
Is visiting at her former home at
Bangor, was the guest Of honor at a
dinner given by the Bangor Teach
ers' Club last evening and will adj
dress a large gathering at Bangor
city hall tonight.
Maine folks who had the oppor-
tunity of viewing the giant dirigible
Shenandoah at the time of the
Governors Conference here, are
| greatly interested to learn that its
companion airship, the Los Angeles,
of the Naval air service is likely to
come to Bar Harbor late this sum-
mer
The delegates from Frenchville
and st. Agatha. Edward Doyle, For
tuna Albert, Gilbert Bourgoin and
G. E. Dugal, on their way to the
State convention of knights of
Columbus at Old Orchard, by auto
mobile, were much excited over a
queer incident which happened above
reaching Milford. They met a moose
that stood in the middle of the road.
AS the car approached he turned
around and started on a race and
ran about half a mile ahead of the
car, and then entered the woods.
With 81 years ministerial duty,
Cannon R. l.. Sloggett. rector of
Trinity Church, Saco, who has just
been re-appointed an honorary canon
f.! by Bishop Brewster, is the oldest
Episcopal minister in Maine from
the standpoint of service. During
his whole period of ministry In Maine,
he has been in charge of but three
churches. He began his service in
Houlton where he remained for a few
years. He also had charge of the
churches at Caribou and at Saco.
! Canon Sloggett has been rector of
Trinity Church at Saco for 10 years,
and nine years ago was appointed
honorary canon.
| The Bates class day grafton has
been awarded to J. Elmer Frazee Of
Roxbury, Mass. This is one of the
competitive parts on the Bates Class
| Day program, and the awarding of
1t to Frazee marks the second time
in his college career that he has been
awarded competitive parts in class
exercises. Last year, Frazee was
elected as Ivy Day Orator and gave
his grafton on Evolution. Frazee
has been member of the Bates Col
lege choir for four years and is the
baritone in the Garnet Quartet. Fra
zee Is also president of the Cosmos
club, and Is librarian of the college
choir. He has been a member of the
freshman and Sophomore prize
speaking divisions, and is we'll known
as a speaker.
The steam yacht Aria. built for
and owned by the late Hon. Edward
H. Blake of Bangor, has been sold to
Simon J. Murphy Jr., of Pasadena.
Calf, son of a former Bangor lum-
herman who went to Michigan and
amassed a fortune there. The Aria
has been at Camden for several
years and is being fitted out for
trip to the Great Lakes by way of
the st. Lawrence river. F. w. Adams
became the owner Of the Aria after
the death of Mr. Blake, as residuary
legatee. The Aria is steel built.
schooner rigged, 14S feet long, IS feet
depth Of hole. II feet beam and reg
listers 100 tons net. She was built in
New York in 1908 and cost about
SIPS, 900.
There Is considerable interest in the
~PNSAoA INJECTING VI Tic SLOCkH2lQerS OIL
the York Harbor & York Beach rail-
road, branch line operated by the
Boston & Maine, which has been called
for next month at which time the
parent road is expected to present a
plan on its future operating policy on
this branch. Passenger service on the
York Harbor line was discontinued
last summer and 1t is rumored that
the three-day freight service supplied
last season also may be dropped. Di-
rectors of the road have named Will
liam s. Hobbs, vice president Of the
Boston & Maine. There is no discussion
Of curtailing or abandoning service on
the branch. The York Harbor e.
Beach railroad operates between Kit
terry Junction and York Beach, a dis
lance of slightly more than II miles.
In addition there is spur track lead
ing TO the United States navy yard,
Philip sulides of Rockland arrived
home recently after an eight months
visit at his old home in Northern AL
bania, whittier he was called bv the
serious illness of his father Albania
Is about the size of Maine, as to pop
uiation, and Is very largely a farming
country. Mr.. Sulides found conditions
happy and prosperous, with the cost
or living very reasonable. But so n
ought to be for the average wage is
only about dollar day The Alba