Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-16

Golden sunset, bloodshot mooYrise,
Skies of every tint and hue
Break the sameness of the gray days
And monotony of blue.
Poplars furnish brilliant yellows;
Naples, shades of rich old gold;
Oaks contribute many bronZeS,
Here and there a crimson bold.
Black the burrows of late blowing,
Green alfalfa growing near,
Purple wild grapes make showing
AS their leaves then disappear.
Nature dons her crown of glory
In brilliant afterglow,
Bows, and yields to winter weather
With its coat Of ice and snow.
Alison Secor in Successful Farming
A meeting Of the special committee
in charge of the Maine Fruit Show
will be held Tuesday afternoon at the
office of the State Chamber of Com
merce at Portland. The Fruit Show
will be put on during the week of the
National Grange sessions in Portland
and will open Nov. 8.
Submarine So will not visit Bath
on Navy day, Oct. 81, according to a
communication received Thursday by
Mayor Cahill from Lieut.. P. w.
Warren, Z. S. N, written from the
submarine base at New London,
Conn. 1T Is with regret that l have
to inform you that the Navy depart
ment has changed the orders for this
submarine so that we will not be in
your city," writes Lieut.. Warren,
commander Of the submarine. He
adds, Il regret exceedingly that we
: will not have the pleasure Of exhibit
ing this submarine to the citizens OF
Bath"
Prof. Robert Maynard Hutchins, NJ.
A, secretary of the Yale University
Corporation, addressed a group OF Is
Yale graduates from various sections
of Maine at the Portland Country
Club Thursday afternoon, explaining
to them conditions necessitating
drive for s2o,0o0,000 additional en-
dowment to be launched in 1927 by
Yale University. Those present will
probably act as chairmen for the drive
in their parts of the State, and in or
der that they might become familiar
with the situation long before the
drive actually starts, Prof. Hutchins
made this visit to Portland. Prof.
Hutchins was entertained at luncheon
at the Country Club and Immediately
after the meeting left for New Haven.
John H. McGrath, who probably
had the unique distinction Of being
the only man in Maine to see every
game in the recent World Series, has
arrived home at Rockland, and is re-
CALLING the less fortunate baseball fans
with some graphic stories of the an
nual fall classic, which, 1t may be
! added, resulted wholly to his satisfac-
| ton. In st. Louis he was the recip-
| lent of many hospitable attentions
| from c.. w. s. Cobb and f. S. Healey.
| former Rockland residents. A car
was placed at his constant disposal,
and in addition to attending all of the
| three big games in the Missouri me-
| tropolis Mr.. McGrath saw all of the
points of interest and attended all of
| the best theatres. He also attended
the Sesqui- Centennial in Philadelphia.
| The harvesting of the yearly crop
! of potatoes In the Van Buren, sec
| ton is now coming to a close and
! the hundreds of men from the neigh
| boring country of Canada are begin
ming to leave for their homes, many
with more money in their pockets
! than they have seen in some time.
! The crop along the ST. John valley
has been much better than usual
some farmers getting as high as 200
! barrels to the acre, but the average
! has been between 125 to $50 bar
rels. The price has been hanging
around 1926 for the past three days.
1t is also reported that offers of q
much higher price have been coming
| in the potatoes to be delivered some
time in January. About the largest
| growers in that section of the coun-
| try in some 1900 barrels from their
! farms this fall. Their trucks are
kept busy night and day hauling in
| the barrels of potatoes to their ware
! houses. One truck, big. Interna-
tional truck, carries a load of 40
! barrels and makes several round
| trips between the farm and the
warehouse.
Another large grower is W. F.
| Paradis, who also owns many farms
and stocks his warehouses with the
potatoes grown on his farms.
! Should the price of potatoes holo
! up or even better still go as high as
| they did last year, the farmers who
have been hard up for the past six
years will again get on their feet
and have some money to spare.
Many who remember the lean years
in 1923 and 1924 are making plans
| to salt away some Of their supplies in
such a manner that they will not be
able to touch the principal but will
only be able to use the interest.
| These farmers have learned a les
son and profited by 1t.
Lewis o. Barrows of Newport was
endorsed for election to the Execu-
tive Council by Penobscot County
| Republican members-elect of the
next legislature at meeting held at
the Bangor House Thursday noon.
| Hon. Belmont A. Smith. present
member of the Council from that
District, is not a candidate for re-
! election. Other action taken by the
! delegation included endorsement of
| Hon. Raymond Fellows of Bangor to
succeed himself as attorney general
and of Burleigh Martin of Augusta
| for speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives. Frederick Barnes was
! then endorsed for first folder of the
| House.