Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-07
MAINE GOSSIP
The Country singer

I try to sound the trumpet calls
Of hemispheres and states and
kings,
But only on the silence falls
The little song linnet sings.
And though my dreams are Of the
Where twilight twines a golden
chain,
My songs are meadows dusking down.
And stars against the window-pane.
Elizabeth 8. Fleming in The Chris
tian Science Monitor.
Work on the Kennebec bridge Is un-
der way and the structure should be
completed in less than two years. 1t
would be a good business proposition
for Knox, Lincoln and Waldo counties
to cooperate in securing the benefits
which the Bath bridge should bring
to this section, and to which their nat
ural attractions and advantages en-
title them.-The Lincoln County News.
Nuts" will have their day Of rec
ognition July 5, in Auburn when they
are to appear in the big parade
ance of the signing Of the Declaration
boy and girl in the city will enter some
kind of dog. Prizes for the largest,
smallest. prettiest, ugliest, dumbest,
brightest, ETC., will be awarded. Au-
burn has already hired all the bands
and all the fsaddle-horses in the two
cities and now wants corner" on
all dogs.
A special meeting of the Bangor
Hydro-Electric Company stockholders
has been called for Tuesday, June Is,
to act on the directors plan of in
creasing the capitalization by 10000
shares of preferred stock. The new
issue will bear interest at the rate of
six per cent. against seven per cent
being paid on the preferred now out
standing. The new capital, if au-
thorized, will be used in part to f.
nance development planned for
Washington county, including a new
hydro-electric power plant and trans
mission lines connecting the principal
towns in that county. President Ed
ward NJ. Graham, in a statement ac-
complaining the notice of the special
meeting, asserts that the company
now enjoys credit position the equal
of any of similar size in the country,
anu ITS SoSui iliCS tuuo cIiOuAo Sdiiy a
smaller interest rate than obtained in
the early days of the company. The
Bangor Hydro-Electric serves a terri
tory with $1,000 population, he points
out. and rapid increase in business
isssxpected the next few years.
Strongly reminiscent of an earlier
manner are two carriages which the
irrepressible Mclaughlin recently
brought to town. having secured them
from the Pulitzer estate at Bar Har-
Dor recently. There is a superb open
Victoria by Brewster, the kind of
conveyance in which my lady was
wont to drive out in to see and be
seen, and used always for the exhibit
ton of celebrities. Then there is a
French built coupe, beautiful in wood
and iron work, trimmed in finest
broadcloth, patent leather and Mo-
rocco. The harnesses are works of
art, gold mounted and emphasized
with numerous gold monograms. These
turnouts, so exclusive in the vanished
days, would be priced now only in
some paradise where automobiles did
not exist. The vehicles are attracting
many visitors to McLaughlin's stables
in this village. 1t is surely illumin-
ating to reflect that generation ago
hopeful youth stood on the curb and
gazed upon such equipages with their
ramrod-spined coachmen and footmen
as on world apart. Youth hustled to
get hundred dollars for bicycle.
Now youth surveys the costliest motor
car with sense of possession Hail the
new decentralization Springs cor
respondence in The Bangor News.
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Henry c. Wilson and Harvard H.
Abbott, Portland veterans of the
World War, left Portland the other
day on a journey that will carry them
across the continent to Portland, Ore.
Travelling via Ford truck, camping
alongside the road at night, they esti-
mate that it will require six months
to make the trip If good luck is with
them. Wilson and Abbott are young
and single. The globe-trotting in
stinct is strong in them. and they
have determined to join the ranks of
the coaSt-to-coa Sters. For the purpose
they have equipped themselves with
truck, two army cots. and gasoline
stove and the necessary utensils and
are on their way. To defray a portion
of the expenses en- route, they-will use
the sides of the truck for advertising
purposes. When they arrive in Port
land. Ore, they will proceed to Cali
fornia, where they will spend the
winter of 1861.
In the spring of 1927 they will return
to Portland by the way of the South
ern Route. On the way to Oregon they
will follow the Mohawk Trail. Wilson
was member of the 26th Division.
In the course of operations he re-
ceived a fractured skull, and for a
time 1t was Believed that he would
die lie was discharged from the hos
pital only comparatively short time
ago. Abbott was in the Navy through
out the hostilites. Most of the route
will be familiar to Abbott, who has
been through the West in his travels.
The men are not planning to expert
ence difficulties, and are. expecting to
get much fun out of the trans-Conti-
1lartal ride