Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-15

Behold! When April smiles at me
Her muddied dress cannot see,
Nor tears upon her face.
For radiant tenderness is hers.
The pussywillow in his furs,
The moss's fragile lace;
The baby rabbits cunning ways,
Blue skies foretelling summer days,
Blue flowers every place.
Margaret w. Jackson In Farm Life.
Miss ImeIda Roux. now employed
as a nurse at the Chisholm plant Of
the International Paper Co., takes up
her duties as school nurse for the
Lewiston health department Nov. 20.
Peters Statue" . dance idyll by
James Plaisted Weber. a native of
Bath and for many years instructor in
dramatic literature at the Phillips Elk
eter academy was presented In London
on Nov. by THE New Play Club"
Gertrude Jordan of Harrington de-
cided to move to the village short
time ago and thought she might as
well take her house along with her.
so after the chimney had been taken
down and the windows had been
prepared for the trip of mile or
more, a dozen stout two-horse teams
were hitched on to the building. and
1t was soon on its new location.
District Construction Foreman r. c.
Totman of the New England Tele-
phone and Telegraph Co., was one of
the two men who devised plans for
the removal Of IA miles Of telephone
poles at the rate of 1t minute per
pole, says The Bath Times. When
the new Portsmouth Portland cable
was put into operation So wires for
toll circuits were made dead. The
poles were removed without eXca-
waiting and not one was broken.
That q new school building is in
imperative need and that the. citi-
zens of Bath should vote upon the
matter at the annual municipal cleo
ton in March was the unanimous
vote of the Bath Board of Educa-
ton at its regular meeting held last
week when every member of the
Board was present 1t was voted
that the Board shall ask the city
government to erect a modern II
room school building on some site in
the central part of the city.
Since the withdrawal of a petition
for receiver for the Watson, Frye
Co., of Bath, few days ago, industry
at the plant has been resumed and it
is believed that it will work out of the
troubles which led up to the filing OF
the petition and that much prosperity
will come to this plant. There are
about % men employed there now and
it is understood that there is a large
amount of work ahead, including about
a dozen lleels to cast, work on the
pulp grinders now under construction
there, the manufacture of a lot of
valves and other work. On Monday
the workmen cast one keel which
weighed about $4,000 pounds. A feel
ing of optimism seems to be prevailing
about the plant and a busy winter
seems ahead for it, all of which is
good news for the company as well as
for citizens in general
Il can remember when l was d boy,
/ received terrible beating at the
hands of one of my teachers in school,"
says Sophocles Victor of Saco in the
Biddeford Journal. There had been q
good deal of excitement going on in
the Schoolroom for several days, with
the teacher being unable to tell who
was the cause of the trouble. When
the boys would come in to take their
seats they would rise up and cry out
aloud, with the result that the teacher
would find piR point up in his seat,
but upon questioning us each separate
1y nf1n 1n l-,aa h.
had put it there.
One morning just before school
started I was up around the teachers
desk while she was out and | saw a
pin sticking up in her chair. Thinking
to do her favor, L started to take it
out just as she came in the door.
Thinking that l was just putting it
there and laying the other crimes at
my feet she took me outside of the
room and gave me a beating that l
have never forgotten and from then
on l resolved that l would not do any
more kind acts of that nature"
The building of Bangor's new ath-
letic field, located on Broadway, in
the rear Of Mary S. Snow school
building, has not progressed las rap
idly as was hoped for, owing to the
TACT that a large amount of ledge
was found in the center of the field
This has now been removed. The
remainder of the work. such as
draining, final grading and sowing
of grass seed, will begin early in the
spring as soon as it is practicable.
The field, when completed, will
have a baseball diamond, a football
field, two hundred and twenty yard
straight away. and also qurrer
mile track. 1t is planned to have the
entire field fenced in with an eight
foot chain link galvanized wire
fence
1t is hoped to have the field ready
for baseball early in the summer
The $4,000 that was appropriated by
the city government this year has
been expended for the work SO far.
and 1t Is hoped that the new 1927
administration will see At to ap-
propriate a like amount as 1t will
cost several thousand dollars more
to complete the work on the field.
A cement grandstand with a seat
Ing capacity of 1000 will cost from
twenty to twenty-five thousand dol
lars, and this sum will probably be
raised by a public subscription. This
field will be the contribution of the
citizens to the boys and girls of the
Bangor schools and should stimulate
a greater interest in athletics among
the teachers and students.-Charles
r. Gordon In the Bangor News.