Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-19
MAINE GOSSIP


When . Fellsr's Sick
When a fellers sick it's kind of hard
To stay inside all day
And sit there looking out into the yard
Where others laugh and play.
When you know you can't go out for
a week
Cause ma says you'll take cold.
And all you can do is to eat and sleep.
And mind whatever you're told.
Oh that's the time when you'd like to
break
Every blooming thing in the room.
With ma coming round with pills to
take
And humming a soft little tune.
And that's not all. pa comes home
And picks up the doctors bill
And sasys Now son look here. I'm
boss.
Don't tell you're not ILL.,"
Then the clock strikes eight and you're
sent to bed
With dose of castor-oil,
And you think of all the things you've
said
To ma that would make pa boil.
So that's the way the week goes by
When a Teller is lonesome and sick,
And if it wasn't for ma being able
and spry
Things wouldn't be quite SO s.s slick.
Skowhegan. Maine.
The ice in the Kennebec went out a
year ago today.
Edward F. Roberts of Lewiston has
been recently elected to the Yale Uni
versity chapter of Sigma Xxi. the
national honor scientific society.
There were eight deaths in Nor
rill the past year. The ages of the
deceased were "a, 70, IS, II. rs,
Is, "A, ~. very remarkable record.
A S. Watson of Burnham is suf-
fering from blood poisoning as the
result of a bite by his pet cat. Should
think he'd feel like logging all the
cats in the neighborhood.
Among the contestants at the
Fiddler's Contest, Lewiston, will be
Frederick w. Cochrane, winner of
several championships. He will
play a Belgium violin he has used
for as years.
The fourth class postoffice at Col
bath, Aroostook County is to be dis
continued. effective March 81.
A South Brewer branch of the
D. T. g. ~ %ohy tct,
effective April /.
The song, MY Dear Old Norway
Home" which made it's first appear
ance in Gardiner, being displayed by
music store, especially interests
people of that vicinity for the reason
that its author, A. B. Crosman, now of
Portland, until recently lived in South
Gardiner and was postmaster there
for several years. The song is dedi-
Gated to Nellie Durham.
The ducks, which have swarmed in
the fast water below the Kennebec
dam at Augusta have all left within
the past few days, and there is every
indication that they have awaited
themselves of open water to the
North. AS spring comes, and the ice
in the Kennebec opens. these birds
start their northern migration, which
in the case of the shelldrakes may end
inside the Arctic Circle.
Miss Emily Pendleton. only daugh-
ter of Hon. and Mrs. Joseph A.
Pendleton of Islesboro, a graduate of
the Islesboro high school and now a
student at the University of Maine.
has just been elected to Phi Kappa
Phi, an Shonorary scholastic society.
the members of which are chosen
from the highest ranking students In
the three colleges of the University.
Last fall she was one of the five
elected from the senior class Of the
College of Arts and Sciences to Phi
Beta Kappa.
One of the most important actions
taken by the convention of the Amer-
can Association Of Teachers Colleges,
which convened recently at Washing
ton, D. NJ. was the adoption, by al
most unanimous vote, of the standards
for the teachers colleges of the ma
ton, as formulated by Pres. H. A.
DIoNu OL Tie OSHhOSH, WISCONSIN,,
with the aid of his investigating COM
mittee. President Brown is a native of
Liberty and a graduate of Bates Col
lege with degree of A. B. in 1908
and Ed. D in 1925.
The following communication to the
Boston Herald concerning the masts
of "Old Ironsides," one having been
furnished from Unity, will be of in
terest.
To the Editor of The Herald:
Your article. ''Masts of Old Iron
sides" interested me. In a copy of the
History of Unity Waldo county,
Maine, by the Hon. j. r. Taber of
that town, page 40, I read "One Of the
masts of the frigate Constitution was
cut on the farm of Crosby Fowler. 1t
took Il yoke of oxen to haul it to the
river"
G.. A. ".
The Stockton Springs correspond
ent of the Republican Journal has
the following on "bucking" the
drifts down that way: