Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-06
MAINE GOSSIP

the travellers eye,
A stretch s1h. Of wooded mountain. a
A cleaning river ribbon that winds
| through valleys green,
Gray, roads, and gay roads, and coun-
try lanes between.
| Blue flowers and new flowers and
song of birds at dusk
Park ways and dark ways, and gar
dens sweet with musk;
But never fafrer vista to eyes Of those
who roam,
Than bright lights, than white lights,
| the window lights of home
BY L. Mitchell Thornton.
Here Is speed: Preston Clifford of
Damariscotta cleaned and skinned
two dozen large white perch in eight
minutes recently. He said he could
have done it in less time if he'd had
a sharp knife.
Samuel G. Haskell of GEORGETOWN
has brought to the Bath Times Of
tlce a peculiar shaped stone which
he found in one Of his lobster
traps which had been set in 80 feet
OF water. 1t appears to be a human
foot petrif1ed and is a most interest
ing freak of nature.
Bath Times: With several Bath
industrial plants returning to stand
ard time after having been on a
daylight schedule for many weeks it
would look as if the latter form of
time is not as popular in Bath as
1t was the first of the season. Judg-
ing from experiences this Summer
it would look doubtful if the question
t a do vii yb
cause much discussion another
Spring.
Samuel WEIGH of Bath writes
from Hollywood. Cal, that $4,000
people saw and heard the Mormon
Tabernacle choir of PA members at
the Hollywood Bowl "Wednesday eve
ming Of last week by light of Western
stars. The bowl is built on the sides
of the foothills. 1t is lighted by
night with electric spot lights and
during the concert these We're shut
off and turned on after each num-
Der.
Clifton Whiting of the Auburn Y.
NJ. c. A. has announced that more
than 100 boys between the ages of
10 and II learned to swim during the
| free instruction classes at the "Y"
this summer The total enrolment for
the course was los boys, from Lew
iston, Auburn, Mechanic Falls and
! Turner. Three classes We're held in
the morning and two classes in the
| afternoon. Clifton Whiting taught
the boys the fundamentals of SWIM
ming and several of the more COM
mon strokes. Each boy that qualified
as swimmer had to be able to swim
30 feet At present instruction in
life saving is being given free to per-
sons who are able to swim 100 Yards
Peter Neptune, widely known
Indian residing in Princeton, was
among those cured of ills at Ste
Anne de Beaupre recently, being
freed from rheumatism of the joints,
with which he had been afflicted for
two and one-half years. 1t was
with the greatest difficulty that he
was able to move about on two
crutches previous to his visit to the
shrine, but Immediately after the
procession of the Blessed Sacrament
in the afternoon he felt his strength
returning to the afflicted limbs. After
kneellng and generating the relic of
Ste. Anne, he proceeded to the base
of her statue and left his crutches
there. One of the Redemptorist
fathers accompanied him down the
aisle of the church. but Neptune de-
clared that he felt no need of as
sistance.
The annual meeting of the Maine
Press Association will be held at
Houlton Saturday, Sept. 4. The
sessions on Saturday will be at the
Elks Building when the business of
the association will be transacted.
In the evening the dinner, followed
by dancing, will be at Crescent Park,
| Nickerson Lake, four miles from
| Houlton. Sunday, September 5, the
visitors will be taken by auto, as
| guests of the members of the
Aroostook Press Association, through
| northern Aroostook with stops at
! Pressure Isle, Caribou and Fort
! Fairfield. Luncheon will be served
[ at noon at a place to be selected
/ later. From Fort Fairfield the route
| back to Houlton will be via the st.
J John River on the Canadian side.
Prominent advertising and news
paper men will be among the speak
| ers to be announced soon.
A group of Gypsies ran into big
surprise Tuesday when they at
tempted to tell the fortune of a
| former well known Bath alderman
and representative to the legislature
! only to run into the strong arm Of
! the law in the parsonage Of Sher-
| if Mcclure of Sagadahoc county
who was with him. The sheriff with
Mrs. Mcclure and daughter Mary
and Hon. James Lester Morse, a
former commander of Roland H.
Smith post, A. L., were returning to
Bath from Augusta where the men
! had been on Legion business when
they overlook the Gypsies at Gar
diner. AS they were bound South,
Sheriff Mcclure correctly deducted
that they were aiming for Sagadahoc
county so he hurried ahead and when
he had crossed the county line below
! Pleasant pond waited for them.
When the wanderers arrived they
| first inquired the distance to Boston
and then wanted to read Mr.. Morses
| palm. The former alderman OBJ
jected and the Gypsies were peeved
but their expostulations suddenly
| stopped when Sheriff Mcclure threw
back his coat and displayed his
/ badge. The Gypsies were ordered TO
move on. They wanted to stop at
| Bowdoinham but the sheriff was
firm. He kept them moving until
| Brunswick was reached when he
turned them over to Chief of Police
| Edwards.