Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-29
MAINE GOSSIP

i MAINE GOSSIP
Extracts From Poor Richards Almanac
Men take more pains to mask than
to mend. 49,,
does say;
did yesterday.
The royal crown cures not the head
ache.
The tongue offends. and the ears get
the cutting.
Many dishes, many diseases: many
medicines. few cures.
Work as If YOU were to live 100
years; pray as if YOU were to die to-
morrow.
Ills easy to see, hard to foresee.
Who pleasure gives, shall Joy re-
ceive.
Teach your child to hold his tongue
he'll learn fast enough to speak.
Necessity never made a good BAR
gain.
J slower in changing. =,
Pain wastes the body, pleasures the
understanding.
PovertXrwants some things. luxury
many things, avarice all things.
An old young man will be a young
old man.
Wealth is not his that has it, but
his that enjoys it.
Don't think to hunt two hares with
| one dog.
In a discreet mans mouth. public
thing is private.
Forewarned, forearmed.
Let him who scatters thorns not
go barefoot.
tn
ease,
| Must not speak all he knows, nor
judge all he sees.
| He that can compose himself is
wiser than he that composes books.
After crosses and losses men grow
humber and wiser.
Don't misinform your doctor nor
your lawyer.
| Take this remark from Richard, poor
Whate'er's begun in anger, end in
These lines may be read either
backward or forwards:
Joy, mirth, triumph, do defile:
| Destroy me, death. fam would / die;
Forlorn am I, love is exiled.
Scorn smiles thereat. hope is be-
Men basished bliss. in woe must
Then. joy, mirth. triumph, all fare
| well.
Selected.
Several new cottages will be
erected at Popham Beach this
| season.
The highway between Woolwich
and Rockland Is said to be almost
impossible in places and in some
spots the mud has been so deep that
men have thrown large sections OF
stone wall into them to make it
| possible for the cars to go along.
There is some drift ice and lots Of
driftwood and refuse in the Ken
nebec these days. Much ice and
snow leaving the shore brought the
| debris of grass and old stumps along
with it, and the river at certain
stages of the tide has true flood
appearance.-Bath Times.
! Organization of the Civilian Club of
Lewiston and Auburn was completed
Tuesday, when DIR. Henry Sprince of
Lewiston was elected president; Capt.
| James Oliver - the Hudson Motor
Sales Company, vice president and
| Charles 0. Normard of the Lewiston
Trust Company, treasurer.
| Arthur A. Allard of Biddeford,
who has been superintendent of 10
Cloverdale stores in York county
and Rockingham county. n. H, has
been promoted to general super
vision of 43 stores for the company.
| Mr.. Allard has been with the COM
pany for three years and his ad-
| vancement has been very remark
able.
a proclamation Tuesday evening
urging the observance of May Day,
as a day for safe guarding the lives
of children. He also points out the
duties of parents toward their chill
| dren in the homes. He feels that
| the welfare of the children is mat
! ter of deep concern to everyone in
| the community.
A we'll attended meeting was held
| at the Jewish synagogue in Bidde-
ford, Monday evening, in the inter-
est of the Zionist movement for the
| $5,000,000 United Palestine drive,
headed by the famous Rabbi Wise of
| Boston. Several prominent Boston
and local speakers were heard. S.
! NJ. Solmer of Saco, president of the
| local Zionist district, presided. He
| gave a splendid address of welcome.
! Mrs. Prescott Warren, celebrated
bridge expert, will give an address on
correct bridge playing before the
! Penobscot Valley Country Club this
| Thursday evening at Bangor. Mrs.
! Warren is perhaps one of the most
widely known authorities on heri
subject in New England and she has
been widely recognized as an ex-
pert. She is well known to radio
| fans for her instructions in bridge
| playing over the radio from a Boston
station, and she has also many pri-
vate classes in Boston.
The last ice jams in the Penobscot
! above Bangor passed down Monday
night and Tuesday morning, leaving
| the river clear to the sea. Steamer
| Camden, first Boston boat of the
season, arrived at Bangor at 10:40
: and was welcomed by whistles all
, along the river. Vessels carrying
| 10000 tons of coal are waiting below
| to be towed up. Although the coun-
! try roads are all but impossible,
and snow and ice abound all over
northern Maine, spring may be said
| to have begun in Bangor with the
arrival of the first steamboat.