Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-13
MAINE GOSSIP

i MAINE GOSSIP
When the old house changes hands
its staunch brick soul
From the new buyer
Takes toll.
He must spend his own heart
To it's own people
And the clan that 1t knew.
So when you buy an old house
Win it's heart over
With an old-fashioned garden
! And here and there. clover.
| No one Is able.
| To stand against the rate
| OF a resentful gable
| Or an unwilling gate.
, Let the swallows have it's chimneys,
| Whistle to its quail
| Listen for the grosbeaks
| On its wood-trail
| Do not know it's sunset
Better than It's dawn.
And most of all watch children
| Playing on it's lawn.
Isabel Fiske Conant in CHRISTIAN
Science Monitor.
Unless all signs fail Rockland's
| Carnival, the 10th and goth inst, is
to be a hummer.
Portland expects to have voice IN
the next Republican State Conven-
ton, 12O delegates to be exact.
| Casco has voted $500 for State of
Maine publicity, which is doing
pretty well for one small town.
Portland Express.
This from Clark Island: "Many
| new men are being hired at the
granite participating cutters, quar-
rymen. day men.
The hens are commencing to lay
again and eggs are getting cheaper.
This is one Of the surest reminders
that Spring is close at hand.
ITO Relieve Our Congested Traf-
fic" is a headline over an article in
the Machias Union Republican ad-
vocating widening a street in that
village. Everybody's doing 1t.
| Farmers who have maple orchards
are already commencing to prepare
for the annual run of sap. Cold
nights and warm days make ideal
! conditions for a good flow Of sap.
Bangor Sanatorium, local sup
ported institution for the cure of tu-
bercular patients. is installing a
| quartz window which officers Of the
association say is the first to be
used in health institution In New
England.
Fourth Grade pupils in the Fourth
Grade of the Milo schools worked
hard last week to have everyone in
the room obtain 100 per cent in
spelling with the result that 20 out of
33 reached the desired goal. Good
work!
Judging from the manner in which
Maine towns have responded to the
call for appropriations for funds for
the Maine Publicity Bureau that
department will be able to do even
more effective work this year than
it did last and that is saying con-
siderable.
Lack Of facilities for stabling
their horses impressed the farmers,
who came out to the Wiscasset town
meeting. Yet, were We to give Dob
bin the vote and arrange a referen-
dunn on the matter we doubt if he'd
come out and vote; man having set
no example for so doing.
"For the luvvamike be careful of
that cough or sneeze of yours. Keep
it to yourself. Curb that spasmodic
desire of circulating your germs
generously among the innocent and
unprotected people adjacent to you"
-Rockland Courier Gazette. - And
this applies to all over Maine.
A $4,000 clock Is meeting with diff
ficulties to get installed in Rockland.
It's cost was provided for in the will
Of the late e. A. Butler and two
years were allowed in which to find
site for it. The County Commits
sioners refused to accept 1t for in
stallation in the Court House tower.
1t was then offered to the Congrega-
tional church. which deferred action.
Meanwhile the time for acceptance
grows short.
Some Of the most skeptical may
think no one knows where Mellie's
town is but the following Is good
proof that Nellie has been heard Of
far away from his native state:
Mrs. /. w. Waite mailed a letter
to Wisconsin, the party not being
found the letter was returned to Mrs.
Waite, who had plac d her name and
corner. 1t came back in just one
week to her.
| Congratulations to the Maine Cen
trail Railroad Relief Association are
in order. 1t announces that its
financial condition warrants an in
crease of fifty per cent in the sick
benefit which it pays.
Maine Central Employees Magazine
has an illustration of section man
VIM. F. Lord of Monmouth, riding
the rails on the bicycle he fixed for
the purpose. He has resigned as
foreman of section SO after 38 years
constant service for the railroad, dur
ing which he has seen many changes,
such as change from the back
breaking hand car" to that pro-
PEELED by gasolene. His experiences
include some that are remembered
such as that Of being overtaken by
snowplow while walking in a cut
near Leads Junction. When the
trainmen had stopped and gotten
to him. only his legs were sticking