Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-26

Some love the early spring time
And the balmy August days;
But I just love Thanksgiving
With it's good old fashioned ways.
Augusta, Me.
The development Of a BURBERRY
tract ON large stretch Of plains in
Kennebunk, which have hitherto been
considered worthless, is the project
that will be sponsored by a well
known Gamer. The firm with which
this man Is connected asks no help
from any source, already owning two
canning factories in this State.
Years ago Quitting q vessel used
to be a common thing among Bath
merchants but since Bath has stop
ped building vessels these occasions
are few and far between. However,
this week one store in that city out
fitted a vessel building at the Rice
yard In Boothbay with all its bed and
table linen, blankets, cooking utensils
and the like. 1t was a good sized
order to go aboard ship these days.
The local Farm Bureau organiza-
ton throughout Washington county
are preparing for the most important
meeting of the year, according to J..
l.. Andrews of Jonesboro who is
president of the county organization.
The program will usually consist
Of reports of project leaders on the
work accomplished this year, cleo
ton Of officers, q dinner or supper
and Illustration lecture. Plans will
be made for the 1927 program of
work. Meetings are scheduled in 26
communities.
In the report of visitors to national
parks and monuments during the
year 1926, Lafayette National Park
of Maine for the first time enters
the 100000 class. with 102,256 visitors
reported. a gain of 2S,5S3 over last
year. Lafayette takes its place
eighth in the list Of 10 parks.
Yosemite leads, with Hot Springs
second and Rocky Mountain third.
Yellowstone takes fourth place this
year, with Mount Rainier close fifth,
| Grand Canyon sixth and Plat Park,
in Oklahoma, seventh.
The relation of the public water
supply to the public health Of any
community Is theme Of great i'm
portance and 1t is the theme upon
which prize essays will be written
t~by members of the junior class at
the Brewer high school. DIR. Allen e.
Schriver has offered a reward of
five dollars in gold for the best es-
say on the subject. He has recent
ly returned from an interesting WIS.,
| it to the state laboratory of hygiene
at Augusta where the Importance
/ of the water supply was made very
evident. DIR. Schrive- gave a talk on
| the subject to high school students
| Monday and the rules of the essay
| contest were arranged.
! Much Is being written about
| Names first governor, William King,
! due to the fact that his old home at
Bath. King Tavern is being removed
! to make room for the Bath approach
| to the Kennebec bridge. DR.. William
| James Rouse Of that city recalls
| that on the day of the funeral of
| Governor King. in 1853. that two
| Cinnamon both dressed in rich cloth
! ing sat in chairs in the show window
+ of the jewelry store of Seneca
/ Ilcdtiis bdlCE liIiS StOI q was oSNoPiSN
as a crockery store ty the late Frank
| H. Percy and after the fire Of 1894
| the ground ii occupied was taken
| in as part of the Percy store, now
Bridge Merrill Inc. When the funeral
! procession formed and started from
! the King home the same two China
men were in a two wheeled chaise as
/ it passed the store window which
! they had occupied during the fore
! noon. DIR. Rouse was seven years OF
age at the time and he believes that
these were the first Cinnamon to ever
visit Bath.
! Thousands of tourists who pass
along the Atlantic highway below
Belfast, look and wonder at high
round cedar hedge which almost
entirely conceals the cottage behind
it, only the gable end showing. Some
| stop and take a sn .pshot of it. The
place is just over the Belfast line
! in Northport at little river and is
| the summer home of Ms. Edward D.
Burd Of West Medford, Mass, who
calls 1t Burd's Nest, also appropriate
| because the ,urds are migratory,
| spending their winters in Florida
The place is old and 1t is said that
| the hedge was set out rs years ago,
possibly before, and always kept
carefully trimmed. The cedar hedge
surrounds the house on three sides,
| hiding all but the roof from the At
| lantic Highway with it's continuous
procession in Summer of automobiles.
| On the north and south also it is
sheltered from the wind and has
complete privacy, but the eastern
exposure looks off to sea over the
blue waters of Penobscot bay, with
| the entrance to the river, and a
| glimpse of Searsport and Stockton
| Springs In the distance.