Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-21

Maine is sending a large delegation
this week to the annual session of the
National Gamers Association at
Louisville, Ky.
Florida is certainly greatly inter-
ested in the coming visit of the Maine
pilgrims to that state, judging by the
space given to the project by the
newspapers Of that southland state.
ney speaking at the recent meeting
of the Pennington Rotary Club. told
of the duties of his office and de-
scribed much in detail the work.
Captain ]. B. Coyle of Portland.
for 81 years in the service Of the
Coast Guard, has just been retired.
Entering as an ensign on May 10,
1888, at Portland, he passed through
successive grades and was appointed
to the rank of captain on Jan. IL. 1928.
He has served on practically all sta
tions of the Coast Guard.
The Old Farmers Almanac-it is
spelled "Almanack" on the title page
makes 1t appearance for the 134th
year. We may wonder what Robert
B. Thomas, the founder of this al
manac. would say could he see this
issue and discover four pages devoted
to The Automobile in New England.
Whot Of Cronly do
it would be to him 1.-The Oxford
Democrat.
Containing a list of all the manu-
facturers in Maine and their products,
the Buy Maine Products booklet is
proving popular. This booklet was
prepared by the State Chamber of
Commerce with the assistance of affi-
lated organizations. the Associated
Industries, the Maine Publicity e.
reau and the Maine Development
Association. An average of 25 letters
a day come to the State Chamber
asking for copies and many more re-
quests are made in Portland by tele-
phone and personal call.
The old Burr schoolhouse in Free
port built 102 years ago and which
sheltered Freeport pupils for over a
century was sold this week to G. A.
Davis who intends to make 1t into a
modern bungalow for his chauffeur
to live in. This old schoolhouse was
the center of bitter controversy a
few years ago, when residents of that
school district called on the town to
erect new schoolhouse claiming
among other things that it was obso-
lete. Several stormy town meetings
| were held, and finally the vote to
build the new schoolhouse at Beech
| Hill was carried by margin of one
vote. The school board Immediately
purchased a lot, hauled on some lum-
| Der and began erecting the building
before the opposition could call an
other town meeting to rescind the
| vote. The schoolhouse lot reverts to
| the Andrew Soule farm. The building
| Is to be hauled to another lot and the
schoolhouse is no longer held as an
asset or liability on the towns books
| "a popular physician in Lewiston
is DR.. ]. A. Girouard," says the Saun-
terer in the Portland Telegram. "This
fact has been known by the Saunterer
for many years, but he was not aware
until the other day that the doctor is
also poet of no mean order. In 1908
/ the doctor published in a neatly
printed volume collection of his
poems in French, entitled Au Fill de la
Vie, in English. On the Thread OF
Life, a copy of which the Saunterer
! has just enjoyed the perusal. OF the
| 46 poems in this volume of $50 pages
| the one titled LArt D. Etre Heureux
! The Art of Being Happy, a sonnet to
| Madeleine, is a little gem. DIR. Cir
| Guard says in his opening poem that
| the ideas for his verses quite often
were suggested to him while attend
| ing patients more or less seriously ILL.,
In closing his preface to the volume,
| the doctor says: NOW go little book,
hasten everywhere that fate may be
kind enough to press you. Then If
you cannot bring me some sympathy,
at least never reproach me, even If 1t
had been given you to live and suffer
still when shall Sleep"
The Bath Times recollects ice cut
ting in the early nineties in Maine
when for one or two winters a great
deal of ice was shipped from Bath
and vicinity to New York and the
southern cities. A mild winter came
along and the ice men of New York
could get no ice to harvest and turned
to Maine. Whole freight train loads
of the crystal cakes cut on lakes and
ponds back in the State were brought
into Bath and shipped from the Maine
Central wharves in schooners. In
those days ice cutting operations were
going on at most all of the ponds in
the vicinity of Bath, especially near
tidewater. The pond at Parker Head,
then damned at one end to keep out
the river water and to hold the fresh
water in check was the scene Of &C.
tive operations. The late John G.
Morse of Winnegance and the late
James d. Robinson of Bath owned
the property and conducted ice cut
ting operations there on large scale,
loading the cakes direct from the
pond into schooners At the height of
the season there, one year, nearly a
score of vessels were either taking on
or awaiting cargoes. Ice was also
shipped from Phippsburg Center and
there were big ice houses at both the
Center and Parker Head.