Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-22
MAINE GOSSIP
Gray Goose

A gray goose flying,
With the last of summers blue on its
breast,
Beauty, unshriven, unconfessed,
Flying, dying.
Gray goose,
A sweep of wings
And long, thin wailing;
All, color of youth, life's blus bright
feather,
Fading to gray like autumn weather,
What are you yelling?
-Virvinia Mccormick, from the Gen.
fury.
After several successful years with
the Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
Robert Creighton, formerly editor of
the Knox Messenger. has taken a po-
sition with the New Bedford (Mass)
Standard.
A 14-pound lobster which turned
from green to red over night. was re-
comfy exhibited in Rockland mar
ket. 1t was TO have been shipped to
Chicago, netting the catcher $25, but
broken joint spoiled the bargain.
German police dogs are becoming
quite the vogue of late in Bath. There
are more than score of police dog
owners and it is not a bit unusual TO
sight several on the streets daily. In
most cases the dogs are believed to be
a ferocious pet, but this is not so for
they are most docile.-Bath Times
An even hundred arrests were made
In Rockland during the fiscal year
just closed. as shown by the report of
City Marshal Robert A. Webster. In
toXication was the cause of 81 ar
rests, larceny came next with nine.
and unlawful possession of liquor was
third, with eight. Lodgings were given
to 233 persons, and the patrolmen
found 1874 store doors unlocked. The
total receipts of the department were
S974.57. The report marks the first
year of Marshal Webster's admins
tration.
Lee T. Gray, former sub-master
Of the Bangor High school and more
recently principal of the Portsmouth,
N. H, High school, has been selected
to head the faculty of the Swampscott,
Mass, High school. Mr.. Gray was To-
Gated In Bangor previous to going to
Portsmouth, where he has been teach
ing for the past nine years. He is a
former resident of Lubec, the son of
the late James H. Gray, prominent
Washington county attorney, and is a
graduate of Bowdoin College in the
class of 1902. He is, married and has
two sons, one of whom is a freshman
at Harvard this year.
Residents of Caribou are very. in
terested in the announcement by the
U. S. Treasury department that bids
will be opened Nov. so for the con-
struction of the new postoffice in that
town. The purchase of the land for
the site for the proposed postoffice
building In Caribou was authorized
in 1913, and further steps were held
upon account of the excessive costs
of material and other charges during
and following the World war. The site
purchased is on Sweden Street in the
business section. The late Senator
Bert NJ. Fernald as chairman of the
committee on public buildings. inter-
ested himself in the project as has
Congressman Ira G. Hersey of the
Fourth Maine District. Congress in its
appropriations this year provided for
the Caribou postoffice.
A replica of old log pumps in vogue
more than half a century ago will be
made by the Saco Pump Company of
Saco, for use in we'll at Wayside
Inn, at South Sudbury, Mass, now
owned by Henry Ford of Detroit. Mich.
The order was placed with the COM
pany because of the fact, that as far
as known. 1t is the only concern in
New England engaged in making
wooden pumps. Frank o. Furber, the
senior of the firm went to Saco in 1873
and established pump mandatory.
His sons are doing the most of the
work at present. but he keeps an eye
out to see how things are going. The
pump for the Wayside Inn will be
made and shipped to South Sudbury as
soon as possible. 1t will be the first
old-fashioned log pump made by the
concern in years. More than a half
century ago these pumps were COM
mon enough in New England. but to-
day they are scarce as hens teeth. It
Will be turned from log, which will
be selected with great care. There will
be no fancy scrolls or filigree work.
as Mr.. Ford desires it to be exactly
as the old-timers were turned out.
The spout, handle and cover will be
held In place by a wooden pin.
A A. Percy of Bath recently found
IN an old sea chest which was part of