Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-08
MAINE GOSSIP
California

California
o. come to the land of the Western
Where every business 10 overdone. :
Where the stores charge freight on
the goods made here
Ask them the reason, they think
They serve you climate with all your
meals:
It's 80 blamed hot your back just
peels.
The "Ananias Club" includes the
From San Diego to the Golden Gate.
The movie stars marry twice a year.
Would marry again if the way were
clear.
The grape fruit here is something
A cross between q lemon and a pump
kin rind.
They sell you lots that are made by
hand,
And they make you think it is really
land.
The view of the ocean is very nice,
That is included with the price.
They weigh the sack and then the
fruit.
Then weigh them again and their fing-
ers to boot.
They claim it is wet IL it rains once
year,
And you get so dry you can't shed a
tear.
The chickens have mites aud the dogs
have feas,
The desert wind blows and makes you
sneeze.
We shovel sand and you shovel snow.
Just about a stapd-off as far as I
know.
So tune up your fiivver and start for
the West,
Where jobs are scarce and pay is less.
Bring all your cash and pretty clothes,
When you'll get any more. the Lord
only knows.
I am telling this story which 1 know
is true,
AS seen by me with my eyes of blue.
If the. Booster Club ever gets this
back,
to black.
They asked me to write the truth to a
friend,
And I have done so and this is the
end.
Author in hiding in California.
AND STILL THEY COME!
Over so members of the class of
1916, Bowdoin college. will have
their ANNUAL reunion dinner at Web
ster house at Bath, June %.
When actual work begins on the
kennebec bridge there will be con-
| siderable of fleet of barges, light
| ers. motor boats and other craft
employed in the harbor at Bath and
1t Is expected that considerable of
/ the material for the structure will
be brought there by water.
One year ago today was one of
the warmest days of the Summer
the mercury getting into the nine
| ties at noon. The cool weather
which has prevailed all the Spring
continues and some believe 1t is due
to the prevalence of large icebergs
/ off the Atlantic coast.-Bath Times,
! June 5.
On exhibit at Bath are two pieces
of. trees, one dyed a purple and the
other shade of bright green. They
are samples of what a German
scientists is doing with his expert
ments on Maine trees on the timber
I holdings of the Machias Lumber Co
| BY his process a form of dye is in
jected into the sap of the tree and
this dye turns the woody fibre as
well as the leaves any shade he
desires to use. This is something
after the manner in which florists
dye pinks to get various shades
placed in water in which the stems
are soaked.
Old salts, exchanging news along
the waterfront in Quoddy Bay
Eports as at Eastport, can hardly
believe their eyes and ears, when
! they hear and read that the famous
old coasting schooner, James l.
Maloy, is to take on a new career
after score of years of cruising
up and down the Maine coast. For
this vessel is tied up at Onset
Mass. to be piped with town water
and used for public tea-room-
nothing stronger. Captain Williap
| White is her skipper. Maine has
seen many an hulk OF a fishing.
| boat converted into a shore craft
for some fisherman hermit The
rivers and bays are full of them
But it remains for two-master
with Cougar record. to take to the
society tea-room trade.
The 30 young men at the Normal
school at Machias who have been
taking campcooking for the last II
weeks had their last recitation last
Thursday noon. They had sunk q
pot of beans in the hot Goals in the
morning, and at supper time pre-
pared biscuit and gingerbread which
were baked in reflector baker be-
fore an open fire. Over the same
| fire was prepared a camp size coffee
| pot full of coffee. After the baked
beans, biscuits, and gingerbread
! were eaten, strawberries and cake
were produced and a very enjoyable
! camp supper came to an end. This
course in camp cooking with actual
experience of cooking in the open. is
maintained for the sake. of the
young men in the class who are
about to become teachers and who
are liable to be called upon to act
as scout masters.
A five-cent gas balloon sent I'D at
o'clock on the evening OF May 81
by Russell L. Hall of South Port
land, and bearing a little note ask
ing the finder to send him a card,
was picked up the west shore at
Rockport, 80 miles from, here, at 4
Tuesday afternoon. A letter was
received from Weston Arey, a bow
residing at Rockport, who said that
he caught the balloon just as it was
settling to the ground and after