Issued Tuesday Thursday Saturday The Courier-GAze By The Courier-Guette., 4S5 Main St, Established January, 1846. Entered aa Second Claes Mail Matter. Rockland, Maine, Thursday, February 26, 1925. THREE CENTS A COPY Volume 80. .Number 25. REMEMBERS ROSCOE HOMEWARD BOUND many more they long ago dubbed The Courier-Gazette after 58 years MEMORIES OF AN ACTIVE LIFE I him “the Father of Trusts.” He is John L. Goss, Would Like To Sec ’ _ . , , . I the only man. alive or dead who THREE-TIMES»A-WEEK Rockland Man Meets His Testimonial For Bandmaster. Howard Enjoys MarVelOUS ever assembled to order and sent to ALL THE HOME NEWS Scenery and Crosses Top “Men and ShiP» Sealing Wax”—The Story of al sea a full-sized navy intended for Father After a Long Lapse John L. Goss, president of . the belligerent uses—and did jt all in six Subscription $3.00 per year payable In ad­ of Time. John 1$. Goss Corporation, leaves of the World. Thomaaton Boy Who Made Good. weeks’ time: a fleet of war-vessels, vance ; single copies three cents. I armed with ndoilern ordnance and Advertising rates based upon circulation this week for St. Petersburg, Fla. and very reasonable. Editor of The Courier-Gazette: — En Route, Feb. 14 modern projectiles and manned by NEWSPAPER HISTORY and of course wants The Courier- i crews of jaunty gentlemen who 1 arrived here at Arroyo Grande, Cal. Dear Folks at Home: — (By Charles K. Flint) The Rockland Gazette was established In Gazette forwarded to his address. _ _ _ Feb. 4 and the first thing I did was neither knew nor eared for what 184U In 1874 the Courier wae established We are homeward bound at last— ("Memoirs of An Active Life,” in the first person. i>ast tense, by ’mil" consolidated’"vrltii" the" (iiiieUe to" 1882. [to locate my father, whom I had not I Writing from Boston under Saturday cause they were enrolled to fight only two more steps between here and published in 1924 by G. R. Putnam’s unhumorous and enfeebled old gen­ The Free Press was established to 1855 and Becn f0,. gg yearg. I h.,d a picture of date he says: nor under what flag they would In Ill'll I»a namn 1st 4 tv as Trlhonn * Boston. The ride lrom Ban Fran- , Sons. New York and London, and tlemen were placed end to end they in 1891 changed Its name to the Tribune. , . , “To me there Is a sort of j serve. Arid between such ventures These papers consolidated March 17, 1897. hlm ln la’e Years and was most cer- , . n u, _,"m c,sco ,o Salt Lake City was interest- translated into Chinese by Kang Y'u would form a continuous ■ ■ ■ ■ — ■ ■ — -------- i tain I would know him. I inquired ^aw” as these he found time—or took it- r~l«nvhwhcn I^m fJw?v HfTr nnC 5 We Ieft Oakland in ,he morn’ Wei of Shanghai, the Modern Sage stretching entirely across the conti-; t0 km blg game. hunt an(, flsh for him of a man on the Rtreet. He R Is «nmpftrnn/tn1 *”S’and PaS8ed “trough the Sacra- of China, is by special arrangement •«. .»• i nent. At that, I d rather place than nnnr;v the states of this union knew him well and pointed me up nearly all the states of this union blk fnrw rd to fn,I ih/,?knot? mento Villley’ a Pertectly leve> eoun- with ,he author reprinted in The read them. ••• Silence Is one great art of conver- •» j over a long -bill, saying that my 1 and in half a dozen countriefl look forward to, and here is almost try The orange Broves so numerous Courier-Gazette, the only newspaper But when this man turned author ♦ nation —-Haziltt. father lived on that street. Going always something interesting to I abroad; to shove a canoe along vir- further south harp disappeared, but to which he has given that permiw- he enjoyed the advantage o\ei cer- gjn waters; make friends in all “Help Make up. I met a man well along in years, read. Your issue of the 17th in instead, there are apricot, plum and 9|on. Thc book is dedicated "To My tain of his contemporaries. For in I socIeties and to keep them. Men with a gray beard, walking some­ which you sketch the life of my old cherry orcherds, the latter just burst­ YOUR HOME TOWN i and women like him, his saddle- what feebly. I looked at him care­ friend RoscoeG.Ingraham that sturdy ing ij»to bloom. Truck farms are nu- THE FREE JITNEYS .________ _______________ horse whinnies its Joy at the sound the Prettiest Place fully and said "That is not lie." Go- old bandmaster! I can see him now mcroUH. also sheey and cattle ranch­ . „ », , , . Ing further along. I saw u man as I used to see him about 40 years of his footsteps and his dog adores on Earth” A street railway official caused the . , , , . es. But in a few hours, wliat a standing in a doorway. As he turned ago. Ills genial personality and his him. It's mighty hard to fool a dog change. on thc merits and tho measure of a O your share by keep­ people of Rockland and vicinity to palq awu>* around he saw me look- military bearing 1 I shall never for­ We left the fertile valley and green man. ing your home attrac­ sit up and taae notice the other day | ing at himand gave me a good view get the time I first heard him play fields, and commenced the climb1 For my part I have hunted with Dtively painted. Painting is when he told them that it is not ihe I of his face. I watched him for a few the cornet. Since... that time I have j over thc Sierra Nevada Mountains, ! him, fished with him, boated with jitnevs that threaten the extinction moments. Remembering his late plc- heard many celebrated cornetlsts. Soon we are in a cold region and at good economy, too. It pre­ him. camped with him. I have spent of the trolley line serving Rockland, ture 1 thought it might he my fath- hut none of them have ever given the highest point the snow is about vents decay and saves repair Thomaston YVarren, Camden and . or- I walked across to him and asked me such a thrill or such a lasting a hundred nights with him while he two feet deep and the trees are bend- , talked of many things—of sailing bills. Rockport hut the auto owners along if he was Mr. Bbilbrick. impression. ing under its weight the same us in the line who give free transporta- ! “Yes," was his answer, "and who "On the 18th the members of the ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages Henry Bosch Co.’s Paints Maine after a heavy snowfall. We and kings. Or, if he somewhat tion to prospective passengers. The are you?" Master Builders Association of Bos- stopped for a few minutes and from have a fifty years’ reputa­ ton celebrated the 80th birthday of ... __ , , j ., slighted the cabbages and the seal­ Knox county people were t-old that On being told he said: "O, my Gene, . j the observation platform looked down tion back of them for wear their secretary, William H. Sayward , ., „ . ing-wax at least he knew the inner tha line had a deficit of $28,000 in my Gene, it can’t be! it must be a : into the American Canyon and could with a banquet at the Hotel Somer- facts touching on sailing ships and and service. Every gallon 1923 and were saved a similar situa- dream—it must be a dream!” He catch glimpses of the river through guaranteed. Offered in a tion last year by the permission of paused for a long time, Jhen, “Come set, and presented him with a purse thp cI()U(1s_a never-to-be-forgotten I kings. When I have had such an of gold. I would like to see the | Ju8t at 8unReL t , evening with Charles R. Flint it was fine range of colors and the Public Utilities commission to out in the sunlight.” he said, “and same testimonial given to that grand j as though 1 sat beside a grate-fire raise the rates of fares. The situa- J let me look at you, for my eyes are The next morning we crossed the suggestions made for the old bandmaster, and I should con- I of sound and seasoned, hickory— tion is one that is not peculiar to getting poor.” Great Salt Lake. It seemed like go- proper combination for slder it an honor and a great pleas­ plenty of sparks snapping, the pos- Knox county but is being combatted \ We are having many good long tug to sea by rail as It is 31 miles ure to contribute to such an occa­ aihillty of being singed by a live your house. Estimates by trolley lines everywhere—Bangor I chats every day. As we sit in the from shore to shore—23 miles of sion-” I coal, but with these a cheersome, gladly given, Commercial- ' hotel where I am stopping he tells trestle and 11 miles filled in with me it stands on the same site where heartening, genial warmth. At earth. I seventy-three he keeps, intact and Why does the Three Crow Extract he once had a blacksmith shop and “AROUND1 THE HILLS" A. E. MORTON The principal streets of Salt Lake unimpaired, those faculties which Cheekei berry taste like the Boxberry shod many mules and bronchos.