Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-02
Maine Gossip

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/ Amid mass of golden-rod she srieves
' Her raven lair cntwined with mari
| gold
| While in her lap lie colors manifold
And l have seen her stray among the
shcaves
| When first the uplands We're in yell
| Or deep within the fasthess of the
| void,
, Her light feet tripping through tho
| fallen leaves.
: Her face is wan and drawn from wan-
| dcrinS,
Her russell gown is rent by branch
and brier.
| While in her eyes there burns sullen
I.ik, that of some half-wild and hunted
| thing:
Yet oft at night beneath the cloudy
She wakes the echoes with witchins
| Groom
| October LippincOtts.
The constant and heavy rains arc
sad blow to the Aroostook potato in
terests
They say last Sundays storm was rs
bad off the New England coast as that
in which the Portland went down in
| November 1898.
| The Maine Raptists may well be
proud of the beautiful Dunn Memorial
church at Portland which they dedi-
Gated yesterday.
This is the last day for the Rockport
Y. NJ. c. A. to raise the balance of the
is to secure the $4,000 conditionally
pledged.
Bowdoin and Harvard meet today for
their annual football game. Last year
Harvard Won by the score of 10 to c.
| The artist of the Boston paper who
drew Il scaffold with a dangling moose
and the usual accessories to illustrate
the story of a coming murder trial in
oxford county needs to learn thing or
two about Maine.
An automobile party up in Madrid
! met two bears in the road one day last
week. The chauffeur has not yet re-
covered his nerve and opinions differ
as to whether the bears have yet
! stopped running.
I Dpvtpp q form n
a soft" rock This large boulder is
situated on the northern end Of
WitherelrS Island surrounded by Lake
WassokeaS. It's formation is of a soft
nature, and the rock can be cut the
same rs Il piece of wood. Upon its
surface may be seen engravings Of all
| kinds cut in with a knife. and many
autographs, no doubt cut years ago.
Many whose names appear on that
rock are in different parts of the globe.
The bell recently placed in the belfry
Of the Baptist church at Bryant's Pond
has an interesting and tragic history.
1t first hung in the lighthouse on
Minot'S Ledge near Boston harbor.
which was wrecked in a great storm
men in the tower. The bell was
recovered few years later and tor
over 30 years it hung in the tower of
the WOODEN mill at Turner which was
burned September 3, 1906. The
! proprietor of The mill, Francis T.
Faulkner, lost his life in the fire and
the BELL which was recovered from the
ruins. was recast and then given by
Mr.. Faulllnors daughter to the Baptist
church at Bryant's Pond.
! According to the sporting editor Of Il
Boston paper, Wesley Coe formerly .tthc
shotputting champion Of the world. will
spend the winter in a logging camp in
northern Maine getting into condition
t" wrest back his laurels from Ralph
Rose the western giant who now holds
: them. If Coe lives up to the weird and
: wonderful program laid down for him
, by this writer he will be able neXt
| spring to put the shot further than the
| hammer was ever thrown.
Bar Harbor is said to possess one
5 ! Of the best and largest libraries of
+ fiction of any town or city Of its size
in the State. and the number Of VOL
umes is yearly being increased. The
reference department of the library Is
not so strong. and many of the relcr-
rnce books are out-of-datc ANA rather
, poor authorities, observes; the Bangor
News. This condition. however. is be-
ing rcm"dicd as fast as possible by the
:, addition Of good reference books. care
fully selected from the funds at the
: disposal of the trustees 1t must nc
, noticed. of course, that a fiction library
, is what is demanded by at least 90 per
cent. of the people. and that Il re-
ference library is demanded but little.
. the conditions being different from n
college or academy town How to
: balance these two conflicting elements
: has always been a problem, and will be
difficult one to handle. To the credit
Of the library commission it is to be