Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-27
Maine Gossip
An AUGUST Garden.


| An August Garden.
Beside the crimson fires of phlox.
! pahlias their orient finery show;
| And Ger the browsing four-o'clocks
| Beacons the golden glow.
PetInias lift their fragile urns.
And the tall sunflowcr seeks the sun;
The poppy censor bends and burns.
! Bloom of oblivion.
| Here sleek nasturtiums climb and coil
| Round honeysuckled trellises;
| Velvet vcrbenaS form foil
| For rows of pink sweet peas
Here the smooth checks of pear and plum
Beguile with no deceptive CLEAN;
Here breeZes from elysium
| Murmer as in dream.
And here. as in wizards glass,
| ferchance at dewfall one may see
The spirit of August pause and pass
| Like a rapt harmony
intangible, elusive, frail,
W'rapt fold upon ethereal fold
! In some diaphanous web as pale
AS primrose lemon-gold.
| Here is this garden. dedicate
| To surceaSe from all storm and stress
| The end of striving, and the gate
| To sweet forgetfulness
| Clinton Scollard.
The closing days of August have a
tang suggestive Of football and fairs
and huskings.
The crowd at the shore resorts is
melting away, which is pity as Sep
TENDER is the best Month of all beside
the sea.
Bowdoinham has had more than it's
share of lad fires and the loss of the
fertilizer factory is a serious blow
Biddeford Journal: 1t is at the end
of the vacation season when lots of
men wish they were wealthy enough
TO be able to marry for love.
1t is pointed out that Bath gets
benefit from it's celebration that was
not figured on as an inducement for
having it. Many of those who came
| to attend it remained to spend their
vacations. The country around Bath
will not lose anything by having
| strangers see it
| Only one week ago the little sloop
st. Paul, Capt. Reuben johnson Of
| Bailey's island, arrived in Portland
with a sword fish weighing $50 pounds,
the largest brought to that port this
| season. The same little sloop came in
| to port Tuesday with sea turtle on it's
deck weighing 1900 pounds. 1t was
| captured near Boon island and unhap-
| PLY was killed in the process. Had
| it been taken alive it could have been
| sold for d fat sum for exhibition pur-
| poses. Tho ole taken near Seguin last
week brought its captors $3.50 and is
now at the Bangor fair.
Just before last Easter Sunday
| George D. Weston of Phippsburg
bought an Easter lily at Bath. lie
carried the plant home and after it had
| finished blooming he placed the bulbs
in his garden in front of the house
A short time ago new stalks COM
| menced to appear and he now has an
Easter lily with several blooms and
buds Oh it.
Henry Parsons has given the town Of
kennebunk. his native place, $4,000
place the soldiers monument which is
to be furnished by George f. Morrison
of Saco. The citizens of the town were
| IN n dilemma as to where to locate the
monument, and Saturday it was voted
at town meeting to take for site
what is known as the Centennial plot
This was not satisfactory to large
numbers of the citizens, and Monday
Mr. Parsons came forward with an
offer to buy at a cost of $4,000 the land
and buildings opposite the library
given the town by his father and do
natt this COR the monument site.
While at Richmond recently Frank
Fl. Perez the antique connoiscur of
Bath picked up Il handsome old fash
Toned clock which bears the original
date of its manufacture, 1916, and
which it is believed is one of the old
est clocks III this section. The time
piece stands about eight feet tall and
ception of a door which is a handsome
piece IF birds eye maple in which
mahogany is also used. The weights
ar" of brass, all hand made while the
dial is hand painted. Above the dial
Is the scene of the rolling sea with a
1ull rugged ship sailing along. rocking
with the swing Of the pendulum. There
are brass corner pieces for til" edges
of the clock and also brass braces
While in the center of the top may be
found good sized eagle and two
smaller ones on either corner The
clock is in an excellent state Of pres
ervation and keeps accurate time.
The unwilling of tablet in memory
of Admiral David Glascoe Farragut.
Which took place in the navy yard at