Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-07-11
Maine Gossip
A Sketch.

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A Sketch.
A sweep y,da of road around the mountain
Through woods that fall away into the
glade,
Or mount up to the sumnits conquered
| shade
Through underhrush, wherein faint rust
| lings hide.
A crossing, zigzag fence, all weather
dyed,
| Pierced in sudden gate, all newly made
A dull red wound. for barriers that in
| wade
These dark cathedral aisles unterified.
The silence chirps and whistles all
Tie crows far cav is melowed to Groom,
| AnG little cello voices from the ground
Buzz in the underhass of drowsy noon;
While upward, thro' the loneliness, there
The sweet wood-melody of laboring
| wheels.
July Appleton's.
| The coast section is getting the for
est fires thus far, while the big inte-
/ rior woods escaped.
| Another hot wave is reported on the
way and possibly, perhaps, maybe a
rainstorm on the end of it,
The latest book by a Maine author
is Birch Stream and Other Poems" by
Anna Boynton Averill of Foxcroft.
Bethel has eight taxpayers whose
tax this year is over 5000 each: Bethel
| Water Co.. $3.50; Fred l.. Edward, 1894 ;
John G. Gehring, $2S7; f. S. kilburn,
$279; John NJ. Phlbrook, $270; Ceylon
Rowe, S3ll; Edwin c. Rowe, $277; ia
cob A. Thurston, 1924.
Mr. and Mrs. Gross had funny ex-
perience with an eight-pound salmon
| at Green lake recently. After being
hooked the salmon jumped right into
| the arms of Mrs. Gross and slid
through to the bottom of the boat.
| Mrs. Gross promptly sat on the fish
| and made goou its capture.
MyrOn King of Ellsworth, while on
visit to his brothers family in Sea-
wall, went out cod d-fishing one day and
|
these parts. 1t weighed four pounds
and measured % inches. 1t is the first
mackerel To DC caught in these waters
this year. Mr.. King was much pleased
with his prize.
| A large bouquet of colored pond
lilies III the window of H. G. Tlbbetts
& cos market at Rockland attracted
d deal of attention recently. They
We're sent to Mr.. Tibbetts by one of his
| old Grand Army comrades, Walter B.
| Shaw, who has q remarkable pond lily
farm in Washington, d. c. The lilies
We're "6 hours on the way and arrived
in very fine condition.
| When the family of Frank r. Doane
at South Brewer were sitting on their
lawn Tuesday and counting the strokes
| of fire alarm, wondering where the
| fire was a hose company and hook and
| ladder truck dashed into the yard, and
| it was then learned that the fire was
| in the upper part of their own house
| The fire mad made such headway that
| none of the furniture above the first
| floor conld be saved and the house was
| badly damaged. The loss is estimated
at $4,000; insured.
A good many people have eaten crab
meat and know that it is full sweeter
| than lobster and makes much richer
| stew. While some Holsters are caught
| along the Snoro of Westport they are
getting moro scarce each year here,
| just as well as in other towns, but
crabs, there are million of them and
| one man on the island is making good
money catching them. extracting the
meat and selling it, The cottage people
| buy all he can get in summer while the
rest of the year he supplies customers
| in Bath and WiScaSset at a good price
Says the new editor of the York
Transcript "That the paper has fallen
| into disrepute there is not the slightest
doubt. Whether or not it can again
| become q leading factor in our town
| life remains to be seen" That the York
| Transcript has in any way fallen into
disrepute" will certainly be news out
| side of York itself. There may be
some local complications that We know
nothing of. but among it's exchanges
no Maine weekly has stood better or
been more welcome than this same
| York Transcript. 1t has been bright
and newsy with a lot of original mat
| ter in it worth clipping and with n
tone that was wholly it's own. If the
new management can get out as good
| a paper as its predecessor gave us it
will do a job to be proud of.
Bangor Commercial: Did you know
that genuine, unadulterated, oily,
black, PcnObscot river water is the
best water in the world to drinll-on a
sea voyage? Well if you didn't you
can't be accused of having neglected
your education. for there probably are
very few people who know it. and yet