Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-31
Maine Gossip
The Harbor Light.

The Harbor Light.
The god of night awakens
TO guard the pass of day,
Pale-eyed beneath the setting sun
Peers out across the bay
And sees the sailors bringing
BountieS from the sea,
AS they row back with singing.
Coming home from sea.
Across the tides of night time
1t bars the blackened sky,
AS, guided through the driving night.
A shadow ship goes by.
And when the dawn is breaking
1t beholds again
The fiSherfOlk a-making
Out to sea again.
Douglas Roberts. in Appctons.
Last year the Eennebec river from
Augusta to the sea was clear of ice
March %.
The editor of the Biddeford Journal
after careful investigation expresses
the opinion that the open season for
Welch rabbits should not be extended
beyond midnight.
The first potato special ever sent
out of Washington county left the
Calais station last Wednesday morn
ing Washington county is becoming
quite a potato growing county, and
the quality is said to be excellent.
'Lubec Herald: One of tile articles in
the town warrant was trifie ambigu-
Gus. it provided for the taking of the
old engine house for a lookup and room
for the assessors, and to provide steel
cages for the same
The Portland Sunday Times had a
page wrteup. with many illustrations,
of Barranquilla. Colombia. Central
America, where a Portland young man,
AlbiO l.. Burnell, is the American
consul. Mr. Burnell graduated from
Bowdoin in 1900 and was in educational
work in the Philippines for several
years before going to Colombia.
Maine Woods: Recent reports prove
that moose are finding Franklin county
more to their liking than has been
known in years. Last week we referr-
ed to moose seen in Chesterville and
this week we can point to six others
that have been seen within the past
ten days. Within eight miles of this
office there is a yard wherein are win
tering five moose. the lord and monarch
Of the herd being monster.
At South Scion, this season on land
of l.. {. Jewett some old growth pine
of uncommon size has been cut. While
a good size for timber in the northern
woods is six trees for a thousand feet:
each tree of this lot averaged a thou
sand feet and as most of the trees are
sawed and free from knots. old lumber
men call this the best landing of pine
they have seen for years.
Speaking of big pine. a Cornvlle cor
respondent has word to say. Maurice
Flanders has hauled to Waltons saw
mill a tree sevcnty-eight feet in length
and twelve inches in diameter at the
top and four feet at the butt, the butt
log twenty-siN feet in length, scaled
eleven hundred forty-eight feet The
whole tree scaled two thousand twenty
eight feet. IF anyone in town can beat
this, Cornvile would like to hear from
them
The item going the rounds as to a
small fire Monday morning which did
$50 to 800 damage in a students room
at the Delta Kappa Epsilon house,
Bowdcin College, is wrong in one i'm
pOrtant respect. The fire was not in
the house mentioned but in the Delta
Epsilon house. The item was evidently
sent out by some reporter to whom
such matters are all Greek
Among several interesting coins in
the possession of Mrs. L. A. Cushman
of Mechanic Falls is a cent coined in
17SI. On one side is chain with 10
links and in the centre of this the
words, We Are One, encirCled with the
words, United States. On the opposite
side is ornamental work with a plough
share in the middle and the figures,
from one to II, around it. At the bot
tom of the cent are the words, Mind
Your Business. At the top is a face
with rays of light streaming from it.
On the right side is the year 1878 and
on the opposite, Fugis. 1t is said to be
one of the first pennies copied in the
United States mint in Philadelphia.