Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-29
Maine Gossip
Lux Perdita.

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Thine wer. the weak. slight hands
That might have taken this strong soul.
and bent .A.
It's stubborn substance to thy soft intent
And bound it unresistns, with such
As not the arm of envious heaven had
Thine were the calming eyes
That round my pinnace could nave Slilieu
the sea, -,
And drawn thy voyager home. and bid
him be 80 :.
Pure with their pureness. with their WIS
dom wise,
Merged in their flight. and greatly lost
in thee.
But thou-thou passed'st on,
With Wilderness clothed Of dedicated
days,
Cold like star: and me in lien ways
Thou leftest following LIES chance lure
The wandering CLEAN that beckons and
William Watson.
1t is rumored at Bath that the
steamer Nahanada Of the Eastern
Steamship Co will look after the
Boothbay service until the ice begins
to form, after which she vii! be
hauled off and none of the Eastern
Steamship Co. boats will be put on
the WiscaSSet route during the Win
ter. the company sub leasing the mail
contract and letting the passenger
service go entirely. Last winter the
Eastern Steamship co. competed with
the little steamer Winter Harbor on
the WiScaSset route and it WAS said at
the time that it was doubtful if the
Eastern Steamship Co. ever again
competed on that route.
The State road work in Ellsworth
tually amounts to Il deadlock in the
board of aldermen and it now looks as
if action would be deferred until it is
too late to complete the work this
YEAR Last spring $500 was appro-
prated by the city for State road
work at Ellsworth Falls. The work
was begun by Street Commissioner
Hurley, but protest was made against
some of the changes of grade as
called for in the plans and specifica-
tons as being unnecessary ami I'M
uulN tNptIlSlNt liz NoIk W a.
stopped and the street commiss Toner
appealed to the board Of mayor and
aldermen. members Of which have
sidestcpped action by not being pres
ent at meetings called to consider the
matter.
Two panhandlers. who We're oper-
ating in Portland few days ago
showed poor discrimination by Stril-
ing Assistant County Attorney Dodge
for Il loan of money. Just as they
had accoSted the attorney two police
officers who had heard of them be-
tore came along and took them to the
police station, where they were
charged with drunkenness and dis
turDancc.
The skunk industry is Iiourishing at
Winnocks Neck in Scarboro Asa
Libby. d hunter and trappcr Of cx-
periencc, has within the last - days
caught 80 skunks. The fur Of this
obnoxious little animal is very valu-
able and Mr.. Libby will receive some
thing like $4.2J for each pelt He has
Il method OF treating the bodies. which
removes all trace of odor before the
skins are taken off.
County Commissioner Fred K Page
of Hancock county believes that 80
900 bushels Of potatoes will be shipped
from the port of Bucksport before
next THANKSGIVING
The littl" village Of Mckinley, stu
ated in the town of fremont on the
western shore Of the island Of Mt
Desert is watching the erection Of IL
new plant that will doubtless mean
much to the village and the entire
town as Well when it is completed ana
i'll operation 1t is Il cold storage
plant for tn" freezing and storage of
all sorts of sea food and is being
erected by the Mckinley Fish &
Freezing Co. The enterprise has a
strong backing and the promoters are
predicting that it will pay IA barrel of
money. once it is in operation.
The WeStbrook CORES pendent of
the Portland Express Advertiser tells
of Il narrow ESCAPE from death Of
Telcsphore Boissonneau. 4 workman
OF that city. who was employed in
digging sewer on Locust street
" nile he was engaged i'm this work a
cavern occurred and he was completes
~ buried IN the quicksand for a space
of at least l. minutes That his life
was saved is believed to be due to the
position in which ne was standing at
the time, which gave him sufficient air
space so that he was able to breath
until his fellow 'workmen by frantic
efforts We're able to dig the ground
away and relieve him Mr.. Rois-
Sonheau was able to to return to his
nome after being rescued and is an
parehtlN none the worse for his hard
experience.
Frank Crutr il one uf rlIshipr's
most successful farmers II. has
raised 40 bushels Of potatoes from
StNch-elehthS Of AN acre of land ana
MS trends doubt if amy Of the young
farmers in that section can beat his
record
y notable event in Thunlastun Ma
sonic circles WAS the recent ceit bra