Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-05

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Her robes are silk: in every fold
There shines pearl, there CLEANS a
Her arms are clasped with hoops of gold
her eyes-what stars are like to them!
| tremble when the dawn-wind blows;
On. zephyr, WOO her not away
So light she comes, so light she goes!
Arthur Guiterman. in Ainslee's.
Last year 1443 automobiles crossed
the Kennebec at Woolwich Ferry on
the Hokomock. Up to last Sunday the
number exceeds 900 this season.
Max P. Gushing left Bangor Tues
day for Brunswick, on his way to New
York city, whence he will sail for Con-
stantinople about Aug. Is. Mr. Cush-
ing has been teaching music and Eng
lish in Roberts College. Constantine
pie, since graduating from Bowdoin,
but commencing this year is to teach
English alone.
The Deering four master at Bath is
partly ceiled and will slide into the
AASihSbCS III oClOuCl.
At the bungalow of Hon. Harold M.
Scwall. Small PIT, is collection of
antiques that includes two ships fig
ureheads, name boards from ships,
paintings of American ships and prints
of American and foreign maritime
subjects. A gem of the collection is
painting representing British tar
kissing his sweetheart goodbye. Out
side the bungalow is balustrade
made of two ancient anchors and a
chain cable.
A Washington, Me-, correspondent
of the Lewiston Journal writes: Some
kind of wild animal is digging up
Rev. J. B. Howard's potatoes. This
marauder merely digs the potatoes out
but does not eat them. If he would
come around in digging time. Mr.. How
ard would be better pleased.-The
Kennebec Journal Gossiper. having
been skidded in animal lore by Game
Chief Brackett, would explain that the
digger was deer which dug for the
salt in the phosphate on the Murphies.
Waterville has begun it's noble fight
against the White Plague.
Only three forest fires in Names
wild lands up. to this week.
Burr c. Miller's statue of Thomas
B. Reed has arrived in Portland in
a sealed car. Dedication will be Au-
gust 81 and the grafton by Congress-
man Mccall of Winchester, Mass
President Taft will likely be present
also.
Hon. Edwin Kent of Phoenix, Ari-
zona. chief justice of the supreme court
of that state and a former resident
of Bangor. is visiting Maine this sum-
mer, and at present is at Moosehead
Lake for a camping trip. Justice
Kent is a son of one of Names for
mer State executives, the late Ex
Gov. William Kent. for whom Maine
once went
Twelve companies. comprising the
Maine Coast Artillery Corps, assem-
bled Tuesday at Portland for a 10
days tour of duty in Forts Mckinley.
Williams and Preble. The four Port
land companies were assigned to Fort
Mckinley and the Biddeford and San
ford companies as we'll The others
went to Williams and Preble Gun
practice and the entire routine of
camp service, as in the time of hos
tilities, will occupy the attention of
the companies with the regulars who
are stationed in these Notifications.
Four government steamers will repre-
sent hostile fleet the night of Au-
gust 10 and attempt to run the bat
teries, Lieut.. Newcomb. the COM
manding officer of this district, will
have charge of the exercises while
Col. Charles C. Collins of the State
forces. will command his regiment
The concrete foundation for the new
Berry shoe shop at the West End,
Portland. is finished and the work of
building upon it begun.
Miss Edith Tafiaferro. the present
"Rebecca cf Sunnybrook Farm" and
the one who will appear at the New
York opening Oct 3. at the Liberty
theatcr. will be Mrs. Wiggins guest
at Hollis for a week in August. AS
she chances to be there during the
Dorcas fair at Quillcote Aug. 10. she
will assist in all the various activities
of the occasion. The autograph book
booth will be in the orchard this year
and there Miss Talaferro will help
distribute signed copies of ''Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm and ''The New
Chronicles of Rebecca.' In Mrs. Wig
gins study will be exhibited so large
photographs of the principal scenes of
the play. and it will be interesting to
Edith Taliaferro as she describes them.
The Gulf Refining company, which
conducts a business similar to the
Standard Oil and is to establish