Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-11
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Maine GOSSIP
Penance.

Its mighty beat, its laundering surge and
sway
OF desolate nights unpierced by any star
On coasts forlorn it sheds it's tears in
vain;
Up storm-swept crags it sweeps with joy,
Falls back to sob in the old. terrible way.
Who knows but that for all the voiceless
The sea has grasped and hidden in its
heart
1t now must pay with this wild Ioneli-
Must beat forever on far solitudes
OF rock and ruin and unresponsve isles,
And sing, colossal sinner of the world,
An endless chant for its amending crimes?
Charles Hanson ToWne in The Path
finder.
A Gardiner fisherman caught fish
a few days ago at Babcock bridge
which no one there could name. A
fisherman. who has had a lot of ex-
perience in Maine lakes. to whom the
fish was shown later said that it was a
cusk and he had caught them weighing
three or four pounds. This particular
fish weighed about half a pound and
so far as heard is the only one ever
caught in the stream. How it came
there is something that hasn't been
explained.
The Portland board of trade is plan
ming for a whirlwnd tour of the State
the last of the month. 1t is planned
to visit every county in the State.
William H. Melcher, the veteran
foreman of the joiner department at
the Bath Iron Works was 81 years old
Wednesday. Sickness i'll the family
prevented his holding a reception at
his home, but he was the recipient OF
many tokens of love and friendship.
Hon. Sumner p. Mills. native of
Stonington. who has praetised law in
that town since 1904. leaves this week
with his family for Pennington, Me
a complimentary banquet was ten
dered him on the evening of May 5 by
the business men of the town at Hotel
Stonington. The POSTMASTER at the
banquet was c. p. Noon, superinten-
dent of the Benvenue Granite Co
The affair was a complete surprise to
Mr. Mills. He has had an active prac-
has represented the Stonington district
twice in the Legislature and was twice
elected to the Senate.
Steamboat men generally believe
ment officials for a Eghtship TO take
the place of the whistling buoy off
Monhegan island will be granted. The
petition is said to be very strong
one. Owing to peculiar freaks of
wind steamboat men and vessel mas
tiers in general complain that it is Of
ten hard to pick up the whistling
buoy on dark night until very near.
whereas with lightship equipped
with a fog trumpet the spot would
be plainly marked. mark off that
point is of great value to the naviga
tors of the Boston and Bangor steam
ers and to thousands of sailing mas
tiers, who pass there annually.
Even ones hen pen is not always a
safe place to be in according to news
received from East Dixmont. Mrs.
Linda Chadbourne was tending her
hens last Friday when her feet caught
in the wire and she was thrown, SO in
juring herself that she could not get
up and when discovered had to be
carried to the house. No bones were
broken but her back was quite severe
ly injured.
The first vault in the vault column
left standing in the middle of the
Morse Oliver building at Bangor was
opened Tuesday forenoon. 1t was
one of those belonging to the Bangor
& Aroostook Railroad and it's contents
were found to be safe and sound.
slight mishap to the signalling APP
paratus of the Eastern Steamship Co.
steamer, Monhegan, bound down the
Penobscot Saturday afternoon. and
having on board Calvin Austin and
other officials of the company. was the
means of slight collision with the
schooner Susie P. Oliver and the tenn
porary grounding of the steamer on
the Brewer shore. ~ ix .GNti
The late John w. Thomas. who was
for II years advertising manager of
the Rockland Courier Gazette. was
well known throughout Maine both on
account of his connection with the
paper and through the Maine Music
Festival work. He had served in both
branches of the Rockland city coun-
Gil and was active in the affairs of the
local board of trade. His loss will be
deeply felt by the city as well as by
his business associates.
The log drivers are starting early as
a dry season is feared. 1t is esti-
mated that 125, 600 900 feet of logs will
come down the Kennebec river. The
logs to come down the Penobscot west
branch are estimated at $4,000 600 feet
and on the east branch at 15,000000
feet. The entire cut on Aroostook
waters will be about 65,000,000 feet
The logs to go down the st. John will
be about 20,000,000. About 100000
will go down the Allegash and Big
Black rivers and about 100000 will
go down the Aroostook and Machias
rivers.