Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-30


| can hear the whipper-lark
WhiStlin up there in the dark.
Hear the stars with footballs light,
Tinkle, tinkle down the night.
Jest like Is little child
Till enchanted an beguiled,
Pipers come a-pipin' low
Loves old song of long ago.
the Jolly Tilt an fun
Settin out here i'm the sun,
Tangled with a bluebell's wing.
When you're hankern' fer spring.
Herbert Randall, in Hartford Courant.
january, 1919
Courier Gazette: Walter Martin Of
Martins Corner is not seeking a Car
negie medal. but he did real service
last Friday when he fished a small
child from the excavation between the
street car rails at the corner 'ef Maine
and Park streets where the telephone
company was building a conduit The
excavation was filled with water. and
the kiddie was not having a real happy
time when Sir Walter Raleigh Martin
went to the rescue.
Sidney c. Harden of Rangeley, who
had been visiting his brother, Fred E.
Harden, Bunker street. Rockland, re-
turned Thursday. This was his first
home visit in 81 years. He is a guide
we'll known in the Rangeley region,
and has lately established camps there
which are popular resorts for the
sportsmen. He has acted as guide the
past six years for Garrett A. Hobart,
son Of the late vice president Within
easy access from his new camp, which
is located at Long Pond. Rangeley. are
q lakes and ponds in all of which good
fishing is TO be found. Mr.. Harden re-
ports two feet of snow in the woods,
and Is inches of ice in the lakes.
situation which is in striking contrast
to what he found down in Knox.
People along the Saeo river are am
tieipatng that. with two new boats
building for passenger service, there
will be some lively competition in that
line during the coming season. Some
weeks ago it was announced that Capt.
Edwin Nj. Piper. who has run a boat
between the Saco wharves and the pier
at the mouth of the river for num-
Der of years, was having a new boat
built which would not only run to
the pier but would also connect with
Lorenzo and Albert Norwood, who have
for number Of years run a boat be-
tween the pier and the Pool, are hav-
ing a new craft built and will not only
cater to the traffic at the mouth of the
river but will run boat between the
pier and the Saco WharVes. In order
that the business may be thoroughly
cared for the boat now owned by them,
the Two Brothers, will be retained one
craft plying between the pier and the
Pool while the other will run between
the wharves and the pier. In this way
frequent trips can be made. The boat
which the Norwood Bros. are having
built will be one of the finest ever
seen on the Saco. 1t viii be 40 feet $
inches long, 10 feet beam and viii
draw three feet Of water. 1t will he
equipped with an 1s-horse power Buf-
falo engine. This will insure aispeedy
craft 1t is being built by the Portland
Ship Building Co of South Portland.
There came to the iRockland post
Office early in the present month, says
the Courier Gazette letter post
parked Ripley, Tennessee, and adj
dress ID to Stearns Graves, Stearns
Graves, who served in the navy dur
ing the Civil War, died at Round Pond
some l. years ago. The letter being
advertised was called for by his Sis
ter. Mrs Louise D. Stahl, who found
it to be from her brother, Erastus
Dean Graves. who went away from
Rockland 40 years ago, and not having
been heard from since shortly after
a. tgiN a
dead. by the surviving members of the
| family, who are Mrs. Stahl and Ephrl-
am D. Graves of this city and John ID.
Graves of West Rockport. Mr. Graves
who on leaving Rockland as u young
man took the name of Hall, writes
that he and his wife, living at Ripley,
| Tenn. are well, and he desires 10 near
from his old home. Mrs. Stahl prompt
! ly sent off letter in reply and is now
awaiting further news from the long
| lost brother.
The Biddeford Journal says that the
| claip of Fred Collum of Saco to have
seen the first robin of the season has
reopened a question which was, last
winter. a source of lively discussion,
and which does rot seem to have been
| settled in a way that was wholly sat
| isfactory. The Journal says that the
authorities insisted that the birds seen,
last winter We're pine grosbeaks. and
really, except perhaps for a similarity
III size, there would seem but little rea-
son for confusing the robin and the
pine grosbeak. In the latter, the bill.
unlike that of the robin is short, OBJ
fuse and turgid. like that of the bull
| finch. Another striking difference is
in the color. The male grosbeak is
chiefly dull carmine or lake-red, shad-
ed with black and gray in some places,
and varied with white. The female is
gray, heightened in some places with
| saffron yellow.