Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-16
Maine Gossip
Give Patience.

| (By Elizabeth Powers Merrill.)
Though fortune snatch from us the
things of lfe 49,
Though honor, power, wealth. fade ike
Though death tuntimely) seize those
Leaving US sore bereft. blind, helpless,
| weak
Deep-sinking in the quicksands of dis
| trust,
stili give us patience. patient Son of
| Cod
| When war the wide world sweeps. when
| boom the guns
And CLEAN the bayonets, when bombs
OF held bring death and carnage unre-
When men give up the things that make
With mangled bodies mark the victor's
| path
Then of thy patience give o Son of
! God
When all is gone and only hope remains
To lead us over unfamiliar ways,
Amid gloom, which gloom we cannot
pierce,
AS heartsore, weary. and distressed, we
march
To that high city of our highest hopes
! Give of thy patience, patiens Son OF
Cod
A Bath man made a tour Tuesday
of the fruit stores looking for eating
apples and was somewhat surprised
In not being able to find any. There
were big displays of oranges, pears
and other fruit, but no apples. He was
| further surprised when informed by
the merchants that they had great diff
ficulty in securing local apples. One
merchant said: ut is impossible to get
| the farmers to bring apples in that
are suitable for retail trade and we are
| obliged to send to Boston and purchase
western apples. You can say" added
the merchant, the fault is not with
| the dealers but with the farmers
They could get a good price for fancy
apples any time in the local market.
The summer cottage at Sabine own
| ed by Joseph c. Footer of Bath, was
| Wednesday destroyed by fire. The loss
was covered by insurance. Mr.. Foot
| err and several friends were at the cot
tage during the afternoon and had
been gone only a short time before
the fire broke out. They went to take
one of the party to New Meadows ana
when they returned the cottage was
| in ruins. Samuel Bates of Sabino,
| Capt. S. r. Percy and II. l.. Grinneil
/ of Bath who were at Sabine at the
time, discovered the fire and after
strenuous battle succeeded in saving
the Humphrey A. owen cottage, stu
ated about 80 feet from the F'ooter
cottage. The fire spread to WITHIN
several feet of the Owen cottage. Mr..
Footer said that when they left there
was a fire in the kitchen stove but 1t
was shut up and everything was safe.
| Mr.. Owen lost lot of cord wood ana
an old skiff. The Footer cottage was
originally built by Joseph Thurlow
and later purchased by H. d. Maxwell
| who sold to Mr.. Footer.
Mate Hodgkins of the Virginia in
forms the Bath Times that every eve
ming at dusk RATS of black ducks
which have been at sea during the day
in clouds fly over Popham for Merry
meeting Bay, returning at day light
in the early morning. This accounts
for there being no birds on the Bay
during the day. They are college
learnt as Uncle Sam Ward used to
say of the ducks.
Electric lights for Squirrel Island is
the latest proposition and the hundreds
of summer residents of that beautiful
| island will hail the idea with joy. E.
w Gross of Berlin, N. H., owner of
the Boothbay Harbor electric lighting
| plant, was in that town last week
looking over the plant and business.
He said he had been having correspon-
dence with Squirrel Island people re-
garding lighting the island and on his
part was willing to carry the wires to
the end of Spruce point, where the ISL
anders can connect by cable. There
is the opportunity-it is now up to the
| cottagers.
The Golden wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs, Issacher w, Jellison of
North Saco was observed Sunday.
Members of the family and callers by
the score were present. A family din
ner was served at noon. They have
four children and eight grandchildren.
| Mr.. Jellison was born April II, 1874 in
Lyman and Mrs. Jellison was born
| Oct. 10, 1874 in Portland.
A meeting of the creditors Of the
Portland, Bath, Casco Bay Rapid
Transit Co., was recently held in Port
land and various plans looking toward
a reorganization of the company were
| discussed. and 1t Wa voted to leave
the matter in the hands of Walter E.
| Reid, who at an adjourned meeting to
be held on Oct. e will submit a plan
in that direction. 1t Is Mr. Reds in
tention to place the line on a basis
| that will permit continuance OF the
steamboat service maintained by the
company the past summer.
The Jordan brothers Of Richmond
Island carried to Portland last week
the strangest fish that has ever at
tracted the attention Of the fishermen
and fish dealers of that port. 1t was
what is commonly known as an cleo
trio fish, for. according to the tales of
fishermen. the fish when alive is by
some mysterious power capable of i'm
parting to it's enemies an electric shock
| of a voltaea high enough to give 1t