Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-23
Maine Gossip
A Wet Meadow.

A Wet Meadow.
| The billcwy mists are drifting heecy
white
Adown the grassy meadows half asleep;
O'erhung with earthly tear-drops, prone
| And then. rejoice. For Heavens great
scarlet light ~
Ablaze on high falls Infinitely bright
! on MOSES fresh and rosy pools that
To catch the sun. on blossomings that
Joy-cups upturned and on the bluebird' 5
fight. s
! o vain earth-tearsl-Ah, whittier has 1t
! gone, !.
Thy smile,
! O God Of graciousness, a mist swept onl
And our joy-fiowers flash into gold, the
while
We wonder at the glory and the gleam!
The glory, real the grief, dewy dream,
Caroline d. Swan, in 'Catholfc Worid.
COPIED widely0
Because Joel Sutinen. Finn, of
South Waldoboro finally grabbed a
pitchfork and banged one Emile OF
East Friendship over the head, after
Emile and fellow countryman had
held him up and went through his
and at their mercy on the highway,
Emile made a complaint of assault.
Judge Partridge heard the case at
Waldoboro and after learning that
Sustinen's family had stood great
deal of annoyance from the complain
ant promptly discharged the respond
ent.
To- n@ C4ay-i INC xseI la
needs a dormitory and the Board of
Trade has taken hold of the matter,
a committee having been appointed
to see what can be done toward Sc
curing one. The committee will re-
port June 2.
The men of the Coast Artillery Re
serve Band are being inoculated
against typhoid, according to the reg
ulations of the war department and
the Maine Medical Corps. When the
Reserves go into camp the coming
summer all the members will have
been vaccinated.
John Selfengo must have good
and forgiving disposition-in fact he
has proved it. John is in the ST.
Mary's General hospital at Lewiston,
suffering with great cut on the
head, inflicted by fellow countryman,
during a little misunderstanding. He
insists that they We're fooling and
that the injury was accidental, but
others say that a quarrel arose and
Michael Tejescak hit him with a hea-
Wy iron bar. The men had worked
together for several years.
Fifty years ago we had just heard
that Capts. Clark and Walker of the
18th Maine had died at Fredericks-
burg; Colonels Conner. Ladd and West
were reported to be doing well; Gems.
Johnson and Stewart with 400 rebel
officers and men had been placed In
Fort Delaware and they didn't like
either the quarters or their compan-
ions; and that Gov. Coney, who was
in Washington, had received permits
sion from the government to fit some
of the barracks at Augusta for
wounded soldiers from the battle
fields of Virginia and he had made
arrangements for 200 of the wounded
men to be Immediately sent on.
The Bangor Anti Tuberculosis As
ISOLATION has decided to rebuild on
the site of the sanatorium burned last
fall on Kenduskeag avenue. 1t is I'M
derstood that the new plant will ac-
commodate 20 patients. 10 male and
10 female. 1t is planned to have
modern plant and the expense will
be about $4,000, it is estimated.
Isaac Davis of Bath, who was en-
ployed in a Woolwieh lumber camp,
disappeared Dec. % last. He had
started in a small boat for Bath and
was supposed to have been caught
by the heavy drift ice and persisted
The body was found Thursday morn
ing off Trotts cove in the east bank
of the Kennebec, near Days Ferry.
The general committee on centennial
for Newport June 18th, are busy now
perfecting plans whereby the guests
can all be fed and enjoy the day.
There will be seats scattered around
the village and ice water for all.-Ex-
change.
Why not give 'em cordwoed and save
the seats?
Several Maine Homeopathic physi-
clans are planning to attend the 10th
annual convention of the American
Institute of Homeopathy to be held
from June 20 to July inclusive in At
lantic City, N. j. This was the first
national medical society ever organ
lied in this country. The coming