Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-24
Maine Gossip
An Old Orchard in the Winter.

Just who planted the orchard rows,
Bedded and firmed the tender feet,
OF the Twenty Ounce and Golden Sweet.
And the struggling clan whose branches
over Pomonas little aisles. 4.
A tumble down wall and an old rail
Guard the orchard with poor pretense;
And, pilferers. footed and winged, come
there
Even in winter when boughs are bare,
And the nuthatch hunts for his meager
Peering and pecking, this way and that,
First up. then down, like an acrobat.
Deer stroll In from the mountain pass
Gratefully nosing the buried treat
OF fruit, frost bitten, and brown and
sweet,
Brought to light by their tramping feet;
And up where weathering crabapples
cling,
All winter long to the Golden Sweet,
And the Twenty Ounce and the trees
that meet,
Neglected and old in his wild retreat,
Come bird and beast in their need akin,
,And make the old orchard their wayside
inn.
Florence Boyce Davis, in Youths Com
panion.
The life of a United States deputy
marshal in our State probably brings
more hardships to that officer than to
any other, owing to the long distan-
ces he is obliged to travel, regardless
of the weather conditions or time of
year. Deputy Marshal Hasty has
just returned to Portland from Mad
awaska, where he was sent after Eloi
Beaulieu, wanted on the charge of
smuggling a case of gin across the
border. The trip through the three
feet of snow for Is miles from the viii
lage to Beaulieu's home can better be
imagined than told. says the deputy
But he got his man, who was ar
raigned before L. S. Comr. Read at
Bangor, pleaded guilty and was COM
mitted, in default of $500 bail for APP
pearance at the April court.
Another Maine centenarian appears
in the person of Mrs. Julia Eastman
Campbell, who though uncertain of
her exact age, Is considered to be at
least 100 years old and the Oldest res
ident of York county. She resides in
the family of Mrs. Butterfield in the
Campground district, Old Orchard,
and, although having lost the use of
her lower limbs. is mentally alert and
seems to enjoy life, being always
cheerful and never complaining. She
looks 25 years younger than her sup
posed age.
Westbrook claims the best one-com-
pany armory in the State and no one
seems to arise to dispute the state
ment. The $1,000 left by the late Gov.
Henry r. Cleaves for the purpose has
been expended for furniture and the
boys have laid out about $4,000 in other
improvements leasing i tt o n
rooms to enlarge their quarters.
Imagine the wrought up condition
Of the Eastport girl, who when the
much promised and much prophecied
earthquake failed to arrive, said: Yes,
1 got all prepared to go and was dis
appointed"
The following is from the Fort Fair
field Review and does not represent
the feeling in this section of the State;
1.-THE weather has been warm most
Of the time since March began, the
roads pounding down and settling a
little, helped out by the good innu-
ences of snow plows, which are par
ticularly useful at this time Of year.
The Fort Fairfield Review. in re-
marking that the Bangor & Aroos-
took delivered 1,12o,17o bushels OF po-
tatoes from March to IA at Northern
Maine Junction, quotes warning sent
out by the United States department
of agriculture that this country will
in all probability have to raise all It's
potatoes for some years. we see no
reason why this cannot be done. for
we are already raising the finest po-
tatoes grown in the world ana we
have the land to raise so many more
that all the other countries, II they
become tired of the work, can oepenu
on us for their 'spuds." The warn
ing goes on to say that II Maine. New
York, Michigan, Wisconsin and Min
nesota alone were to plant one-eighth
of their arabic land in potatoes, as
Germany does the product would
amount to over one-half billion BUSH
els. which is four and one-haif times
the present production OF the whole
United States.
The inside cause Of the entire Sen
ior class of Bowdoin College being
placed on probation has not been CIV
en- to the public, but the occurrence
does bring out to the public view
that intense feeling Of class loyalty
that exists in every college. some-
times being adhered to up to the point
of being overdone.
The erection by George w. Eiklns'
the philadelphia millionaire. of a $40,
oOs summer residence on Hope Island,
Casco bay, will be a handsome addi-
ton to the summer colony. About half
of that sum in addition also will be
spent on the grounds. The real estate
deal is one Of the largest made in that
section for some years. The contract
calls for the completion OF the cot
tage by Oct. /. 1914.
Fred e. Hathorne, superintendent
engineer of the side-wheel steamers
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