Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-07
Maine Gossip
The Autumn.

(By William d. Gallagher)
The Autumn time is with us! Its APP
| proach
Was heralded, not many days ago,
BY hazy skies that yelled the brazen sun.
And sea-like murmurs from the rustling
| corn,
And low-voiced brooks that wandered
drowsily
Swinging upon the vine. And now, It's
here
And what a change hath passed upon
OF Nature, where thy waving forests
spread,
Then robed in deepest green! All through
The subtle frost hath Piled it's mystic art.
And in the day the golden sun hath
! wrought
True wonders; and the wings of morn and
| even
Have touched with magic breath the
changing leaves.
And now. as wanders the dilatipg eye
Athwart the varied landscape circlfng
far,
What gorgeousness, what biazonry, what
OF colors bursts upon the ravished sight!
Here, where the maple rears its yellow
crest,
A golden glory; yonder, where the oak
Stands monarch of the forest, and the
ash
Is girt with fame-like parasite, and broad
The lockwood spreads beneath rolling
field
OF deepest crimson; and affair, where
looms
The gnaried gum, cloud of bloodiest
red!
The following was included in the
/ Civil War news of 80 years ago: The
9TH, 9th and 18th Maine Regiments
had been consolidated and the war
department designated the new or
ganization as the 1st Maine Veteran
Volunteers; the United States frigate
Sabine sailed Oct. for Hampton
Roads; Nahum Morrill, of Auburn had
Just received his commission as
provost marshal; the gang of pirates
which has been operating on Lake
Erie, the leaders of which were said
to have been Englishmen. had not
been located. although vigorous search
had been made by United States Of
ficers.
Lewiston is delighted over the an
nouncement that she is to have new
hotel, through the assurances given 5.
Ii. Locke, the promoter of the scheme,
of financial backing from Auburn ana
Lewiston men sufficient to erect
building costing from $4,000 to
$500, 900.
Those big founders off the wharf at
Popham which were SO plenty during
the summer, have disappeared from
the wharf vicinity and have gone into
Morse's river where they are being
speared. They are not sand-dabs, put
are almost as large, some of them be-
ing Is inches to two feet in length
with an inch of flesh on their backs.
The natives down there cook them by
slashing their backs, laying on strips
of pork and baking them. They are
fine this way.
Detective w. B. Watts, formerly a
Boston police inspector, was in Rock
land the other day and recovered a
valuable piece of jewelry, which mad
been stolen from wealthy Boston
woman. and subsequently sold to
Rockland man. No arrests were
made there. Detective Watts pres
ence recalls to the Rockland Courier
Gazette a memorable visit which he
made to that city 20 years ago, when
he captured at the Thorndike hotel a
noted burglar named Lawry, whose
nervy feat was the embarrassing or
the window of Maynard's jewelry
store in Boston, and then helping
himself to valuables while hundreds
were passing at MONDAY. City Clerk
Donohue was then night clerk at the
Thorndike, and conducted Inspector
Watts to Lawry's room where the ar
rest was made. The story created
quite a newspaper sensation.
A Bath man neglected to pur-
chase some potatoes and he had COM
pany in to dinner Sunday evening.
He did not care to borrow and he
was in a pickle with his dinner bill
of fare. Just then he reflected that
he had planted for fun last spring
late some potatoes on an ash head
in his backyard and as last resort
he took a spade and began digging
Greatly to his surprise, he dug mess
of handsome new Murphys from one
bill, the potatoes being just right in
size and ripeness for the pot.
Bath Times has heard is that the idea
comes from the Maine Central this
time to do away with the grade
crossing at Blind Crossing by tun-
nelling under the track at this To-
cality, the railroad people figuring
that the cost of the improvement
would pay for itself as the expense
would not amount to more than the
principal whose interest now pays
for the gatetender at this crossing.
BY running the tunnel beneath the
track, the only argument against
running the State road through Bath
another year over the old stage
road, falls to the ground and there
will be no need in such case to
| build an expensive concrete bridge
across the New Meadows.
Harry M. Heating, clerk in the