Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-17
Maine Gossip
The Cherished.

How O0Q a way idS
The moments that we deemed
The greatest long ago
Are now no more esteemed.
But. ah, the memories,
The fragile dreams that CHING
AS on old ruins bloom
Shy flowers Of the spring.
They linser with us still
In fresh, familiar gulse,
Reminders of old years,
OF other lands and skies.
A whisper In the dusk.
A kindly word, smile
They greet us from the past
And all our moods peguNe
We gave them not thought
In that dim long ago.
Now with a halo bright
OF love they CLEAN and glow.
Arthur Wallace Peach. in Springfield
Republican.
The people of Islesboro fear that they
have a firebug in their midst or one pay
ing the island regular visits and every
effort is being made to discover his lden-
tity. The fires began on Sept. :, with
the burning of the old Sand Beach mouse,
vacated two days before by its owner,
DR.. Walter Seelye of Worcester, Mass.
1t was an old house but had been extern
sively remodeled. On Sept. about r.
NJ, the $4,000 cottage of Arthur Brooks
of Cambridge, Mass. was burned ~
hours after the family had gone nome.
Cranberry Isle then lost the house owned
BY J. H. Hamor and occupied by Arnold
Weed, fire being discovered the next
evening and the family having left in the
morning for days visit in southwest
Harbor. Two fires took place on the 1oi-
lowing night. the ice house of Capt. Gill
bert Hadlock. near the Prof. Sa"teiie
cottage, being destroyed and Capt Had
locks barn. half mile away, quickly
following. Close watch is being kept and
an early arrest Is expected.
One report from the opening of the pub
lie schools is almost identical from all
sections-the attendance is the largest in
the history Of the school.
DR.. W. j. Bickford of Munich, Ger
many, and his brother, w. NJ. Bickford
Of Missoula, Montana, are visiting in
Portland. guests of Deputy Sheriff
Moulton The two are natives OF
Maine, having been born in Bangor
and some years ago left to seek their
fortunes afar. W. NJ. Bickford went
West IS years ago and for the past
80 years has been located in Montana
He is associated with Senator Clark
as an official in a number OF cor
porations. DR.. Bickford has been To-
Gated in Munich for the past 2S years
He returned to this country sept. L
and intends to locate permanently in
this State. DR.. Bickford states that
when he left Germany the feeling was
that matters were fast reaching a
crisis between that country and the
United States. Everybody is now re-
duced to the bare necessities of life,
but prices have been advanced but
very little, except for certain luxuries.
Since the coming Of Italy into the
complication. lemons are now two for
% cents. Fresh eggs are four cents
each and butter is so cents a pound.
Grover C. Richards treasurer OF the
E. c. Richards Co. of Portland and at
one time treasurer Of the Metropolitan
Steamship Company. has been sum-
moned to appear at the trial of VIM.
Rockefeller and others connected with
the New York. New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad Co, to determine the
guilt of the directors named in the in
dictment as returned by the Federal
grand jury, in relation to misuse OF
funds intrusted to their care. 1t was
through the revelations made by Mr.
Richards at the hearing before the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
sometime ago in Washington, that the
Federal grand jury found a true bill
against the stockholders at whose
head is VIM. Rockefeller The trial is
to occur in New York city Oct. 10.
Mr. Richards, as treasurer. for the
Metropolitan Steamship Co. a sub
sidiary company Of the New York.
New Haven & Hartford. through
whose hands money to the amount OF
100000 odd passed. will tell of his
connection with the company at the
time of the alleged misuse of moneys.
The State Fair at Lewiston was
just as bad as ever remarked sew
eral who attended. Nothing but a
bunch Of takers. skin games and
oI-de-rol. How such a show gets a
stipend from the State is a mystery"
Franklin Journal. Sept. IA.
While Willis NJ. Abbott of Abbott
Bros Lewiston, was at his camp in
Monmouth the other day. he decided
to take the children in bathing and
give them a arst lesson in swimming.
His boy Is about nine years old and his
girl is Ave. just the right age to be-
gin to get them accustomed to the
water. So they made ready and tod
died along TO the lake. All the way
down the lit1e girl kept piping up Il
can swim papa. I know how you do
it." Huh" said the boy with a fine
Penrod SchoIield air, so kin l. I can
beat her" You can't either of you
SWIM" SAID papa, but I'll show
you" So on. they walked toward the
pier where the water is several feet
deep. AS they neared the edge Mrsl
Abbott began to look for the hoati