Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-30
Maine Gossip
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(SOmervllle JOurnal.)
On that glad, glad day when my ship
ThereIl be slathers of JOY for me.
My heart will dance, and my voice will
sing
The song of the glad and free.
For I've waited long in weary way
For my ship with it's golden store,
And I've watched in vain, with strain
From a desolate, lonesome shore.
On that joyous day when my ship comes
may bid farewell to care.
And life hencefOrth Will be bllthe ana
With skies that are always fair.
To that blissful day when my ship comes
/ am looking ahead. you bet.
But there's always this saddening thought
1 haven't launched her yet.
School books were rudely cast aside
Tuesday morning when it became gem
orally known on Peaks Island that
moving picture company was paying
every child which it could shire the sum
Of so cents for being movie actor for
day. Teachers went to their school
rooms as usual. but no groups of smiling
pupils greeted them. Only few of the
students who had not heard of the
chance for easy money and reputation
as an actor were in their seats at the tap
of the bell. To every adult who would
enter a particular scene on the island
Tuesday the sum of 81 was paid, and 50
cents to every child. Every person who
passed there was halted and CARRIED in
oiiskins for the scene. And the school
children made it point to pass there.
for news travels fast over Peaks Island.
Canadian fishermen and weir owners
who were in Eastport Monday from
many Of the island settlements a few
miles down the bay, stated that ex-
tensive damage was done to Dominion
fish weir property during the severe
rain and wind storm Of Sunday and
numbers Of the valuable weirs along
the Canadian shores had been so badly
damaged along the top. and even un-s
der water. that they may not be re-
paired this season. Many of these
weirs cost from $500 to $1,000 and II is
necessary every spring to add neg.
material to get them back into c0n*e
lition after the severe winters inTthis,
section. The present low prices for
which the herring are now being sold,
from 81 to 50 hogshead. to the east.s
ern Maine Gamers. may prevent the.
Dominion owners from fitting up their
weir property until next spring. at
The building operations throukhss
out Portland for the month of Sep-
TENDER show an increase over thosA
of the corresponding period of last
year. Forty-one permits have been
taken out this season, during Sept4
Der, as against % last year. The -
timated cost Of the dwellings. gara1k1
etc. is this year $4,000 as aga21Ms
$4,000 last September
Charles E. Darling, superintendent
of the Enfield Hatchery, was in Ban
gor Tuesday with a large shipment Of
salmon going to the hatchery. Mr..
Darling left in the AFTERNOON with his
shipment for Enfield, WheAe he. will
make smaller shipments 81 the fish to
the different parts Of the STATE. Car
thou pond and Egg pond, 10Th in the
vicinity Of Lincoln will receive 1000
salmon. FArrow lake at Topsfield and
F1tx pond at Clifton will receive the
-eo1nS amounts. Five thousand will
~ yShipped to GardiHers lake at East
two shipments Of 1850
SlAch viii 90 to Haywood lake. Alexan-
der, two appiic&tiDns having been
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