Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

The notes trip blithe along.
Then up the path, hand close in hand.
A lad and lassie came,
| And in my dreaming mind thought
Was kindled into flame.
Down in the vale a lad had asked
A lassie for her love,
And thicket-hid, the thrush-shy elf
Had listened from above.
And when the lassie answered low.
Asserting tenderly,
The thrush had phrased the laddie's JOY
In lyric ecstacy!
Arthur Wallace Peach.
Another peculiar notice in the posting"
line quickly follows the retraction notice
mentioned yesterday in this column, COM
ing from a Camden woman. who an
nounces that, having left her husband,
his bed and board, for good and SUM-
! cient reasons, II shall contract no bills
for him to pay, nor have any claim on
him whatever after this date Some
pep and business to that, Ell?
| When Governor Curtis drove up to Mu-
sic Hall entrance Friday evening and
| left his car wrong-end to, he was obliged
by Bath police officer to make the prop
err change and the Governor admitted that
the policeman was in the right. says the
Bath Times, which continues: The fact
that the police here are not afraid to set
Governor right, gives hope that IN que
course other automobile regulations, sucn
as turning corners on the wrong sioe'
over speeding on city highways and rail-
ure to blow horns at street crossings, may
be enforced for the safety of pedestrians.
NJ. A. Hanna of Portland says that
"grayfish," the Washington name for
dogf1sh, is not as new or original as
the newspaper fraternity and the gen.
eral public appear to think II u.s.
Away back in the 1S50s there was a
considerable crew of men pursuing
the fishing business in and about
Johns Bay and Pemaquid Point.
Among the men thus employed was
one Joseph Gray, who went alone IN
small Hampton boat. While MS
fellow fishers would bring in profita-
Bile catches of cod, hake and haddock,
GRAY was certain to be high line on
dogfish. In fact these pests seemed
to have a decided preference for Joe's
bait and enjoyed being caught by him.
Naturally the other fishermen got to
calling his catch "grayfish," and by
that name they went in that locality
for many years."
| Here is a little news item which will
save Ralph P. Conant many rehears-
ais Of the peculiar accident which ac-
counts for his present limp. says the
Rockland Courier Gazette. Mr.. Con-
ant went to Hospital Point after his
COW, and was leading moolie home by
rope. Noodle was the female Of the
species, and it entered her capricious
brain to have little 1rlsk. Ihere
followed a series Of strategic moves
that would bewilder anybody but
farmer who has had long acquaint-
ance with kline. Ralph would have
eventually won the game if he had not
made a mis-step and plunged over an
embankment. The COW followed, ana
Jumped both feet onto one OF Ralph's
tcotsies. And that's why Ralph is
giving such a correct imitation Of
| very lame man.
Aroostook has such a tremendous
| hay crop this year that the barns are
full to overlooking and the farmers
are at loss to know what to do with
their grain.
And now, although the following
item from Cupsuptic Lake letter in
Maine Woods doesn't say so. the man
is undoubtedly fishing f1end:
Lawyer Powelrs friend, M. NJ. Ster-
ling of Brooklyn, N. Y, is for the
first time learning the art of fly
fishing. Mr.. Powell took him up
stream in a canoe and gave him his
first lesson in casting the fly, and
after catching his hook in the boat.
losing a leader and flies in tree,
hooking the Philadelphia lawyer by
the coat collar, he struck his first
trout and the fascination kept him
until the sun was behind the hills
and he had landed fish enough for
breakfast.
In the current issue of the Catholic
Historical magazine is a review of the
activity in church building. showing
that this department is making as
much progress as any other in the
State. During the recent visit Of
Bishop Walsh to Piscataquis and adj
Joining counties he dedicated churches
at Brownville Riley village and Moose
river, while at Boothbay land has been
purchased far a new church. The
bishop also confirmed hundreds Of
children.
Thorne's Head. near Bath, will no
longer be open to the public Signs
warning against trespass were set
up last week. The spot is at the
extreme end Of the city, from
which there is slightly view
up the Kennebec river toward Merry
meetin6 bay. Wilkinson's cave is To-
Gated there. This is a cave made IA
nous by the fact that Daniel Willsin-
son, who in 1882 shot and killed Police
Officer Lawrence, concealed himself
there several days after the crime.
Wilkinson was the last man hanged in
Maine. His execution took place in
| 1885, and since that time the cave has