Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-08-30
Maine Gossip
Sonnet.

Sonnet.
(Alice Stanwood Willoughby)
When I am dead, and laid away from
view
I'll tread those paths where I have
| loved to roam,
| Seek dark green isles, Whlte-Wreathed
| with cleaning foam,
And rocky hill-tops. kissed by fragrant
dew.
Or wander forth. led by some friendly
To learn its secret, now unknown, or
The moon call to the amorous sea, nor
On noiseless, instant wing to travel far.
Then at your side I'll pause, in wonder
| deep.
| ence there. -,
Old memories. slumbering now. will
wake instead.
And you will sigh, and turn again 10
| sleep, =.
And dream of days departed. bright
All me. How happy are the quiet dead!
Tho old steamer State Of Maine.
which formerly was operated between
Portland and st. John. N. B.. is now
running night trips out of Phllaoel-
phia in command Of Capt George w.
! Collins Of Boston. She has been thor
oughly overhauled and renamed Cape
May.
Laden with 11060O bushels of wheat
for the Belgian Relies Commission, the
Norwegian steamer Felix sailed Tues
day from Portland for Rotterdam. An
other grain cargo for the Belgians VII!
be taken by the steamer Snestad' now
at Portland, having left Rotterdam -
days ago.
Supreme knight James F. Flaherty
of the knights Of Columbus, from
PHILADELPHIA, is to visit Maine next
month and plans to meet the members
of the order on certain dates In the
larger places as follows: Biddetoro'
Sept. 25: Portland, Sept 26; Lewiston
Sept 81; Augusta, Sept. 2S; Bangor
Sept %.
Mounted Officer James Clifford OF old
Orchard, for unbecoming conduct ana
discourtesy to travelling auto parties
and motorists has been dismissed from
the force. Complaints relative to his
Iconduct have been numerous and after
one of the seectmen on Sunday wit
messed a scene in which he was con-
iyinced the officer was at fault, Chief
of Police Robinson dismissed Clifford.
| The growth Of hotels and apartment
houses in Portland in the last few
years has been phenomenal and evil
IDENTIFY a paying proposition. for new
plans are constantly being heard of.
The latest is an offer by Boston syn
dicate for the southeast corner OF
Longfelow square, including Nos. 173
to 1S1 State street and on Congress
street from State to Wyman's restau-
rant, the ground to be used for hotel
or apartment house.
| The automobile census taken last
Sunday at Dunstan between the hours
of A. NJ. and P. NJ. showed %
states, including Maine represented, as
| follows:
Massachusetts. 23o: New York. As;
Pennsylvania, Is; Maryland, Z; New
Hampshire, 46; New Jersey, 70; Ver-
mont, 4; Rhode Island, 10; Indiana, 2;
Connecticut, 16; Ontario, 2; Virginia.
| 8; Michigan, 6; Ohio. g. New Bruns-
wick, / Illinois, 5; Kansas, 2; Califor-
MIA, /; Kentucky, /; Quebec, l.
Large shipments of fish are contin-
uously being made from the United
States fish hatchery at Craigs Brook,
East Orland, which is in a most -four
ishing condition. The following ship
ments have been made in the last few
weeks: 1000 salmon to Nehasane. N.
Y, 1000 to Kennebago, Me-. 1900 to
Norway, also 1000 brook trout to Nor
way, and 1000 Of the same to Kenne-
bago, while Monday August %, 1000
more salmon were shipped to Nehas-
ane, N. Y. The above were all finger
lings number g.
The three daughters of Walter Dam
rosch, director Of the New York Phil
harmonic Orchestra, whose failure to
return Sunday evening to their Bar
Harbor summer home, alarmed their |
relatives and friends, after they had !
left on a mountain climbing trip, We're |
found early Monday on the top of |
Green mountain by searching party |
They said they had lost their way. |
When found by the searching party |
the girls-Gretchen, Polly and Anita
were sitting together, tired out and |
hungry. They intended to rest and |
start out again at daylight
Eastport Letter-A large sturgeon, |
hi Oh L.
miles down the bay during the past
week, was brought to Factory AS of |
the Seacoast Canning Co., and was cut |
up for distribution among some of the |
employees. sturgeon is a rarity in |
this section.
A visitor from another county who |
in Ra Aiaxao.- -.