Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-10
Maine Gossip
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And lucky carter handled ice
And was wandering, In a trice.
Far from the gray and grimy heat
| OF that intolerable street,
Der sapphire berg and emerald foe,
Beneath the still, cold. ruby glow
| OF everlasting polar night,
Bewildercd by tho queer half-llght,
Until stumbled. unawares,
Upon a creek where big white bears
Plunged headlong down with fourished
| heels
And fioundered after shining seals
Through shivering seas of binding blue,
| And as l watched them. ere I knew
I'd stript. and l was swimming, too.
Among the seal-pack, young and hale,
| And thrusting on with thrashing tail,
With twist and twirl and sudden leap,
Through cracking ice and salty deep
Diving and doubling with my kind,
Until, at last, we left behind
Those big, white. laundering bulks Of
And lay. at length. with painting breath
Upon far, untraveled foe
Beneath a gentle drift of snow
Snow drifting gently, fine and white,
Out Of the endless polar night,
Falling and falling evermore
| Upon that far-untraveled shore,
TIL I was buried fathoms deep
Beneath that cold, white drifting sleep
Deep drifting sleep -
The carter cracked sudden whip:
clutched my stool with startled grip,
Awakening to the grimy heat
OF that intoierable street.
l-Wilfrid Wilson Gibson in Battle and
| Other Poems"
The mills on the Androscoggin fig
ure that they have 201-days water
supply on hand, every storage basin on
the water shed being full to running
over, a condition never before known.
It is estimated that he contents total
$1,000 100000 cubic feet.
Next Wednesday and Thursday are
the dates for the Grand Army En-
campment at Portland The local
patriotic organizations are making
elabroate plans for the entertainment
Of the veterans and the affiliated
bodies.
It may not compare with the size Of
some Of the Western wheat fields, but
Is acres in one strawberry patch is a
ress. Howard F.. Maxim of Bethel
Me, owns it and he expects to raise
about $4,000 baskets of strawberries
this season.
| A total of "A salmon had been taken
at the Bangor salmon pool up to We'd
nesday night, almost so per cent more
than all last season. One fisherman
who Wednesday evening had fished
until he couldn't see the surface of the
water hooked a fish about s o'clock
| Mo
a. messenger returned from the city
with an electric torch, with the light of
which he landed his salmon. the 12t.l
taken from the pool that day.
Valley Herald under date of June 4
says:
Joseph Albert Smith, who halls from
Dallas. Texas. and claims a high dive
record Of $50 feet, as we'll as the added
distinction of walking across Death
Valley and visiting every state in the
Union, is going to perform another
rather wonderful feat next Sunday.
Mr.. Smith is going over Hiram Falls
in barrel He doesn't say whether
it will be flour barrel, pork barrel
or what he's going after.
| Word from Houlton SAYS:
| 1t is the general opinion that grass
and grain never looked better at this
time in the year. bountiful crops APP
parently being already assured. The
potatoes in many fields are breaking
ground and while it is too early to
I oil
would seem as If the weather up to
this time had been very favorable for
good stand of tops at least. There
is still quite an active demand for
old potatoes, the price being about
$3.50 per barrel for hard stock.
There used to be chalked on Il
plank on the cliff at Rockledge the
information that one day from that
cliff top had been counted 100 YES
sells bound into the Kennebec, recalls
the Bath Times. This was in days
when New York depended on the Ken
nebec for ice. In those days there
were at one time, IA tugs working on
are reported to have taken up at one
haul II vessels.
| A full-rigged ship for the first time
in many years is in Portland harbor,
anchored in the lower harbor sur
rounded by transatlantic liners, coast
wise schooners and steamers. The
| square-rigger is the Norwegian ship.
Saudvigen. which arrived late We'd
nesday night after splendid voyage
! Of 81 days from Bristol, Eng. The
Sandvigen like many Of the steamships
| coming to Portland under the flag of
! neutral has the national flag of her
country painted on the sides of her
hull. The ship is consigned to James
NJ. McDougal. local manager of the
Cunard line and will load a big cargo
Of canned fruit for European port.
Corinna, Brooks, Dexter Cherryfeld,
Guilford. Weld. Greenwood, Wales. King
field, Moscow and Ripley are each 100
years of age this year and Georgetown
will celebrate her 2O0th anniversary.