Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-18
Maine Gossip
Our Squirrel Island Song.
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(Dr. 8. p. MerrillO

Thy breath is all balmy with MOWERS,
Thy woods watt their fragrance SO free;
Thy rocks glisten white DER the waters,
A. welcome Of Joy to our view.
And grateful thy sons and thy daughters
Here Hope lights anew her proud beacon,
Here Health waits again evermore;
Here, Friendship renews her fond greet
Here Rest lures us safe to the shore.
Thy waves tapping music before us,
Sweet songs of the birds floating Ger US,
AS we raise here the red, white and
blue.
Here memory. holds her fair treasures
OF Fellowship, Truth and of Love;
And brightly they sparkle around us
AS the stars in the azure above.
Here aged and youth stand together
Pledging Squirrels we'll ever be true
With glad hearts and voices uplifted
| AS we float here the red, white and blue
The Maine Central will build depot
to replace the one recently burned at
Lewiston and Supt. Mcdonald asks the
closing and removal Of the Hammond
street overhead bridge, to permit the
re- arrangement Of the tracks and to
provide for better freight facilities.
Joseph Hatfield, aged "a, a farmland
employed on a South Brewer farm, has
disappeared and his wife and two chill
dren. the younger only three weeks
old. are left without means. He went
away last week. taking his savings of
$50 and saying he was going to Bangor
to buy some clothes and has not since
been seen. He Is thought to have gone
to enlist with the Canadian army, as
he is a native of Amherst. n. S., and
wanted to enlist at the outbreak of the
war; but his wife objected.
| The gloom spread ever the town of
Sullivan by the dullness in the granite
| industry has been suddenly lifted by
the closing of the largest contract for
granite ever handled here. A contract
has been received for nearly 20 miles
of granite curbing, through a Boston
firm, an order which will mean rush
ing business and prosperity for the
town for a long time. The wage scale
which has been in controversy for some
time has been settled at a minimum
rate of so cents an hour for cutting
A somewhat unusual surgical oper-
alton is reported by the Jay CORE
spondent of the Pennington Journal,
as follows:
Daniel Spaulding, a man of Is
years, submitted to an operation on
the left foot last Wednesday; the lit
tie toe was amputated, the trouble
being caused by bunion. The same
toe of the right foot was amputated
the trouble being cacsed by bunion
The same toe Of the right foot was
amputated several years ago for the
same cause. Drs. Hayden and Mer-
rift were the physicians in charge.
local anesthetic was used.
Two Oxford men will long remember
the kindly treatment accorded them
by the Shakers Of Sabbath Day Lake
the other night, when they were the
victims of an accident. They were
passing through Poland with an au-
tomobile loaded with goods and in
turning out for a team, went into the
ditch and the auto was overturned,
pinning both underneath They were
rescued by the Shakers, taken into
their homes. where their injuries were
treated. and taken care for the night,
proceeding in the patched up machine
in the morning. grateful but refusing
to give their names.
| Biddeford Is said to have spent last
year about $4,000 for auto hire, taking
f1remen to forest fires.
Albert G. Lunt, who has just re-
signed as foreman Of the forge de-
partment Of the Saco-Lowell Machine
Co. of Biddeford, after nearly 40 years
OF service, succeeded his father In that
position and the latter resigned only
after 40 years Of service. 1t seems a
record hard to beat
Thomas F. Allen Of Bangor, probab-
ly one OF the best informed men on
salmon in the country, attributes the
growing scarcity of the Atlantic or
Penobscot River salmon, not so much
to the pollution of the rivers by pulp
mills as to the difficulty the fish have
In reaching the spawning grounds,
through badly constructed f1shways
and the number Of cams. The salmon
spawns in fresh running water, de-
posting the eggs on clean gravel BEDS
Mr.. Allen thinks that with SO many
distractions between the sea and the
headwaters Of the river the salmon
sets discouraged and will not come
back to river after failing to reach
the spawning beds or with much
trouble.
A new rule has Just been adopted
by the Board of Supervising Inspec-
tors Of the United States Steamboat
Inspection Service requiring that all
steamers under it's Jurisdiction pro-
vided with staterooms or other Sleep
ing quarters for passengers. where
the vessels are more than $50 feet In
length. and construction is contract
ed for after Juno 80, 1916. shall be
equipped with an efficient fire alarm
system or indicator which will auto
matically register at some central