Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-20
Maine Gossip
The Last Edition.

Inc Last GOitiOh
3 John D. Wells, in The Editorial)
When the last Of Life's Copy is finished
And edited. barring the sin:
When the stress of the toll is diminished.
And final forms wait to go in:
When the types are locked fast IN their
Our lives written there and their sum
And we're gathered round here in our
All waiting for go" to come; -
When the Master Hand touches the lever
To run the edition That Day
Then, my brothers of Ever and Ever
What will our printed page say.
Will the Chief edit each little error?
Each minor mistake. will He see?
Will he visit the Furnishing terror
On mortals as helpless as We?
Will He see the turned rule in the col
unn
Zach marking a task left undone?
Will he note with a mien, grave and SOL
emn,
Good works that were never begun?
When the Master Hand touches the lever
To run the edition That Day,
Then my brother of Ever and Ever
Look we'll to what your pages say.
If woman is ever to be forgiven for
losing her presence of mind it is when
the cause is a thunder shower, especially
when the lightning is unusually viva
and the thunder unusually thundery.
Well, Phippsburg woman is the heroine
of this story and she entered history dur
ing a fierce old storm that recently visited
her section. She was frightened and
didn't try to hide that fact. She remem-
bered the old saying that teatherped
was the safest place during a thunder
shower so ran to her chamber, seized
big tick threw it down stairs and
bounced into the middle of it. Thorough
w frightened she had thought only or
herself but emerging from one of the
paroxysms caused by the flashes and
crashes she recalled that she had a
daughter, who was as equally frightened
as herself The mother spirit aWoke ana
sch began to call her daughter. Faint
answers were finally heard between the
thunder crashes and when the mother
could tell from whence came the falnt'
almost inaudible cres-she found that
DAUGHTER was buried beneath the feather
he'd almost smothered and apparently as
safe as mother, who was planted on top
the bed and daughter.
Part of Southport was as dckled as
could be when the carcass of good-slzed
whale was found and towed to shore by
local men. who proceeded to get every
thing valuable from it-but the same peo-
ple have another feeling now in the mat
ter, on account of the action OF the
weather and Old Sol on the remnants OF
the carcass They talk of appealing 10
the State Board of Health, If the owners
of the wretchedly- smelling mess do not
at once remove it.
How some of the out ofthe-State vis1-
tors do get their eyes opened on their
first trip to Maine. A correspondent OF
the Rockland Courier Gazette tells of an
auto party which passed through Union
and said that las they went through a
village back along which proved TO De
Appleton they saw quite large gathering
at church. so they stopped and went IN
and to their surprise found house
packed and a choir which would put some
of the city churches in the shade
/ Strange. wasn't it. that they should dis
cover crowded church on Sunday in
/ Maine. But not at all orange that they
were riding about the country on the
Lords day. Their own church was prob
ably closed for the season. CLAD theS
found one open in Maine-they may have
been benefited by the services.
The Fort Fairfield Review has a perfect
right to feel good over it's 1915 spring and
summer weather Read:
Aroostooks weather during the spring
and summer thus far has been precisely
right for crops-rain every once in while
and then good weather pretty often we
have had hardly any hot weather at all
but some warm weather and considerable
cool. The results seem to show that really
hot days are not indispensable for the
good growth of crops. Every kind OF croI
in Aroostook is growing now certainly as
we'll as it ever grew. Aroostook never
before looked so beautiful and promis-
ing. Contrast conditions here in Aroos'
too kwith those in many places in south
ern Maine and other parts of New Eng
land, where they have had a hard time
to get the crops in al all. and where II
seems as if in some places there would
not be any crops at all.
Sullivan is having business boom, the
stone companies having landed a good