Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-25
Maine Gossip
Sacrifice

Sacrifice
(R. Chauncey Webb, Book News Monthly
4 Giving to me a wealth OF beauty rare;
In that off corner. where the coy shad-
| ows HE
Are lilies-scenting soft the evening air.
Modest. yet cold are they. unto the amor
Who throws them kisses with most bold
Brave. confident, my lilies stand upright
Yet hold their pure. white heads in shy
| ness bent
But when I WOO them in most loving
arms,
Their alabaster box is broken, glad, for
me.
They freely yield to me their all-their
And pIucked, they die, that I may all
the richer be.
E. M. Campbell Of Calais has asked
the Maine and New Brunswick author
tiles to help locate his son, Grover
Campbell, from whom he has heard
nothing since a letter dated Jan. 2,
when young Campbell was working in
Haynesville. Young Campbell dropped
out Of sight and no trace Of him has
been found. His home life was pleas
ant and there is no known reason why
he should disappear. The missing
man is q, medium build, dark brown
hair. heavy eyebrows and has scar
between the finger and thumb of the
left hand.
Andrew Carnegie, who is spending
the week at Bar Harbor on his steam
yacht Surf, with Mrs. Carnegie, is re-
ported by his secretary, John A. Poyn-
ton, to be in the best health he has en-
joyed for some time, and to have i'm
proved decidedly during the past
month. Although the veteran IRON
master had to be helped to his car
riage he spent the day Tuesday fish
ing at one of the nearby lakes and
took another outing Wednesday, The
Carnegie yacht left Thursday to re-
sumo the cruise. Mrs. Carnegie and
his daughter, Miss Margaret, are with
him.
Announcement was made Wednes-
day at Bar Harbor of the purchase Of
the Bar Harbor Record and the Bar
Harbor Life by W. H. Sherman, owner
and publisher of the Bar Harbor Times,
who will consolidate the three papers.
The Record. which is one Of the oldest
papers in that part Of the State, has
maintained a more or less checkered
existence for the past 80 years. A lit
tie less than a year ago it was sold to
Miss Helen M. Smith of Sullivan, q
veteran newspaperwoman, who tried 10
reorganize and remodel it, Life" will
be continued for the rest Of the sum-
rner.
Some wholesome medicine is being
administered to violators Of the auto
mobile law in municipal courts through
out the State-espeeially when the Jail
sentences are passed out A thorough
course of treatment may help, If 1t
does not cure the disease.
Well why don't they claim he gave
Portland the City hall?
To the Editor Express-Advertiser:
I saw in morning paper today, a
statement which would lead one to be.
lieve that Oakley c. Curtis Of Portland
was the donor of the organ at City hall
have not understood this to be the
case. but ! should like to know def
nitely if the organ was gwen by our
Governor. S. L. L.
Portland. Aug. %. 1916.
| mo. the donor Of the organ was Cy-
rus H. K. Curtis Of Philadelphia, a ma
! tive of Portland. who gave the organ
as memorial to his lifetime friend
the late Herman Kotzschmar-Ed.1
And now the wild geese are reported
again in this section. presumably a flock
planning to catch the "earIy worm" in
the South. Conductor Risteen of the
Knox d Lincoln branch says he saw a
flock OF at least so birds the other day
| arise from Gig pond, near Thomaston.
The old saying that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place was
disproven Wednesday evening at
South Portland. A bolt during the
first shower of the evening struck a
| pole alongside the electrical building
on ONeil street and put out Of COM
mission both the fire alarm and the
city lighting systems. The damage was
repaired and all was lovely,
when along came shower No. and
repeated the caper, the same pole be-
ing hit ana the same kind of damage
being done.
An auto party from Ellsworth to
Waltham the other day encountered
three moose in the ROAD COW and
two calves. The moose were appar-
emily not afraid, as they took their
time about leaving the road. in fact
the driver was obliged to stop the auto
to allow them to do so.
| Accomplishing what is termed by
many as a feat of good seamanship.
Capt. S. w. Woodward Of Penobscot
brought the schooner Minnie Chase.
lumber laden, up from Penobscot, the
| other day. without the aid Of another
man, reports the Bangor Commercial.
Although he had hard work getting the
craft through the narrows and was
| forced to anchor four times, Capt.