Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-27
(Rosamond Reed. J

I When she reached the other shore?
Here's a ian, sash of ribbon,
Folded softly in its place
By picture framed in silver
OF young and girlish face.
Can it be fairy's legend.
/ Can that young girl have been me?
Last one left of all the children,
! Lonely. meath the old roof-tree.
Like a leaf tossed in an eddy,
! BY the swiftly rushing stream.
So the stream of life has passed me;
Looking back. It's as a dream
. How the wind around the gable
s;obbing softly. mourns and grieves
How the rain-drops patter, patter,
/ Trotting slowly toward the caves
TrottinS like soft. echong footsteps.
Falling lightly, falling low,
For the dim old attic pulses
With the life of long ago.
According to reports from Boston
Emilio de Gogorza and his secretary, Miss
Helen Winslow who were struck by an
auto a few days ago, are still confined to
their apartments at the Hotel Touraine.
Aside from a badly sprained ankle. Miss
Winslow was not seriously hurt, although
she is not yet able to walk. 1t is feared
de Gogorza was internally hurt.
The mystery surrounding the finding Of
eight sticks Of dynamite near Anderson's
paint shop in York street on Friday night
last. says the Bangor News, is as yet un-
solved by the police department. The dy-
Mantle was an uncomfortable neighbor Of
the telephone company stock building in
York street and was handled with ex-
tyo da1icacv consideration
/ You may read the following from
the Rockland Courier-Gazette, whistle
once. wink twice and keep silent:
The travels of a good newspaper
3orf are devious and apparently end
less. Several weeks ago there was de-
scribed in this paper the wonderful
voyage to the West coast made by the
/ Rockland- built schooner William E..
Burnham. The article was clipped
from an Everett, Mass, newspapers.
which may or may not have stolen it
from California paper. After it's
publication in The Courier Gazette it
gained a prompt and wide circulation
in Maine papers, but behold its re-
appearance in the Portland Argus one
day this week credited as a Bangor
despatch in the New York World. The
Bangor newspaper correspondents who
write for the New York newspapers
have neither territorial limits nor con-
science In this instance, however.
they inadvertently made use of a true
story.
/ A recent potato hearing at the Bar
/ Harbor municipal court Wednesday
morning caused considerable amuse-
ment to the few spectators who were
present One James Corners of Win
ter Harbor was the complainant in two
charges against one Levi Stevens of
the same town. The first charge was
that Stevens had stolen some potatoes
from the field of the complainant.
| When Stevens learned that Corners
was telling people in town that he had
stolen his potatoes he decided that he
would punish Corners for telling the
story. AS consequence of this de-
cislon he was also charged with as
sault and battery He was found
guilty on both charges and fined $40
and costs for larcency of potatoes and
50 and costs for assault.
\ through the kindness Of some of the
summer colony at West Eden a house
has recently been purchased for Mrs.
Della Lurvey, widow of the late Will
nam Lurvey who lost his life by the
SINKING of the Mamie Saunders. AS
soon as some repairs are made Mrs.
Lurvey and her five children will move
! in.
! T.. ;. Carpenter of Hulls Cove ia re-
: ceivlng the congratulations of his
friends on his good fortune in taking
three thousands dollars worth of her
rms out of his weir at Hulls Cove in
Two nights recently. Mr.. Carpenter
sold the fish to the waiting sardine
, poats az the good price of $3.50 per
hushei. He has been watching for
more fish since Thursday, but since
then not a herring has entered the
Weir.
FRANKLIN Lawry, a prominent resi-
dent of Charleston, celebrated his 7s+b
birthday Monday by marrying Mrs.
Anna Frost of Dexter They will live
in Dexter this winter.
| Frequent allusion in these columns
10 the old-fashioned potato ball of our
boyhood days has failed to evoke anv
present-day knowledge of that once
familiar adjunct Of every garden
patch. says the Rockland Courier
4 Gazette. Whence did it vanish. and
when? We have asked the question
OF many Knox county farmers. none of
whom could return an answer. Once
there were potato-balls in profusion.
they confess. and every old time bow
used to fire EN-" on a stick-but thew
vanished. A reporter of The Courier
Gazette was in Elmore the other day.
and Willard Wall showed him a hand
full OF potato-balls he had just picked.
They are the first ones I've seen
since l was boy" said Mr.. Wall.
Sixty workmen have been EMPLOYED
for the past three months at
the Bluehill copper mine getting
the place in readiness to concentrate
the ore which is thought to be In that
| locality. At a cost Of approximately
| $50 600 buildings have heen hpt3t ron :