Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-02
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip
II ! Had q Motor Car
(By c. wiles Hallock.)
II had a motor car
I'd rise with the dawn on summer days
And point my course to the mountain
ways;
| For the sky-cooled peaks afar-
Where the dark blue shadows are.
| If had motor car
I'd search for the haunts Of whispering
And tree-deep shades that the birdlings
And Id leave the towns so far behind
Their murmurs would never mar
The haunts of my camp and car.
If 1 had a motor car
| I'd take little city-prisoned boys
And wan-faced girls from the sweat
shop noise,
Who never have known the peaceful
joys
OF sunlight and evening star
Where silent distances are.
If I had motor car
| I'd take old people in Shelt'ring Homes
Immured where the sunlight seldom
comes,
High up in the heaven-vaulted domes
! Where Gods tend'rest whispers are
Where Gods own lullabys are.
| 1t is stated that all the differences
between the employees and the Cumber-
land County Light & Power Co, which
controls the street railroads of this sec
! witt -
been adjusted and that officials of the
| National Street Railway Workers
Union are in conference with the COM
pany in regard to that matter.
| 1t might reasonably be supposed that
the following mentioned males would
| be excused from army service by the
national government, though probably
most of them would be rather glad to
Take a chance"
| Frank J. Ham, warden of the State
Prison, says that there are 10S in
mates of the State Prison between the
ages of II and 81 years who are sub
ject to the provisions of the selective
draft. These men will appear on
registration day before Henry NJ. Nc
Gunnigle clerk at the institution who
| is justice of the peace, and sign the
necessary papers. Warden Ham said
1 there were about 25 prisoners on pa
role. but these may enroll wherever
they' happen to be on registration day.
June 5.
Bath shipbuilders reached weeks
ago and so stated to the Times the
same conclusion that has been reached
by Major General Goethals that it is
| impossible to build of wood the num-
Der of ships which the government
planned and that steel ships must be
constructed to accomplish the desired
result
Judge William l.. PAtnam Of Port
land. who was very i'll during the win
ter, has improved sufficiently that he
is able to walk about his premises, but
unable to attend to business affairs Or
venture down town.
Miss Fanny E. Lord of Bangor, pres
ident of the Maine Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, announces that in all
probability the fall meeting of the
Maine Federation will be the second
week in October. This meeting, as is
we'll known, will be in Portland by
invitation Of the Literary Union OF that
city. The sessions will be in the beau
tiful new club house on Spring street.
Miss Lord and her corresponding sec
rotary, Mrs Myra E. Clark of Ban
gor, will be house guests OF MRS
George c. Frye during the Fedora ton
meetings. Mr.. Frye, it will be recelled'
was donor of the club house.
Bangor men who have returned from
trips into northern Maine state that
there is a great abundance OF water
everywhere, the lakes, ponds ana
streams being full and the great stor-
age system of the Great Northern Pa
ner company trimming over every
where. At Ripogenus, the great dam
recentlv completed, has been overno"-
ing for three or four weeks ior tne
second time since the huge structure
was completed.
Eeu neople recalled the tragedy OF
the old barkentine Herbert Fuller "hen
the report came of the SINKING ny 9
German submarine of the American
schooner Margaret B. Rouss' yet tie
lost craft was the vessel Whlch AZ
tanned such notoriety in 1896, "neh
Capt. and Mrs. Nash OF Harrine W,
| and the second mate were murdereu
on board at sea, for which CRIME MAJ
THOMAS Bran was sentenced to lie
imprisonment.
Sheriff oliver of Bath is searching
for parties who have torn down the Sc
! lected draft posters in that city
| Can't. L. B. Stanton OF Fort Cisoe'
master Of the four-masted schooner
! Northland, was in Rockland May 80
on his way home, after a long ana
eyentful trip to the Mediterranean
Greatly exaggerated accounts OF the