Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-08

eat.-springfield Republican.
Is it worse to have tobacco des.
troyed by hail than to have food meet
the same fate?
Maine Gossip
Tho Best.
eliza beth Powers Merrill)
For thee l asked the Best Of earth
The sweetest, fairest days
The lofty halls where fame has birth;
And for the worlds high praise.
For thee I saw the days of life
Unfolding like a rose.
Adown the years with action rife
The JOY Of life should disclose.
know I asked too much for thee
The Best. beyond earth lies.
One loved thee better than l did
And gave thee-Paradise.
The high price Of cotton has caused
old mill hands at Biddeford to recall
the record figure paid for that com
modify at the close of the civil war
AS high as sl.25 q pound was given by
the Pepperel Manufacturing Co.
The only woman serving as Internal
revenue stamp deputy in Maine. and one
of the few in the United States, is Mrs
Edith McGillicuddy of Lewiston. She as.
sumed her duties following the death OF
her husband. She likes her work and
finds the bookkeeping comparatively
easy.
It is estimated that fully 20 sets OF
farm buildigns were destroyed during
the recent series of thunder storms
in Eastern Maine.
One is now able to locate the United
States customs house at Bath. after
having reposed in obscurity for many
years-a flag staff and flag.
The Federal building at Bath has
emerged from the obscurity in which
1t has quietly reposed for many years
g. Flagstaff having been erected and
Old Glory now flies therefrom.
The city Of Eastport, or at least q
certain correspondent in that city car
find more things to kick about than al
the rest of the State. 1t is always a
shortage Of this that or the other. II
is row eggs, for, the correspondent
writes that grain is so high that the
farmers cannot afford to buy it and
/ are therefore killing off their fowl
witt. the result that Thursday. Aug. 2
1917. was a day when no eggs could
be found in the Border City.
Herring, which at this time Of year
it is said should be somewhere about
SIS per hogshead at Eastport, were
last Thursday an even $50, which OF
course is all out Of reason-at any
, rate We'll think SO when We have tc
buy the product in the shape OF
canned or timed sardines.
Prof. John NJ. Briscoe of the fores-
try department of the University OF
Maine. who has just returned from a
IL
investigating the ravages of the white
pine blister moth states that the pest
has a good foothold in western Maine
being much more prevalent than in the
eastern section. 1t has made it's ap-
pearance near NIillinocket and Green
vile, but the ravages are not so ex-
tensiye as farther west. In western
Maine there is much damage from the
blister and hard work will be neces-
sary to offet the damage already done
and check its advance.
THE withdrawal Of the training Of
fcers, who have been on duty at the
Maine Naval station since it was es-
tablished in this city" says a Rock
land correspondent, sis a setback to
the hopes of those who had expected
to see 500 men located here when the
station was finally put in full running
order. The new move does not near
the adjustment Of the station. but un-
less the government decides to send
other training officers here it is the
. understanding that only small COM
plement of men will be kept at the
barracks In addition to those who are
serving on the seven coast patro
! boats which make this port then
headquarters. The government has
gone to heavy expense in fitting uI
this station. which is now equipped tc
handle 500 met easily, and which
serves as a natural headquarters fol
all the patrol boats on the Maine
/ coast"
| Westbrook has Joined the mourners
with a tax rate of $3.50 per thousand
the highest rate in the history Of tbs
| city.
Major William Hoffman, who or
Saturday killed his wife and com
mitted suicide at his home in Dorches-
ter, Mass was native Of Rockland
Me, born in February, 1889.
! Six Richardson brothers. assisted BY
their wives and 20 other members o.
the family had their second annual re.
union last Saturday at the home o.
! Mrs. I. J. Shuman at Ginn's Point
| Rockland. The brothers are sons o.
! the late Can't. and Mrs. Peter Richard.