Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-06-30
Maine Gossip
Behind Il All
elizabeth Powers Merrill.)

Rebind il all there is a Mind that thinks
And feels even as do we. That loves and
wills,
A higher more harmonious state OF me-
And though it seem to crush ana over
The life built up by our poor human
Yet it destroys not! but rebuilds the
Behind it all, behind all suffering, war
And death, the wickedness OF men, their
blind -
Mistakes. their wanting to do right. to
And yet not knowing how, even behind
Their aspirations, dim and undenneo;
Stands God. urging guiding loving
AS tenderest of mothers wayward son!
Milltown, Me-, is enjoying the activi-
ties of a "Tom the -Peeper," who is
terrorizing women and children. He,
if caught or seen within range, will be
enjoying the comforts of the contents
of some of the rnany shotguns being
loaded with something even more SUB
stantial than rock salt.
Sheriff w. w. Wescott Of Ellsworth
on Tuesday made an arrest of a de-
mented man and committed him to
iail, after which he was sent to the
State hospital at Bangor. This was
the first prisoner in the sheriff's care
for three weeks and the first time for
years that the Jail had been so long a
time without a prisoner.
The five-masted schooner Durham
Wheeler will be launched at between
$50 and 10 A. M. Monday at the Percy
& Small yard. Bath. She will be COM
manded by Capt. NJ. G. Dow. r. Law
renee Smith of New York is the owner
and her official measurements are:
Length. 254,5 feet; beam, 44.2; depth,
%; gross tons, 1926.
The total membership of the Maine His
torical Society, adding the % who were
elected resident members at the annual
meeting, June 10, is now 295. The lini.
has been raised from 30 0to 400.
From several sources the Bath Times
received reports Thursday OF the pres
ence of an airship over Bath Wednesday
night. Miss Corinna Footer of South st.
saw the machine about 10.15 as it went
over South St. from northerly direction
and swung in a long turn and went across
the river Miss Gertrude Footer also saw
the machine. The young ladies describe
it as resembling a boat with wings and
they plainly heard the whir Of the pro-
peller sort of buzz as one put 1t.
The machine did not carry light.
The influx of summer visitors has be-
gun, the great increase in travel of
Thursday being the first real indication.
The Bar Harbor express arrived at Port
land in three sections and the through
express from Washington was also a
heavy train. All were loaded with sum-
mer parties. Extra trains from the west
will be the rule for a few days
The Bath Times is authority for the
statement by citizen of the Shipping city
that German submarines will be operat-
ing within three weeks on the Atlantic
coast.
The Norway Advertiser says that many
Of the shoemakers in that vicinity are
turning to agriculture, owing to the big
paw offered by the farmers. One farm
near Norway lake that has five acres OF
corn and II acres of beans under culti-
walton, eight of the local shoemakers are
among the hands employed.
Cattle thieves have been getting busy
in northern York county and the sheriff
is getting busy after the thieves, so that
arrests are expected at any hour. Will
liam Fall of Sanford lost valuable
heifer from a South Sanford pasture and
James Hurd of North Berwick lost two
cows, the head Of one being left hanging
from a tree limb, near his residence.
An Aroostook cattle buyer this week
paid s57 for the wool from nine sheep.
Lambs are worth $3.50 each in that Sec
ton.
James D. Watson, Jr., OF wheeling
w. Va, and Miss Elizabeth K. Thaxter
Of Bangor first met during the spring OF
1917 when they were cast for the prin-
cipals in the amateur production OF
"Pinafore'' given at Bangor for the
benefit of the Red Cross. Their en-
sagemert has this week been an
nounced. She is prominent among the
Bangor young set and he is now In
training in the Plattsburg camp, hav-
ing graduated this year from the Uni
yersity Of Maine College Of Law.
I was in a bank the other day Wnen
a well-known professional man came IN
and arranged for the purchase of $500
worth of Liberty bonds. says The
Stroller in the Biddeford Record. Turn
ing to me, he said, You won't question
NV patriotism when I tell you that
I've got to borrow the money at six per
cent to pay for these bonds"
Be canny.
Everybody can! Put your spare
time into cans and Jars.
Home canning is kitchen pa