Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-29
Maine Gossip
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Today We woke to dripping leaves.
ei, nsht oi a. xio Gray
Hung from the trees in tattered skeins:
The whining windmill made complaint
In short. metallic screams of rage
Against the gales which drove her fans
increasingly. Even the brook
Flowed darkly through the fields,
And mumbled like a sulky child.
The hours trudged lagsards pace
Towards night as sodden as the day;
Chill colorless. detected. damp.
We strove to sing away the gloom
Until By some swift change. tire sun
Blazed forth in royal gold. gliding
The glist' ming trees and sorry, weeping
grass
The somber brook was coaxed TO smile
And dimple once again. Dull clouds,
Worn LUMINOSITY thin. trembled
With promise for another day
While high above their fires bright,
A timid moon climbed paielv up
To wait the blooming Of the stars.
M. b. Thomas in Boston Transcript.
The Grand Trunk dock at Portland
for the first time in their history
have three ships alongside flying the
American fag. They will load
grain for the French High Commits
sion. as follows: The new giant
freighter Henry Clay, 100000 bushels
for Harve; the Roebat, 100000 BUSH
els for Dunkirk; and the Procyon.
1870. 900 bushels for Harve.
One of the oldest business houses in
Portland has passed into new owner
ship, the John W. Perkins Co,
wholesale drugs, having been pur-
chased by Brewer & Co. OF Worces-
ter. Mass, wholesalers. The Perkins
company was established in 1858 and
incorporated in 1896
Sasadahoc Council. Knights OF
Columbus, has purchased the Hotel
Phoenix property in Bath and will
remodel it into home for the order
in that city. 1t is understood that
the purchase price paid Mrs. Belle
WEIGH. wife of the late Charles W.
WEIGH. was between $4,000 and sls.-
Ooo. The Phoenix. formerly the old
Bath Hotel. was built in 1905 and has
always been used as a hotel or
tavern, as it was known in the oiden
days. 1t is now a four-story build
ing and will make. after remodeling.
an ideal home for the X Of C's.
Henry P Dowst. the author of
1.-THE Dancin' Fool', which attracted
so much attention on its recent APP
pearance in the Saturday Evening
Post, is former Bangor boy. son OF
Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Dowst Of
Howard street, that city. He was
formerly we'll known as a Maine
writer, but has for some years been
engaged in magazine work, in which
he has been very successful.
The resignation Of Clayton H. De-
lano of Boston and Ticonderoga, \.
Y. as president Of the Penobscot
Chemical Fibre Co.. whose plant is at
Old Town, marks the passing from
active business life of one of the
pioneers in the puip-making industry.
He has been president of the COM
pany for 20 years. conducting it in
connection with his large plant at
Ticonderoga. which he operated long
before being interested at Old Town.
Total eclipse OF the sun today
but invisible in Maine. 1t will be
visible as partial eclipse in South
America. Africa and the intervening
part of the Atlantic ocean. The path
will be about 1900 miles long and $50
wide. The longest duration will be
in mid-ocean, S minutes and 81
seconds.
Knox county Jail had never been
empty until a week ago Saturday
that there were four days under
Turnkey Coburn's administration