Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-04-09
Maine Gossip
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A little island which must confess I
never heard Of before.-The President.
Let's partition Persia and Of course the
Balkans too, :.
And pamper all the Reds until the rest
of us are blue.
Let us ply the Germans with assorted
brands of pap,
But let,s-whatever else betide-Iet's
grapple fast to zap.
Let's hand over Shantung and let China
shoot the flume,
While we take from Italy the place we
Let's put an end to Egypt and hand to
But, BY the lions Tisia.h slew. wen
never yield up Zap!
Let's as.on!sh Greece and give Bulgaria
Playing every deuce that's in the pack
as 'twere an ace.
Let's apportion Turkey while there's
Blu. never aay lett Sei Sn a taP inch Of ground that
appertains to zap.
Let US color the world a royal Grim
son hue,
Furling up the banner called the old
Red, White and Blue.
Let's assign to Britain every land upon
the map,
Except mote our exception, pray) except
it tickles-Yap.
We dare not ask what's happened to the
freedom of the sea.
Nor guard the Doctrine OF Monroe, for
who, pray tell, are we?
We spent our blood and treasure and
become the Leagues stop gap,
Rewarded by the Consciousness of duty
done-and zap.
Maurice Morris in New York Sun.
The Knox County Bar Association
held it's annual meeting on Wednes-
day at Rockland and elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, j. H.
Montgomery of Camden; vice pres
ident, Arthur S. Littlefield of Rock
land; secretary treasurer, o. Fl.
Trip Of Rockland. Librarian E. K.
Gould and E. C. Payson were added
to the committee on books.
South Bristol has emerged from the
tiresorne winter isolation and freight
embargo and daily trips of the steamer
to Damariscotta once more connects
that place with the outside world.
The Music, Festival dates have been
announced as follows: Bangor, Sept.
30, Oct. and 2. Portland, Oct. 4, and 6.
Waldoboro is greeting with open arms
and every inducement to become a per-
manent resident a pearl button firm
that likes the town, its people and ac-
commodations for its business. The
Paragon Button Corporation of New
York has secured the old shoe factory,
the old power station, the Achorn home
stead and the IIutchins house and the
town has given a 10-vearS tax exemp-
ton. 1t is said that the industry will in
time employ 800 hands. with plenty of
home work for women and children.
1t has been remarked that less drift
stuff has passed down the Kennebec
this year than for years, especially the
so-called waste that might be used for
1irewood. Practically all of that had
been gathered before the water could
grab it. This years drift was mostly
pulpwood, caught unawares by the sud-
den rise Of water.
Shipbuilding in Maine, although
slowed up by the end of the war. has
by no means ceased. Two schooners,
one of 1000 tons and the other larger,
will be launched in the middle Of the
summer at the Atlantic Coast Co.'S yard
at Boothbay Harbor and the company
will then lay two more keels. The East
Coast Ship Co. of the same place will
soon lay keel for a 1200-ton schooner.
Four-masters are being built at Cam
den, Harrington. Rockland and Thomas
ton. The keel for four-master will also
soon be laid at Machias.
Tho Pennington Normal school,
through it's principal, has received a be-
quest Of $1,000 from the estate of the late
Ruth w. Peabody of kennebunkport, a
graduate Of the school. She had been a
teacher in the grammar grades since
graduation. No restrictions are placed
on its use, it being left in the hands of
the faculty to be expended as they see
fit.
Tho lightning in last Mondays series
Of showers apparently did the damage,
although a large part Of the State was
visited. Reports of some queer freaks
come in. including one at South Goulds-
boro, where the famous old house on
Iron bound island was struck and one
gable end smashed, windows broke, a
bucksaw twisted apart, and other
pranks played. Interest In this incident
Is owing to the age Of the building, 1t
having been built in 1870 by, it is said,
an English soldier who lived there for
time. 1t was the first house on the
island. 1t is now on the summer estate
of Dwight Blaney Of Boston and used as
Il workshop and storage, being pre-
served chiefly as a relic of We olden DAYS.
Another house struck by "bolt' and
in a faraway part of the State was the
home of George Haskell at South Chou
cester. where the Juice" ran in on the
telephone wire, smashed the china closet
in the kitchen, set fire to the shelf
paper, burst open the door into the shed
broke out most Of the glass in window
and followed a wire clotheslinesto the
house, where it knocked off the corner.
smashing into and spelling the neatness
of the living room M ono xraC burt T.,