Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-05-18
Maine Gossip
When ! Was Young

(By Elizabeth Powers MerrilD
When 1 was young, and the quiVerins
Tell us the story once more
Of those beautiful golden days of you h
OF enchanted hours of yore
Of the days of the spring of mortal life
OF the violet and rose
OF the dreams that came, OF the dreams
OF hopes the heart alone knows.
When was young! and we listen and
watt
For the magical charm of magical
Their magical charm doth hold.
We kneel and take gently the dear
white hand
And it. in our own enchain:-
Darling, those stories are wonderful
O tell them over again!"
when'I was young! o beautiful tale
OF the beautiful long ago.
When 1 was young, like the sound of a
The thrilling cadences flow.
When I was young! why there is no old
The heart is a Garden Fair.
Where blossoms rosemary, forset-me-
When l was young is There!
Reed brothers of Fort Fairfield
figure on planting 300 acres to pota-
toes and it is said that when all the
expenses of planting, cultivating
and harvesting that garden patch
are paid, il will stand them about
100000.
The burning of the old frigate,
Richmond, at Coney Beach, near
PASSPORT, came near being tragic
as we'll as dramatic event, for had
it not been for quick work on the
part of Michael Sullivan and Frank
Boyle, Capt. Turner. who was in
charge of the sinking, might have
met death by drowning.
The fires were set at Z o'clock in
the morning and in a few seconds the
old wooden hull was all ablaze. So
quickly did the vessel take fire. that
Capt. Turner who had gone to the
stern to haul down the flag. was
trapped by the flames while 80 feet
in air and had to jump for his life
into the water.
AS he was unable to swim, he
would have met death by drowning,
but for the prompt work of Mr..
Sullivan and Mr.. Boyle, who were
nearby in a boat. He was taken
ashore none the worse for his cold
bath.
The will of, the date Admiral Peary
gives Eagle Island in Casco bay to his
son, Robert E., and the admiral wrote
in his will:
This island was purchased by me
with money which I earned while a
high school student and it is my earnest
desire and request that the child or
grandchildren of mine to whom said
devise. shall keep the same for life and
hand it down to his or her children sor
grandchildren, making the same res
quest Of them that I now make"
Report says that another feldspar
mine is to be opened and worked on the
lower Kennebec. This industry in that
section bids fair to develop into a bust
ness Of large proportions.
And now the first Kennebec sturgeon
of the season is reported, Horace
Mitchell Of Bath catching it one night
last week while drifting for shad. The
sturgeon was big one, furnishing s.
pounds of roe. worth between 81 and s.
per pound and about 100 pounds of
meat. worth 50 cents per pond. Mitchell
got the fish Off Carney's point, just
above Merrymeeting bay and it brought
him around $50 for his nights work.
Cool and fair weather, with a Sc
we're snow squall and later a severe
thunder storm was Included in the
days weather attractions for the
section about The Outlet at Cob
bosseecontee on Saturday, May Is,
1920. A veteran fisherman, out in a
boat, says it was one of the worst
snow squells he was ever out in. A
cottager found the ground white
with snow and also at least an inch
in his boat. The thunder storm was