Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-30
Maine Gossip
A Grave in Flanders

darkness ana stars and broodlng or
You bring no peace to me;
No dreams nor any visions strange and
new.
Dreams. visions were of you,
Heroic lover, vanished from my sight,
Leaving to me the night.
Here in the darkness, by the brooding
sea,
1 thought my secret thoughts most Sc
Dreamt of the baby of my dreams.
O wondrous life when growing tall
and slim;
Yet in his eyes gray deeps a hint of
And his mouth matching my mouths
curvine line.
But in a grave in Flanders DER the
Ny lover. lies, that dream. and all of
me. y
Herbert Harper. in The Anglo
French Review.
The government navy ward at Kit
terry, Me-, U. S. A., will at 1 A. NJ,
Sunday, Oct. 30, resume Standard
time.
Few men are actively connected
with one business concern for 40
years, but Cass Spear has just retired
from, the grocery firm of Spear G.
Webster of Lewiston. with which he
has been connected for A years, re-
firing on account of his health.
Work has already begun for a large
girls camp on the George Herrick
farm on the shore of Lake Thompson
in Poland, the place having been
bought by Julian Blaum of New York.
The launching of the big steel
steamship Reaper at p. NJ, today,
from the Texas Co.'S yard at Bath
will probably draw hundreds of out
of-town people. Mrs. L. Fl. Lapham
of New York City, wife of a director
and executive committeeman of the
company, will christen the craft-with
American champagne.
Rev. l.. w. West of Waldoboro has
accepted the passionate of the Peoples
Baptist church of Bath, and will be-
gin his duties in about four weeks.
He is now in hospital. recovering
from slight surgical operation.
Four sisters who had not all been
together for IS years met at the home
of Lyman F'ales on Quarry street.
Sunday. Oct. "a. They are Mrs. John
Fountain of Marlboro, Mass, Mrs.
Lyman FaleS of Pennington, Mrs.
Silas Niles of Freeman and Mrs Adna
Trask of Wilton. All are daughters
of Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Fassett, who
during their lives resided in the
towns of Industry and New Vineyard,
where their children were born. Chill
dren and grandchildren to the num-
Der of 20 were present.
DR.. Mary L. Lowell of Foxcroft, in
whose custody are the legal papers of
her grandfather. the late Col. Chand-
Ter, former lawyer of Foxcroft, has
found an interesting document show
ing that vigorous but unsuccessful
fight was made eighty-two years ago
for fishways at the Dover and Fox
croft dams in Piscataquis river If
the petitioners could return, they
would no doubt be much pleased with
the fine concrete fishways now being
completed at this same place and on
other parts of the river. The reasons
given in the remonstrance then were
about the same as were advanced last
season, but all are now pleased with
the new fishways.
The schooner which has just been
launched at the Bowker yard in
Phippsburg makes nearly 40 which
that firm has built and is the largest
of the fleet. She will be followed by
another of practically the same size
and four master in rig. The Bow
ker yard is located on the shore and
adjoins a piece Of woodland. SO that
the -bowsprit of the schooner has been
projecting over the fringe OF the
forest. 1t has been noticed several
times of late that red squirrels in
their play among the trees have
leaped from the trees to the bowsprit
of the vessel and then run up and
down her chains This nv old saiIory