Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-08-13
Maine Gossip
The Cauper

ing,
Gay bee balm dots the slope.
Through willow leaves the summer
breeze is blowing.
Flowered like the richest cope.
Stretches the meadow, emerald vel
vet. edgiiig
The shallow rivers rim
Where, darting between arrowheaus
and sedging
Gauze-fies the surface skim.
I can see lights where crowds 1 know
assemble.
While Wealth and Fashion meet,
Where on the sea thS moonrays break
and tremble.
And muSIc'S throb is sweet.
Pride flashes past the nook where l am
waiting,
Forgotten and obscure.
7 smile TO think that careless eyes are
rating
My tent as mean and poor!
can see sun-shafts dart above the
world brinl,
In magic Days rebrth.
No limitations mine of time or task
Ny realm the wondrous earth. So.
With fire TO cook my fish, Health's
Zest in living,
My boat, hammock plain.
To city splcndors l no thought am
giving.
AS monarch here I reign!
Ella a. Tanning in \. Y. Times.
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Orders have been received in Port
land, says the Press. showing that
the 18th Infantry. now stationed at
Camp Devens, is to be moved TO the
forts III Boston harbor on the 2Sth of
this month where the regiment is to
be permanently stationed hereafter.
The other infantry regiment at Camp
Devens, the 36th infantry. is to trans
fer its records and other material to
tho 18th. which in effect is TO become
its parent regiment, and the seth is
to be practically disbanded.
Other troops at Camp Devens are
to move out of that post soon after
the 18TH some of them going to Fort
Ethan Allen, Vt. and some Of them
being transferred to Portland, prob
ably to Fort Williams
1t is rumored at the Portland forts
that the Coast Artillery of this corps
area are likely to be concentrated at
Fort Williams SO that they can be
more economically maintained and
given greater and better facilities for
training. 1t is also rumored that the
other forts in Portland harbor, par
ticularly that at Great Diamond
Island known as Fort Mckinley, are
to be practically abandoned, being
left with only a few men as care
takers. These rumors cannot be con-
hrmed, but it is known that some
changes of this kind are likely to be
made.
"lscasset has the longest wooden
bridge in Maine. Now, why wouldn't
1t be a good idea for Wiscasset to
place sign at her end of the bridge.
telling that it is 1888 feet long and
that it connects that famous and
quaint old town with Edgecomb,
where Marie Antoinnette once hoped
to pass her remaining DAYS in peace,
Hundreds and hundreds of automo-
blllsts from out of the State wonder
about that bridge and but few Maine
people IN crossing it can tell its length
within four or five inches.
Two men from Portland, peddling
fruit in Bath the other day, received
peremptory order TO get out and
stay out of that city, it having been
found by numerous people that the
fruit they had bought of the men
looked finely on top, but when the
baskets were emptied, the under
meath fruit was found to be decayed
John A. Terrell, East Boston, is
passing his vacation at the old Ter
rell homestead. Parker Head, and
while there is keeping in touch with
the outside by wireless. One night
recently a party gathered at the Ter
rell home and were entertaind by a
radiophone concert from the Ameri-
can Radio Research Corps, Medford
Hills, Mass. The voices We're clearly
audible all over the room and this
was phenomenon as no special
aerials were used, receiving being
done on an old iron guy wire, about
so feet long. The receiver used how
ever was Greebe c. r. g. the latest
invention for radio work with a wave
ranging from 20 to 5000 meters and d
Greebe two stage amplified radiotron
tubes. The telegraph signals from
Washington, Philadelphia and New
York were loud enough to be heard
out in the yard.
Fort Fairfield has either a Black
Hand enthusiast or a person with a
great love for practical jokes, hears
the ArooStook Daily News. Cal
McDougal, a well-known and popular
truckman, has recently received
what appears like a Black Hand let
ter, threatening his death on Aug. 8,
but Cal is still living and enjoy
ing life in spite of the threat, the
majority of the local people favor the
latter idea.
People of the tender-foot villages
of Boston, New York, Chicago and
Frisco, who think that Maine is a
vast wilderness and that Houlton Is
just this side of the North Pole, will
or should be interested in the display
of establishment on the part of the
people of the latter town at the sud-
den appearance of a big bull moose
on its street The monster entered
and trampled down fine strawberry
bed in the garden of Charles
Beatham of Columbia street. awak-
ening Mrs Beatham and Mr.. and
Mrs. T. II. Hemore, neighbors. who
watched him paw and trampie the