Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-06

uttie lUNS, lltIie jest
A little word Of cheer. divest
Dull days of sordid thought and
Make. sorrow easier to bear.
And apathy and age arrest.
NJ doubts shall sap our courage, lest
We prove unequal to Lies test,
. II We may only give and share
4 little love.
! On fortune bent or fearSome quest,
We shall be strong to do and dare.
So we discover here and there.
In deed or look made manifest,
, A little love.
|
| 1t is said that Seth May, the new
Federal prohibition director for
| Maine. will occupy the same offices in
the Federal building at Bath as his
t predecessor, James B. Perkins.
| Raoul Lepine of Biddeford, who has
for some time been studying music in
/ Chicago, recently graduated from the
! Chicago Musical College, with high
! honors. having d solo. with accompa-
niment by the Chicago Symphony
,
ercises. Lepine had studied under
the late Prof. Eduoard Clark, the
! blind organist Of st. Joseph's at Bid
/ deford and also in Portland.
The 9Th Battery. Naval Reserves,
of Portland has returned from a two
weeks trip on the Eagle Boat No 30,
! visiting Provincetown. The boys
made an excellent score with the
crafts 4-inch guns and also won the
ball game from the Savannah's nine.
United States Shipping Commits
sioner George W. Morse of Bath on
Friday began his 22d year of official
duty in that city. He has shipped in
! that time many thousands of Seamen.
Rockland last week voted 1921 to
274 as favoring the erection of new
High School building. The estima ted
cost of the building is $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eben Faxon of No. 33
Coburn street, Auburn, on Saturday
celebrated their Golden Wedding an
niyersary. They were married in
| Dover, n. H, moving to Auburn 16
years ago.
Cyrus H. Curtis of Philadelphia
is on the Maine coast in his yacht
Lyndonis for his initial summer visit.
He attended the Portland reception
to Donald Macmillan and sailed sun
day for Bar Harbor.
The difficulties over tine boundaries
OF the State pier at Portland are said
to have been settled and the commits
sioners expect at a meeting the last
of this week to complete arrange
ments for beginning work
Lobster fishermen at Biddeford
Pool and vicinity complain of their
traps being interfered with, alleging
that miscreants have even put short
, Holsters in some traps and then
tipped off the wardens. 1t is limited
that there is feeling on the part of
old fishermen against newcomers in
the business. State WardenS and a
detective are at work on the matter.
Joe Peppin of the depot camps at
Brassua Lake has stopped the depre-
dations at that camp carried on by a
big bear by shooting bruin. Joe
claimed the bear weighed over 500
pounds and proved it by taking il to
Jackman. where it was weighed. 1t
was very fat. through the rich fare
il had by its thefts at the camp.
State detectives and the Lewiston
police are still working on the Or
Donnell assault and fire mystery, but
not enough evidence has been Sc
cured to warrant an arrest. 1t is said
that two or three persons are under
suspicion. DR.. Donnell is slowly re-
covering.
Captain Herbert L. Rawlings, who
has been resident inspector at Bath
during the building Of the steamers
"A. L. Mutt anu l iIciilao bCdi' SIS
ter ships built at the Bath Iron
Works, has left the city, carrying
with him numerous parting gifts
from friends, including gold pencil
from the Employment Department of
| the Iron Works. The Thomas p. Beal
| is now being made ready for sea and
the A l.. Kent arrived Sunday for re-
pairs, lying just below her sister ship.
The late Edward p. Shaw OF
Brookline, Mass, who died Monday
at Bellport, L. l., is credited in the
! obituary published in the Boston
Globe with having during his very
active business career at one time
controlled the ownership of the old
Augusta, Hallowell & Gardiner Street
Railway. He married in 1857 Miss
Annie Payson Trott of Bath, who
died few years ago.
| Frank r. Sibley. who was with the
26th Division in France, writing of
the reunion of that division in Bos-
ton and especially of the parade on
July e. said:
Lieut.. Col. John J. Barry is actual
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