Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-17
GOSSIP
Taking humps Of Weather


Have lump of sugar in your coffee
or your tea
Take a lump of weather as you go
along with me.
Just the way you'll have it,
Zephyr light or tempest strong
But always somewhere something
Like the sweetness of a song.
Taking Jumps of weather as it changes
day by day
is learning to be seasoned for the
spirit of the fray
Not for US the choosing.
But for us to say and sing
II it's winter then it's winter;
II it's spring. hooray for spring!
The savors in the substance Of orr
feeling for the life
Contented with its beauty and re-
signed to meet it's strife.
Have lump of weather.
In your heart and trudge along
Just SO, in balm or blizzard
You've the sweetness of the song,
B. Il. in the Baltimore Sun.
A special meeting of Piscataouis
Oil Co. was held Friday afternoon
and it was voted to authorize the d.
rectors to make contract with D. ].
Coulter, successful Pennsylvania
oil driller to drill well The lumber
Is on the ground for the derrick and
work on it will begin at once. II is
expected that the machinery for drill
Ing Will arrive from Fennsylva1ia by
ths time it is completed. 1t was also
voted to increase the number of
stockholders to 200.-Piscataouis OBJ
server, Dover.
Harold w. Bishop of Boothbay
Harbor was surprised the other dav
when he was told by the local tele-
phone operator that he had a phone
call from Cuba and even more so
when in a few minutes he was talk
Ing with his brother, Major Percy G.
Bishop. in Havana The latter is in
the sugar business in Cuba and be-
ing in Havana on business and
thinking of home and the new teie-
phone cable to the states recently
completed, decided on the instant to
try 1t. The communication was as
clear as though but few miles be-
tween the speakers.
Explorer Donald B. Macmillan is
now making his headquarters at
Boothbay Harbor and will remain
there practically all the time until he
sails in the Bowdoin for Boston to
complete putting on stores.
The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
has reduced it's freight charge on
Aroostook potatoes going to the
starch factories by about so per
cent, on account of the demoraliza-
ton of the potato market The new
rate became effective May 16 and will
continue until about August Is.
Former Adjutant General Elliott
c. Dill of Maine and now living in
Roselle Park, N. j., has been in
Lewiston for a few days, called by
the ill health of his father General
Dill has just completed a two years
term as mayor of his New Jersey
home city.
Two U. Of Me. boys. determined to
attend the meet last Saturday at
Brunswick and being without the
wherewithal to purchase tickets by
rail, started out Friday afternoon on
foot. carrying lunches, and with
placards on their backs bearing: I'VE
Are on Our Way to Brunswick;
Please Give Us a Lift" We haven't
seen an official bulletin on their
progress. but it is safe to believe that
those boys saw the meet.
The late Former Chief Of Police
Lindley w. Gilman of Bangor prob
ably had as many friends and ac-
quaintahces as any Maine man who
ever wore the chiefs star. Genial,
kindly, yet firm, he made a splendid
officer and his death last week was
mourned by hosts of friends. He
was a member Of numerous organi-
cations and the funeral on Monday
was largely attended.
DR.. Morris H. Turk, recently of
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