Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-13
Maine Gossip
The Stay-at-Home

Wherever dark pines lift their plumes
against sunset sky; ,,.
Or blue hills watch through hemlock-
dusk the small white roads
There YOU viii find the heart of me
that will not sit and bide,,
But follows vagrant wisps o dream
a-down the countryside.
Wherever gray gulls slant and soar
against the blowing spray,
Or white sails beat to open sea against
a wind-whipped bay.
Wherever swirls the wake-churned
There you will find the heart of me
with laughter on its lips.
A city roof my vision holds, and one
small strip of sky,
And beaten out by countless feet the
toil-drugged hours pass by.
The dark trains cleave the station
smoke, the great ships quit the
quay.
But none of all life's caravans may
keep place for me.
And yet, wherever down the world the
dawn-light wakes to gold
On tinted turrets of romance, down
roadWayS far unrolled:
Wherever fields of dream are spread,
dew-sweet beneath the stars,
There fares the gypsy heart of me un-
hndcred by it's bars.
Martha Haskell Clark in May Good
Housekeeping.
Miss JeSSamine Fenner, industrial
secretary of the Lewiston Y. w. C.
A, has rendered her resignation to
take effect on June 1st 1t is her
plan now to spend June and July at
her home in Almond. N. Y, and on
the first of August, sail for Sweden,
where she will take up her new duties
in foreign work connected with the
National Y. w. G. A. with headquar-
ters at Riga. The local association
has secured the services of Miss Lois
Chandler of North Hampton, n. H,
to succeed Miss Fenner
State of Maine carpenters can make
things hum when they start in earn
est. as was evidenced in Westbrook,
when Ernest Estes moved into his
new house that had been BUN, in just
II days. He had been forced to va
cate his previous home, by it being
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building was quite necessary.
Charles Smith of Lisbon will prob
ably not start any more brush fires
in the town of Brunswick, after his
experience of this week. He started
one on the Mere Point road Tuesday
and the firemen had a hard tusslc to
handle it. He was quickly hailed into
court where he admitted his guilt,
was fined $40 and costs, or 80 days in
Jail and placed on probation on his
promise to leave town at once.
Many of US can look up in diaries
concerning the beautiful" winter
weather of 1876 and all of us can
remember the terrific New England
winter of 1917-1S and the ending dur
ing that year of the terrible World
War. The following clipping, from a
now forgotten source, but pasted on
the back of a fire alarm card in the
kennebec Journal office about Dec.
/. 1915 will therefore be of more or
less interest:
professor c.. NJ. Anderson of Pas
sadumkeag, the famous Goose bone
meteorOlogist and prognosticator, has
issued his annual winters weather
forecast, which proves.to be a charm
ingly cheerful message, as follows:
The winter will be cold and very
windy. There will be frequent storms
of wind and snow. Frightful storms
along both seafronts and over many
parts of the word. Snow will lie I'M
til late in the spring, which will be
very late. The summer will be hot.
with great electrical storms There
will be great earthquakes and VOL
canic eruptions The disturbance
now among the inhabitants of the
earth is, as a matter of fact only q
small depression at present. The real
music will be in full swing in 1918,
when it will reach its climax"
Maine has two representatives
among the recently elected officers
for Wellesley College societies, who
are to hold office during the coming
year in the class of 1922. Miss Carol
Mills of Portland was elected an Of
fcers of the Tau Zeta Epsilon, the art
and music society of the college Miss
Mills holds a prominent part in the
college activities, and has received
several scholastic honors during her
college course. Miss Emily G.. Mich
OILS of Biddeford was chosen to act as
the social member of the Alpha Kap-
pa Chi society of Greek drama.