Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-09
Maine GOSSIP
Home Hunger
BY ALBERT T. REID

MUlne GOSSIP
Home Hunger
There lies glory on familiar places,
Born of old dreams and long remem
hered faces
Touching all earthly things of mortal
fancy
With an unearthly and immortal nee
rnmancN.
In that warm light lost hopes have
being,
Dim figures live there couded eyes
have seeing
Beyond the stars mysteriously wheel
ing.
beyond Times SLOW, memorable reveal
ing.
All hungers change. forever aud for
Save the one hungering that changes
never:
While that endures there may he cause
for laughter.
l.2ug " er aud the brave hope that fol
lows after.
Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer in the
outlook.
The Portland city government has
decided to retain the public market on
Federal street, but has also decided
, that hereafter those who have its priv
ileges must be producers of the things
they sell. The hucksters must be
registered, pay nominal fee and suit :
able rules and regulations will be en-
| forced.
| The Maine Retail Clothiers' Associa-
ton will held its annual meeting
Wednesday. Nov. 3, in Portland, with
| headquarters at the Lafayette. Tn d,
+, banquet al $50 L, NJ. will be followed
ny an evening meeting, with a depar-
ture from the usual custom, CUES
ton Box" and discussion taxing the
place of a formal speaker.
President Todd Of the Bangor e
Aroostook stated the other day that it
would take 100 cars a day for eight
months to move the Aroostook potato
tatees in Maine.
The Texas Steamship Co. launched
its first vessel in Bath in 1917. The
craft that will he launched the mid
die of this month will be the 35th
since the company started, pretty
good record.
A Wilton man is reported to have
been seen moving his lawn while the
first snow storm of the season was
humming through the air.
Word comes from kittery that the
Badgers Island abutment pier is Civ
ing the contractors much trouble. the
formation of the land being such that
bed rock has not been reached. A had
ledge was encountered, hut a sheer
drop was found off this ledge. making
it necessary to rebuild the cofferdam
Although the excavation has been eX-
tended down to a good depth no bed
rock has heen reached. Part of the
cofferdam has been filed with COLI
crete, and it is expected that another
section will be ready in a short time
although it will take much more con-
crete than the one on the PORT smouth
side of the river
The rarnell lobster pound at Nc
Tarland's cove near High Island. con-
tains 10000 pounds of live Holsters
awaiting the season of high pricos.
They are quoted now at 90 cents per
pound, are fed twice week and in
creasing in ght,-Lincoln County
News Nov g
The netting and stripping of salmon
at the East Raymond fish hatchery
will begin at 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning and the usual large crowd of
spectators is expected.
If there is any truth in the old saw
ing that the day of the month on
which occurs the first storm viii gov
ern the number of storms for ,he win
ter, then we may not expect hut seven
storms, as our first snow storm came
on Nov. Z.
Owners OF sailing vessels are com
planning bitterly of the freight rates
they are new forced to accept in pref
erence to laying UP their crafts, says
the Portland Herald, declaring that
there is great difficulty in breaking
even and little show of making a liv-
ing profit. The sailing vessel market
continues slow. there being no notice
able improvement in the general de-
mand for tonnage, and few charters
were effected last week, most of the
coal charters reported en- vessels from
Hampton Reads ports to New England