Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-19
Maine Gossip
Apple Blossom Time

Apple BLOSSOM limo
would go home in apple blossom
When all the air is vibrant with
the tune
OF bird and bee song, when the
rivers rune
Is as a tender and melodious rhyme.
And when the far hills which. ma5es-
To reach the smiling heavens. al
most swoon
Beneath the golden glory of the
noon,
When nature is akin to the sublime.
The filmy pink and white with fra
GRANGE rare
Would shroud the valley. on the
distant slope
The shimmering, irridescent trees
would cling;
fam would stay a while. and resting
there,
Close in the heart of that sweet
land of hope,
Hark to the soft persuasion of the
spring.
Elizabeth Scollard, in the Boston
Sunday Herald.
Bangor reports that Penobscot sal
mon should soon be in the market, as
the May school is running up the riv-
err. Less than SO had been taken on
the entire river up to last Friday
night, but seven were taken Saturday
at the Bangor pool and all but one
were deep water fish.
Bath sends another young man to
the Naval Academy at Annapolis, John
A. Lord, Jr., son of Lieut.. and Mrs.
John A. Lord of the Shipping City,
having passed his examinations.
Lieut.. Lord was for years superintend-
ing naval constructor at the Bath
Iron Works, until the naval office was
closed. The young man was born
Oct. 8, 1901 in Bath and is graduate
of Morse High.
Nearly 1000 people attended the
funeral at Thomaston on Sunday of
Private Theodore Cobb Williams who
Thierry. the services being held in
the Town hall, where for two days the
remains had lain in state.
The Litermore Falls Water Dis
trict is to install second pump at
the station and make changes in the
piping, to afford better fire protec-
ton, something that meets the APP
prevail of the citizens.
Rumford will dedicate and unveil
it's soldiers monument on Saturday,
May 81, according to present plans.
The program will include addresses
by w. Scott Robinson of Buckfield, L.
G. Bateman of Lewiston and L. T.
Carleton of Winthrop.
Portland Press, May 1S-E H.
Libby secretary of the Maine State
Grange, conferred with Chamber of
Commerce officials yesterday relative
to the possibility of that organiza-
tons holding it's annual meeting in
this city Dec. 10, IA and Is of next
year. A definite decision as to the
meeting place will be made at a
meeting of the executive committee
at Goodwill, June 80. and Portland
bulks large as a possibility
Following is the complete list of
those Bowdoin Alumni who died dur
ing the year ending June 1, 1920:
George A. Barker, Medic "a, Charles
L. Barnes, Medic 'S4, John +. Bur-
bank, 90, Devalan Carlton. '66, Jona-
than P. Cilley, rs, Thomas +. Con-
neen. Medic '01. Fred H. Cowan, '01,
Frank L. Dutton, 80, Richard r.
Eastman, 16, Daniel H. Fetch.
rs, Charles A. Flagg, '94, Benjamin S.
Grant, 81. Herbert Harris, '72. Hiram
Hunt Medic "a, William p. Hussey,
'66, James r. Jordan, 80, Harry w.
Kimball. Medic 81, Henry NJ King,
SO. Norman MacKinnon. "a. Joel M.
Marshall. '62, Woodbury. L. Melcher.
'56. Wallace S. Mitchell, '96, Charles
II. Moore. 20, Ernest H. Noyes, rs,
Edward Parker. ST. Edwin P. Parker.
SO, Henry S. Payson, 81, Robert E.
Peary, II, William H. Pierson, "a,
Howard L. Prince, go, John A. Rob-
erts, IT. Daniel w. Rodick, is, os-
good w. Rogers. ~. Thomas Shepard.
'65, Joseph W. Spaulding. Honorary.
'7s. Oscar F. swasey. Medic 'C3, Hor-
ace r. True. rs, Justin A. walling.
Medic 'S2. Everett L. Wass, Is, John
Fl. White. re. Alvin E. Written, 81.
Henry e. Woods, Honorary, 'oS, Dan
iel L. Norwood, 'ss.