Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-03
Maine Gossip
Pretty Words

Pretty Words
Poets make pets Of pretty docils
1 love smooth words. like gold
enamcled fish
Which circle slowly with silken
swish.
And tender ones, like downy
birds;
Words Shy and dapplcd. dcep-eyed deer
in herds,
Come to my hand. and playful If
wish;
or, purring softly at a silver dish,
Blue Persian kittens, fed on cream and
curds.
| love bright words, words up and
singing early;
Words that are luminous in the dark,
and sing;
Warm lazy words, white cattle under
trees
L love bright words words up and
pearly,
Like midsummer moths, and honeyed
words like bees, -.
Gilded and sticky. with a little sting.
-Elinor Wylie in the, Bookman
'How Movies Are Made" is the
subject by Holman Day for his talk
Nov. 3. at . P. NJ, before the Massa-
chusetts- Maine Daughters, at Boston.
Miss Marion Garter of New York will
sing and she will be accompanied by
Mrs. Minnie Longley, well known in
Greene, and tea will be served by the
hospitality committee.
The State ferryboat Gov. King has
been taken off the Bath y"oolwich
route and the faithful old -Hockomock
resumes her familiar duties, runping
on the same schedule up to II each
night until Dec, /. when the winter
schedule will begin. The Gov. King
is being made ready for winter quar-
tcrs, and Captains Charles w. Ding
ley and Eugene Spinney are alter
mating in the Hockomock's pilot
house, while Capt. Coss. the man
ager, is attending to that job.
A Bath man went down cellar to start
the furnace and found that Sir John
Skunk had taken up his winter resi-
boy to kill the skunk but got a poor
shot, for the first and non-effcctive
shot made the skunk mad aud he fired
back. His shot was effective. The
boys second shot killed the enemy.
1t is considered possible that a bill
providing for police commission for
the city of Portland will be intro
duccd in the next LEGISLATURE, as
there is some sentiment at present in
favor of such a body, says the Port
land Press. The present police eX-
aiming board is commission, but
it's powers are limited, as it can only
recommend candidates for positions
on the force after they have taken
the examination.
The ease with which a mysterious
forest fire may originate is shown by
the experience of we'll known citi-
zen who one day last week went to
his wood lot to cut a load Of brush,
writes the Stockton Springs corre-
spondcnt of the Bangor News. Re-
moving sweater and waistcoat he
laid them on brush pile, and few
yards away busted himself with his
axe. Presently he became conscious
of a smell of smoke. and looking up
found a. merry blaze which had
ruined his sweater and vest the lae-
ter rescued in time to save his watch
and pocketbook, and was in danger
of spreading to the slash nearby
where cords of pulp is piled. Oh,
yes, he was smoking.
The Fort Fairfield High school pu-
pills understand what community"
spirit means, according to their ac-
ton in agreeing to furnish a room in
the Community hospital. at a cost of
about $40.
Rev. c. S. Hilyard, for a number
Of years pastor of the Fort Fairfield
Reformed Baptist church and going
from there to Grand Manan, n. b.,
has Just received II unanimous call to
u church of the same denomination
at St. John, which he has accepted.
Twenty five Bath girls, employees
Of one establishment, had a chicken
dinner last Sunday in Brunswick. A
feature of the occasion was that four
of them, on a wager, made the g.
mile trip by walking to reduce
weight. What they might have been
expected to do to that dinner after
such hike, doesn't sound much like
reducing" weight.
Register of Deeds w. Z. Craig OF
Penobscot county is, wondering how
he is going to pay the clerks OF his
office during the remainder of the
year, with the $T1.15 left of the APP
preparation and in view of the fact
that the clerk hire bill Is $3.50 per
week. The trouble arose over the
fact that the Legislative bill cover
ing that point read $1,000, instead Of