Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-21
Maine Gossip
Reconstruction

| Out Of grief and pain,
From a dark and lonely valley,
He built his life again.
Till from the sterile desert
There grew perfect flower,
Swayed by breath of morning,
Blessed by sun and shower,
1t lifted it's fragrant chalice
| Up to the sky above;
To catch the gold of Heaven,
| This flower of hope and love.
Then came the binding tempest,
/ The lightnings flash and roar.
The place where the frail flower blos-
| Somed
/ Knew it again no more.
| Bent and bruised and broken,
Crusher to earth it lies,
Never again to lift it's cup
| Up to the summer skies.
Out Of storm and chaos.
! From broken hopes and pain,
| Out of lonely valley,
| Can he build his life again?
-Rosamond Reed.
| PASSPORT is destined to possess a
noted naturalist if the six year old
son Of William C. Beale remains
permanent resident of that city. A
group of prominent people were OBJ
! serving a strange bird that had been
about their neighborhood for several
days, and making wild guesses as to
| it's identity, when along came Master
Beale, who at once pronounced the
| bird to be rose breasted grosbeak,
kind of bird that is of rare occur
renee in that vicinity On being
asked how he knew it's species, Mas
ter Beale promptly quoted two stand
ard authorities and reference proved
| him to be correct.
| Many Of the residents 70 Charlotte
County, instigated by Lewis Cononrs
Of the well-known firm of Connors
Bros, Gamers, of Black Harbor, are
| urging the construction Of a rail-
road in that section so that fresh fish
caught in the adjoining waters may
be shipped directly to Canada. Such
railroad, it is said, would enable
people having in the interior to get
more constant supply of fresh fish
at cheaper price than they are now
getting. There is certain to be enough
shipping to demand from five to ten
cars q day, for. aside from the fish
that would be shipped. black granite
! is being quarried, elica mined, and
brick making in process, in enough
quantity so that the railroad would
not have to depend on the fisheries
alone for its business. If the fisher
men were not compelled to salt the
fish and sell them in foreign markets
&c ut
present time. the fishermen would get
more for their fish and get their
money quicker.
| A family moved to Belfast from
North Searsport a few days ago in a
small cabin drawn by four horses, a
distance of some eight or ten miles.
The fire burned in the stove smoke
passing out the tin pipe chimney, and
the mother sat in the window rocking
her baby as the cabin was drawn over
the icy roads to the city. The domes-
tic routine of the household was in
no way interrupted.
A graduate of the Pennington High
school, Norman l.. Hatch of Temple.
who is now a member of the senior
class at Harvard college, was one
out Of % men to be awarded Deturs
on the basis of last years work re-
Gently. Deturs are books given as
prizes to men who for the first time
in their college course have achieved
a position in the first group of sc,ol-
ars. Although associated with The
award Of scholarships, the list of men
receiving Deturs is now published
for the first time. The prize books are.
purchased with the income from a
fund left by Edward Hopkins a Lon
don merchant. who was several
times Governor of Connecticut Col
ony in the 18th century. and later
warden of the feet under Cromwell
Scholastically. Hatch has proved HIM
self very brilliant at Harvard, win
ming his Phi Beta Kappa key and sew
eral scholarships. He is member
Of the Harvard Dramatic Society.
And such is fame! Arbo c. Norton:
a dry goods merchant of Pennington,
received a letter last week from one
Jose NJ. Basurco of Cerro de Pasco,
Peru, asking him to forward a cata-
log of his clothing. The letter was
written in Spanish and was translat-
ed by one of the Spanish students at
the Abbott School. The envelope was
plainly addressed to Mr.. Morton,
and there is no mystery as to the
manner in which the writer had got
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