Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-02
Maine GOSSIP
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Last night 1 heard voice well-nigh
divine
Singing the song we always loved the
best.
| Yet not a cadence reached this soul Of
mine
And not a thrill ran through my
lonely breast
How sweet that song should be if she
| could hear,
Along with me- was all that | could
say.
There's nothing wholly good and pleas
ing. dear.
When you, my major portion. are
away.
Tonight | saw sunset; FURNISHED
And vision whelming crimson were it's
A finer sight no earth-eyes may be-
Yet, gazing on it, 1 could not enthuSn.
Something down deep within e.
seemed to say.
How grand the sight If only she were
To watch with me this glorious death
of day
There's such a piteous portion OF me
Strickland Gillian in Farm Life.
7 Auburn people who send their
washing to public laundries don't
wish to be reminded of the fact I'M
til Monday morning. There has re-
Gently been a renewal of public pro-
| test against the nuisance OF noisy
laundries in operation on Sunday
evening, Several years ago similar
: complaints were made and the
practice stopped by the various con-
! Germs but it appears that the Sun
/! day collection has been renewed this
| fall.
Visitors to Old Orchard Beach in
i this present day and generation find
! it hard to visualize the now renown-
, ed resort as the scarce frequented
stretch of seashore it was in former
! days. Ned Clemmens known then as
the Hermit of Old Orchard came to
the beach in 1916 when there were
none of the attractions that summon
the crowds of today. But he, pos
SCISSOR of the vision of the future and
the energy to work towards the ac-
complishment Of that future, built
the first crude hotel, catered to pa
irons with the simple bill of fare
"clam chowder" knocked together
bathing rooms, rented suits for the
sum of nickel a swim. and estab-
lished as an amusement enterprise"
natural history museum. He was
scoffed at and ridiculed but his pre-
diction that Old Orchard would one
| day become one of the most famous
resorts of the New. England states
| has come true.
Charles E. Plaisted' of Bath, who
is vacationing at Sabine, has an en-
tirely original method of catching
crabs for culinary purposes, which
i is both practical and amusing. Pork
Sand a dish drainer are his weapons
in the sport and this is how he does
| it, He drops piece of salt pork
| tied to a string into the water and
pulls it slowly along. Mr. Crab ad-
vances upon the bait, seizes it with
two big claws, feeding it into his
mouth with u pair of lesser claws.
Then Mr.. Plaisted starts to pull.
The victim is usually too interested
in his pork to let go. so when he gets
near enough his betrayer calmly
places the dish drainer beneath the
crustacea and the catch is made.
! The method doesn't always succeed
| for there are crafty crabs as well as
those Of indiscreet temperament. but
| Mr.. Plaisted gets plenty for his daily,
| supply Of stew.
| Prof. Albert c. Baird of Bates, who
| has Just returned from his trip to
| England says that that country is
| financially much worse off than
! France having nothing to barter for
raw materials. since production is
! paralyzed. The amount of begging
under one form or another surprised
| the visitor.
| who celebrated her 94th birthday
| recently has the distinction of being
! the oldest woman in town and
among the first at the polls last fall
She is native of Oxford, resident in
Norway for the past 35 years where
her activities are many. She spends
much of her time in braiding fine
rugs using no glasses to assist her
| in doing any of her work. sewing,
knitting or reading Besides these
domestic activities she has outdoor
work to take up her time. and pass