Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-09
Maine Gossip
Sire am-Iove

fish's cunning !
The truth is. | want to just 1901
round stream.
There's redbud on hillsides, wheat |
green OH the ffatland-r-
There's plenty TO whisper, Come !
elsewhere TO dream.
Yet deaf is my spirit to this land ana
that land
While I'm within sight Of just any .
old stream.
There's sweet fascination in ripple
There's downright seduction IN CUR
gle and CLEAN;
There's plain mesmerism IN eddy anu
dimple-- -.
Let's go somewhere now and just !,
fol round stream.
The hills ARE erticing, the meadows :
inviting;
Some this and some that nature ,
masterpiece deem,
But me for the pools where the trout
fish are biting
The real come hither' is FOUND IN
the stream;
Strickland Gillian. in Farm LlIe.
Sheriff Thurston OF Knox county
takes exception to the report that he
is dead He admits being hit on the
jaw during the evening before the
Fourth at Rockland by d sky rocket
and receiving painful wound, but
like Mark Twain-asSerts that the =
report of his death is exaggerated.
The contract for the new Town hall
at kennebunk has been awarded ID
J. M Darling, Jr.. Co. of Fail River,
Mass for $50, 937 Work Of taking
down the ruins of III" burned build
ing will begin about July Is and the
new building will be completed about
December /.
A thrilling battle between an eagle
and a hawk is reported from Bar
Harhor. the hawk trying TO secure d
fish that the eagle was carrying home.
Another eagle calmly watched the !
scrap but did not offer 10 help its
chum. The outcome was unknown,
because the birds disappeared in the
distance before the battle was over
The girl who reading the headline,
Caribou Indians Turn Cannibals"'
and remarked Il didn't know Car
bou had any Indians. | thought all
our Indians were al Old Town and
near Eastport." had not finished the
news item and did not notice that it
was the Caribou Indian Tribe OF
Alberta.
Captain Irvan Doane. formerly of
Bangor and known as "Devilman'
Doane because Of his heroic rescue of
a wounded 10Th Division boy. has
been a visitor at Bar Harbor, with
his family and parents. Captain
Doane remained in the army and is
now stationed at Camp DeVens.
A petition from citizens of West
Paris for the enforcement OF the Sun
day closing law in that place has
been presented TO the selectmcn. and
has been turned over by them to
Sheriff. Harry n. Cole of oxford
county.
The PASSPORT station of the United
States Weather Bureau reports that
; the June of 1927 vas the driest. with
three exceptions, since the station
was establl shed in 1873, and the driest
since 1913, when but OIL inches of
rain fell. The rainfall for June, 1921,
was 1o2 inches, or 80 inches less
than normal and brings the total
deficiency for the year to July ] to
S.4S inches. The rainfall for June,
1920, was IS inches.
Hon. Q. Gardner returned Tuesday
from Washington. where he attended
meeting of the international Joint
, Commission at which the engineers
submitted their report on the prob
able cost of the proposed Great
! Lakes deeper waterway canal.
which would make a continuous sea
way from the lakes through the St
Lawrence to the Atlantic, so that
vessels could load in Deluth or any
other lake port and discharge al ports
on the other side of the Atlantic with
out re- shipment. While the commits
sion has not at this time made this
report public, it is understood that
the estimates of the cost of this pro-
posed seaway from the lakes TO the
Atlantic is very much less than was
at first reported, although liberal al
. lowances have been made in it for all
! possible ngencies.-knox Mes
senger. Rockland.
! A very cleverly designed instru-
ment for wiring old houses without
! taking up the floors in any way has
been recently patented by James NJ
Crocker of Stockton Springs and his
son -in-iaw. WILDER c. Magune of
Bridgeport Conn. says the Journal,
/ Belfast. For four years they have
been working in Il desultory way. per-
fecting an appliance which immedi-
ately appeals to all persons who have
visions of the usual dirt from broken
plaster and splintering of perfectly
good floors and therefore sometimes
forego having old houses wired. This
small instrument carries short au-
| ger of the standard size used. which
may be inserted through the designed
outlet in wall or ceiling. The bit is
| turned by flexible shaft, coupled in
3-foot lengths. Just back Of the bit