Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-11
Maine GOSSIP
A Woman's Question

Do you know you have asked Tor the
costliest thing
Ever made by the Hand above
A woman's heart and a woman's life,
And a Woman's wonderful love?
Do you know you have asked for this
priceless thing
AS q child might ask for toy?
Demanding what others have died to
With the reckless dash Of a boy.
You have written my lesson of duty
Manlike. you have questioned me:
Now stand at the bar of my woman'S
soul
Until I shall question thee.
You require your mutton shall always
be hot,
Your socks and your shirt shall be
whole;
l require your heart shall be true as
Gods stars.
AS pure as heaven your soul
You require a cook for your mutton
and beef:
l require a far better thing;
a seamstress you're wanting for
stockings and shirts
| look for a man and a king.
a king for beautiful realm called
Home,
And a man that the maker. God,
Shall look upon as He did the first,
l am fair and young, but the roses
will fade
From my soft young cheek one day:
VIII YOU love mo, then, mid the fall
ing leaves.
AS you did mid the bloom Of May?
Is your heart an ocean so wide and
deep
] may launch my. all on it's tide?
y loving woman finds heaven or hell
% hriI
l require all things that are grand and
true,
All things that man should be:
III you would give this all, l would
stake my life
70 be all you demand of me.
II you cannot do this. a laundress and
cook
You hire with little pay;
But WomanS heart and woman's
Are not to be won that way
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The first Weir caught Penobscot
river salmon is reported taken by
Holmes e Goose of Stockton SPRINGS.
1t weighed 10 pounds and was sent to
Bangor
The Brunswick police are investi-
eating the reported robbing of an old
grave on the farm on the River road,
which Charles l.. Douglas recently
purchased from Harry Williams
George H. Williams saw several men
digging in the vicinity of the old Abb
bolt family burial place. He notified
Chief of Police Edwards, but by the
time he arrived the men had disap-
peared. 1t was found that they had
dug down into at least one of the
several graves
IF you haven't got u Ford for that
wedding journey why not try a motor
cycle? Livermore Falls and Rum
ford got together and did it and are
still on their way rejoicing. At the
Methodist parsonage in Rumford
last Saturday afternoon Merton Holt
of Iivermore Falls and Miss Daisy
Belle Ruff of Rumford were united in
marriage, the double ring service be-
ing used for the ceremony. When
they emerged from the parsonage
they were showered with confetti,
and started on their wedding journey
amid the proper amount of fun and
laughter. The happy bridegroom was
mounted on his motorcycle. while the
little bride was cosy as you please
in the side car attached to the cycle,
all decorated for the occasion.
A few weeks ago Miss Caroline
Hodgdon of Boothbay Harbor went
from Paris where her headquarters
are, to Vitrey. France where she
visited the grave of her friend and
schoolmate, Liza Martin. who died in
a hospital in Vitrey. Miss Hodgdon
writes that the six American boys
are buried in this little cemetery at
Vitrey. The American flag flies
from pole in this American burial
place. no other ornamentation being
allowed. The lots are kept nicely
grassed and the cemetery is enclosed
by neat wooden fence. Miss Hodg-
don took a picture of the cemetery
and of the grave of Liza Martin and
has sent the photographs to his par
ents.
Wallace r. harrington, who has
been visiting at his former home in
Brewer, left Sunday on his return to
Honolulu, where he has been for over
20 years and where he is publisher
of the Star Bulletin, the largest daily
newspaper on the island. Mr.. Far
rington was, years ago. the Water
Vile representative of the Kennebec
Journal. leaving soon after for Ha-
wall. He has been high in the coun
ellis of the government in Hawaiian
affairs and has recently been promi-
nently mentioned for Governor of the
islands.
The office of sealer of weights and
measures in Lewiston must be a de-
sirable one, judging by the squabble
now going on over who shall have it.
Napoleon Coulombe and Matthias
Gahagan both claim the berth and
the records of the city clerk show the
following interesting situation: Seal
err Andreas Michaud died last No
vember. Napoleon Hamel was elect
ed on March II, 1921. His qualifica-
ton for the office is not recorded.
Richard l.. Lawton had been elected
on April IA, 1919. His qualification
does not appear on the record. Ma
poleon Coulombe was elected March
Is, 1920 His qualification does not