Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-20
Maine Gossip
The Dreamer

The Dreamer
The woods were still; ro breath Of air
Stirred in leaf or brake;
Cold hung the rose, unearthly fair;
The nightingale awake,
| In rusted coyerts of the May.
Shook out her bosom's down;
Alone, upon her starry way,
The moon, TO fulness grown.
Moved, shining, through her misty
And. roofiess from the dew,
KneIt way-worn Love. with idle beads.
And dreamed, thou dear, of you.
Walter De La Mare in the Measure.
| The famous Muskus blasphemy
case at Rumford is expected to be
sent to the United States court of
appeals from the present term of the
Maine supreme court for Oxford
county. Moskus was charged with
| being blasphemous in an illustrated
| lecture on Biblical scenes and events
| in the life of Christ. given before a
| Lithuanian society at Rumford He
| was tried. found guilty and appealed.
the law court unfolding the verdict.
| Health 'Officer Dumont of Lewiston
has begun a crusade against expec-
| torating In public places, an offense
punishable by law and Municipal
Judge Crockett is heartily in accord
| with the idea. One young man was
recently fined by him for such an Of
fence.
The Bangor & Aroostook Railroad,
owing to the falling off of business,
has closed the following stations, eff
fective May 21: East Dover School,
die, Stacyville, Dyer Brook, Griswold
] Paramount. Grimes Hill, Jemptland
and st. David
! Caribou now has a woman member
| of the board of selectmen, Mrs. James
; II. Doyle, formerly Miss Gladys f.
Barnes, born in Fort Fairfield, daugh-
! ter of Miles A. Barnes She taught
for nine years in the Fort Fairfield
and Limestone public schools and
seven years ago married Mr.. Boyle, a
/ prosperous potato farmer
1t is announced that Fred B. Teei-
| ing of Bath will seek the Republican
| nomination for representative to the
Legislature in the June 1922 prima-
ries to succeed Representative Lang
! don T. Snipe, who will seek the SEN
atorial nomination. Bath will under
! the new apportionment have three
representatives.
| The town of Lincoln, Me. has the
distinction of having more kinds of
time than any other town in the
| country. The selectment set the town
! clocks on standard time the pulp
, mill, the largest industry of the town.
the contractors on the new worsted
mill, the principal hotel and some of
the merchants run on daylight saving
time, while other merchants have set
1 their clocks half way between. with
the churches divided on fast and slow
time. How in the world are Lincoln
/ people to have the best time of their
lives" this summer?
That 18-pound salmon taken
Wednesday at Upper Kezar by two
fryeburg fishermen will probably at
tract scores of anglers, all positive
that they can beat that high wa ter
q mark for weight s,..
! Frank Peterson of Fryeburg has a
collection of buttons worth seeing.
consisting of about 10000, no two
alike, all sewed on heavy blanket
and weighing about so pounds. The
largest is the size of a butter plate
and the smallest a mere speck. They
were gathered all over the world.
during a life spent on the high seas,
as a steeple jack and other ad-
Venturous pursuits. He got the idea
many years ago while looking
! through his boarding mistress but
ton box and finding many odd speci-
mems.
! The Maine sardine pack for 1920 is
given as 1,S1S,365 cases by the Maine
Sardine Gamers Association, the
largest items being: One quarter cot
| ton seed oil, 1,346,130; IA tomato.
, 169,678; ga mustard, 1866; Ia
| olive oil, 1904; IA mustards, 52.212.
1t seems probable that at the next
Legislature a bill will be presented
asking for a superior court for
Aroostook county. With the increase
of criminal business now occupying
the attention of the s. J. court crimi-
nal sessions in the county, the terms
are not of sufficient length to war
rant the trials which may occupy the
attention of the court. At the April
! term which adjourned the past week,
there were 81 criminal cases to be
tried by jury and County Attorney
Roix had presented these cases for
trial Only five criminal cases were
heard by the court as Justice Phil
brook was obliged to adjourn court
to open a term in Washington
county Cumberland, Androscoggin
and Penobscot counties now have
superior courts and Aroostook will no
doubt ask the next Legislature for a
court to meet both in Houlton and
| Caribou .-Aroostook Pioneer.
| uyolfor Griffin a native of Portland