Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-20
Maine Gossip
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Like tears the Night has wcpt; the
dew.
A-tremble, lay upon the gardens
And brimmcd the webs the spiders
Through dusky hours. upon some
fairy loom.
Oh, Nigh?t;t, What is your wracking
Are you besct with more than NOR
tai fears
That you should drench my gardens
bloom
Throughout the scented dark. with
jeweled tears?
Cora Lapham Hazard in Cartoons
Magazine.
The crew of the kcnnebec rivers
lone. tugboat Seguin admit that they
have the best cook on the coast, for
when the boat has trip long enough
to require the services of a cook,
Mrs. Thomas X. Kelley. wife of the
captain, goes along and what she
doesn't know about the culinary art
the men say ISN'T worth knowing.
John S. p. H Wilson, former fish
and game commissioner and for the
past 10 years United States marshal
for Maine. has announced that he
will be a candidate for mayor of Au-
burn.
Velma Floyce, 3-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. f. B. O'Roak Of
Sherman Mills, took the shears and
cut off some of her hair and then
clipped the cat. When asked by her
mother why she did SO. she replied:
. Coz ! wanted to make birds
nest"
The story told by A. Roy Freeman,
robbed in the Allagash woods near ST.
FRANCIS and was tied to tree by his
assalants. is a myth according to
Sheriff Grant. A warrant has been
issued for Freeman's arrest, charging
that the peddler got goods i'll Caribou,
did not pay for them and invented the
robbery story in order to avoid pay
mcnt. A search is being made for the
man.
Capt J. A. Turner of New York,
was lately sent to Portland to act as
ship keeper on the Shipping Board
steamers now tied up at Browns and
some of the other uptown wharvcs.
One of these boats. the Tuckahon.
which has been tied up at Browns
wharf for many months with steam
up, has been ordered to blow down
boilers and will remain for an in
definite period.
Steve Osnoe of Bcnedcta has been
picking potatoes for w. T. Dewitt OF
Ludlow. Beginning Oct. 10 he for
four consecutive days picked 100 bar
rels day and then on Friday picked
152 barrels, said to be this seasons
record to date. The high water mark
is, said to be 164 barrels.
Here is the way it appears &c some
over N Center Montville: Among
the signs Of fall are the crows holding
Chautauqua meetings on the hiilsides,
and when they have 'caws' to desire
refreshments they descend upon the
fieldsand gorge themselves with rheu-
matte grasshopeprs."
Two old coaches, that have reposed
for As years in stable on the Clapp
estate in the rear Of Congress street,
have recently been brought to light
and naturally attract much attention.
One belonged to General Hancock ana
the other to the late A. w. III. Clapp.
the latter being one of the first
coaches to be seen and used in Port
land. The Hancock coach will be pre-
scented to the Quincy family in Mas
sachusetts. the Quincys and Han
cocks being connected.
The annual violin contest was held
the other day in Portland and violin
made by Charles w. Hopkins of that
city won first honors. Sixteen violins
were in the contest and each was
played by Prof. Paul Pollock of New
York. the judges being w. NJ. Good !
now. Mrs. Howard Armstrong and
Lewis ]. Bonfilio. 1t is now said that
the dissatisfaction is so general over
the results that another test will soon
be held. The Press says: Acoustic
properties. the difficulty of the Judges
properly selecting the best instrument
and several other obstacles made the
contest this year very different from
the previous successful affairs and all
are determined again to test the vlo-
Inns"
The October meeting Of the Maine
Daily Newspaper Association will be
held today (Oct. 2O) at the Falmouth:
Portland. George c. Hit. manager
of the New England Da1Iy Newspaper
Association, will speak upon matters
of Importance to newspapers and pub
fishers.