Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-26
Maine Gossip

Books

o Books! / love your very forms
Your dresses, blue or green or red;
since dead
Your life. my very life blood warns.
Your thoughts they seem my very
These silver waves from seas long
flown:
And Homer's gods before me rise
And sad-faced Dante's Paradise.
Nothing in all life's passing show
OF stone or music. talk, or art.
Hath the same power to stir my
AS Books! my love for them doth
In Books men put their soul and
brain.
The struggles they have made in
The dreams long-dead. the battles
fought
Stories in magic letters wrought.
In you. o Books. Life. Love. and Death!
The lowly born. the squire. the king,
The heroes of the past you sing,
The poet with his laurel wreath.
You tell of BabylonS of earth,
OF Nazareth. where the Christ had
birth,
OF Moses on the gray-green Mile
OF Plato with his matchless style.
What II times silver harp-strinss
Within my soul doth safely lie
The thoughts from Books. they can
, When 1 awake-they will awake.
May be on Gods walls l shall find
The Books loved in we'll known
Through days eternal mine to keep
Books! that have made me laugh and
weep!
The annual meeting of the Maine
Commercial Travellers Association
will be held next Saturday at the
Falmouth. The meeting will be at 5
o'clock, followed by the annual BAN
quet. The after-dinner speakers will
be Hon. Halbert p. Gardner and Rev.
Robert J. Bruce of Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank w. Faunce,
Pleasant street, Norway, will cele-
brate their fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary at their home, Thursday. Jan. q.
Their three children and families will
be among the guests, including Mrs.
Helen Poindexter and family. Frank
Faunce and family of Pittsburgh, Pa.
and Mrs. Grace Leavitt and family of
Lynn, Mass. From until o'clock
Mr.. and Mrs. Faunce will receive their
friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Leavitt
celebrated their 18th anniversary on
the 18th.
A Bath plumber. took a cup half
filled with water in a house Thursday
and ran his finger, previously dipped
in the water. along the frozen service
pipe until it stopped. 1T is frozen
there" he said and soon had the water
running. The finger thus immersed
in the hot water seems to stop as if
magnetically attracted over the
frozen spot in Q pipe according to the
plumber.
There is a strong prospect that the
services of the station and express
agent at Franklin Roads will be dis
pensed with on account of lack Of
business. 1t will be made flag
station and a caretaker will handle
full carloads of freight.
George Allan England, one of our
Maine authors and a former resident
of Bryant's Pond, has been chosen as
scenario director for the Metropoli-
tan Films Co. in Boston. 1t is learned
that many of Mr.. England's novels
and stories will be picturized there.
A fine gift from the Sons of Vet
Grams of Rumford has been received
BY the Rumford Public Library. A
set of Adjutant General Reports:
another set of books is the photo
graphic History of the Civil War,
also. War Papers, Regimental Issues
in the American Civil War. This
gift will be much appreciated by the
patrons of the library.
After 81 years of business in the
same location, the firm of Almon H.
Fogg Co. at Houlton will close out
their business and the members will
retire. Whether they will sell the
business as a whole or close 1t out in
small lots has not been decided, but
in any event the present owners of
this well known firm will retire. The
firm known as the Almon H. Fogg Co.
is the best known and Oldest concern
doing business in Aroostook county
today. having been started in 1859
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