Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-22


warded With good weather for the
Plymouth pageant.
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How many farmers have asked for
a duty on hides and who are they?
Maine Gossip
Sea Longing
You who are inland bonn know not
the pain
OF one who longs for gray dunes and
the seas
And sound of ebbing tide and windy
rain
And sea-mews crying down immensi-
ties.
You who are inland born know not
the urge
OF rapt tides beating passionate and
wild;
Nor have YOU thrilled with wonder at
Of drifting water. hayward as a child.
lmpetuous ! seek tn" eager sea,
Imperious for JOY and Wind-blown
spray,
You who are city beaten every day.
What do you know of mirth and
No thirsty wind mas journeyed from
the south
And laid cool, wet finger On your
mouth,
The new draw for the famous
Arrowsic bridge has been completed
and the bridge is again open fol
travel.
A motorboat was left tied to the
float of the Yacht Club, Bath, Tues
DAY evening, with engine running
while the owner ran into the club
house on an errand. Two J-year-
olds, with their dog, espied the OPP
portunity, hoped into the boat
threw in the clutch and started fol
parts unknown. Boats chased them
for half an hour before they were
"captured," opposite the South End
Daddy, the engine didn't skip once
was the only comment made wher
overhauled, the remark of one of The
youthful yachtSmen.
A little lady up in Norridgewock
who is nine years of age and nance
Miss Hazel Withee, is more blessed
with grandparents and great grand
parents than any other child in the
State of Maine. She has four great
grandparents and three grand
parents. The four Of the older gen.
ration range from the age of 10 to 5.
and are all unusually active mem.
bers of the community.
The United States Senate OF
Wednesday confirmed the nomina
ton of Stillman Z. Woodman 0
Machias as United States marsha
for the district of Maine.
Poor old Mr.. Automobile has on,
charge against it removed. 1t nov
developers that 1-year-old Willard
Violette. son of Mr.. and Mrs. GeOrg
Nioiette of Auburn, thought to hav'
been injured by an automobile, fcl
from q piazza to a cement Sidewalk
when the piazza rail gave way.
The 18th 18th :;0th Regimenta
Association will hold it's annual re
union on Wednesday, August 10, a
Bosworth Post hall. Portland, witt
business session at 10 a. NJ. Dime
at 12.30 served by the Daughters 0
Veterans. followed by socia
gathering and entertainment.
The formal transfer of the offiC
Of Prohibition Director for Maine -
Director James B. Perkins of Booth
bay Harbor to Seth May Of Auburn
will take place on Saturday. July .
at Bath, government official com
ing to Maine to complete the formal
tiles. Mr.. May will continue tn
; headquarters at Bath.
The first man to harvest ice 70
commercial purposes on the Sac
river was Foxwell Bryant. who live
on the Boom road and who about Z
years ago put up a little and sold i
j in summer from a cart drawn by
pair of oxen. He was in the bushes
for years and was succeeded by hi
sons. He was nearly 100 when h
died.
, Hon. f. f. Parkhurst said to tn
Presque Isle Star Herald reporte
Tuesday that to find parallel to tn
drought conditions now prevailing
one must go back to 1868. In tina
year it was so dry that numbers o
drought sufferers came to Mr.. Park
hurst and bought seed clover stray
of him to keep their cattle from starv
ing. and crops generally in Aroostoo
came very near to being a failure
Mr.. Parkhurst estimates that las
Sunday, with it's torrid heat an
parching air did Aroostook more tha
a hundred thousand dollars damage.
The veterans of the handful Saga
dahoc of Bath challenged the Senate
Baxter handful boys to a friendl
squirt The Baxter boys came bac
with an acceptance, provided the vet
Grams put up from $500 to $500 on tn
result. The vets reply that they don
wish to buy the Baxter have not tina