Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-28
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip
The Fallow Fields
tFrom Contemporary Verse;
Let the fields lie fallow
Bare and brown.
Let the great winds stride over them,
And the snow come down.
Let them lie open to the sun
To the patient rain,
And the dews whiten them
Fer they yield again.
Piow in the sturdy weeds.
The common flower.
Let their wild vigor yield
A lusty dover.
Then after sun and snow.
After dew and sleet
From the earth will spring the green
Flame OF the wheat.
M. Letitia Stockett
Roger B. Nickerson. and Frances
f. Atkins of Bangor have entered the
Naval :Acadmy at Annapolis, sue
cesSfully passing all examinations
Both are graduates of Bangor High
school
Yachting is being revived at Bar
Harbor and great activity is expected
this summer in that line. The
Eastern Yacht Club will rendevouz
there July II. Racing will be re-
sumed with the Bar Harbor 17-foot-
ers and regatta, water parade or
fa, 1-aJ &c. 10 e.,
\ large party of Boston University
students. including 1870 wounded
World War veterans who are taking
Vocational Education work at the
university, will arrive at Ellsworth
July 6 for the b. of L. Summer
school. Professor Charles f. Bellatty,
a former Ellsworth man and now in
charge of the College of Business
Administration Federal Board men,
will again be the director Of the
school
The story of a Benedicta man who,
so it is said, received an auto load of
liquors short distance across the
border and after the transfer made a
rush for the American side neglecting
to pay the thousand dollars to the
Canadian, is the latest rum story
being told about town, says the Pr
oneer Houlton. Possibly the rum
runners across the border will get the
cash before delivery hereafter
Lincoln county is planning to make
the Boom Maine day on Wednesda'
June 20 one to be remembered in that
section and by all who attend. The
exercises will be staged at Damaris-
Gotta, with Governor Baxter the guest
of honor He will deliver an address,
following the banquet at II o'clock
noon. II. H. Chamberlain OF Bristol
will be POSTMASTER. Addresses will
also be given by James Q. Gulnac
president of the State Chamber of
Commerce, Luther Maddocks and
Mrs. Florence Brooks Whitehouse.
Mrs. Llewellyn Powers of Brook
line, Mass, formerly of Houlton, Me,
announces the engagement of her
daughter, Pauline to Walter Emmons
Young of GloversvilIe, n. Y. Miss
Powers is the daughter of the late
Gov. Powers of Maine. Mr.. Young
Is a social worker. having studied at
the New York School of Philan-
thropy. He has been connected with
hn ~ s.
Aid Society in Boston and is now at
Girard College, in Philadelphia. The
marriage will take place at an early
date.
The first blueberries have arrived
in Bath but the Times says that
nothing but heavy rain will save the
crop from failure. If the drouth
breaks, L big crop of berries of all
kinds can be expected in that sec
ticr, except strawberries.
Maine and the Maine coast never
lack for attractions and always has
something worth recording. So,
Phillips man reports seeing two wild
cats the other day in his pasture,
and a captain of a packet, en- route
from Vinalhaven to Portland. reports
man eating shark. at least 80 feet
long. gorging on herring off Half
Way rock. The shark probably liked
the looks of the captain, for on see
ing him. he promptly left the herring
banquet and travelled alongside the
boat, evidently thinking the skipper
would make a good meal.
Colonel F. c. Knight of Rockland
is said never to have witnessed a
baseball game, although he would
give up his er-dinner smoke" to
see a horse trot.