Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-17
Maine Gossip
Music

There is a music haunting through our
speech.
Whose changing accents melt from
word to word,
Dissolving measures heightened for
the reach
Of all old melodies that time has
heard.
What once had been like color for the
world,
Romance and beauty and their spok
en- flames.
And half-remembered wars, their ban.
ners furled,
Are music now in glamorous old
names.
Those ancient lovers thronged the
honeyed hour
With words they learned at Hybla of
the bees,
Through purple nights that saw the
moon in flower
And still such lingering interludes
as these,
And other musics tolling out of time.
Fall from our lips like chime on
changing chime.
David Morton in Harpers Magazine
for May.
Miss Ethel c. Pfaff, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolf Pfaff, Bangor,
who is engaged in teaching in New
York state, has been appointed by
Bryn Mawr college as one of the
supervisors of entrance examinations
to Bryn Mawr for New York state.
Miss Pfaff is an A. B. graduate of the
college.
Warning against swimming in eth
Ell the Penobscot river or the stream
at Bangor has been issued by the
health department. The waters in
both are badly polluted and the pollu-
ton will increase rather than be
lessencd by the sewer system of Lin
coin and Orono, which are soon to be
cmpted into the river. 1t will be
remembered that several cases of
typhoid fever last summer were
traced to swimming in the river,
there being one death from that
cause.
Dramatized history of Bath
schools written by Lillian Rogers
Elsie Lake and Evelyn Oliver of the
Bath High school senior class. pre-
scented at Morse High assembly hall
Wednesday night before an audience
which packed the hall and many
could not gain admittance. was very
cleverly acted and showed consider
able work on the part of the three
girls who wrote it.
Martha BerryLander, Kingfeld's
oldest resident, observed her 92nd
birthday Wednesday at the family
home on the West Kingield road
Mrs. Lander is enjoying unusual
good health for one of her years and
received many callers and gifts. Col
Asa Whitcomb Chapter, D. \. r..
made a brief call on Mrs. Lander
and presented her with flowers and
fruit. A son, w. V. Lander of Bos-
ton, was with her. also two sons. A.
w. Lander and C. D. Lander of King
field, the latter living on the home
farm with his mother.
Robert r. Weber. principal of
the York High school, was elected
principal of the Saugus. Mass. High |
and Junior High schools, with sal
airy of $500, this week on the third |
ballot cast by the school commit |
tee. He was one of six candidate !
and will take up his duties in Sep f!
TENDER. He succeeds Mrs. Lucia |
Mears Morris, who resigned a few |
weeks ago. The schools have 750 |
pupils and 80 teachers. Mr.. Web
Der was graduated from Oak Grove
Seminary and from Colby College in !
the class of 1912 He taught in Milo |
and in 1919 was assistant principal |
Of the Bangor High school.
Mrs. E. E. Griffin, Blethen street. |
Lisbon Falls, has a flock of Is Ply !
mouth Rock hens whose record |
would be hard to beat Last month |
they laid 362 eggs. Five days the i
record was 10 eggs and the smallest |
was eight
Mrs. George c. Riggs (Kate Doug |
las Wiggin) the noted Maine author,
who holds an honorary degree from |
and is president of the Ma |
tional Society OF Bowdon Women. |
has taken house in Brunswick for |
week, and her pres |
ence will add much interest to the |
festivities. The society will also (
maintain headquarters in Brunswick
during commencement and will do