Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-11
Maine Gossip
Arnistice nay

Armistice nay
The naked trees, SO gaunt and bare
OF springs green leaves and sum-
mers glory,
Stretch pleading arms to heavens own
blue,
AS if to tell their piteous story.
OF how Jack Frost with icy touch
Turned every leaf brown. gold or
Which made the landscape one vast
reach
OF riotous color on earth's bed.
Lovely to look at; yet how brief
The beauteous sight; now all is
drear;
Trees stark and bare of tiniest leaf,
Now greet the sight, for fall is here.
Yes! fall is here! tits now we meet
The short dark days of grim Novem-
The eleventh month whose eleventh
day
And eleventh hour we we'll remember.
For it brought Peace; the lannon's
Was hushed and still at a moments
warming;
Then let us pause at this sacred hou::
And greet with awe this hallowed
Mrs. Juliet Marion Stanley Warren,
Portland, Me.
Mayflowers as fresh and sweet as
in May, were picked Nov. at Rock
port.
Miss Emma Guild of Old Orchard,
formerly of Lewiston. is said to be
the first woman Sin Maine to hold an
enbalmer's license.
Calais is promised a new industry.
A man from Belfast, Ireland, was
there recently trying to purchase the
big plant of the Booth Fisheries
Company, which he intended to con-
vert into a wooden mandatory.
Parker r. Nickerson, Of Boothbay
Earbor, has started the erection of
five new log cabins on his property
along the Indian Trail. One of the
cabins is being built for Mr. and Mrs.
Percy G. Bishop of Cuba. kThe other
four are to be for Mr.. Nickerson and
will be for renting or for sale.
Horatio Drake, nearly so years of
age, who makes his home at Indian
Point, Georgetown, had his first ride
in an automobile on Saturday when
he drove to Bath with George Smith
i'll his truck. The last time Mr.
Drake drove to Bath was about SO
years ago when he came to purchase
his Wedding clothes.
A Limerick boy was out hunting
the other day when suddenly shots
began to fall around him. Realizing
that he was evidently being taken
for a deer, he dropped to the ground
and crawled along the stonewall, call
ing out at the same time. The
brave hunters didn't even stop to
see if any of their bullets took eff
feet, but fled incognito, in their au-
tomobiles.
The village of Damariscotta is in
Tested with a plague of skunks.
Within a few days Dr. Robert w.
Bolknap shot one on his doorstep.
Enoch Merrill got another on his
doorstep, but Brownie Taylor had the
best luck. He met five in a row,
coming down Elm street in the heart
OF the village. He hustled home, got
his shot gun and secured two of them.
Skunk hunting is a popular moon
light evening pastime with the rising
generation of sportsmen and some of
them have the honor of taking their
meals privately in the woodshed.
Fred ID. Hill of Bath, recently
found at his home, among the papers
of his grandfather, John Langdon
Hill, of Phippsburg, a sea captain.
Master Mason's certificate given the
captain when he was raised in Pheo-
nix lodge No. 800, Hamilton, Ber-
muda, 1922. The parchment is in eX-
cCllcnt condition. A green ribbon
runs through to connect the pages
and there is a big red wax seal. 1t
is signed by Theodore G. Gilbert, w.
NJ, Joseph Fl. Latters, S. w. and
James J. Latters, ]. w. 1t is being
framed and will be presented Mason
IL ItIllplt.
Postmistress, typist, housekeeper,
chauffeur, seamstress and a devoted
wife and mother are some of the
titles held by a little bobbed- haired
girl, down on rockbound island off
the coast of Maine Mrs. Rita Hen
bricks Billings, wife of Sheridan
Brooks Billings, one Of the famous
yachtsmen of Deer isle, who have
sailed cup defenders for many years,
is the pOstmistress of Eggemogin,
Summer resort of the Maine coast
and which, within the past year, has
been made a regular postoffice with
mail every day instead of only a
few times a week in winter Mrs.
Billings is a very wide-awake young
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