Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-23
Maine GOSSIP
September Marshes

September Marshes
September comes to the salt-marsh
In a tender, brooding way
Its sun-Washcd wastes are swept with
bronze
And orange splashcs gay.
1 wonder if its scdgc still holds
Marsh Rosemary" hIue-cycd?
Old thoughts. Forgotten, come to me
AS channels of the tide.
Between the tranquil marshes wind
| Just SO, in dear. past days
Through ecl-grasscd creeks We punted,
| Discovering new ways.
Ali, how tho sun-slcams touched the
reeds.
And how The shadows smiled!
| Fall came so sweet 20 the marshes
When L MAS Il little child
Agnes Choate Wonson.
| The new home of Harmony Lodge,
+. & A. NJ. at Gorham Will be dcdi-
Gated in October. The new home
| complies with the latest requirements
OF Masonry, making it one of the fin
est halls Of the State.
Tho man who sustained a broken
! lcS in u fight with fish, and has
! been at the Weber hospital in Bid
deford, las been able to be removed
to his home at Cape porpoise this
week. William LePcrc is the fisher
man who had the scaly combat.
Morse High school at Bath is to
! have weekly newspaper of its own.
The Press club is composed of mem
hers of the Junior and the Senior
| classes. The editor in chair is
Dorothy Brown. The name of the
I paper will be decided by contest.
The lonelicst man in Portland, Is
the way that Charles l.. MaLberry
feels. He has conducted u newspaper
! and smoke store at 55a Preblo street.
! Portland, for the past II years and
due to changes in the building his re-
moyal has been forced.
| A gala event for the Business and
Professional Womcn's clubs of
Maine. will be the October meetings.
Lena Madesolf Phillips of New York,
u woman lawyer, will be in tho
State and speak before the various
Clubs. She is executive secretary of
| tho national federation.
The 63rd wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. n. P. Sweet of Lincoln,
recently reached, was not allowed to
pass by unobseryed, as the many
| friends and relatives aided them in
celebrating the day. She is so and
| he is 81. They have nine children,
seven Of whom are living, 40 grand
children and 20 great grandchildren.
The Bangor Veterans Bureau will
not be closed without investigation is
the assurance which comes from c.
T. Forbes. director of the L. S. Vet
Grams Bureau. There is considerable
stir in the Queen City and vicinity
| due to the report that the Veterans
Bureau, located in that city, was to be
discontinued.
| Bath is booming. 1t has sort of
gotten the habit, as YOU might say,
| due perhaps to war time. A new bar
| Der shop on Water street, new
lunch cart on Center street and the
| rcopening OF the Opera Cafe on Cen
trail street are three interesting busi-
ness events of the past week in that
shipping city.
In Norway they have added to their
list of out door sports, moose seeing.
page Noah for that new worldly
Ned Sheppard encountered bull
moose in the open fields short dis
The moose was about the size of a
COW and carried wide spread antlers.
Several curious ones started out to
get a glimpse of the animal.
No more waiting at the Post Office
for the mail. in such large numbers.
! if the petition Of the Livermore Falls
patrons is granted. They want city
or street delivery in the village limits
for the postal department. They
claim it would enable the postoftice
department to handle the mail much
better and give better service at the
office.
Repairs at the Amos Abbott mill
in Dexter, which was damaged by
fire Monday have already started.
Sections of tho burned roof are being
removed and lumber is on hand to