Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-04-10
Maine GOSSIP
A Shrine

A Shrine
Think in what fashion this one man
could rise
To find his solitary place way
For stupid feet and trivial, staring
eyes.
These noisy rocks in blue, whitc-
Would have recalled for him all
rapt delay
Pleasure occasions death and
Judgment day;
His second choice was silence. where
he lies.
Seas were not made to swim in: shall
low streams
Flowing through shadow, dappled
with dim light,
These be our Fairgrounds. s the deep
sea teens
Menacing. sullen shapes that haunt
the sight,
Now and again divers dive down for
dreams
To come up calm from knowledge Of
its night.
-STEWART MITCHELL in The Dial.
Edward Malone of Bangor, II he
keeps on, will be an expert on county
jail menu and accommodations. He
passed Thursday night in Portland
jail, finishing a term for being idle
and disorderly. Released Friday
morning, he was taken by a deputy
to Bangor, where he was arraigned
for issuing a fraudulent check and
held for the superior court. He
passed Friday night and will reside
for a while in Bangor jail
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Bath, Ne, April Virginia Oliver,
aged Q, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
scph r. Oliver of 1873 Washington
street, Bath, has a small, hard rub
Ler ball in icr stomach which she
swallowed Sunday. April ?. Its pres
ence was disclosed Friday by an X
ray photograph. The little girl was
playing with the ball at her homo
when she put it in her mouth. 1t
lodged in her throat and caused in
tense suffering.
The father, seeing her predicament
attempted to remove it. Suddenly 1t
became a case of the child stranglinG
to death or swallowing the ball.
which is about three quarters of an
said, pushed it down her throat, THUS
relieving the choking sensation. Thus
far the little girl has suffered no i'll
effects.
Reports from Sebago say the pros
pect is that fishing in that lake will
not start much before April 20.
Conditions have not been favorable
for an early going out of the ice. the
best sign now being raise of water
of about an inch per day.
If the plans of the endowment fund
committee and trustees of Westbrook
Seminary work out, that institution
will become a Junior college and
conservatory of music, a change that
will mean a larger faculty. more
buildings and more students.
Irwin y. Gould, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry r. Gould, No. 1s Gray street,
Portland, graduate of Portland
High, class of 1920, has just re-
turned home from $4,000 miles of
travel and complete circuit of the
globe. He and a chum, Theodore
Hayden of Portland, a classmate,
started July 4, 1920 as seamen on
the steamer Lake Geyser, for Ant
werp. Returning to New York they
sailed on the Half Moon for the
Dutch East Indies. Hayden decided
to remain at home but Gould
shipped on the William Penn, the
first large motor ship, for trip
around the world. He arrived back
in New York on March Is. 1922 and
is now content to remain at home for
while, at least.
Quite hog distemper-in reality
the hog cholera-has been doing
| work in the Aroostook valley the past
few months. c. L. McDougal has in
this way lost IS hogs. all he had.
George H. Stone has lost IA, nearly
| all he had. Osimc Bell lost a lot in
| this way last fall. One man in
1resque Isle last fall lost 40 from
cholera. There have also been some
other cases in this region.-Fort Fair
| field Review.
There will be a lot more to take
their places as soon as the automo-
bile season really opens.-Aroostoek
Republican.
An empty lobster claw discarded in
shedding season by a mammoth crus-
tacean, attracts attention in the office
at Rockiand of H d. Crie director of