Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-13
Maine Gossip
The Salt Marsh

MuETIe OOSSIp
The Salt Marsh
\ food of silver pale beneath the moon
Where -nought but slender. cleaning
reeds emerge
To trace the outline of the lonely
serge
That knows no sound except the wind
low Groom,
The mournful cry of some swift
passing loon
Or, far away, the everlasting surge
And murmur of the traitor tides that
urge
Strange craft to Wreckage on the dis
tant dune.
No human voice has ever echoed here.
No human step has stirred TIE
NaterWeedS-
Mysterious, solemn. haunted by the
OF ancient legends and of ghostly
deeds;
Only the brooding skies behold and
bless
These silent hostages Of loneliness.
Charlotte Becker.
Buffalo, \. Y, October Is, 1922.
The passengers on a street car in
Rockland had a close call recently
when a one man car left the track on
Gregory Hill and only missed going
over a steep bank. There were 20
passengers on the car and no serious
injury came to any of them outside Of
nervous shock. 1t took two hours to
get the car back onto the track.
Ferryboat Gov. King of the Bath
State Ferry which was put on the Bath
Woolwich route June &c was hauled off
Thursday afternoon and has gone to
Houghton's wharf where she will be
tied up for the winter. The smaller
boat, the Hockomock, will con-
tinue to operate on the same schedule
as the Gov. King throughout the
winter The Hockomocll looks eXcep-
tionally small to those who have been
accustomed to seeing the GOV. King on
the route for several months.
Bar Harbor is enjoying a building
boom. New houses are going up built
by permanent residents. real estate is
changing hands rapidly. More than a
score of beautiful summer estates have
changed hands bought by purchasers
who plan to open the houses. many of
which have been closed for years. Re-
pairs and alterations are going on prac-
tically all over the town. Already
plans and prophecies are made for a
big season next year. Several new
business firms have started within the
past few weeks.
Comment has frequently been made
as to the relatively small number of
flies in Pennington this season, the
Franklin Journal states. The why is
plain. Pennington people have
fought the pest by taking away the
, places of. breeding. But there should
be no letup in the campaign of oXtcr-
mination. Pennington may be a fly
less town if we wish it to become such.
, AS flies have decreased in numbers,
mosquitoes have increased and the
past summer has brought swarms Of
them. Let US get after their breeding
! places next spring.
| The peculiar manner Of ringing dis
played by the Baptist church bell of
| late is not caused by the installation
Oh a tOlIeT GS WAS SeLcIdllS SuSptStcu
| but is due to the loss of the heavy
iron CONFERENCE.-The. giving the bell no
| chance to breathe between strokes,
! says the Rockland Courier-GaZette.
! The result much resembles the clamor
| of an old-fashioned fire-alarm and at
first produced almost the same results.
This bell is row more or less distant
relative of Independence Bell, for the
accident occurred during the cclebra-
| ton of the Salvation Army victory.
| That the Lewiston radio club will be
represented in the finals for the trans
atlantic tests has been announced by
| officers of the club. The club has beer,
competing in the preliminary tests
! which were held from Oct. % to Nov.
;, and came through with flying COL
ors. To qualify for the finals it was
necessary 70 be reported from a dis
lance of 1900 miles. The Twin City
! Radio station 1-BRO transmitted at a
distance Of 400 miles to station 9-AOG
at Lawrence. Kansas. Long distance
reports have also been received from
Minnesota, Iowa and Indiana. as well
as from stations in the south.
Down at the Red Mouse, the sporting
| camp of E. p. Kendall of Bowdoin-
ham, the spook woodchuck that num-
Der of years ago made his headquar-
ters on Merrymeeting shores. has re-
turned once more to his old hunting
grounds. Ever since November opened.
in the late afternoon. he appeared on
a knoll halfway between the cap ana
the wildes farm. There on the Knoll