Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-27
Maine GOSSIP
The Call Of the Loon at Madawaska
Lake

As sail along this evening,
On thy bosom fair to seA
Where wild waves have all rcccded
Fieecy clouds o'ersh&doW ne.
Now. Lhcre comes vivid vision
Whore the adawaska lndians
Build their campfres here, YOU know.
Here the Chicf,-OId Madawasha
Told his warriors. brave. to go
Find a moose or boar or beaver.
And when found to bend his how.
Let their arrows leave the CULVER,
And with truo and fatal dart,
Cleave the air and stop No. never
Till it pierced the victims heart.
Times have changed, the Indian van
From thy shores long. long ego,
But thy name, Oh Madawaska.
Long will live. VIC love it 50.
iale laced maidens, youths and Chill
Greet Us every course We take.
cottages rise UP like magic
Round YOU. MaGawaslla Lake.
lctt N lonclE.-oh so lonely
mall-! call, but all in vain.
nminush my VOICE rcSounds so loudly
wnlE echo comes again.
housh | miss my loved conD,pio,e
| can now no comfort take '''
Put when resting on thv hosor,
Dear old MADAWASkA TAKE,
c,u:, Mrs. Ruth G. W-hjttier
caribou, Maine. ""'''IeF'
a dog, dearly priced hv bis ,,,.4.,,
Aead' Of Ellsworth. owned by Fred
U. smith, was killed by an antoine
blIe recently. Last winter the duo
freed and helped kill ten bohc,4s i,
that vicinity. 40
i'aSt sullivan good folks had moro
'han their share of trouble last wcer,
Airs. r. NJ. circuit broke off noos,o
IN her finger. Herman Z. Jov broke
OH large piece Of wood in his ,,and
MHHe pounding the heads of two
IshtinS dogs. Mrs Harold Stevens
ran prong Of a pitchforl5 into bor
ankle. making a painful wound
Cucumbers are vicinc with not,,oo.
IN caribou gardens as commentaries
means of income. One Carbon man
realized $50 on his seasons cron
=. A. Nickerson of the same n1aco
soid $50 worth OF cukes from HE
garden. 1t would seem as if there
were more money in cukes than 1870
spuds.
"A Limestone man relates that be
was in Grand Falls recently and
found he needed some gasoline for
his auto. He purchased several ra1-
ions and rendered l. S. money. He
was politely informed, according 10
ms story, that American money was
not being taken at par, but was sub-
Ject to a discount Of two per cent.
several new camps are to be ready
for use, before the seasons openIng
next year at the Bald Mountain
Camps. This is warranted bv the
good summers business Just passed.
The present casino will be rert1o6eled
INTO camp and a new casino will
be built. New log cabins will he
erected back of the Post Office.
An interesting fossil specimen was
found recently at Rumford Falls
while unloading Prince Edward coal
at the oxford mill. Clearly marked
in one piece of the slate was found
the imprint of fish and the men.
natives of L. f. l., declare ii was
made by herring lying against the
stone as it was in course of p,tri-
faction.
The we'll known pianist. Raymond
Ravens, who has appeared on Maine
concert stages, has just returned from
a summers travel in Europe. In
speaking of the Passion Play, which
eves$ L. S. tourist witnesses, Mr.
Havens states that the devotion of
the simple peasants to their task
was amazing; the costumes we're
chosen with taste
The Boston Globe in Its odd
Items" tells the following:
One of the youths who took the
entrance examination for the Port
land. Me, high school said that the
cotton gin was the product OF the
crushing of the cotton seed. adding
that the seeds were at one time
thrown away but that after an in
vention by Eli Whitney they were
saved and made into cotton GIN
In 1889. when w. Fl. Moulton was
90 years old and Columbus Hayiord
was IS years old, they made their