Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-23
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Always we dream Of things that can
Always we build bright castles in
Brave as Gibralter rising from the
Frail as the soaring splendor rain
bows wear.
Clinging to beauty that will swiftly
lie,
Stumbling across the world we take
Trusting our path will somehow reach
Sure that the end is worth the price
We pay.
Sharp are the stones that bruise and
thorns that blind,
Dauntless we climb to reach the
singing stars.
Dreaming of happiness we shall not
find,
Dreaming Of love that leaves no hid
den scars.
Many the dreams that mock us from
the dust,
-Medora c. Addison, in The Inde-
pendent.
w. M. Eldridge of Newport holds
the championship for a haymaker as
we'll as wood sawyer. He has been
at work in Benton on farm for Mr..
Frost and in 9 days he cut and hauled
in 40 tons of hay.
The City of Bath has paid the
Emergency Fleet Corporation of the
United States Shipping Board $751;
in full settlement for its part of the
money put into the Dixie schcolhouse
and the public utilities installed in
the North housing project.
st. Jean the Baptist Society at
Sanford will build a four story block
at the corner of Island Ave. and High
ST.. to cost 100000 The first floor
will be let for stores, the second for
offices and it is expected the society
will equip the other two for it's own
use.
Following the announcements by
Deputy Sheriff John X. Farrar and
Hiram S. Haskell Of their candidates.
for sheriff of Penobscot county on
the Republican ticket, Deputy Sheriff
Frank T. Mason of Bangor made
formal announcement today that he
will be q candidate to succeed Sheriff
office-holder, whose term runs out in
another year.
Baths music center this summer
is at the State ferry dock. On the
Gov. King a trio is now furnishing
music and on shore a wielder of the
sticks is obtaining music from bowls
while autoists are lined up awaiting
an opportunity for boarding the
ferry. The trio is composed of Lloyd
Green, banjo; William Swain, guitar
and Russell Savage, harmonica. One
playing Thursday that she made
them an offer to visit her summer
home on Southport to play for two
days. James Smith is the colored
musician on shore and he has wide
repertoire of tunes which he plays
on the IA ordinary bowls. James
says it took him five years to obtain
the bowls with their proper range of
tunes. All the musicians pick up
many pieces of change throughout
the day from passing automobiles.
Eyes, we have no potatoes today.
is the popular refrain in Aroostook's
biggest town; for Houlton is abso-
lutely without any potatoes-that is
for shipment. This unusual situa-
ton was revealed when buyers Of
fered as high as Sc per barrel for old
stock for shipment. 1t was the top
price that has been marked up since
last seasons crop went on the mar
ket, but Aroostook county is virtually
cleaned out of potatoes. Shipments
recently have been unusually heavy
and all the old stock available has
been cleaned up. Late crops in dis
tricts which usually furnish the earl
lest new potatoes for the big markets
provide the only explanation obtain
able for the unusual situation
Prospects for the coming seasons
crop in Aroostook county are being
looked forward to with optimism: the
fact that some of the other large
growing centers are not looking for
as large a crop as usual is believed to
portend favorable market for
Aroostook's 1923 potato crop.-The
AroOstook Pineer.
Senator Fernald, of Maine. when he
returns TO Washington, will be OBJ
liged to face 1000 irate girls, employ
ed in the different departments of the
government, who have been living at
the government hotels on Union Sta
ton plaza, and listen to a distressing
tale of woe. The girls are up in arms
again over an additional increase of
IS per month rent and board, making
the cost $50 per month. They openly
charge efforts are being made to
freeze them out and there is no
reason for the increase. since the last
financial statement of the Housing