Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-22
Maine GOSSIP
Appreciation

Appreciation
I played to you in the growing dusk
And tried hard to convey
A thousand. thousand tender things
l did not dare to say.
MY fingers wove a thread of song
With love and hope afiame.
And when l paused 1 heard YOU say,
That's pretty. What's it's Nance"
wrote a sonnet just to YOU
Though all the world might see
One that expressed each tender thought,
Each hope that dared to be.
L showed it to you tremblingly
And watched while You did read.
You murmured, why, that's very nice,
Yes, very nice indeed
I made for YOU luscious cake
With berries and cream heaped high,
A triumph of the bakers art
A goodly cook am l.
You gazcd at it's deliciousness.
Your face a joy to see,
And softly said, You dear, YOU dear,
Did you make that just for me?'
-"Myrril," in New York World.
Final plans have been arranged
to hold the Second Reunion of the
500 Field Artillery at the Weirs,
Lake Winnepesaukee, n. H, Sept. l,
. and 3. A l.. Goldsmith of Orono
is chairman of Penobscot and
Piscataquis counties.
1t is reported that Bangor may be
selected as an airplane base by the
War department, says the Bath
Times. Many machines are scout
ing the air over Maine this week and
landing fields are to be picked out
and charts made for use in cases Of
emergency.
All the Spring, and right UP to July
4, workmen in the shipyards of Bath
were uncovering piles of snow which
had been covered with chips, or
other materials, in the yard but
Kennebunkport has beaten their rec
ord. The director of boys camp
there packed a lot of snow in his ice
house last Winter and on Saturday
the boys enjoyed the novelty of
SNOWFALL fight.
The clock which licked away the
busy seconds at Dix Island in the
days when the Dix Island Granite
Co. had a monthly payroll of from
s125,0O0 to $4,000, reposes in the
workroom of Orcl f. Davis jewelry
store brought thither for repairs by
it's present owner, George Greene of
South Thomaston, says the Rockland
Courier Gazette. 1t had not been
to a clock doctor for Is years, in
spite of which it has continued to
mark. time in most accurate manner.
Mr.. Greene and all of his household
think a great deal of the relic.
Aroostook hotels are urged by the
Houlton Times to do their part to-
wards boosting the county's best
known crop, potatoes. The Times
wants the hotels to make it point
to serve only the best quality of
potatoes on their tables. 1t has been
a common joke among travelling men
for years that the worst potatoes
were served in the ArOostook county
hotels and restaurants of any place
in the state. The worst of the joke
was that it was absolutely true. All
who travel that way will be with the
Times in its project.
A Bath citizen has been troubled
with rats and borrowed of neigh
Dor a dog which has a reputatio of
being a great rat catcher. The dog
proceeded to tear away at the sill of
the mans shed and soon had made q
wreck of it. He captured two rats
before he was called off the job. The
owner of the building says he does
not know whether he should collect
for the damage done his house by
the dog or pay the owner of the pup
for allowing the animal to prove to
him that the sill of his house was in
such bad condition that it needed re-
placing.
Brighton E. Lucas of Portland en-
tered plea of guilty to charge
of speeding when arraigned before
Judge George H. Hinckley in the
South Portland Municipal Court the
other day and paid fine of $40 and
costs. Lucas was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff George r. Bryant,
who stated that Lucas was speeding