Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-29

fail is the old earth's sleepy-time
After the long summers play.
men the little. gay earth children
Are cuddled and all tucked away.
The birds have gone TO warm climates,
The grasses lie low on the hill,
The sun sleeps longer every night,
The frogs and cicadas are still,
Thy spiders have ceased their spinning.
The field mice have gone TO their
The tree rec buds are sung in wool blan-
Prepared for their long winter rest.
The flies have stopped their gay hum
ming
No butterflies 1T in the sun,
The brooklets and streams are de-
serted,
The long summer play-day is done.
The winds are grooming goodnight
In tones that are low and sweet;
gently
And the earth children fall asleep.
-Bernice Watson Patterson.
About time for the line gale II II
is coming this year. The Bath
Times cheerfully states.
Many people in the vicinity of
Starks have recently visited the
beaver dams on the Burns farm in
that town. Ten acres of land have
been flooded by the four dams built
by these Industrious little fellows.
Mrs. Arthur Hinton of London,
England. better known as Miss
Katherine Goodson the celebrated
concert pianist, was among the pas
sengers TO arrive in New York City
aboard the Majestic. Miss Goodson
will come to Portland to play at the
organ course concert on November
8, and will he the guest of friends
there at that time. This week she
is doing concert work in the Berk-
shire Hill region. Miss Goodson and
Mr.. John Mccormack. who were
fellow passengers on the Majestic,
gave a most successful concert
aboard the ship for the benefit OF
the rescue work in Japan $4,000
being raised toward the fund.
Liquor worth about $4,000 at Ban
gor bootleggers prices was seized
Thursday afternoon by deputy
sheriffs at the residence Of Pope
Mckinnon of 32S French Street,
Bangor. former hotel owner. theater
proprietor and horse race promoter
McKinnon, according TO his son, is
In Prince Edwards Island on a trip.
A warrant is awaiting his return.
The liquor consisted of thirty eight
bottles of ordinary stuff and three
large kegs of Cuban rum. Each key
contained fifteen gallons.
The hosiery at Damariscotta, the
Fiske House, we'll known for its ex-
! cellent table and cordial hospitality,
las again been sold. H. E. Judkire,
an experienced hotel man who for
several years was proprietor of the
| Elmwood at Watervile. took over
the property in the spring of 1921
| and since that time has maintained
the splendid reputation that the hotel
had gained under the management
of its popular proprietor, D. E. Fiske.
The Fiske. House has now been
acquired by the same interests that
control the Wiscasset Inn Inc, and
will also be under the management
| of William T. Loud. It is under
stood that these two hotels will be
important links in a chain Of inns.
The movement started two years
| ago for the formation of a country
club in Houlton, which has been
smouldering ever since, has finally
crystalized, so that it is now assured.
| The farm in New Limerick known
as the Hatfield property has been
purchased and the club organized,
arrangements having been made
with golf professional who is now
in Houlton laying out 8 hole
| course and work will be commenced
at once. During the past season
many golf enthusiasts have been
members of the Woodstock Colt
Club andthere are now about forty
enthusiastic golfers in Houiton who
have been going to the neighboring
| town across the border and have On
hospitality Of the members In Wood
stock and with the formation of a
country club in Houlton and the
links which will be built, the
friendship that has been going on
In the past will be continued, to the
mutual benefit of both towns.
| William T. Starr Of Portland, for
many years a resident of Bath, 10
one travelling salesman who does not
find himself dependent upon hotels
when travelling about the country.
Instead, he makes his headquarters
in his little Ford closed car. He has
had one Of the forward seats and
the entire rear seat removed and in
place Of the latter has substituted a
folding cot six foot four inches long
and 20 inches wide. He also carries