Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-05
Maine Gossip
Nav Day

S~Ny ooJ
I wish that Time would hurry back
And find a Boy | knew.
And tell him there s n little thing
I want to have him do.
I wish he'd don his stubby shoes,
And hunt around the wood
For lavender anemOneS,
And gather all he could.
I wish his boyish hands would make,
In eager. clumsy haste.
A ba sket that was fashioned out o.
OF cardboard stuck with paste.
He hung it once uron my door,
And rang the bell. and ran,
With all the lover,synlptoms that
We're ever known t9 man.
1t wasn't such lovely gift;
1t didn't breathe of Art:
But, oh. it held sentiment
That thrilled his Lady's heart.
And when I opened up my door
His flowers seemed to be
A million-dollar present from
A Fairy Prince-to Me.
I wish that Time would hurry back
And find that Boy, and say
I want another basket of
AnemoneS-today
Nan Terrell Reed in New York Times.
The unusual sight of an electric
car being toWed through the streets
by a tractor was witnessed in Ban
gor Thursday. 1t was the only
electric on the move, however.
Congressman Wallace H. White,
Jr., has just arrived back at his
XyYo cb;,otor oaioo fro,,, on E,,ropaa n
trip, accompanied by Mrs. White and
her daughter, Miss Nina Lunn,
whose marriage takes place in June.
The trip included cairo and LUXOR,
with brief stops at Naples, Rome,
Paris and London. Mr.. White will
remain in Washington until the last
of May and then come to his Maine
home for the long vacation.
Options on 10000 acres of land In
Cumberland county,, Maine, have
been recorded, and gave the first
public inkling that Oil had been dis
covered in that section says The
Republican Journal The Yarmouth
Company, a $4,000 corporation, has
been formed to drill the lands. The
oil-bearing strip touches points in
Yarmouth. North Yarmouth, Cum
berland, West Falmouth and Free
port. The Maine School for the
Feeble Minded is located near this
"oil-bearing strip"
When Mayor E. L. Brown of Rock
land was in Florida the past winter
he submitted sketch to the Tampa
Museum of Fine Arts, giving no
thought to the possibility of it's win
ming a prize. He was consequently
much surprised the other day, when
he received the following notification
from the secretary of the Art Club of
ST. Petersburg. Fla: I'm the F. B.
Black competition at the Tampa
Museum of Fine Arts your water
color, entitled Sponge, Boats was
awarded the prize. We offer congra =
tulations at this recognition of your
work..
The business of the Office of the
Portland Building Inspector for the
year ending April 1, 1923, was the
largest of any year since the Office
was first established, according to
the report of Charles A. Hanson.
Inspector of Buildings. which was
submitted to the Portland City Clerk.
1.-The outlook for the coming year is
very promising" says Mr. Hanson in
the report. "Plans have been made
for several large and costly buildings,
and if the public does not get too
enthusiastic over the bright prospect,
so as to cause an advance in prices
Of material and labor, believe the
coming season will be a prosperous
one"
People of Rockland will have the
opportunity May II at the Thorndike
Hotel to hear S. T. Kimball on a
subject which has been of immense
interest this year, the proposed Ken
nebec bridge and bills presented at
the Legis1aturs Tor same, Mr.: kim