Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-12
Maine Gossip
Castilian

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Castilian
Velasquez took a plant knife
And scraped his palette clean;
He said: Il lead a dogs own life
Painting q king and queen"
He cleaned his palette with oily rags
And oakum from Seville wharves;
Il am sick of painting painted hays
And bad ambiguous dwarfs."
The sky is silver, the clouds are pearl
Their locks are Topped with rain.
II will not paint Maria's girl
For all the money in Spain."
He washed his face in water cold,
His hands in turpentine;
He squeezed out color like coins of gold
And color like drops OF wine.
Each color lay like little pool
On the polished cellar wood
Clear and pale and ivory-cool
Or dark as solitude.
He burnt the rags in the fireplace
And leaned from the window high;
He said, Il like that gentleman's face
VINO wears his cap awry."
This is the gentleman, there he stands
Castilian, Sombre-caped,
With arrogan ayes, and narrow hanos
Miraculously capped.
-Elinor Wylie in the New Republic.
Many summer visitors are bring
.. ing radio sets along with them and as
| a result neighbors and friends are
getting much entertainment, accord
| ing to a report from Bath. -
Work on the new Catholic church
! in Brunswick is progressing. The
eastern wall is up and the western
| wall is nearly so. The roof is almost
, boarded over.
The annual outing Of the lewiston
Chamber of Commerce will be held
| Wednesday, July IS, at Thomas
| Point, about two miles from Bruins
; wick. Lewiston stores will be closed
/ that afternoon.
! Serenading with a wheelbarrow
That's the way they did it the night
before the Fourth in Damariscotta
! But wait. the wheelbarrow was
| equipped with a talking machine. AL
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was to keep her wound up.
| She received an offer to enter the
movies, but she preferred to be q
home body and now she. is charm.
ing mother. Such is the case of the
former Miss Doris Newell of Portland
who married Percy Hooper and who
is now living in Gardiner. Wher
Rudolph Valentino visited in PORT
land, she was selected as a future
movie star. She was offered every in
ducement to star on the silver sheet
but she answered the call Of hel
heart.
| The State Chamber of Commerce
and Industrial League will assist the
Maine Farmers Exchange in its
marketing problems according to q
vote of the board of directors at the
Falmouth hotel, Portland. This &C
ton was taken after a committee
from the Maine Farmers Exchange
headed by Hon. Frank p. Washburn
State commissioner Of agriculture
had asked the State Chamber to as
sist in an educational plan in con-
nection with the standardizing OF
products and daily shipments of car
load lots.
BY unanimous consent of the com
mittee on finance and textbooks OF
the Lewiston school board, Muzzey's
history of United States will be ex-
cluded from the Lewiston schools, as
an unpatriotic history, containing
British propaganda. The committee
met and after discussing the merits
OF dement's of the book the foregoing
action was taken. The question OF
introducing this particular history in
Jordan high school was first taken up
at the last regular meeting Of the
school board at which time vigorous
protest was made against it's adop-
ton. The matter was referred to the
| committee on textbooks with power to
act.
! That the gasoline tax will bring
a substantial sum into the States
treasury is indicated by unofficial re-
ports from some of the cities and
towns during the first four days that
, the law has been in operation. The
tax went into effect at midnight Sat-
urday, July Z. One dealer. in Bath on
Monday and up to Tuesday noon. had
sold 244S gallons, hence had put away
S24.4S for the State tax at one cent a
gallon. This was only one dealer in
Bath. AS an indication Of the amount
OF consumption of gasoline in Farm
ington and vicinity, the Standard Oil
Company delivered 1900 gallons in
that territory between Thursday noon
and Friday night.
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An exhibition Of almost iinbeliev-
able cruelty to animals was witnessed
on the river bank near High head,
Bangor, few days ago, when a collie
dog was pushed into the river by
some men and then stoned uamerci-