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


The wet earth-smell came to me where
stood.
The breath Of rain. pungent and keen
Rich with the incense of the dark,
drenched pine,
Sweet with the sweetness of the wet
peat wood.
And something stirred and quickened
in my blood.
Methought great deeds might spring
to sudden birth.
Born Of the rain, and the sweet breath
of Earth
Wine that Ant@us drank, and found
most good.
Primeval wine! that wakes in us quick
fires.
A vasrant yearning for the wander
life,
Laughter and longing. and young Vide
For distance and great space and
clash of strife.
Who drinks the keen earth-wine, he
needs must call
Antaus's mother, mother of us all.
e. r. Macauley in Boston Tram
script.
For those attending the Maine
State Grange 50th annual meeting
Dec. II to 10, the Maine Central rail-
road offers round trip excursion
tickets, on sale to Lewiston upper
or Lewiston lover station and return.
Woodchucks have not denned up
for the winter yet. according to
those people living in the suburbs
who have a chance to know the
habits of these little animals. About
Feb 2 people will be watching TO sec
IL they come out of their dens and
IL they do If they can see their
shadows.-Bat Times.
At a business session Of the Lewis
ton Auburn Shrine club Wednesday
evening, President c. Franklin Pack
ard annouced that the Shrine Circus
netted the club $79O5.60. 1t is un-
derstood this will be used as Il
charity fund. and it was voted We'd
nesdat night that $1,000 be spent at
this time on Christmas tree for the
poor children of Lewiston.
Brewster Clubs are to he a feature
of the campaign for the Republican
nomination for Governor by Senator
Ralph O. Brewster Of Cumberland
county. According to friends of Sena-
tor Brewster, these clubs were pro-
Jected several weeks before Senator
Brewster had definitely decided that
he would announce his candidacy.
The senator is said to have froWned
upon their formation until after he
had BECOME an announced candidate.
With his hat having been formally
and officially dropped into the politi-
cal ring, Mr. Brewster, in effect,
waves his hand, and says. 1.-THE clubs
may now 60 on" According to re-
port they are already in process of
formation and one of the earliest to
get in line will be that in his native
town of Dexter.
The old steamer Cit; of Rocliland,
which for many years has been a
familiar craft in Maine waters and
which ran aground near the mouth
of the kennebec river on Sept. 2, is
to be burned by Wreckers, says the
Bath Times. 1t was found after the
boat was Aoated and placed on a
drydock that the cost of repairing her
was too great to prove a good in
vestmept SO she has been stripped
and the huU will be burned. Thus
another old timer passes and will
give place to another. 1t is under
Slooa thdl tHS ivy Vi paHSof VIII NC
placed on the Kennebec and Boston
route and with the new boats which
the Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc. is
having constructed, the company will
have as many boats as usual at its
disposal.
The action Of the Bangor and Wa
terville fair officials in advancing
the dates of their annual fairs, so
that the Waterville fair is now set for
the first week in September has
caused MUCH unfavoraBle comment
at Lewiston, it is reported. For a
nnnaber Of years the Maine State fair