Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-29
Maine Gossip
The Chest

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One day. leaning over the chest
In the musk-scented dark Of ing
mind,
Ny fingers trembling, at last
Will learn there's no treasure to find.
When the god who moves in the dusk
Has emptfed the secret cache,
And even the scent of the musk
Has quietly faded. I'll wish
Not for the day when lanterns
/ had not kindled, lit
A secret life, that the sun turns
To stone with white dust on it,
MOI. for the whispered token
That opened a hidden door
Bloomed, and there was no moor,
l shall not wish nor wonder
When cold. serene, august
The daylight lays my slender
Victories in the dust. ..-.-
And nothing for me will happen,
Others Of my own kind then
Will be throwing my windows open
On stranger lights than my lights
To tunes ! left unspoken.
Stars that l knew not. beckon
BY Humbert Wolfe. in the Spectator.
r. o. Saunders of East Sumner is
one of Names smartest old men. He
recently celebrated his SD birthday,
but in spite of that fact. he has al
ready cut over 90 cords of wood this
winter. and the season has not reached
its halfway mark as yet, either.
The Boy Scouts of America will OBJ
serve Anniversary week February
to II. In Sanford a special occasion
during this important Scout week will
be the staging of THE District School,
at Town hall Friday evening. Feb. s.
The entire proceeds will be turned over
to the Boy Scouts. There are three
troops there. They are led by the Rev.
/. b. Hardy, the Rev. George Ewing
and Percy Seavey.
Miss Ellen Bailey Of Turner has
the unique distinction of being the
only girl in this section Of Maine, If
not In all New England, to drive an
automobile bearing the imposing title
Of "U. 8. Mail" on its daily trip over
one of the governments long rural de-
livery routes; and when the snow
came, obliging her to put her car in
to winter quarters on Dec. 20, she had
registered just 23,07s miles for the
three seasons that she has driven.
and n all of that time she has never
had an accident Of any sort.
The crown Of the flower world is
claimed for SS-inch gsranium by Mrs.
Fred Ad1utant of West Kennebunk
1t Is one Of the most unusual flowers
she has ever produced. Besides reach
Ing FIVE feet. eight inches above the
I'll n iho N xphfrh IL
geranium 10 in perpetual bloom. Ever
since Mrs. Adjutant bought it in a
florist shop three years ago, it has
been blooming. Its color Is a beauti-
full salmon. Today 1t has 10 blooms
and six buds. This Is not a record for
the plant. because a year ago 1t had 10
blooms and seven bpds.
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Leonard H. Seavey. % years old, q
pAttern maker at the Hyde Windlass
Company at Bath. heard the sound OF
human voice for the first time in %
years, when he listened In on a radio
q few nights ago. This being his first
experience since infancy in hearing
his fellow rnortals speak. there were
many words Of simple English which
OF course he did not understand, but
he knew enough so that he was one OF
the happiest men in Bath. When Sea-
vey attended u school for the deaf in
Massachusetts, one Of the teachers
VAS Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. who after
her marriage to the present President
Of the United States often substituted
st the school.
Senator George Wharton Pepper of
Pennsylvania, viii be . speaker ut the
Republican State convention to he held
in the city hall auditorium, Portland
April 3. Senator Pepper Is to come To
Maine instead OF Col. Theodore Roose-
welt OF New York. An effort has been
made by Senator Frederick Hale to
have Col. Roosevelt come to this state
and speak before the convention, but
Col. Roosevelt IL s>candidate for Gov
ernor OF New York and the New York
Republican convention IL 10 be held at
the came time as the Maine convention.
Another speaker from out of the State
will be Miss Betsey Edwards OF In
diana. who participated in the CON-
paign In Maine two years ago.
Brig. Thomas E. Hughes. for three
years in command Of the northern di-
vision Of the Salvation Army. and one