Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-09
Maine Gossip
Peloq's Cove

Sugar-soft an pepper-colored were the
sands O. Peleg's Cove,
Where we used to get together Sun
day mornin's after chores.
There the little lazy ripples slapped
the shadows O. the grove
Silver naples leanin' lakeward all
along the magic shores.
An the water was so smily, an the
the breeZeS- were so sweet,
That it took us but jiffy to kick
off our clingin buds:
When feller's been a-trampin' all the
week on weary feet,
plaguey pigweed from the spuds,
Why, swim on Sunday mornin' in
sandy-bottomed lake
Is a perfect panacea for his ev'ry pain
and ache!
Playin' leap-frog, skippin' scalers on
the surface O. the lake.
Divin' down below an holdin' till
our chests were fit to burst;
Seem who could swim the furthest,
with an apple as the stake;
- Racin' on the beach to see who'd
reach the blasted hemlock first;
Diggin' trenches for our bodies in the
snug. caressin' sand;
Lynn back an dreamin' quiet O the
deeds we meant to do
These were things o Youth, an never
in LIES weary Afterland
Has a single kid among us found
a pleasure half is true
AS the dreams through which we drift
ed there beside the maple grove,
Swallowed in the silver waters round
the curve o'Pelegs Cove!
Merle Crowell, Editor of THE Ameri-
can Magazine"
Auburn tax assessors report that
there has been falling off in the
valuation of that city about 100000
since one year ago.
The town of Phippsburg has decid-
ed to make cleanup of all its un-
paid taxes up to the year 1924 and
has placed the bills in the hands of
an attorney for collection.
Black ducks are being reported fire.
quently of late as they are COM
mencing to appear in larger numbers
in the ponds and streams in the To-
cality of Bath.
The Maine Scholarship amounting
to 800, a gift from the Massa-
chusetts Daughters of Maine, is Of
fered to a talented student from
Maine by the New England Con-
servatory of Music among the
various scholarships to be awarded
at that institution.
The next meeting of the Aroos-
took and Penobscot Pomona Grange
is to be held at Bridgewater, Aug. II
at 100 A. M. This will be a union
meeting with the Aroostook Pomona
CfofA Mo Ahhn$f Sfofn
Lecturer Hartman and National Lee
turer o. L. Martin of Vermont will
be present and will be the principal
speakers.
Night riding on the State roads is
being rapidly eliminated from the list
of pleasures-at least for. the drivers.
Heavy traffic and glazing lights make
handling the wheel very close to. real
work, something worth remembering
when hubby complains about taking
the old boat out after supper at the
end of hard business day.-Water-
willie Sentinel.
Bath people will be interested to
learn that there is absolutely no dan
ger of cows becoming infected with
typhoid germs, even though such
germs enter the system via the wa
ter supply. This is on authority Of
c. F. Kendall Of the State Health De-
partment, DR.. George F. Stevens. gov
eminent veterinary and DIR. George
Potter, Portland; accredited veteri-
nary. They all say such a thing is
impossible.-Bath Times.
A man named Peterson who repre-
sents an insurance company in Bos-
ton. came to Biddeford Wednesday
and took over the Cole automobile
that was abandoned on the Kenne-
bunk road, near the Death Underpass,
two weeks ago. The license number
Of the car was 212,121. It was
Massachusetts, car and was reported
to have been stolen from the street
in Boston. Insurance Of $500 was
carried on the car. Deputy Sheriff
Forrest G. Spoffo-a took charge of
the car and held it until Wednesday
when he turned it over to the repre-
sentative of the insurance company.
J. N. Frizzell, the Farm Bureau
chairman in Mercer, is the owner of
three very interesting plows which
show the advances made in plow
manufacturing. The first is q home
made affair, made by his grand
father who brought his family over
blazed trail from Wiscasset about
1877. The frame is made OF white
oak pegged together and just as
strong as the day it was made over
126 years ago. All the metal parts
were forged in Wiscasset and brought
over the trail and then attached.