Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-04
Maine GOSSIP
Lyric

Lyric
How the arrogant iris would wither
and fade
If the soft summer dew never fell,
And the timid arbutus that hides in
the shade
Would no longer make fragrant the
dell!
All the silver-hecked fishes would lam
guish and die
Were it not for> the foam-spangled
Little brooks could not flow. without
rain from the sky;
Nor a poet get on without dreams.
II the blossoms refused their pale
honey. the bees
Must in idleness hunger and pine;
While the moss cannot live, when 1t S
torn from the trees.
Nor the waxen-globed mistletoe
Irvine.
Were it not for the sunshine, the birds
And the heavens. would never be
But Of ' ali Natures works, the most
wonderful thing
Is how well l get along without You.
Dorothy Parker, in Life.
York Manufacturing Company pays
almost half oftSaco's total taxes.
2 North Carolina is the latest state
I to request the service of Ralph O.
Brewster. Governor elect of Maine,
, in the Republican National campaign.
Camden's Garden Club has had an
offer OF $50 for a prize for the best
kept lawns-the gift Of Edward X
Box. the editor whose summer home is
there. -.
The re-opening Of the Jefferson thea
tire in Portland for a sea son Of musical
, comedy and drama is a bit of news
gratefully received by many Maine
folk. The first weeks Offering was
gratifying as to patronage and general
success.
Clara Williams, West Bowdoin,
who has had an application for a
patent on a device for teaching touch
typewriting has just received notice
that the claim is allowed and she
will receive the patent. She is now
teaching science in Freeport high
school.
Popham Beach will boast golf links
at the opening of another summer
season. Work upon the links has
commenced and will continue right
through the Fall until the work is
completed or freezing weather COM
pels its cessation. @
Whitneyville not only has the dis
tinction OF growing white blueberries
within its borders, but at the present
time Mayfowers are growing and
poisoning as freely as in their pro-
per season. A bunch Of these early
Spring flowers was picked on the
last day of September.
Mrs. Walter s. Gould of Maple
Street, Dexter heard a crash in the
front hall Of her house Thursday
afternoon and investigation, found a
live partridge walking about in the
hall. The bird few through the
glass door. but was uninjured. The
Bird was captured and is now &C.
cupyins cage at the Gould home.
With the enrolment Of one school
not counted, the registration In the
Lewiston public schools totals 1882,
the largest in the history Of the city,
Supt. c. w. Btckford announced Wed.
nesday. The Webster road school
win probably add IS. said Mr.. Bick-
ford, bringing the aggregate to $3.50.
The registration this year is $50 more
than last year. The registration at
Jordan high school is 62s with an
average daily attendance Of 60s in
September.
The old General Peleg wadsworth
house at Hiram. where the youthful
Lensfellew wrote most Of his boy
hood poems. is likely to become the
property OF Henry Ford. with the
purchase by Mr.. Ford of the wayside
Inn at Sudbury, which is the subject
OF one Of Lonsfellow's poems he has
evtnced q great interest In the archi-
lecture OF the Longfellow period. 1t
is hoped that he will wish to preserve
the Wadsworth house, which prob
ably will Efve way otherwise to 4
modern building Correspondence has
been exchanged between Mr.. Ford
and some Maine men, II Is under
stood. with the proposal that the cd
house be removed to Sudbury.
Over on the Morse farm in Phipps-
burg. near the Reach. now owned by
J. Harry Blaisdell. are the graves
OF many early settlers in that part
OF the town. including Mai. Gen.
LithSow and Col Lithgow. In their
time these men were among the most
prominent in that section of Maine
and in the records OF Lincoln county,
OF which Sagadahoc was then a mart.
page after page OF the big volumes
OF early times are devoted 10 trans