Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-25
Maine GOSSIP
While Autumn Stays

/ mark each day the slanting shadows
grow,
And note the crlckets in their har-
vest lays;
There is restful hush afield today,
and SO
1 muse here in the haze while Au-
tumn stays.
I saw some leaves come tumbling too,
today
Untimely yellow wisps, the first to
go;
So carry gone, they almost left dismay:
Cnbidden thoughts, season to fore
know!
The year is now mature. The harvest
fair
tent;
A seasons comforts added everywhere
Make all OF earth's affairs benevo-
lent.
But still I mark the slanting shadows
creep,
With all the peace of Autumn's
shorter day;
l watch the fiocking birds, with sea-
And wait here here while the quiet sea
grows gray.
The woods are left in solitude once
more;
The lighthouse sends again it's flash
ing rays:
1 seek the road along the friendly
1t seems so sweet and calm while
Autumn stays!
Justin Henry Shaw
1t looks like good times in Sanford
and Springvale. The Sanford mills
are on full time and night crew is
working. In Mill square several car
load of looms are being unloaded to
be installed in the new mills.
Federal men as cake eaters" at
Saturday nights dance at Auburn
Hall and as "bootleggers" in Lewis
ton had an easy time capturing five
young men within a period of five
hours. or less, Thomas Beaudette of
211 Park street, Robert Gustave
12415 Oxford street and Donat Lem
ieux of 2S1 Bates street and Fred
Nottingham of 149 Horton street, all
of Lewiston, and Guy A. Bernard of
% Grove street. Auburn, are to ap-
pear before the U. S. Commissioner
at Portland today as a result of this
flying and willy visit to The two cities
by agents from Maine State Prohib-
ition headquarters Of which Seth
May of Auburn is director.
Three suits, tota1ling $4,000,
against the Texas Company, were
begun Tuesday in the Supreme Court
at Auburn. They are by Alison Soule,
Jr.. who seeks $4,000, Elmer Soule
$4,000. and their father. Alison Soule
$4,000 These actions are the result
of the explosion of gasoline tank
on First street, Auburn, on the eve
ming of May s, last Haverlock
Dewey. aged IL. was instantly killed,
Alison Soule, Jr.. was so badly injured
that one leg had to be amputated.
and Elmer Soule was badly burned
about the upper part of his body.
The three cases are being tried joint
ly before Justice Charles P. Barnes
and Frank A. Morey of Lewiston is
representing the Soules, Attorney
Morey challenged five members Of the
jury. as the case was called. Twelve
witnesses for. the plaintiffs were pre-
sent. among them the two little boys.
who were injured by the explosion.
Other cases resulting from this same
explosion are to be tried at this term
of the court
Sea gulls have become so numer-
Gus at Eastport and vicinity that
they are becoming an increasingly
difficult problem These birds have
been protected for several years now
and there are so many that they
have become nuisance. When they
were unprotected their number was
kept down by plumage- hunters and
others. Now. under strict protection.
! both of the birds and the nests they
have multiplied to an enormous ex-
| tent and the harbor Of Eastport is
always filled with snowy clouds of
them. Nor do they confine themsel-
YES to flying about the harbor. but
they perch on. the roofs Of the build