Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-12
Maine Gossip
Beauty

Beauty
If beauty is thing Of happy chance.
Good fortune without meaning, source
or end,
A game to see how this and that will
Without a law to mold the circum-
stance:
If Beauty comes and passes like a
Having no strength to build or power
to mend,
Leaving each friend uncertain Of his
friend,
And thus being nothing in the worlds
advance,
Why does the sight of beauty move us
Even to silence when the twilight hour
Changes the world beyond imagining?
Why does the thought of beauty make
That we are kin to an immortal power.
That what we are contains deathless
thing?
Preston Clark in The Yale Review.
Charged with the possession of
q short Holsters, Fred H. Spipney
entered a plea of guilty to the COM
plant, when he was arraigned in
the Portland Municipal court Thurs
day morning, and Judge Clarence
A. Peabody imposed a fine of SIS
for each lobster, the total fine
amounting to $135. Spinney was
arrested July by Fish Warden
1tharles F. w. Stockton at a pa
vilion conducted by Spinney on the
Gray road.
"Toss in a nickel and watch the
kids dive for it," is the slogan which
greets people going over the rail-
road bridge between the = foot of
Broad street and Union station at
Bangor. These hot days are bring
ing a lot youngsters out in their
swimming suits and most any hour
during the day will find crowd of
bystanders on the bridge watching
the youths dive for coins. In spite
of the muddy water. when a nickel
is thrown in, upwards of half
dozen skinny nymphs will jump
IRON all directions, disappear and
then suddenly all will pop up again
and one Is pretty sure to have the
glistening coin. The money is
passed out to common banker
who divides up" after all get dress
ed"
Some s6s,000 was received by the
State from the gasoline tax during
June and the collections for the
next three months are expected to-
be even larger. The total expense
Of gathering the tax last year was
says he believes the tax is very
satisfactory to all concerned and he
had heard some talk of raising 1t at
the next legislative session from one
to two cents per gallon. He thinks
if this change is made the TAX
would carry with 1t certain number
of exceptions on gasoline used for
motor boats, farm tractors and for
manufacturing and cleansing pur-
poses. The average rate under the
gasoline tax laws of the 81 States.
which have now adopted it Is two
cents, said Mr.. Hayford.
Two old landmarks in Damari-
scotia were removed by patriots"
during their celebration-if it could
be called such-early on the morn
ing of the Glorious Fourth. and
one of these was the old Oliver
store, so-called, at Harrington's
Corner. This building stood close
by the road, and tradition has it
that it was so conveniently To-
Gated that persons might not have
to, leave their teams to buy rum
in the good old days when that
beverage was but 10 cents a quart,
The building had of late been used
as a storehouse for farming i'm
plements and all the sleds and
rakes inside were DESTROYED. The
other structure torn down was the
old Harrison Plummer house near
Oyster Creek. 1t had been unoc-
cupied for long time.
Ivory w. Emerson, for more than
half a century, a prominent citizen
of Lewiston celebrated his SEND
birthday at his home. Thursday.
Assisted by his wife. Mr.. Emerson
entertained informally all day. Mr..
Emerson came to Lewiston in 1871,
and purchased farm on Webster
Street, which has been his home
until his retirement about five years
ago. He has been Unidentified with
the progress Of the city in many diff
ferent ways serving in both
branches Of the city government,
and as representative to the Legis-
lature. He is a veteran of the Civil
War, and has been active in local
Grand Army affairs as well as the
Department of Maine. He is a
member Of the Masonic bodies and
of Kora Temple of the Mystic
Shrines and of Custer Post. G. A. R.,
of Lewiston.
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