Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-06
Maine Gossip
Desire
By Albert T. Reid

IAN1SI0 oOOOSP
Life is a prison-house, it seems,
And all mans eager thoughts and
dreams
Are eolored windows looking
He sees the heavens arching blue,
Sees earth and all earth'S lovely fiow-
erS,
Sees golden moons and evening stars.
Sees dawn's soft, pulsing. Swallowed
And, hungry-hearted, beats the bars.
There is window in the wall
Higher than any man is tall 49,.
I've gazed from it all night until
L curse the hour ! gained is sill.
My feeble hand all night has lressed
The pallid glass. while from above
The moon. unloved and unca!Cssed.
-Winifred Lcckhart Willis in New
York Herald.
Rumford's hopes for a new and
modern theatre have at last been
realized. The business and profess
sional men of the town have coop
Grated to such an extent that at the
present time the prospects are that
this theare will be built. It marks
a great stride in the growth Of the
town.
Sale of Douglas Inn cottages and
goo acres of land in SebaSo by L.
S. Douglas to Z. J. Post, manager of
the Falmouth hotel, Portland, and
head of a syndicate, was announced
Saturday. y corporation is to be
n n6
100000. Additions are to be made
and plans perfected for operating the
cottages as q summer resort
Nearly a hundred names are all
ready enrolled for membership in the
new Masonic club at Bar Harbor and
Arthur VI. Brown has been elected
president, Clifford Came is secretary
and treasurer. The directors are A.
w. Brown, Postmaster Il. Fl. Young,
Clifford f Came. Clarence f. Dow,
Guy f. Torrey, Harold r. Carter and
Benjamin L. Hadlcy.
Clyde Il. Douglass, judge Of the
twentieth judicial district of Kan
sas who died recently. at the age
of 40 years was a Maine man. born
in Trenton. He spent his boyhood
in Bar Harbor but went west in 1910.
He rose rapidly in his profession, was
elected county attorney of Stafford
county, and served on the draft
board during the World War He
was elected judge of the district
court in the fall Of 1922. and had
served scarcely year at his death.
Clarence Gates Of Portland. Me-,
had been to the theatre and was
waiting for car. To get away from
the wintry blasts Gates sought shell
ter in the doorway of a bank. His
bank was to the door and when the
Waterman closed the door for the
night the tail of Mr.. Gates overcoat
was caught as in wise. He couldn't
get the coat loose and he didn't want
to leave it there. A crowd gathered
and enjoyed his predicament until a
good Samaritan telephoned to the
Waterman to come to the rescue.
Capt. S. r. Dinsmore of PASSPORT
is nearing his S0th birthday and has
served nearly 40 consecutive years as
lighthouse keeper, but as there are
no pensions allowed. or retirements
on pay. he sticks to his lonesome and
strenuous position far out In the bay.
He mas been keeper Of Head Harbor
Light. just a short distance north
from the tip END of the Canadian
island of Campbello, y. b. It is at
tho junction Of Bay OF Fundy and
PassamaqUoddy Bay. seven miles
down the frontier harbor from East
port. Tides rise and fall 80 feet
twice day, the waters are treacher-
Gus ana often stormy.
William Dali. lineman in the en-
rloy of the \. E. Tel & Tel, while
digging post-hole in Harpswell last
Saturday. much to his surprise came
suddenly and unexpectedly on the
winter quarters Of whole family of
snakes-several generations of them
he judged The reptiles were OF the
adder family. They had gone 10
sleep for the winter, and they
promptly made 1t plain. that any in
trusion would be resented But MIR.
Dali seized firm hold on his spade,
and went boldly into the fray. Short
" afterwards, dead snakes covered
the ground for some distance. The
battle over. he found the slain foe
numbered 16z.
Girls in the senior class at Morse
high school are entitled to much
credit for the manner in which they
took steps to reduce the cost of grad
uation. Year after year the expenses
have increased until they had
reached a point which was making
them a great burden to many pa
rents and the Parent Teacher asso-
Citations and others had commenced a
discussion of plans TO reduce these
expenses. The girls of, the class did