Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-14
Maine GOSSIP
Get in Tunei

L WonQer II you re Sau tOuay-JuSt SICK
at heart and tired?
I wonder If you're worrying-no longer
hope-inspired?
Well. if you are, don'ttthink that life
is blacker than before;
It may be that you're travel-spent, and
feel the journey more.
Just rest bit; just smile a bit; then
pluck up strength anew,
And tackle work hole-heartedly-
you're bound to pull it through.
1t may be that the wasps Of life,
which sting us every one.
Seem, oh, such big and fearsome
things-they blot away the sun!
And hills may rise as mountains quite
and little pools seem oceans;
While tiny bothers sweep our lives
with tempest-wild connections.
But there, don't think the worlds at
fault-it's nothing of the kind:
It's you. my friend-youre out Of
tune" as you will quickly find.
For when you've had bit Of change
it may be but a day
You'll buckle on your working gear
and start in right away!
You'll laugh at all your dingy doubts
which tried to trip you up.
And with new hopes and fresffer
dreams you'll fill life's brimming
cup.
You'll find your niche and do your task
and greet your chums-and cry:
II thought the world was out of sorts
but all the time twas IT,
Anon.
Eight Fairgrounds, instead Of three,
are in active session in Bangor this
year, and are operating five days of
each week for the season. William
E. Search. director of physical in
struction at the Bangor schools, is in
charge, with Miss Pauline Fairbanks,
a student at Smith College, as super
visor.
The steamer Gurnet which drifted
ashore at Mere Point on Wednesday
night was towed up to Portland Fri
day by the Doyen steamer Ajax
which had been assisting in the
work of righting the boat which was
careened over on its side. She was
not leaking any. but after undergoing
cleaning at Custom House wharf was
taken over to the marine railway and
hauled out for repairs, the damage
to her shoe being trifling, she being
expected to come off Monday.
Work on the building Of Arts and
Sciences at the University of Maine,
which was started last fall. is pro-
crossing satisfactorily. and Otto Nell
son of Bangor, the contractor, pre-
diets that the structure will be ready
for occupancy on Sept. /. This Is a
three story brick building, of Colo
nial design, and it will have 4S rooms.
The building Is 1873 feet long and IS
feet wide, and Is surmounted by a
cupola "a feet in height, which adds
greatly to the ornamentation of the
building. The roof is Of slate.
Long Island in Casco Bay may not
be exactly an Adamless Eden, but
according to one Of the summer Wis
itors who has been looking up data
there are 80 widows on the Island
all owing property, and 10 Of these
widows live on the Island all of the
time. The others are summer resi-
dents and seven live alone. 1t is
doubtful that any place of the same
size could lay claim to so many wild
ows all of whom are property own
ers. The Long Island widows come
achusetts, New York, Portland and
Canada.
A Portland travelling salesman
making his circuit, encounters four
kinds Of time and his watch is never
right after he leaves Lewiston.
From that point northward he finds
Standard Time. Through the small
Ter towns in the northern part Of the
State Sun Time is in vogue and his
watch Is thirty-five minutes out.
Crossing the Canadian Line he finds
in the smaller towns Colonial Time,
which is two hours faster than
Standard Time and one hour ahead
Of his watch, which il taught to