Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-02
MAINE GOSSIP
Sun Song

8un song
1 love you, Desired. with the man.
strength of sunlight:
Clean, CLEAN, my song, on the heart
Of the Woman
Like noon on the lily-pool
The blue lakes melody calls through
O song from Loves shadowless water,
Flow to the heart of the Woman
Drink, drink, Desired!
Down the river OF stars. past the
moon cliffs abloom
With the birches of dream, l sought
for the Woman:
At the DAYS flood-tide I have found
Why have you hid In the midst Of the
Like a young wind awaiting the
Moons fire sparks the pool;
o shine. shine my song, on the heart
Of the Woman!
As blue sky to the water, as Simmer
ing air to the lily,
Out from the mists of your waiting l
claim you, Desired,
with clear eyes and love Sun-strong.
Constance Lindsay Skinner, in The
North American Review.
The winter postoffice at Griswold
will be closed April 20, announces the
postoffice department.
Herbert A. Tarr who started work
in the mills at York as an office boy
Sc years ago and has worked his way
UP to paymaster, is to leave the COM
pany in May.
. Lester e. Cloud Of Topsham Is now
Poat Master o; the Topsham post
office, to succeed Harold Pencil who
is charged with embezZlement OF
81, 900. in postal funds.
At the special election held Mon
day in Brewer it was voted to build
new High School A modern school
building will be erected. Practically
the same bill was rejected two years
ago by referendum vote.
Edwin S. Wright who died at his
home in Kennebunk recently was
veteran of the Civil War and the last
surviving charter member Of Riv-
erside Lodge, X. Of P. He was Is
years of age.
The state held back but one stip-
end from the many Fairs held in the
state during 1924. This was North
Penobscot Fair where games Of
chance were found by the Inspector.
according to the announcement made
by the Commissioner Of Agriculture.
The new Bath Band will give a
parade for the minstrel show to be
presented next month by the Bath
Veteran Firemen's Assn. 1t Is ex-
pected that the organization will be
in fine shape for turning out on
Memorial Day.
A new building, which will prob
ably be constructed Of concrete, Is to
replace the old wooden one at the
head OF Long Wharf, Portland, which
was destroyed by fire on the night
Of February rs. 1t is expected the
new building will be ready for &C.
cupancy by october.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Higgins OF
Bangor celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary recently. Mr.. Higgins
is "a years of age and Mrs. Higgins
Is ~. For the past seven years Mrs.
Higgins has been employed at the
Bangor Steam Laundry and the en-
ployes presented the couple with
$40 gold piece.
A Bath man becoming tired OF
having people in other states joke
him because the tag on his car read,
bath, Me-, with such remarks as
Battle Me-, ETC., got a local store
to have some new tags made with
the state spelled out and now the
tag reads Bath Maine, which after
all is a good advertisement for the
state.
A bit Of humor came out in the
Thomaston town meeting held Mon
day when the article regarding the
selling of the police station came up
for action. Chief Herbert Meservey
was asked how many there were in
the lookup in the past year and he
answered laconically: "Only one.
and he got away through crack"
The town voted to sell the station to
the highest bidder.
Thousands of wild geese have ar
rived from the South and are in
Merrymeeting Bay. After resting
here the birds will go north to the
st. Lawrence and other breeding
places where they will spend the
summer. Residents around the bay
report they never heard such a COM
motion. as there seems to be acres
of the birds all honking and making
terrific uproar. Glad to get back
to Maine, of course.
After the parade by the Saco and
Biddeford Kiwanis Club on Patriots
Day, April 10, the members will
march to Hartley Field in the rear
OF the Clementine kendrick Burns
School, where the first work in con-
hectlon with the public playground
WIZ be done. if the weather is suit
able. The Kiwanis Club is backing
the playground project and will he
assisted by other organizations in