Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-22
MAINE GOSSIP
After Your Playing

A strangeness gathers when your
hands are still,
That moved like wands above the
Weakening keys.
To rear a glory with their dreamy will
Out of the gone and golden pagean-
tries;
Dear, haunting shapes Of queens and
lovers come,
Pallid and frail, from out the gates of
doom,
Thronging. with lips grown pitiful and
dumb
This hush that follows music in a
room.
We should be still. For these, so
thinly straying,
Drowsy with time and heavy still
with dreams,
Walk in the troubled slumber of your
playing;
And we should find no holy word that
Tender enough, in our quick. living
breath,
For these, so timid and so new from
death.
David Morton, in the Outlook
Today is Names day at the East
ern States Exposition at Springfield,
Mass.
1t was ivy day" at Mexico last
Friday. Practicing on a make shift
gridiron the high school boys ran
into poison ivy and as result the
grid game is temporarily passe
with several stars ill. Ivy day"
came just when the Pinto squad was
making rapid progress and the boys
primed for the coming Berlin battle.
Plans are in the hands of the
contractors for spacious cottage to
be built on Mouse Island for H. G.
Higgins has purchased a part of the
island owned by Harold Gilpatric,
the other half being owned by the
Rev. Harry Emercon Fosdick. who
has beautiful Summer home there.
The roster of the Maine Three
Quarter Century Club includes the
only man living who was present at
the organization meeting of the ma
tional Republican Party at Strong,
Maine. in 1854; the only person now
rliving-Peter Bracket of Biddeford
who is only one generation re-
moved from the War of the Revolu-
liOi' Aui. bIdChSll 10 81 ana was
born when his father. who served all
through the Revolution, was 80 years
of age. Four brothers. all over rs,
and a pair of 81 year old twins who
go into the big timber every Winter
and cut their years supply of fuel,
are on the membership roll.
At a joint meeting of the school
committees representing Saco. Day.
ton and North Kennebunkport,
Harry c. Hull of Rockport was elect
ed superintendent of schools to sue
coed T. T. Young, who has resigned
on account of his health after hold
ing the position since 1909. The
names of 20 candidates were pre-
sented to the committee for con-
sideration. Mr.. Hull was educated
at Yale and Columbia and served as
superintendent of schools in Rock
land and Rockport for seven years
His early education was received at
Winebago, Mimi, and for a time he
was on the faculty of a st. Louis
college.
A large pyramid-shaped float
showing the four leading varieties
of Aroostook seed potatoes, potato
chips, potato starch, Aroostook ap-
pies, seed wheat, barley and $40
oats, advertised Names largest
county Monday when the Pine Tree
State motorcade proceeded from
Portland to the grounds of the
Eastern States Exposition at Spring
field, Mass. The float Is mounted
upon speed truck, which made the
time from Pressure Isle to Portland
from four o'clock Sunday morning to
$50 Sunday afternoon. The Aroos-
took special truck carries numerous
descriptive signs and banners.
Among them, Potato Center of the
World" Garden of the East"
Hunting and Fishing" and "Beauti-
full Lakes At the front are an
American nag and two state flags.
The steamer Cumberland. one of
the two Lake built boats recently
purchased from the Shipping Board
by the Eastern Steamship Lines for
freight service on the Portland New
york run In place of the Wilton and
Cornish. left New York on Saturday
afternoon, taking the place of the
Cornish, Capt. Osbon and crew of
the latter vessel transferring to the
Cumberland, which was late in
reaching Portland on Sunday night.
having been delayed on her first trip
by reason of having to adjust COM
passes. The two new boats are not
expected to be quite a. fast as the