Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-28
MAINE GOSSIP

MAINE GOSSIP
The Happy isles
Oh. come with me to the Happy Isles
In the golden haze off yonder,
Where the song Sng,,,; Of the sun'Nisseo
And the ocean loves to wander.
Fragrant the vines that mantle those
hills,
Merrily dance the virgin rills,
Blending their myriad voices.
But peacefully feed and rest them;
Never thereto shall prowling bear
Or serpent come to modest them.
Neither shall Eurus. wanton bold:
Nor feverish drought distress us,
But he that compasseth heat ana colo
Shall temper them both to bless us.
There no vandal foot has trod.
Shall never profane the sacred 500
OF those beautiful isles out yonder
Never spell shall blight our vines,
Nor Sirius blaze above us,
But YOU and I shall drink our wines
And sing to the loved that love US.
So come with me where Fortune
smiles
And the gods invite DEVOTION
Oh. come with me to the Happy Isles
In the haze of that far-on ocean:
From Echoes From the Saplne
Farm" by Eugene and Roswell Mar
Bath is making plans for fast horse
racing events to feature it's winter
carnival. Many out Of town horses
and drivers Of prominence are ex-
pected to enter.
Aroostook County is not alone in
sharing the profits accruing from the
potato shortage. Charlestown, P. E.
T.. has already shipped half a mil
lion bushels to American markets..
Rockland Courier-Gazette.
1t is expected that Stillman e.
Woodman of Machias who succeeded
Hon. J. S. p. H. Wilson of Auburn
as United States Marshal with head
quarters at Portland. will be reap
pointed, as so far as known no'other
candidates are after the job.
Mayor Frank r. Cowan has been
renominated for a third term IN
Brewer. One of the outstanding
features of his second administration
has been the erection of new high
school building which will soon be
ready for occupancy. He will have
no opposition at the polls Dec. Ia.
A widely circulated report that
popular upperclassman at Bates
college had admitted the vandalism
in the room of Hollis Hamilton and
Wilfred Rice, Freshmen, was denied,
Thursday. Chief Ashton of the Lew
iston police, who has been handling
the case, says no word OF any con-
fession had come to him.
Friday marked the 9th ami
yersary of the loss, with every soul
on board of the Steamer Portland of
the Portland Steam Packet Com
pany, which met its fate on its trip
from Boston to Portland, during the
terrific gale that swept up the coast
with a force that had not been seen
along New England shores in AZ
years.
New England auto registration
plates for next year will be colored
as follows:
Maine-Blue background, yellow
figures.
New Hampshire-Green back
ground. white figures.
Vermont-Gold background, green
figures.
Observation-Disclosures background,
white figures.
Rhode Island-Black background,
white figures.
observation-disclosures orange back
ground, black letters and figures.
AS a result of his leave during last
semester, Prof. Manton Copeland of
the biology department of Bowdoin
college will read paper on the
|"Chemical Reactions of the Marine
Worm" at the American Society OF
Zoology at Yale University. Pro-
lessor Copeland will also read several
pamphlets concerning the birds and
butterflies of Florida. Professor
Copeland conducted his field work
with A. C. Bent who was making
study of North American birds for
the Smithsonian Institute. Most of
the work was done in tho vicinity
of st. Petersburg, Fla. Mr.. Cope
land became very much interested in
Florida birds, and is going to publish
Jointly with Mr.. Bent a complete list
of them.
Isaac c. Stetson had quite tussle
with giant red shouldered hawk
the other day at Newcastle. He had
just fed his biddies and was watch
ing them eat when the hawk came
around the corner and lighted on a
big black Spanish fowl. Mr.. Stetson
interfered and the savage bird
turned on him. He grabbed him
with one of it's claws and drove the
talons to. the bone in his thumb.
Ike was unable to wiring the birds
neck with one hand and the hawk
had his left hand clamped. He
called Mrs. Stetson, who brought out
a big towel and muffled the other
foot and head of the hawk. then
prying the claws out of her husbands
| thumb. The rest was easy. The
birds wings spread four feet and
one eye was gone, evidently as the
result of some hard fought battle.
Representative from the stock
| yards at Brighton, Mass. and other
packers and shippers making ship
ments of cattle over the Boston &
| Maine and Maine Central railroads,
| met recently at the home Of Miss
| Leila C. Gaines of the Pine Tree
| Humane society, Saco, to discuss