Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-12
MAINE GOSSIP
The Two Mills


GO to sleep!
For, when the water rushes through
the flume,
Many measure of grain will grind"
But the hand-mill in the house, an
swering, replied
Il envy not your solitude Of streams
and gardens:
1t is with the tribe of fair charmers
that / have my home,
am turned by the hands that bring
soft careSSeS.
From Berber Songs. by G. Z. An
drewS, in Asia Magazine.
The skin Of mourning dove,
bird very rarely found in the State
Pleasant street school building at
Dover Foxcreft by Sanford Richie
as an addition to the fine collection
|Of birds which Mr.. Richie has prev
iously given to the school
This bird was picked up last fall
by Fred Il. Gilman, who not knowing
what it was. brought 1t to Mr.. Rit-
chic who identified 1t as a mourning
dove. a bird common in the Middle
West but very rare in this State, Orc
Willis knight. the orinthologist. Civ
ing in his book but very few instance
es of the birds being found in Maine.
So far as is known it is the first ever
found in this county.
The bird is protected and Mr.. Rit-
chic obtained permission from Com
missioner Parsons of the State Fish
& Game department, and also from
the Federal government for permits
sion to have it made into a scientific
skin.
There recently sailed from Port
land an all Maine steamship, estab-
fishing a record that is unique in
marine circles. The vessel was the
steamship Maine, built in Bath by
The Texas Steamship Co., in 1917,
and she is commanded by a Maine
man, Capt. Ralph S. Hatch of Round
Pond. well known in Bath and re-
mcmbered as the skipper for several
years of the three masted schooner
Addie z. McFadden. She was piloted
out of the harbor by Capt. Willis
Wade Of Waldoboro and she was
bound to the West coast with a car
go of Maine manufactured goods. w.
II. Hartford. the first assistant en-
Gineer. is Maine man and helped
install the Names engines when she
was built in this city. She carries a
Maine crew and about the only man
on her who does not claim any con-
nection with the Pine Tree State is
Charles Reed Of Seattle, the first Of
ficer. Included in the cargo Of the
Maine are paper plates, paper towels,
rolls of paper. bales of paper, canned
goods, fiber conduits, medicines,
Ispools, toothpicks and hardware.
Frank II. Beal OF Bath recalls he
had a battle with a muskrat in the
Fail of 1913 when he was a motor
man on the Bath local line under
Supt. F.. A. Fuller. He had a night
run and lived at that time on Center
street. Roscoe Leighton was motor
man running opposite and they used
to go home together from the car
barn. in Lincoln street to the old
Kimball barn, out past it across the
old Palmer field. This night as they
crossed the stone wall that divided
the kimball and Palmer properties
ant had gone a few yards beyond
something jumped and grabbed
Frank by leg, digging fangs. into
his shin bone. Frank kicked thdani-
ma! clear and stood by while Leigh
ton went home and got a lantern.
Frank. in the meantime, was carry
ing rocks from a stone wall and
when Leighton arrived they found
the animal. which proved to be a
muskrat, and killed him. Frank car
ried the dead rat home where it was
on exhibition next day. He had to
go to physician several times and
lost three days work on account of
the leg being poisoned.