Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-04
? MAINE GOSSIP Y
An IRISH LULLABY

An irish Lullaby
I've found my bonny babe nest
On Slumber Tree,
I'll rock you there to rosy rest
NAsthore Machree.
Oh, lula 10! Sing all the leaves
r IN .S serTSfn T tsst hurts or grieve,
Afar must Zee
I've put my pretty child to hoat
Away from me,
Within the new moons silver boat
On Slumber Sea.
And when your starry sail Is GER
From Slumber Sea,
My precious one. you'll step to shore
On Mothers knee.
Alfred Perceval Graves, Lewiston
Daily Sun.
An article in Maine Gossip a few
days ago mentioning that a black
woodchuck had been caught in a
trap belonging to Charles E. Sadler.
of Harpswell, was noticed by Har-
old Rollins Of Bowdoinham, who in
forms the journal that few weeks
ago he caught one with coal black
body and pine white head.
Men are still dragging the river and
neighboring docks and coves at Bath
for the body Of Frank Kirsch, the
Foundation Co. foreman, who was
knocked overheard from the steamer
Harmattan which was discharging q
cargo of lumber at the Bath Iron
Works. The man sank as soon as he
went overheard and the body did not
rise to the surface.
Schools Of squid are coming on
the Lubec shore this week, and the
fishermen are taking their arrival as
sign that there will be pollock after
them shortly. For the past few years
POLLOCK have been very scarce and
high in price, and the reappearance
of the large schools that formerly
frequented Quoddy would mean a
great deal to the fishermen.
Rose Whitney SInith Of Arlington.
Mass, maker Of the very popular
butterfly lockets which are seen
! everywhere. is passing the summer
in Georgetown and was visitor in
Bath a. few days ago. The lockets
are of her own design and keep her
busy throughout the year. She has a
gift shop at Lexington, Mass, and
! does the work at her own home from
whence she travels all over the coun-
! try She Is very much in love with
Maine and enjoys outing at George
! town Center.
| Hundreds of sheep and some cat
tie have been taken off MARSHALL S
| island, 10 miles from Sedgwick,
! where a great fire has been raging
! in old timber growth for some days.
| The island, on which are a few fish
! ermen's huts, has been used as a
/ pasturing ground for about 1000
! sheep. and 1t is reported that most
of them were rescued. At night the
flames lighted the sky for miles
around and clouds of dense smoke
have been rolling over Frenchman' S
/ bay. Origin OF the fire is unknown,
but when discovered had gained such
Roadway it was impossible to check
1t. At one time several families lived
! there, but have either died or moved
away.
The September issue of The Ladies
Home Journal contains a most inter
esting article by Nine. Emma Eames
de GogorZa entitled Some Memories
and Reflections" In this article she
tells of having been born in Shanghai,
! China, on Aug. IS, 1865 and shows a
picture of the Chinese nurse holding
her younger brother. There is also
picture of Emma Eames in the
eighties and one of her mother.
The great singer then continues her
, story about her girlhood days, she
/ tells of her grandparents, Mr.. and
! Mrs. John Hayden and how she came
to Bath to live with them. Then she
tells of her school days and the start
! of her musical career and scarries it
along until the time she departed for
| France TO receive her operate train
! ing there.
| Miss Eva Mackinnon of Nova
! Scotia has been chosen as manager
of the Bates College Commons. She
| is expected to take up her duties
after Labor Day, and will have charge
! of the Dining room of the John Ber-
tram hall, which is one of the most
! important centers of college life, the
place where most of the men on the
campus eat.
| Miss Mackennon is a graduate of
the Dollhouse University in Halifax.
She later took a course in Home
| Economics at Teachers college which
also covered quantity cooking This
year she has been studying at Sim
mons college, in the institutions
Management Department. She was
in France with the British Y. w. C.
A. in 1918 and when the United
| States got into it she transferred to
| the American Y. W. where she
served for four years as director of
a Hostess House, and in reconstruc-
ton work with French girls.
After returning from France she
was offered and held many positions
Bates college is fortunate in secur-
ing her services at the commons.