Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-02
MAINE GOSSIP

JubdIats
Gray distance hid each shining sail
BY ruthless breezes borne from me.
And lessening. fading, faint and pale,
My ships went forth to sea.
I stood and sorrowed hopelessly;
For every wave had tales to tell
OF wrecks far out at sea.
Today. a song IL on my lips:
Earth ~seemssa paradise to me;
For GoDis good, and 10. my ships
Are coming home from sea.
George Arnold in Boston Transcript.
The Augusta, Gardiner and Booth
bay Steamboat Co., announces that
its season between Bath and Booth
bay Harbor will end Sept. II. The
Virginia makes her last trip on Sun
day. Sept. 8, but the Islander will
continue in service making two
round trips daily for the balance Of
the second week in September, all
service being concluded on the 18th.
A coal black woodchuck was
caught in a trap by Charles e. Sadler
at his farm on the Harpswell Road
Tuesday and on account of its I'M
usual coat Is being preserved alive.
Most woodchucks have a brownish
or reddish fur. Mr.. <Sadler had set
the trap to catch an animal that
Old trappers in this vicinity have
never before seen, a black wood
chuck.
H. o. Popham. a Canadian. whose
home Is now in Springfield. Mass,
has been passing a few days at
Hotel Riverside at Popham Beach
and has had his family with him.
He traces his ancestry back to Sir
George Popham who landed at the
mouth of the Kennebec river in 1907
and founded the Popham colony from
which Popham Beach got its name.
He had never visited the resort be-
fore and is now a great booster for
1t.
Two young men calling themselves
Murphy and Mason, the former
claiming Bangor as residence and
the latter Providence, r. l.. were, by
a curious coincidence found at the
Bangor Jail by Sheriff Day Of Milo
when calling there to get information
about the very same persons. The
men had called to see a friend i'm
prisoned and the officer CHANGED to
be in the Office and recognized them.
They were wanted on charge of
passing worthless check and were
taken to Milo for arraignment.
Several groups of gipsies contract
ed for space at the Central Maine
fair frounds to practice phrenology,
that type of fortune telling being
permissible under Maine laws, while
palm reading is not. The police
sent a plainsclothes man into their
tents Tuesday and found that they
were not living up to their contracts
so they were given an hour to pack
their tents and leave. When the
hour was up the police did not think
they had made sufficient Roadway
SO Chief of Police Franklin d. Gas
kell and several members of the
state police force, including Lieut..
Frost and Patrolmen Eastman, Bur-
CESS. Hamilton and Flint hurried up
their departure.
Cnfamiliarity with a sweeping turn
made by trolley cars at Beckett and
Wilson streets in Portland resulted
in fractured leg for Mrs. Robert
Moore, wife of Robert NJ. Moore, D..
d., pastor Of St Marks. Methodist
church, Brooklyn. n. y. Mrs. Moore,
accompanied by her husband and
her sister, Miss Helen Hayes had
Just finished dinner at the Long
fellow Inn, where they are staying,
and intended to board a trolley car
to take them to the theatre district.
The trio waited on the sidewalk for
the trolley to approach and when
it came near. Mrs. Moore stepped
out to prepare to board it. The rear
end of the car continued it's swing
In wide arc and struck Mrs Moore.
She was thrown to the curbstone
with much force.
Henry P. Smith of Rangeley Lake
and Boston. on Sunday was on his
wharf on Rangeley Lake when he
heard what he thought was the call
of two looms, but with the aid of BIZ
noculars discovered an overturned
canoe with two figures clinging to 1t.
With the aid of his chauffeur, Ken
meth Linzee, from Damariscotta. Mr..
Smith in spite of heavy squat
rowed against the wind and rescued
two girls who were on the point of
exhaustion. They had chung to the
canoe for half an hour, in high
waves and had witnessed the drown
ing Of their dog before their cries
were heard. The girls were very
plucky and very brave. They were
Claire Rice and Helen Dick, and
have been in Rangeley for the sum-
mer.