Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-21
Maine Gossip
Same WorId-Samc Life.


In the gloom. and bloom and light:
Thank Cod If You know one kind. sweet
Ere you sigh III the dark. "GoodniEht"'
Frank l.. Stanton.
It is too late now to do any early
Christmas shopping.
Nobody can afford to miss that
Christmas music in the churches to-
morrow.
Great nights for SleiGhing parties. and
the man in the nioun Set9 highly en-
tertuined.
Some Of them still persist in writing
it Xmas. worse than meaningless
tbbreviation.
No prospect Of any great amount Of
ice cutting en- the Maine rivers this sea
son.
Today brings the official arrival Of
winter, and the period of daylight
reaChc:. the minimum mark.
The Maine Commercial Travellers as
"ocIation will hold it's annual meeting AZ
Rivcrton. Portland. Saturday evening,
Dee. -.
Tho cditrr of the Portland EXpreSs.
v"c in marine natter. solcmnIy hopes
that the WarshipS will have "a fair
wind and a Heating SAIL on their vny-
age to the Pacific.
The Turner man who kicked ut his
COW last week, missed her. struck a
| stanchiun Of the tic-up and broke his
great toe. is now wondering whether or
not the COW really appreciated the force
of the implied robullc.
| Now that the state Grange is gone
| is gone. Lewiston is planning for the
mid winter meeting of the state Fed
Grafton of Womcn's Clubs. which is to
be held Wednesday. January %. in
Lewiston, by invitation of the Woman's
Literary Union. The Pine st. ronEre-
gational church will be the meeting
place.
There is Il Dover Young man with tho
big fleet on its voyage to the Pacific,
Harry G.. noWnc who has been for
several years master mechanic Of The
battlcship Vermont.
Aroostook farmers, nothing dauntCd
by one seasons frowns. arc already lay
| ing great plans for their next seasons
| fnly ,ny
sons bad capers to kill the courag"
anL enthusiasm Of the Ar"oStook
| farmer.
Biddeford Journal: a prominent
the Bangor Commercial because of the
fact that the latter continues to publish
advertisements Of Intoxicating liquors
But the worm has turned ut last and the
editor of the Commercial gets back at
his contemporary by calling attention
to the fact that his critic has been ad
vertising receipt for curing colds
(which leads Off with whisky as 4 COM
pnnent part of the remedy"
There is ono trout pond in the stat" Of
Maine which. though filled with hand
some trout weighing from two f"
eight pounds. is seldom if eyer visited
by fishermen. In fact there are but
few who know of its existence aud
therefore never so to the pond. In
fact the only ones who ever try 10 land
ore of the trout are the boys living in
the vicinity. The pond is known az
Spring rond and is located upon the
|
rinEton about two miles from Thurs
tons pord The water is as cold as ice.
even on the hottest days in SImmcr.
It's surface covers an acre and to date
no one has been able to discover an in
lei, Tho outlet is a small brook and is
we'll known. hat the inlet is YET to he
discovered. 1t is generally believed
that the' pond is fed by spring. MANY
people have made SOundings, and have
reached bottom in many places, but
there IS one place where sounding lines
have been lowered 200 feet below the
surface without finding bottom. Tho
water Is as Clear as it is cold ana a per
son sailing on it can look down for
many feet on bright days and watch
he trout swimming about There is
plenty of feed in tho pond and no one,
50 far as is known. has ever been able
to catch d trout on 4 baitcd hook or u
fly. Tho fish viii nose about The line,
but never TAX" it. The only way that
one of these fish has over been taken il
in a net Those who have eaten them
say that they are the best and sweetest
fish to he secured in Maine waters.
There was not much coopcr Ginning
in the plan Of the man who fashioned
the Churn made in New York. more
than 40 years ago. but from then till
now it has hcen in the keeping Of one
family. About the time in 1856 when ts
slaves were riftcd from n high reach
ing white oak. George and John Per-
ltin". who had crossed from England to
hew ont q now home in tho wilderness
of Maine. had settled on Il farm in that
part of the Pine Tree state where Fer
dinanhn Georges. in 1912. made what is
now New York the first chartered city
in America. He called it Georgcana,