Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-01

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Maine Gossip J
| "That Christmas Feeling"
It's flne-that Christmas feelin'-just be-
| fore the tlumpetS blow
| And you hear the bells a-linGin' all the
| music that they know;
| And you're rich as al cre;ition-thoush
| no money comes al call,
| For they're millonaires of light and
| lovc-the little children all,
There's not JOY at. Christmas which
| the oid-time folks'll miss.
! With ihe child-eyeS shinin for them,
| and with sunny curls to kiss:
| Echoes OF your childhood-they como
| from far away.
| Sweetest songs they sing you-SWeeteSt
words they say.
It's finc-that Christmas feclin. Old times
they meet with new,
And JOY is in the hards-arOund. and has
q dance with you,
And you're rich as ALI creation, wher2
fany voices call
To mlllonaireS of light and lOVe-the lit
Frank L. stanton.
"
The Merry Christmas month is here
They are reviving memories Of the
loss of the Portland 10 years ago.
The st George Grange viii dedicate
its handsome new lell today.
Speaking of the Grange, it is only
two weeks to the State meeting al
Waterville.
Led by a Maine boy the West Point
eleven has defeated Annapolis at foot
bah fer the first time in several years.
The Oxford County Citizen has is
sued handsomely illustrated 20 page
edition devoted to the good old town
of Paris.
Plans for the sale of the Red Cross
stamp in Maine are progressing. Port
land has ordered 81 vGO and Bangor so.
00o of the stamps.
Newton Newkirk, the famous hu-
moflSt, editor OF the BlngVl1le BuSle
and the "All Sorts" column of the Bos-
ton Post has been in Portland getting
inspirations for his work He is not
taking a rest at his camp on KeZar
lake.
Portland's city electrician has been
making an examination of the electric
wiring in that city and has found some
of it so defective that the companies
owning it have been notified that
changes must be made and the wiring
properly put up at once or that the
city will remove it at the expense Gl
the several companies That is one
good way to lessen the annual fire
loss and it should prevail in every city
The Rockland papers are poking fun
at the Portland dailies which recently
published a story about the first ship
n7ent of Holsters across the continent"
AS matter of fact. Rocll1and has been
shipping Holsters to the Pacific coast
for 10 years. One firm has regular
customers in Los Angeles and Seattle
The shipments vary in weight from
% to $50 pounds per barrel. according
to the order The ice in each package
IS renewed every "a hours. There are
comparatively few people who realize
that Rocllland cXcells any other place
in the State in the size of its lobster
shipments.
When Charles Dana Gibson, the fa-
nous artist. comes down to his summer
home at Sever Hundred Acre Island
next season he will be in almost as
close touch with the outside world as
though he were in an office on Wall
street, instead of being on little
stnrmboupd island way down on the
coast of Maine. The laying of telc-
phone cable under the mile and one
half of water which washes between
lslesboro and Seven Hundred Acre ISL
and has wrought the transformation
Stepping To his private phone MIR. Glib
son can place himself In Instant com
nunication With any part of the coun-
try. to the limit of course, Of the trle-
phones power. The cable was put
overheard Sunday from Charles r.
l;icknell's SloCp Evelyn n. Thaw. which
by the way, did rs neat and speedy a
piece "f work as the most cXactine own
er could wish. The coil of cable weigh
ing about 10000 pounds, was loaded on
To the Sloop at Maine Central wharf
and Capt. T.. w Freeman embarked
| for Isleshoro at A. NJ. Making use of
the frame which had been erected in
the stern of the sloop it was an easy
matter 10 crop the cable overheard
and in just y minutes the ThaW was
at her destination AT . p. M she was
again tied up at her own wharf in
| Rockland.
| Snatched from the very jaws of
death was the marvellous experience Of
| Robert snowman, Jr.. aged 80 years,
lobsterman living at Cape Newaggen
| Harbor, Southport, who. to all appar-
| cnt observations had been drowned and
| then was restored to life That he is
alive today is due to the efforts of his
| own brother AlpheuS and to Irving
Mckown. a former employee Of the life
saving station service. Mr. Snowman
was out in his power boat hauling
traps and in reaching for a buoy be-