Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-17
Maine Gossip
Winter.

| Had hidden in the leaves and let none
Save by the outburst of their minstrelsy.
4 white flake here and there-a snow lily
CT last nights frost-our naked flow
| er beds hold;
And for rose-hower on the darkling
The hungry red breast CLEANS. no bloom,
| no ice.
The. current shudders to its ice-bound
Nipped in their bath. the stark reeds
Flash each it's cling:ng diamond to the
| sun
Shat. cub great king-masts to the oceans
| edge
And, leave memorial forest-kings DER
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
| Director Chapman is putting lot Of
| ginger into the choruses all over the
State. slEl
| A romantic eiopement is limited at in
connection with the latest sudden de-
| partures from Shiloh.
| Although Saco has about 5000 inhab-
itants there is not dry goods store in
the city.
| Other cities settled it long ago, but
| Lewiston is still struggling with the
question of ones session or two for the
High school.
If Sebago lake does not freeze over at
all, how will it be settled regarding the
date of beginning the fishing there in
| the spring?
One especially sad feature Of the
drowning OF those two Cliff island fish,
ermen this week is that both left brides
Of only a few months
What is believed to be the record pair
Of twins born in Maine came to the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ohanus Kasdar-
ian at 161 Lancaster street, Portland,
Wednesday. They are boy and girl and
weighed 10 pounds apiece. Both are
lusty youngsters and the F<asdarians
are receiving the congratulations Of all
their friends.
Portland Express The Anti-Salocn
League has been in Maine but one short
year, yet in that time has taken such
hold Of the situation, and impressed it
self SO much upon the public sentiment
of the State that 1t calls forth a column
OF denunciation from the Waterville
Sentinel. Could any further proof Of
it's efficiency be asked?
After waiting several months for
tidings of the Bath ship Arthur Sewall
everybody concerned with the crew and
craft have lost all hopes that she will
ever be heard from. The Sewali sailed
from Philadelphia April 3d. 1907, with
cargo OF coal for the use of the govern
ment at Seattle. Not word has been
heard from the craft since the pilot left
her at the Delaware Breakwater. Cap
tain Gaffner, who commanded the ill
fated craft was a master mariner of
many years experience. Besides the
master there were twenty-seven picked
seamen on board
Bert Birlem Of Cranberry Isle recent
ly captured a gigantic lobster while
pulling his travis on fuckers rock,
six or seven miles east of Bakers is
land. The big fellow was caught by the
claH in a common fishhook. From tip
to tip he measured "a inches, from the
bill to the end of the body . inches,
while the tail was IL inches long. He
weighed just II IL pounds. The main
claw was IA inches around.
Edwin Cobb Of Limerick has been
| appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of
Charles G. Burton, cOmmander-in-chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The appointment carries with it the
rank of colonel the same rank that Mr..
Cobb's father. Col. William Cobb. held
for many years in the state militia.
Col. Cobb enlisted at the outbreak of
the rebellion. being but II years of age,
in the Fifth Maine infantry and par
ticipated in the first battle of Bull Run,
under Gen. n. *. Jackson of Maine.
From that time until the battle of
Spottsylvania Mr.. Cobb was in q bat
ties. AT SpOttsylvania Mr.. Cobb lost his
left arm by shell. He was wounded
three times while in the service. He
was mustered out at Portland on July
q, 1864.
This week Bath man whom we Will
call Mr.. Blank received letter from
Mrs. Reyes of Miami Florida, with the
request that he pay her the twenty-five
dollars he agreed to and if he was
man of his word he would do so and
she needed the money" The Bath
man was for some time puzzled over
the matter until one Of his friends who
had recently returned from trip South
furnished a key to the problem. 1t
seems that the friend while making
trip on a southern steamer threw over
board a bottle in which was scrap of
paper with the following request: Il
will pay to the finder of this bottle the
sum of twenty-five dollars if it is re-
turned to Mr.. Blank. Bath, Me" Mr..
Blank has received the bottle and would
like to reward the lady who found it
and went to the trouble of forwarding
the note to him. but he has turned the
proposition over to the friend who
the