Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-04-17

DAILY KENNEBEC J(
Maine Gossip e
Easter Lilies.
More holy than stole or mitre
They. stood in the holy place.
Tho alter candles were brighter
Burning above their grace
Spirits OF love, grown whittier
From looking into His face.
One of the three was swaying
TO music we could not hear:
And one of them leaned down. saying
His name in the silence clear;
And one smiled upward, praying
40 -- YOUTHS Companion.
Good Friday with all its sacred as
sociations.
One feature of the Methodist confer
ence at Houlton is reception by the
Elks Lodge. .~ '.+ .'.' g
Even the Biddeford Record admits
that the First District Democratic con-
vention was "windy and tiresome."
This is the way the Portland Press
sees it: "Sewall secures Sagadahoc,
smiles sweetly, seeing success. Sundry
caokors cen,n co1,r" H''
The Lincoln Chronicle sends out
picture of the section of the giant elm,
100 years old, recently cut down in
Passadumkeag, in whose heart clay
pipe was found.
Aurora Lodge of Rockland has been
selected for the high honor of exem-
plifying the degree work before the
Grand Lodge Of Masons at the annual
meeting in Portland next month.
Seavilla is the name Of Hancock
countys newest post office. II is on
Long island in Bluehill bay. There
are II families on the island. Another
will SON have a post Ofhce-Eagle
Island.
Bar Harbor Record: An old criminal
was once asked what was the first step
that led him to ruin and he said: "The
first thing that led to my downfall was
cheating an editor out of two years
subscription. When I had done that
the devil had such grip on me that
could not shake him off,
AS he was a painter before he turned
story writer and sailor, George S. Was
son is one of the few authors who can
illustrate their own books. His new
volume, Home From Sea-" just pub
lished is illustrated with sketches
from his own brush. Mr.. Wasson
makes his home at Kittery Point where
during the summer he has W.. y. How
ellis for one of his nearest neighbOrs.
The artificial lake caused by the
erection of the big dam at Ellsworth
has lost it's floating islands, and no
body is sorry. The power company,
which feared the islands might come
down till they lodged against the dam,
possibly a large part OF them sinking
there, feels relieved In the high wind
Sunday the floating islands were driv-
en- down to the dam, and lodged at the
crest. The water backed up behind
the debris, and with wind anu water
pressure behind it, nearly the whole
mass was finally forced over the dam,
and was swept down river. The power
company is now clearing the lake Of
debris that remains.
Here is the tale of q most remarkable
coincidence as told by the Biddeford
papers. Ben Coolbrith of North Saco
has two sons and two daughters all
married and all living in Massachu-
SeIts. On Tuesdays mail he received
four letters, one from each of his four
children. and in each of the four was
tile announcement of the arrival of a
daughter in the family on Monday.
Four new granddaughters in one day,
and no twins or triplets in the number
is a remarkable happening, SO very
remarkable in fact as to make the
The Boston Journal of Wednesday
gives us this romantic story in which
Il Maine man is the happy hero: Miss
Elise Gunderson, from Norway and
good looking, is a young woman of
courage. She was a passenger aboard
the White Star liner Cymric, in yes
terday and she made the 3000-mile
voyage to marry a man she never saw.
She had his ptotograph-also she knew
he was about 50 years Old So when
the Cymric was drawing into her pier
at Hoosac docks Miss Gunderson care
fully scanned the faces of those on the
wharf and finally picked him" out.
The benedict-to-be, Thomas Peterson
of Southwest Harbor, Me-. had the
marriage license in his pocket, and up
on presenting the document to the i'm
migration men they passed the fair
haired bride-elect and the pair wended
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