Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-01
Maine Gossip
A Little More Cross.

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| A Little More Cross.
A little more cross and little less creed
| A little more beauty of brotherly deed;
A little more bearing of things to be
With faith in the infinite triumph of
A little less doubt and little more do
OF the simple. sweet service each day
A little more cross, with it's beautiful
It's lesson of love and its message of
A little less sword and a little more rose
To soften the struggle and tighten the
A little more worship. a little more
with Il the &c, balm of its income to brighten
A little more song and a little less. sigh,
And CHEEKY good-day to the friends
A little title more no cross and little more trust
In the beauty that blooms like rose out
A little more lifting the load of another.
A little more thought for the life of a
A little more dreaming, a little more
A little more childhood, and sweetness
A little more cross and a little less hate,
With love in the hands and rose by the
| gate.
| Holman Days story of esquire Phin''
is being dramatized under the name of
1.-THE Circus Man"
| The Maine Legislature will open the
throttle for the fifth week at 4.3o this
afternoon.
The hobo fraternity is taking due
notice of the fact that woodpile and
supply of saws have been added to
the equipment of the Belfast jail.
A large muskrat made the mistake of
it's life in attempting to break into a
Bath house one day last week. Only
the women were at home and they sent
word to a neighbor who came and
killed the muskrat.
A note of progress is sounded by the
announcement that the Maine Central
will maintain an Office on Broadway,
New York, during the 1909 tourist sea-
son.
"Ice Fishing Up to Date" is the name
of an interesting illustrated article by
Maine girl in the Youths Companion.
The writer is Miss Eva L. Shorey of
Bridgton and 1t is story OF her per-
scnal experiences with party of
| friends.
| Here are the vital statistics for Mil
linocket since it became a town: In 1900
there We're % births; 1901, 81; 1902, 49,;
1909 IS; 1904, los; 1905, lis; 1906, 1874;
1907 142:: 1908, 100. The marriages have
steadily increased since 1902 and as
shown in the following: 1902, 20; 1903 so;
1901, Al; 1905, 80; 1906, 81; 1907, IS; 1905 81;
Deaths since 1904: 1904. So; 1905, 25;
1906, 81 1907, Al; 1908. 50.
| Old Sabattus mountains whose wood
ed heights have been for many moons
climbed by sight seers, may find her
beauty going where the beauty of ma
ny another hill and mountain has gone
Into the sawmill. This winter more
than 100000 feet of lumber is being
flcWH OH ner SlueS 10 De eaten up at TIE
rate of 10000 feet a day in the steam
sawmill More numbering is going on
here this winter than In a long time
past and load after load of boards fresh
from the mills go through there or stop
| at the railroad station. The principal
operation is on the Llewellyn Mitchell
| track, well up on the mountain, which
has been sold, and is being stripped of
it's heavy pine growth. There IS here
over a million feet and a large crew is
busy cutting ard hauling. Near the O.
Z. Hewcy farm a sawmill is in opera
ton, cutting up ten thousand feet a
day. The logs are sawed into big tim
Der and boards, or where it IS poorer
quality, into lockwood. All of this is
being shipped. On the David Mottram
place 100000 feet is being cut and in
several other places in Webster lesser
operations are being conducted.
Sumner A. Bragg, veteran railroad
man and for the past II years agent of
the West Springfield. Mass, board Of
health, died at his home in that town
last week, aged 81. Mr.. Bragg was
born in China, Kennebec county. Me.
| November %, 1927, and was the son of