Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-10-20

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Let the Hero, born of women, crush 'he
serpent with his heel.
Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that
shall never call retreat;
He is sitting out the hearts of men be-
fore His Judgment seat
Oh, be swift my soul to answer him. ~
jubilant my feet.
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was
born across the sea;
With a glory in His bosom that trans
figures you and me;
AS He died to make men holV let us dle
to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe.
One of the old rural institutions.
which is still in vogue in spite OF the
progress of modern inventions, is the
old fashioned husking bee The Jour
nails correspondents from various sec
tions of the State have been giving IN
teresting accounts for the past Two
weeks of gatherings of this nature IN
their locality with the accompanying
Harvest supper, which seem to differ
in but few points from those recorded
in the pages Of New England story
writers of % and 80 years ago. About
tha only difference seems to be that
the modern farmer can call his guests
together by telephone instead of wait
ING for slower methods Of summOning
them to bring results.
Mrs Lucy Lambert Of WiScaSSet, IN
spite of the fact that she is in her 9oth
year keeps active from morning untll
night with business affairs that might
we'll tax the patience and perseverance
of many people much younger. She
maintains her large home on Federal
street alone and Of Late years she has
made many patchwork quilts and
couch throws and more than 100 pillow
covers. She is engaged each fall by
people from miles around to make
over furs She also makes hair swift
ches. puffs and curls. Mrs. Lambert
expects to go to Massachusetts to live
this winter with one of her five chill
dren residing in that state.
Stealing apples and chickens with
the aid of an automobile is the latest
form OF bedevilment reported from the
rural towns of York county DR.. Will
lis Hurd made a trip last week to his
farm in Lyman and came along in
time to see a party in his orchard NIL
ing bags with apples. They hastily
picked up their kit as soon as they
saw the doctor and lost no time in
gliding away in their automobile Res
idents of the town complain about
missing chickens from the hen coops
and they claim that the thieves use an
automobile to aid them in going about
robbing roosts.
The three-masted schooner Gov. Ro-
bic, once the pride of Maine shipping,
has come back from the Pacific after
u wears of roaming. safe from the per-
lis of the hungry sea, but soon to be
reduced to the humble but useful es-
tate of 4 coal barge. No coat of paint
has for many moons decorated the Gov
Robes shabby and Weatherbeaten
planking. The masts are unscraped
the yards and rigging cOlOrless from
long exposure and the old schooner now
has general air of old age undis-
guised by any superfluous attention
from recent owners.
A prominent ArOOstOok county pota-
to dealer declares that there is no
truth IN the report spread broadcast
that ArOostook county potatoes are
diseased THE stock in Arostooll
county" he says, was never better
The growing season was ideal and the
weather for harvesting perfect. Aroos
took has many hundreds of thousands
Of barrels of the finest potatoes of all
varieties safely housed
The Portland overSeerS of the poor
are looking for pork to go down and
have been selling off their pigs. With
| in the past few days the receipts for
pigs scld from the City farm have been
S296S. making total for the year OF
ABOUT 5000. This is $1,000 more than
last year. which shows that the pig
business as conducted by that city is
good and growing better.
That the automobile business is
growing rapidly in Bangor is shown by
the increasing number Of establish
mcnts for the sale and repair OF these
vehicles. The Queen City already has
n half dozen or mere garages ready
and n few days ago an important
transfer of real estate Was made pre-
iiminary to the erection Of another
large building to be devoted to the mo-
tor car business in its various branch
es. The new building Will be four
stories high and constructed OF CON
crete. 1t will represent an investment
Of Sl0G. .00o ana will be one of the finest
of its kind in Maine.
G. @. FoSs. formerly of Dexter, has
been chosen an honorary pres
ident from Maine of the New England
Club recently organized in the city of
Spokent, Wash. Mr.. Foss who was
the son of the late Obed FoSS Of Dex-
ter, was largely instrumental III form
ing the club. A day was set apart for
the club at the Washington state Fair.
which was held in Spokane the first
week in October
Work on the State road at Lisbon
mas Just been completed for the year