Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-09
Maine Gossip
The Christmas Goose.

When comes the Yuletide season,
The Christmas goose we sing:
All laden down with Juices ploWN,
y toothsome Offering.
A Christmas goose--some argue
Is every trusting child,
Who Santa Claus adoreS because
His socks with gifts are piied'
A Christmas godsc-thev'll tell you
Well known to all is he!
Poor, patient dad, whose purse must add
To every charity.
A Christmas goosc-,not really
Is mother, anxiously ~.
AT work with zest. SO fearful lest,
Forgotten some may be.
The Christmas goose-why he's
The biggest goose, | fear,
Who naught will spend upon O friend
Nor love nor sympathy, Will lend
On the best day of the year.
May Kelley In Woman's Homo COM
panion.
Navigation above Bath ceased Tues
day, One Of the craft to get nipped
in the ice was the two-masted schoon-
err, Sunbeam, which was bound for
Augusta to load lumber. The sun
beam is likely to winter in the Ship
ping City unless its rays bring about
warm spell sufficient to break up
the ice in the river above Bath.
Augusta after entertaining this
week the State Dairymen's Associa-
ton and the Maine Seed Improvement
Association will have a short respite
from entertaining visitors until week
after next when the Patrons Of Hus-
bandry of the State will arrive for
their annual convention. Hardly Will
the patrons have left the city before
preparations will be made to receive
the members OF the incoming LeglS-
lature and all roads will lead to Au-
gusta until the close of the session.
The merchants Of Lewiston and Au-
I burn are planning for big carnival
to be held in Lewiston some time In
January. The Lewiston and Auburn
Merchants Association at recent
meeting appointed 4 committee TO
take the matter under consideration.
Ice races with some Of the best horses
| in the State competing will probably
be q feature Of the carnival.
The annual meeting Of the Maine
State Detective Association will be
held Thursday, Dec. Is, at the alder
mems room, Portland. The members
at this meeting will consider a new
law, which they propose to present to
the incoming Legislature and lively
discussion is expected.
The new Masonic temple in Rock
land will contain two completely fur
nished and equipped Masonic halls.
The furniture. carpets and fittings in
the present Masonic block will be
used in the smaller hall in the new
temple. The larger and principal hall
win be fitted up with new furniture
and other fittings. The flag staff has
been placed in position on the top of
the building. The truck, which sur
mounts this staff is a relic from
Frank ". Sandford's yacht Coronct.
which was repaired several years ago
at the South Marine Railway and was
presented to the Masonic Temple As
ISOLATION by Capt. Israel Snow.
The water situation over in andre
scoggin county is a serious one for
farmers and dairymen. Wells had
been getting lower all the fall with no
rain and the farmers pinned their
faith on heavy rains before the final
freeze up, but the rains didn't come
and now the ground is frozen tighter
than n drum. Stock owners are OBJ
liged to haul their water long way
in some cases and it is an expensive
and troublesome problem. a Turner
farmer, who owns 50 head of cattle,
says that 1t cost him just So a day to
get the Woter. which his wells fail to
supply. In some cases it is q problem
to get drinking water even for family
use. Many wells which have q little
water in them now will soon be dry
unless a decided thaw and rainfall
comes.
Charles Horbury gave an interesting
talk Tuesday evening before the Lew
iston board Of trade regarding his re-
cent travels in Europe and made one
or two comparisons between European
methods and those of America II
which he animated that this country
has much to learn in some directions.
The recent death of Mrs. Mary Bak-
or Glover Eddy, the founder Of Chris
tan Science, recalls to the Biddeford
Record the pathetic story of her Sec
ond husband, Daniel Patterson. who
for many years lived a hermit's life in
a little shack just above Sandy Brook
on the Buxton road, Saco, and who
died in poverty about 10 Years ago. He
was Il dentist by profession in 1858 in
Franklin, n. H., where he and Mrs.
Mary Eddy Glover were married. The
marriage was unhappy and they sep
arated in 1850. Patterson went to the
front to join the army and was taken
prisoner at Bull Run and after har-
rowing experiences escaped. Broken
in health and spirits he drifted to
Saco. where he lived a herInit's life
for many years.
\ Hartland hunter starting out af-
ter a deer one day recently put a
blanket on his horse before he put OH
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