Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-31
Maine Gossip
The Christmas Story.

To tell the ,olden story that never can
For i'1st behind the Christmas joys and
all the laden trees
| There lies the sweetest story that evci
tongue has told.
The story of the manager which knew an
infants cry:
The story of the shepherds who heard
the angels sing;
The story of the wondrous star when III
the eastern Sky
When wise men crossed the desert TO
kneel before their King.
And o. the glory Of tit CLEANS across
the years.
And brightens up tho pathway where
1t fills the eyes with happy light that
have been dim with tears,
And floods the earth with rapture that
every heart may know.
john Clair Minot in Housewife.
The house at $50 Brighton avenue,
Portland received rough usage a few
mornings ago from a construction car
of the Portland Railroad Co., which
left the rails and before the motorman
could stop it had crashed into a feed
wire pole and also hit the house. The
pole was smashed just a few feet above
the ground, the piazza of the house
was broken and one of the posts sup
porting the piazza roof was knocked
off. A lamp in the upper tenement
was shaken off the table. The deck
load of q fiat car loaded with coal,
which followed the construction caf,
was dumped upon the lawn. Had it
not been for the presence of the iced
wire pole in front Of the house it would
1>1,- 1n1 -l,1,)n Nnyt-
front as the result Of the collision.
Bangor institutions are among the
bcnefciarieS Of the late Mrs. Gard
ner 3. Perry, formerly Of Boston and
Newport. BY the terms of her will
the Bangor Home for aged women re-
ceivcs $4,000 and the Eastern Maine
General Hospital, $4,000.
Figures secured at the United States
custom house at Portland show that
the total value Of the china clay
brought into that port during the pres
cnt year is S236.9l1, and the amount
realized by the United States govern
ment for duty on the china clay Is
$43 ,G22.5 so. Last year the total value OF
the china clay imported was $197131.
while the duty collected on the clay
by the government amounted 10 $780,
507.S3. The amount in tons brought
by the regular trans Atlantic liners
for the year 1909 is 37.449 tons, as
against 32.202 tons for the year 1909,
an importation increase Of over 5000
tons.
The pleasure which Capt. James
Cunningham of the Thomson Liner
Frcmona felt in bringing his vessel
safely 70 port Thursday noon after
four weary days spent in ceaseless
vigil on the bridge Of his vessel was
turned to sorrow upon his landing at
Portland for he had no sooner landed
than he received letter telling linn
that his brother and cousin To Whom
lie had given a dinner on board just
before the Fremona sailed from
Shields had been drowned the day
after the liner sailed. Capt Cunning
hams brother and his cousin. who
ware both masters of vessels them
selves, were returning TO shore from
ship at night in I; rough SEA When his
brother was pitched overheard and his
cousin was drowned trying 10 rescue
him.
A town meeting was held Saturday
in Waterford to see it the town would
vote to request legislation 10 keep
autos from following the road on the
east side of Bear pond. The vote was
L. inrit
would oblige the autos to follow the
road west of the pond. The people of
the town think that if Bar Harbor car
exclude automobiles altogether they
ought to be allowed to make one r0ad
exclusive
The most important case to Dp tried
at the January term OF the York cpun-
ty supreme judicial court will be that
of Richmond II. Ingersoll, charged
with cmbezzlement 81 the funds of
the York County Savings Bank OF
BdGeford of which he was treasurer.
1t is expected that the term viii con-
tinuc well into February.
y real estate transaction of unusual
character anu 1nIollltuOc NdS hulctlS
consunrnated Tuesday at the office Of
Butler &, Butler in SkoWhegan, when
in accordance with the terms Of an
agreement entered into by all parties
concerned the vast timberland acre
age of the heirs and devisces of Abb
Nor and Philandcr Coburn. better
known as the "Coburn Heirs was
partitioned by voluntary proceedings
between two groups of the co-owners.
Hon. Charles +. johnson of Water
willie otiiciated as arbitrator or referee
to carry into effect the terms Of the
agreement. The terms of the division
and the prices are withheld from the
public.
.,irs. William f. Pillsbury Of Cor
ham WAS badly bitten Il few days ago
by a vicious bulldog. She was calling
at South Gorham and while walking
along the street IL dog belonging to O.
F. Libby rushed furiously at her,
throwing her down. She regained her
footing with difficulty, the dog all the
while jumping at her head. She raised