Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-18
Maine Gossip
Storm Voices.

by :. j. Stevens.
\ cold winter night, and the wind wildly
With the fast falling snow fierce war
Is Waging,
The spirits of storm all their powers en-
| gaging
In piling huge mounds still higher and
| higher.
To moaning and signing and kissing and
| rattle,
The leaping and dancing and frollcsome
| prattle,
| OF the demons of storm in merciless
| battle,
1 listen and muse by my bright winter
| fire.
| Though fortune TO me has allotted seclu-
sion
Remote from the worlds gay throng and
| confusion,
And the wild, bowling storm forbidden
intrusion
Sweet memory can distance and storm
| What matter, to me. that the rude winds
| are blowing,
There's voice of song in the freight
| soft glowing,
And Fancy her treasures is richly be-
! slowing,
And on her bright pinions to dreamland
| | fly.
In the wind. now rising, advancing, re-
| treating,
| Then laughing and cheering and moan.
| ing and shrieking
| dancy that voices familiar are speaking;
| Inc glad laugh of childhood is greeting
From clear. dancing brook. the music
/ seems springing
Whose ripple and bubble welcome is
To warm southern breezes 50 lovingly
| bringing
The tidings so welcome, Bright spring.
| time is near"
says the Paris Hill correspondent:
ReV. John Butler, the new pastor of
the Congregational church. has pur-
chased a horse of Mrs, Lottie Russell,
ana is making calls upon the people in
the vicinity and at East Bucllfield
Ills genial lively good will makes a
| favorable impression upon those who
make his acquaintance. He is not of
the long sad face stripe. as his ex-
| perience in mission work in larger
places has made him an easy pleasant
man to meet. Ministers of to-day |
generally are not the stiff. doguatic. |
bigoted, unapproachable men that
characterized preachers of a century
| ago. Times change and people change |
| We like pie. but it don't improve it to |
| garnish 1t with cayenne pepper The |
| gospel of our Savior can be presented |
| in palatable, as we'll as in dis |
eordant strain. Pepper and vinegar |
| don't improve our ehstard pie. Swear
| ing John Holmes was once on a |
| train when a minister came along and |
told him that he was on the road to
| hell. Just my damned luck said he, |
| bought tickets for Yarmouth |
Junction. 1t is a great knack to
| know how best to approach people"
William w. Cutter of Westbrook has |
| been selected as grand secretary of |
| the Grand Lodge of Maine, l. o. o. r.
! to fill out the unexpired term of the |
| late Herbert w. Sears William E. |
Plummer of Portland will serve as
grand scribe of the Grand Encamp- |
ment of Maine.
I Portland thieves entered a Congress |
| recently, and, finding no money, care |
| fully selected enough vegetables for a |
| boiled dinner, and made their escape |
| 1t is said that Portland housewives |
| are painfully refraining from corned |
| beef and cabbage connections for the |
| time being, lest suspicion be turned |
| in their direction.
Thirteen Biddeford Greeks entered |
a coffee house, Saturday evening-the |
| thirteenth-and, tucking their legs |
| under the tables, tried their luck at |
| Greek faro. The Greek New Year be- |
gan, Sunday. the 18th. 1t is a Gus
| tom with the Greeks to test their for
tune at cards at the beginning of the
| New Year, and they have an abiding
| they will continue to be so throughout
| the year. and vice versa. While these
| 13 Greeks were absorbed with the I'M
certainties of nerve racking Greek faro
| they were pounced upon by half a
| dozen Biddeford policemen, snatched
| away from the allurements of the
| game and hustled to the police sta
| ton and locked up, being booked for
| gambling. We trust they are satisfied
| as to what this year holds for them.
| Pressure Isle is evidently rejoicing in
possession of press agents rivaling
those of ,Skowhegan. The following is
| the latest report received at the Ken
| nebec Journal office. ''Presque Isles
expansion is shown by the postoffice
| receipts which have made gain of
| $500 over the previous year. Pressure
| Isle now leads all Aroostook towns
| excepting Houton in the volume of
| it's postal business. The postoffice is
| located in the Greenlaw building and
| there are four rural deliveries. j. II.
Phair was appointed postmaster by
| President Mckinley in 1897 and has
now filled this position fourteen years,
during which time there has been
| very marked increase in postal re-
| ceipts For some years previous to
assuming the postmastership Mr.
Phar was in the hotel business
Pressure Isles growth has at times
been retarded by a series of disastrous
fires. sand the last of these occurred in
June of 1909 when in addition to other
buildings fifty-five dwellings and a
church We're burned. involving loss
of $4,000, with insurance of S1l0.0O0
but with improvements recently made
in the water works superior fire pro-
h.. "a.