Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-30
Maine Gossip
To One Coming of ACE.


For you the cloudy battle roared
Along the plain OF Marathon.
For you the Roman eagles SCARED
Against the thender and the sun,
The realities of every race.
The noble deeds of every age
Are yours to teach you knightly grace.
Are your heroic heritage,
o loyal friend with eyes so true,
BY gentlemanhood treasure fast
The trust of those who died for you
Far in the dim and shadowy past
In their proud giving they were glad
TO brave the desert. dare the foama
They wiled to YOU the best they had
To make your world Il sweeter home.
O friend. the latest and the best
OF natures plan and mans desire,
You, too, must labor aud not rest
Must pass, perehanee, through flood
and fire.
Where honor leads there boldly charge
Into the iercest OF the fight
And your, bright memory shall emerge
To glorifv some future night
Archibald Rutledge. in Youths Com
panion. k...s
The Congregational church of Skew-
hogan, which is the only one in the
county to have the choir seats in the
rear of the church. is to be changed.
and the choir balcony will probably
bt tihtH d6Aii anu the CHOIR VIII SIT
facing the audience This arrange
ment was built with the church. in
1862 This church is the outcome of
the first religious work of Protestant
character in Somerset county. There
Will be a meeting of the pew-holders
i'm regard To the matter, May II.
Daniel McNeal Of Norridgewock has
a hen that deposits her egg each
morning in the middle of the best bed
in the house. The name of the biddy
is Polly and she goes TO the front door
each morning little after sunrise and
will eaekle until she is let in, when
she will go up stairs, and. jumping
into the middle of the bed, LAYS her
egg. MIR MeNeal is employed as sec
ton nand on the railroad and has to
rise early each morning, and because
of the regularity of biddys cackling
at his door he does not have To have
an alarm clock The biddy sometimes
misses laying but she goes to the
front door all the same
Practical journalism is the newest
innovation in the skowhegan High
school 1t was instituted by Miss
Dorothy Elliott and has proved a
most interesting course. Each day
the various members of the class are
given assignments on writing news
stories. including obituaries and we'd
dings social events, etc, and then
each article is examined and the best
one chosen to be embodied into the
newspaper, which though not pub
lished, is a collection of the things
that go TO make up small newspa-
per. After that the students are al
lowed to read the newspaper in full
and see it as completed The work,
though in embryo form. will be en-
braeed as one of the regular courses
in the school curriculum.
Senator Donigan's vote in the special
beer trust session of the Legislature
costs Somerset Democratic ticket
lot of votes. 1t was a shock to many
Republicans who voted for Donigan
because he has stood for prohibition
and law enforcement, that he should
lave shown lack of backbone in the
crucial test He was whipped into line
by the machine and humbly eats the
crow he cooked in last summers cam
paign.
Dexter residents are manifesting
great interest in the Boys and Girls
Agricultural Club of the public
schools. Contests are soon to be in
order. The rules state that all con-
testants must be under u years OF
age. The first two classes care, re-
spectively, for the most flint corn
grown on a limited area, and for the
best ten-ear exhibit. Glasses three
and four offer awards for the best
loaves of bread. and for the best lot
of cream of tartar biscuit. Glass five
is for sweet peas growers.
The past season of gathering eggs
has proved of little success TO the
United States fishery. The cod and
haddock failed to school until late.
ard even then they did not school as
much as in seasons past. However,
the United States fisheries steamer
Gannet, which is now at Portland, has
been sending men outside this week
in the hope that some of the METERS
the present time about 300, 900, 900
founder eggs have been collected,
while the number of cod and paddock
eggs has amounted to but 30.000.000
eggs. These amounts are far under
what would ordinarily have been Sc
cured. But if there has been a fail
ure in the amount of eggs collected
from these fish, the lobster fishery
has been more than successful as far
as the Matching of the fry is con-
cerned. Captain George w. Greenleaf
of the Cannot says that the Holsters
came out better this winter than they
have for years. Already the work OF
distribution has begun and good num-
bers have been planted along the
coast. Recently 4125 fry We're planted
between Pemaquid Point and Rock
land. Fifteen hundred We're left be-
tween the Cape Elizabeth Lightship
and Wood Island, and ON Monday 1900
more We're left between Cape Porpoise
and Whalebacl Light, n. H. Six
teen hundred fry We're planted be-
tween Rockland and Petit Manan. The
State fisheries OF. GbaI1raEp 10