Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-10

IN mountain glehss or py the ocean
Or, where, beyond the ripening harvest
| land,
The distant hills were blue?
Where evening sunlight threw a golden
haze
Over a mellow citys walls and towers?
Or where the fields and lanes were bright
I In quiet woodland ways?
And whether here or there. or east or
That place you dwelt in first was holy
ground:
Its shelter was the kindest you have
| found,
Its pathways were the best.
| Among the items in the official esti-
mates just submitted to Congress are
found the following: Soldiers Home
at Togus s311. 800; for construction of
fish station at Boothbay> Harbor s45,-
900: Dog Island light $500; improve
ments in Portland harbor 100000; I'm
provements in st. Croix $4,000.
Almost every section of the State is
bemoaning the lack of water in wells.
ponds and streams and the situation
is daily becoming more serious. Many
are obliged to haul water for domestic
use as we'll as for the stock. A we'll
known farmer and milkman of Au-
gusta told a Journal man Wednesday
morning that the recent attempt at
giving us a little moisture can be
seen to a slight degree in the brooks,
but the wells fail to show a trace.
December s. 1Se4-The Bath Times
reported that rich iron mine had
been discovered in Arrowsic and a
company had been organized to oper-
ate 1t.
Can you recall that, so years ago.
the old Stanley house in Augusta had
just been leased to Wing & Williams?
The Bath Times has almost mon
opoly on these kind of happenings in
Maine and they are all worth reading
and therefore worth copying. Read it.
Here's another that occurred down
Phippsburg way:-A farmers husky
son was called to assist the wife of
neighbor to help her hunt up lost pig
and the two hunted over quite a sec
ton of the surrounding farm. Fin
ally the farmers wife gave up the at
tempt to find the pig. On the return
from his work Of her better half, the
lady informed him of their loss and
also how Kind the neighbor's son had
been in helping her on the hunt. Y -e-
e-s, he was very kind" her husband
replied, and at once left the house.
Arriving at the home of his neighbor,
he walked right in and in the Kitchen
shifted. There was savory odor or
roasted pork. He opened the oven door
and there, nicely basted and proved
by the cord wood fire, was little pig.
The gale that has been raging along
the Atlantic coast is said to have kick
ed up some grand surf (grand to
watch from the shore, of course) at
Popham and Small Point. Pond Island,
at the mouth of the Kennebec. which
always gets some of the heaviest that
is being passed around, reports the
surf dashing so feet into the air. Sc
gum also had particularly grand dis
play of surf.
Word has been received Of the clos
ing to navigation On Moosehead lake
and the people living along it's banks
are shut out until the ice is strong
enough to allow foot traffic or teaming.
Moosehead being a somewhat sizeable
sheet of water the people have learned
to await evidence of safety before do
ing much travelling after the first
freeze, The water stretches out some
40 miles long by 13 miles wide in the
widest parts and ofttimes are found
weak places in the ice, making travel
DANGEROUS until they are closed.
Captain George w. Barter of the old
schooner Nat Meader. a craft as we'll
| known as the Kennebec itself and
which knows her way from any point
on the river to Boston or any point on
the Atlantic coast as we'll as the nav
ipator. Is laid up with an injured hand,
the injury being received last week
while he was putting his faithful old
schooner into winter quarters at
Boothbay. He admits that he was
careless, saying that he was warping
her into the berth, standing with his
hand on the cable around the steam
winch. and looking elsewhere at the
time. when he put on too much press
ure and reversed the engine and the
turn of the cable was about to wind
him up when he showed in clutch and
stopped the winch, saving himself. ex-
cept for a painful wound to the third
f,nger on his left hand. which was hor-
ribly damned and will probably have
to be amputated.
An Auburn man, II years of age but
hale and hearty. is the proud possessor
Of three new teeth. which are slowly
but surely making their appearance.
| The man, VIM. NJ. Hall. the we'll
known optician, had been having
trouble with his teeth and finally con-
suited a dentist, who at once found
| that the new grinders were trying hard
| to get into service. Mr.. Hall hopes to
have an entirely new set. He relates
| that two of his children and one OF his