Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-24

5nould all the weight OF life
Be laid across our shoulders and the fu-
ture, rife
| With. woe and struggle, meet US face to
face
At just one place.
| We could not go;
| Our feet would stop; and SO
GOO goo lays little on US every day.
VIII burdens bear deep
| Or pathways lie SO steep
But we can go, IL, by Gods power,
| We only bear the burden by the hour;
George Klingle.
Some of the most prominent bust
ness men of Portland waited on Pres.
| Morris Mcdonald of the Maine Central
| TO make protest against the change in
| schedule on the Mountain DIVISION
which they asserted would seriously
4 affect the business interests of their
city, but was only told that the chang
must stand and that also far more
| startling changes were to be made IN
other parts of the State
The Bath Times Tuesday afternoon
announced:
This morning Sheriff oliver receiv-
ed some interesting official instructions
from h. E. Jenning of Lewiston, U. S.
internal revenue officer, in regard to
the future handling of the liquors seiz-
ed by the sheriff's department.
In the past it has been the custom to
hold seized liquor until a sufficient
quantity to fill five barrels had been
| accumulated and then ship it to Bos-
| ton to be distilled for the alcohol.
| Deputy Jennings informed the sheriff
today that If he shipped any liquor of
| that amount in the future, he would
be liable to arrest for being engaged in
| the wholesale liquor business. Sheriff
Oliver is not intending to take any
chances of arrest and shipments of
| liquors from the sheriff's department
will not be made until the matter has
been satisfactorily settled.
| The State law says that when seized
| liquor amounts to a sufficient quantity
| to fill five barrels, ii shall be shipped
| TO Boston for the extraction of the al
cohol Now the United States steps in
and says that sheriff shipping liquors
! in such quantity will be liable to arrest
as wholesaler. The outcome Of the
proposition will be watched with inter-
est.
One of the honorable records so
often found in Maine trades was made
| by the late Joseph Greenhalgh, who
died Monday at his home in Rockland,
he having worked Ga years as a
matchmaker. He was born in Bidde-
ford in 1888, and was one of IA children
of Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Greenhalgh,
who came from England and became
well-known clergyman. Joseph
Greenhalgh was a Mason and q mem
Der of the Central Club.
Elijah Trewergy of STry, has just
been through an experience, which,
though he admits might have some
amusing points to an outsider, contends
that it was and Is far from being the
funniest thing he has known. He con-
| tracted to deliver the municipal
Christmas tree at Surry and hunted
two days before he found one that
seemed to fill the bill, but after cut it
proved six feet short. He located
another and got it down all right, but
when he sent his team after it the
horses broke through the ice in a
swamp and his hired man had to
spoil a new set of harnesses in get
ting them out. Then the man who
owned the adjoining land came along
and said the tree had been cut on his
side of the line. 1t cost SO to get
a surveyor to run out the line and Mr..
Treworgy was nearly five feet to the
bad, so he had TO pay 50 stumpage or
stand a lawsuit for trespass. He says
there is no money in the Christmas
| tree business.
The Passamaquoddy Indians, who
live ON their reservation at Pleasant
Point, near the city of Eastport, will
have their annual Christmas festival
early in January, when they Will give
one of their unique programs at their
Village Hall. The parts are all taken
by members Of the tribe and really
interesting and meritorious entertain
ment is given, making it one of the
chief events of the year at the reser-
walton.
A young South Paris lady who had
recently entered the holy bonds of
matrimony had charge the other even
ing of taking from a Christmas tree
the presents and of course as all young
South Paris ladies' would, did 1t to the
queens taste remembering everybody,
but being puzzled by finding one
package addressed to stranger,
which she laid oneside. She soon, how
ever. began wondering if she herself
had been overlooked by her friends
and oven her own family, for she had
seen no package bearing her name.
Finally the tree was cleared OF its
precious burden and nothing was left
except the packages bearing the
strangers name. She looked again
1t bore her name, her new name,
which she had for the moment for
gotten.
1t is understood that the Aroostook
authorities are at work on some prom
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