Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-26
Maine Gossip
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elizabeth Powers Merrill)
There. Is never sorrow without its
peace,
There is never a pain without a balm
There is never heartache that does not
Never a gale without a calm.
There is never a struggle without rest.
Never soul that was not once ca
resSed,-
Never a march without a way.
There is never a thought without brain
And never deed but doer is there
There is never love that does not bring
Never a god who does not dare!
There is never a death that is not birth,
And never giver unless he gives.
There would be no heaven without ar
And nothing dies, but something lives
Miss Helen Lawson, stenographa r
at the West End Hotel, Portland, has
been left $4,000 in cash and part Of the
estate of ]. NJ. Murphy Of Kennes
bunk, according to information received
in a letter. says the Portland Argus.
No further news regarding the lega cy
has been received. Miss La met
Mr.. Murphy once at a social given at
Grays Business College when she was
student there a few years ago. He
was a man past middle age and at the
time wore handsome diamond ring:
In conversation with him she jokingly
remarked, Il hope you'll leave me that
ring in your will" He laughingly re-
piled that he might leave her some
thing more substantial than a ring
and he did.
1t is reported at Portland that when
the steamer Vaderland arrived at
Halifax on her last trip a spy
was taken from her in irons
and turned over to the mil
itary authorities. The ship was to take
troops from Halifax and the officers
are said to have been informed that
some one would be put aboard the
vessel TO cripple or destroy her, hence
the search and arrest of the spy. De-
tails are lacking.
James w. Skillen of Bath, a native
of England, has been appointed chair
man for that section Of the British
Imperial Relief Fund. He says there
are but few English-born there but
they are trying to do all in their power
to aid their country. Mr.. Skillen has
brother in eth Battery, R. F.. A., 36th
Brigade. Division No. 2, Of the British
Expeditionary Force, who writes very
interestingly of his experiences on the
firing line.
The little town Of Bradford is re-
joicing in the rather unexpected gift
of public library and money to
maintain it. $4,000 FL all. by the will
of John Bacon Curtis of Portland. The
building Is practically completed and
will be dedicated in few months. Brad
ford was not the native town Of Mr..
Curtis, for he was born in Hampen
and much Of his business life was
spent in Bangor and Portland, but
he reckoned that the foundation. Of
his large fortune was started in Brad
ford, for it was there that his father
and himself founded the spruce-gum
business, particularly the run" or
strained gum.
A teacher not a thousand miles
from Maine caused shout from her
scholars, recently. by making the
following announcement: Members
OF the class will name the wild ami
mails, beginning with Johnny JONES'
Speaking Of the hanging of James
Cullen a number Of years ago in Aroos-
took. DR.. Ford Of Milo says that
he distinctly remembers the instance
and told the Eastern Herald of Milo
that he believed there is a piece OF
wood of that tree now in the town. He
said that Mr.. c. H. Perrigo at one
time had 1t. From Mrs. Annie Per-
rtgo we found that Mr.. Perrigo, who
was her husbands father, while in
that Vicinity, was given a cane from
the tree by a friend, and that the cane
is now probably in the house at Derby
formerly occupied by MrO. Ida Moores.
his daughter. She is now living in
Oldtown. but we understand that her
goods are still in the house there. Mrs.
Perrigo also has q good sized chip
that IS marked From James Cullen's
gallows tree" She remembers having
talked with the widow Of the murder
ed sheriff. and says that the story as
printed In the daily papers Is sub
tantially correct, except that the
sheriff had every intention Of letting
his prisoner escape. and went to sleep
leaving his prisoner unbound. and it
was then that Cullens murdered him.
b Col. Osgood and o. D. Bliss of Lew
iston will leave Feb. for Los An
geles. stopping at Columbus, O., as
the guests Of Charles A. Bliss, propri-
etor OF the Bliss Business College and
thence to Indianapolis and Terre
Haute. Ind. From there they will go
to Chicago where Mr.. Bliss will meet
his wife and son, Addison. The party
will leave Chicago via the California
limited on Tuesday evening, Feb. 16.