Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-23


He knew where the SnareS ana pl'Aahs
That often caused delay.
He went ahead with lantern
The way was bleak and colo.
He waited for the weary Ones
The broken, sick and old.
He went ahead with a lantern
Long was the way and blind.
He spoke strong words of helpfulness
To those who fell behind.
He went ahead with lantern
Till the last bridge was crosseu'-
Then he gave to God his lantern
None that he led was lost!
Fortv-one wears of faithful service
as janitox of the Bangor High schooi
building was completed Saturday py
Elisha S. Blake, who now goes on the
retired list it with pension.
A lick of the tongue proved some
expensive to those concerned In
parcel post package which was re-
Gently sent from Brattleboro, Vt' to
Lewiston. The story is this, relates the
Lewiston Journal. The big package
was lust within the limit for length
81 inches. 1t was finely wrapped III
paper and strongly tied with strlns
and, alas, all too firmly fastened with
.stickum," The regular parcel post
rate was the reasonable sum OF 40
cents. but. 10, that "stickum.' Be
cause that package was sealed the let
ter postage due was $3.50! Just bear
this in mind and don't get III an extra
lick of the tongue when you are DEAL
ing with Uncle Sam and the parcel
post department-unl you expect TO
pay a good, round sum per lick.
The evidence which the public has
been led to believe by press reports
sent out from Aroostook to be strong
against Harry Bolster who has been in
iail accused of the murder OF John
Timoney of Andover, Mass. IN NO
vcmber, 1914, seems to have decreased
materially in weight when presented TO
the grand jury, as that body on Sat
urday last refused to indict Bolster and
he was discharged.
Sunday, Nov. Il will surely be re-
membered as one of the darkest days
for years, one that required the use Of
artificial light in many households for
practically the entire day.
Many friends throughout the State
will be shocked to learn Of the death
on Saturday of Rev. Joseph a. Corey.
pastor of the Methodist church az
Eliot, after a weeks illness with pneu-
Mass, Feb. S, 1858, and was educated
at Wilbraham Academy and Wes-
leyan University. He entered the
Maine Conference in 1878 and was al
ways connected with it. except in
five years, when he held pastorates at
Dexter and Searsport. He had been
pastor of the F'ogg Memorial church at
Portland also 1T South Portland,
Pennington and other parishes in the
State. \ widow, one son, Rev. A. j.
Corey of Bath, and a daughter, Miss
Verna Corey, who lives at home, sur
vive.
The Maine Library Association has
issued its Handbook for 1915 and
convenient little work it is, containing
a list of officers, a chronology Of
Maine Library history. q list of MEM
bers in 1891, the year of organization.
list of members from 1891 to 1915 and
statistics OF Maine libraries.
A Maine girl stepped forward and
won one of the scholarship prizes in
the art department of Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn. when Miss Gertrude knight,
daughter of Ny. and Mrs. Walter
Knight. of s;aco was awarded $50 for
excellence in her work. She is a
graduate Of Thornton Academy. class
of 1910.
An ancient milestone, inscribed
"BS9- 1863" was discovered last week
by an automobile party beside a side
road between Wells and OgunQuit,
running parallel with tho present post
road between Portland and Boston.
1t was hidden from view by bushes
and was accidentally found The
figures state the correct distance t.
Boston and the date of the erection Of
the stone.
Willard H. Lord of Saco made an
interesting discovery last week while
hunting in the northern part of York
county. Passing an old stump, he no
tced a peculiar stick leaning against
it, nearly upright and on eXaminat ton
found it to be the barrel of an ancient
gun. The stock was all rotted away
and the barrels appearance indicated
it had lain there many. many years.
An innovation at the State prison
at Tkomaston is a privilege granted
by Warden Whitehouse of the prison
ers making as much noise and in any
way for a period of 20 minutes, from
$40 to Z o'clock in the evening. 1t is
the first time in the 81 years of the
PRISONS existence that such thing
has occurred and it is said the in
mates impatiently await the approach
Of the minute when Big Ben, the pris-
on clocks rings the signal and then
pandemonium breaks loose. The men
are locked in their cells, but they
manage to communicate with friends
and acquaintance all over the insti-