Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-12
Name Gossip
Twilight Calm.


Seek their close nests and bide.
Screened in the leafy wood
The very squirrel leaps from bough to
bough
But lazily: pauses: and settles now
Where once he stored his food.
One by one the flowers close,
Lily and dewy rose
Shutting their tender petals from the
moon;
And are still the noisy crows.
Remote, each single star
Comes out. till there they are
All s DAMN! brightly; how the dew falls
While close at hand the glow-worm
lights her lamp.
Or wrinkles from afar.
Christina G. Rosetti.
Some one went by George divers
garden down at Popham a short time
ago and then reported that George
had peas up several inches. George
said nothing but quietly laughed to
himself, because the man VINO had
given his garden such a boost had
looked at the strawberry plants and
called them peas. His time for laugh
ing was Of short duration however,
for along came the heavy rains and
washed up all the seed, with the result
that he will have to make a new gar
den.
The youngest supreme court mes
senger in the State is said to be Geo.
S. Lincoln, Jr., Of Wiscasset, who is
but IA years and who on Thursday
last completed his fourth term of ser
vice. He Is a Freshman in Wiscas-
set Academy and when court is in
session is given special leave Of alb
sence from school by the trustees.
John w. Chickering Of Portsmouth,
N. H.. has just completed what is said
to be the longest term Of continuous
service in any Of the United States
navy yards on the Atlantic coast, hav-
ing served almost go years. He was
born Oct. TO- 1885 in Rye. y. II. His
father. Zacharias Chickering, was I.
captain of the watch at the navy yard
and when young John was ii he was
made messenger in the old rigging
loft, went to the sail loft in the same
capacity and tried the construction
department until the Civil war, when
he was rated as an enlisted man. He
then went into the general store as
messenger remaining % years. He
staid p. years in the construction
department and then became janitor
Of the main Office, where he remained
26 years, until poor health compelled
him to give up active service.
"Sidewalk" year is the word in
Lewiston and the officials Of the De-
partment of Public Works are plan
ming to do a great amount of work in
lettering the sidewalk conditions.
They ask the cooperation of the
property owners and to encourage
abutters to help out in the work. Of
fer to set curbstones and prepare the
beds for the concrete walks and allow
the abutting owner to pay half the
expense this year and half next year.
They also offer the abutters in the
residential section to lay bituminous
walks, share the expense half and halt
and allow the same way OF paying
1t is expected that a great many feet
of sidewalks will be added during the
season.
The citizens of Livermore Falls
have voted in favor Of public
building, the vote standing 121 to s.
at the adjourned session held last
Saturday morning. The debate was
heated and it is said that the oppo-
nents Of the plan are talking Of call
ing another meeting to attempt 70
rescind the vote. The lot will be
bought by popular subscription and
the building is expected to cost about
$4,000. 1t will accommodate the
municipal court. armory, gymnasium
library, manual training department;
Of the public schools, and an audi
torium.
An attempt to pass a forged check
in Bath, the check being one Of the
regular forms used by VIM. Mann, the
baker, and bearing his name. led to
the examination Of Mr.. Mann's check
| book and the discovery that blank
checks from 9S7 to 99S inclusive were
missing. Mr.. Mann then recalled a
| visit from a man who tried to sell a
| check protector and during whose call
had access to the checkbook.
A party of Lewiston people out for
stroll last Sunday found Is different
kinds Of wild flowers already in
bloom. among them some which are
not usually found until considerably
later. The list included: White, pur-
pie and yellow violet; bluet, anemone
cherry blossom; Indian tobacco
snowdrop. clintonia, red trillium, wild
corn, wild cat. strawberry, wild col
umbine. and star Of Bethlehem.
A hen owned by Mrs. NJ. D. Foss OF
Trap Corner, West Paris, is now cred
tied with having recently laid an egg
measuring exx8h inches and weigh
ing ~ ounces.
1t Is decided that the people of Bris-
| toll will invoke the referendum on tn,