Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-30
Maine Gossip
The Bread Limo Back Again.

see the bread lines in the city
Growing longer day by day,
Not with tramps, not with panhandlers.
But with men who earned good pay.
Men. despairing, wan and weary,
With hopeless look they gaze
At each others care-Worn faces,
AS in Grover Cleveland days.
See the strong men seeking shelter
From the icy blasts at night,
Where the city gives free lodging
And crust or SO to bite.
They are toilers, up against it,"
Who earned bread by honest ways,
Now the mills and shops are silent.
AS in Grover Cleveland days.
Think Of all the white.faced women
Who have not enough to eat,
Trying to cheer up their children
While their fathers walk the street;
Dreading words which will strike terror,
Out you go unless you pays"
Twas the same, for the same reason,
Jack Wiley.
A Bath vessel owner had what he con-
sidered remarkable sign as a forerun-
ner Of the wreck of the schooner Mary
l.. Baxter. He was in his attic last Sun
day Jan. "a and came across picture
Of the schooner which had been caught
in bureau drawer and broken In twain,
The next morning, the first thing his
eyes lighted upon in the morning papers
was the news of the wreck Of the same
schooner. The vessel owner had not
seen the picture since he put 1t away in
the drawer six years ago.
Stonington has lost one of its Oldest
landmarks, the Webb house, about 100
years old and owned by Levi Webb, hav-
ing recently been burned. The house
was unoccupied and the cause is mys-
terry. 1t was located about two miles
out from the village, outside the fire.
mems call limit.
Portland still has two missing men,
from whom no word has been received,
or at least, been made public. Relatives
Of Thomas H. Symonds, who disappeared
several weeks ago, deny that he has
been seen in Haverhill, where it was
alleged he was working in drug store.
William NJ. Howe, the New Eng. Tel. &
Tel. employee, who has been gone from
| his home since Jan. Is has not returned,
though Ralph Kendall of Portland, who
was in Bangor the other day, declares
he met Howe of the street in that city.
The families of both men hope that the
mystery of their disappearance and
whfreabouts will soon be cleared up.
January q, 1S65-rhe capture of Fort
Fisher relieved the blockading fleet and
consequently the blockading forces at
the other ports were to be strengthened
Gen. Geary's division, the
last Of Gen. sherman's forces, had left
| Savannah and the advance Of Sherman's
left wing had reached Sistare's ferry
| on the Savannah river Hez-
ekiah Payne, notorious rebel, was ar
rested in Detroit, Mich, and sewed III
his coat was found 60 S. bills Of the st.
Adams, VT. banks, recently raided by
rebels.
Bar Harbor has SO far this week fur
nished two good automobile items: A
well-known and kindhearted citizen took
out his big machine in the hardest part
Of Mondays rain and carried home three
loads of the little school children, only
an hour or SO later to see some Of them
out playing in the slush. Item No. Q
| tells of an auto appearing on the street
and also on runners. Steel runners were
fitted to the forward wheels and the car
was spinning about on the snow as COM
fortably as could be. 1t Is said that
when the best kind of a runner is found,
several autos will be equipped and ice
races on Eagle lake will be enjoyed.
| The War Game board Of the Coast
! Artillery in the Portland armory is
said to be very fine one and the Of
ficers are proud Of it, because it was
secured through their own efforts
alone. 1t has been pronounced
/ superior to the board at Fort VIII
liams, built bs experts Of the regular
| Is