Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-23
Maine Gossip

MUIUe OOSSP
A Song Of Bethlehem.
elizabeth Powers Merrill.)
From tho holy Town Of Bethlehem
touched with splendor Of the night
Comes the sound OF angels singing In The
azure depths Of light.
Fall their songs across the ages! Flash
their wings upon the sight!
Though the years have met and parted
yet abideth days of old
Over all earth's tears and sorrow Is earth's
Wise Men on their camels riding-shep.
herds hurrying from the fold.
All the years of all the ages never
can its beauty mar:
Hearts Of men still turn to Bethlehem
unborn eyes look from affair."
On the swinging tides Of heaven shines
today. that changeless star.
To the East the West is turning on this
glorious winter morn,-
Hearts are journeying to the manger
where the Son of God was born:
paling on the breast of dawn.
BY the child and by it's mother souls un-
numbered kneel today.
ALI the wise ana all the nuInDlc UIllS
their hopes from far away
Saint and sinner-youth and manhood,
by the babe Of Bethlehem pray.
Here they bring the pain and heartache
Here the Homeless find shelter-stands
the door ajar, for them!
Roses from their hearts blood bring
they, to the Child Of Bethlehem!
ryarrs~o ~cboolo NJ tho hippeSt hind
have been sighted within few days
% miles north of Thatcher's Island, the
fish schooling all day long, a most I'M
usual circumstance for the time of
year. A number of whales were also
seen among the schools Of fish.
The fifty-fourth annual meeting of
the Maine Press Association will be
held at the common council room.
city building. Portland. on Jan. Is
and 10, commencing at two o'clock,
Thursday afternoon. The Falmouth
hotel will be headquarters for the as
ISOLATION.
Among the requests made in the will
VI InS ldt0 EAAdOCtA ". Innings,
daughter of the late Horace Billings,
filed Tuesday in the probate court in
Boston, was one Of $1,000 to the town
Of Bridgton, Me-, to be spent in village
improvement and adornment.
A kind-hearted young lady was tell
ing how she and girl friend had tried
to comfort some of the sobbing and
terrified children who we're driven from
their homes in Block SIS Of the Edwards
Company's tenements at Augusta by
Thursday nights fire and lamenting at
their inability to make much Roadway
with the little ones.
why, she cher friend) can speak
French, but she couldn't make them
understand word
1t is said that the entire population
Of Block IS was of the Greek national
ity.
It happened at the state House. SHE
belongs in Bangor and HE has State
wide acquaintance. The listeners came
from all around. An electrician en-
tered. carrying a coil of wire. HE
passed the time of day and inquired
why SHE wouldn't make a good cleo
triclan. as. coming from Bangor, SHE
wouldn't be shocked"
SHE flashed back, as quickly as an
electric spark: mo, nor wouldn't get
lit up either!"
His complexion, by the way, is nat
urally somewhat florid.
The steamer Tourist made her last
trip from South Bristol on Monday last
and the Islands to Damariscotta Cap
tain Carnage pushed her up through
the ice in the morning but hardly dared
to wait until night to return and so
went back at noon. A rather pitiful
incident in connection with the trip
was the discovery of the sad condition
OF a crate Of long haired kittens from
Warren. Me-, to Frank Waltz of Dam
ariscctta. OF the ten kittens two were
dead. The rest. suffering from hunger,
had eaten all but the head Of one Of
the dead ones.
Among the smart young old ladies of
the Pine Tree state is Mrs. Margaret A.
Miller Of Cushing. who on Dec. II
passed her ssth birthday Mrs. Miller
was born in WaldQboro but went to
Gushing soon .nfter her marriage to
William H. Miller. also of waldoboro
and has alWq1s resided on the same
farm. OF thu eight children four are
now living. sA Rbxie Rivers of De-
troit. Mich..t Ms. Mary L. Crute and
Miss Fannie Miller Of Gushing and
Frank B. Miller Of Rockland. She has
seven grandchildren and four great