Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-14
Maine Gossip
Tho Country in Winter.

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Grace L. Hersum. in Pennington
Chronicle)
The sun which shines through my win
dow
Brings gladness and health to me.
joy in the warmth and blessing
No less because they are free.
Though snow lies deep all about me
l know 1t Is not for long;
The days that are slowly lengthening
Win bring back the flowers and the
song.
There are those who love the city
For its shops, its shows and its balls,
For the glimpse Of art in the better part,
And the knowledge in learning's halls.
But give me the open country
Whether fields be white or brown,
Whether winds assail or storms prevail
Whether snow or rain come down.
For jewels oft shine from the tree-tops
And colors soft gladden. the eye;
While sunrise and sunset and MONDAY
Ever shift the scenes Of the sky;
And actors come out Of their hiding
In books which l love the best.
Completing a round Of enjoyment
Which leaves not fatigue, but rest.
Isaiah C.. York. whose death oc-
CURED in Hampden early last week.
has been called the Father Of the
Maine Grange" as it was at his house
In Hampden that the first Grange was
instituted in Maine and Is still No. 1.
Eastern Star Of Hampden. Mr.. York.
his wife and daughter were charter
members. Mr.. York assisted in or
ganizing other Oranges. and from that
beginning the order Of Patrons of Hus-
bandry has grown to $4,000 members
in $50 Oranges in Maine.
A pretty good yarn was told at a
session Of the Tall Stove club last
night. says the Bath Times. There
had been a freshet on one Of the shall
low streams emptying into Merry
meeting Bay and while the freshet was
at its heigth. a cold snap came along
and froze the surface into a thick
flooring Of ice. A few days later came
a fisherman with live bait and cut a
hole in the ice through which he let
| down his live baited hook and pretty
soon he felt a big bite and pulled
through the hole-a very lively fox
| The man who was telling the tale ex-
planned that the freshet had subsidized
| leaving the ice above the hole Of the
! fox on the river bank and the fox,
hunting for food and seeing the live
bait wigglins had caught on. For fur
| Their particulars of this story ask
Uncle James.
! George Washington University OF
Washington. D. c., has just announced
! the selection Of DR.. John r. yelling
ton as professor Of Clinical Surgery
Dr. Wellington is a native Of Albion
Maine, and was graduated from Colby
University in the class Of 's6. DR.
Wellington stands among the very
foremost surgeons in washington and
in edition to large private practice
has important assignments on the
STATS Of the Children's Casualty and
Garfield hospitals.
| Paul H. Danforth Of Foxcroft, son Of
Mr.. ana Mrs. Dana J. Danforth Of
Spring street. departs in the near flu
ture for Santos. Brazil. where he will
| Dc COuuCCtGO Win ooANAA9 @SSAA>
opened in that city by the National
| City Bank Of New York. Mr.. Dan
forth is a graduate Of Foxcroft Acad'
envy and Of the University of Maine
where he took a course in journalism
Last August he obtained position In
the New York bank, and was selected
from among many young men to go &c
Brasil. Several years ago he spent
several months in South America He
also mastered the Spanish language
which he speaks fiuently.
School affairs In Bath will hereafter
be In charge Of 4 Beard Of Education
Of four members, in place Of the pres
ent board Of II. The new board will
assume its duties on March 20, when
the new city government will organize
for the year. For many years the
management Of the schools was vested
In q committee Of three. On June 8
1854, the city voted to substitute a
Hoard Of II. two from each ward