Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-08
Name Gossip
The Sacrifice


OF all mems love OF liberty.
! live in mighty scenes long gone,
The guns sound over Lexington,
The shot once fired by Concord stream
To me- is more than just a dream,
The faces Of earths heroes pass
Before my ever quickening sight
And hordes of men. in armor bright,
With flashing sword and steel cuirass.
The hopes of men come to my mind
The dreams that ever thrill mankind.
In present and in past | live
/ go. for Man, my life TO give
The report comes from jefferson hat
robin was seen there on Thanks
giving day. on Tuesday of this week,
a well-known farmer who lives On the
River road. Augusta. was IN the city
making business calls and also telling
his friends Of the robin which he saw
erched in a tree in his front yard that
,ery day. A neighbor first noticed the
bird and realizing what an unusual
sight it was. called his friend and to-
gether they witnessed the harbinger of
spring. Mr.. Robin, or Mrs. Robin.
whichever, sat in the tree for awhile
and then, strange as it may seem, flew
away to the northward.
CONGRESSMAN Louis b. GOodall Of
Sanford was a member of the Con-
gressional party visiting Hawaii,
which paid respects to the late Queen
Liliuokalani, at the funeral in Homo
lulu Nov. 10.
Pythians from IS lodges of eight dis
tricts of the State will gather at the
hall of Industry Lodge, Lewiston, next
Tuesday evening. when a big class Of
candidates will be obligated by the
Rathbone Bible. The session, one Of
four in this State. will be in charge
of Fred f. Wheaton, supreme keeper
Of records and seals.
Hon. William NJ. Ingraham of Port
land, who recently resigned as assist
post of surveyor of the port of Port
land made vacant by the death of
Hon. Cyrus w. Davis, has arrived in
town and taken his oath of Office, says
the Express. His office Wednesday
was besieged with friends who dropped
in to extend their fluctuations. Mr..
and Mrs. Ingraham are again at home
in their town house, - Deering street,
and local society will welcome them
in the immediate future with several
functions that are being planned in
their honor.
The following very cheerful kenne-
bee river items are from the Bath
Times:
If the Government takes over the
steamer City of Bangor. as is ru-
mored, the steamer City of Rockland
will probably go to the Portland Bos-
ton route and there will be no sum-
mer service on the Kennebec- Boston
division.
Steamer Wiwurna has been sent to
Camden by Supt. NJ A. Haraden and
will be put in first class condition for
service on the Boothbay Harbor divi-
sion of the Eastern Steamship Lines
next summer. provided she is not
lrequisitioned by the government be-
fore that time.
Tugboat Sarah J. Weed which has
been towing on the Kennebec River
for several seasons past, has gone to
Portland for repairs, having been sold
to the Elizabeth Towboat Co.
A Caribou resident says: The oldest
| inhabitant does not remember any
| in 80 severely as it has during the long
| to be remembered season of 1917. The
thermometer has already been down as
low as 20 below zero.The rivers and
lakes are closed and the land lies
buried deep in snow. 1t is to be hoped
that getting so early a start winter will
be disposed to let go time enough in
the spring to permit the farmers to
plant their crops.
It has been proven that even rats
when treated kindly will become regu-
lar pets, asserts the Bath Times. A
certain young man of one of the local
shipyards has two which he feeds
every noon. He goes to their hole and
calls them and they respond i'm
mediatelv, and will eat from his hand.
! This may sound a bit unusual but it is
nevertheless true.
Because of the Communicating of
the steamers Of the Eastern Steam
ship Lines and the suspending of all
steamer service for the first time in
| 10 years, Lubec is in desperate bust
ness straits. It Is 81 miles from the
nearest railroad and isolated by its
situation on its jutting promontory
far out into the ocean, the most east
ern point Of the United States, Lubec
people are making a big noise to at
tract the attention of the Government
to the necessity of moving a great
food product. Lubec furnishes more
than half Of the sardines canned in
this country and rs per cent of the
homeless herring. About 100000 900
cans of sardines are shipped from this
town every. year and millions of
pounds of homeless herring. Another
serious proposition is to move the
supply of cans for other plants made
here in a new 100000 steel and con-
crete plants. With no transportation
facilities the business of the town is
practically paralyzed. But two propo-
sitions are open, the resumption Of
freight service by steam cargo car
riers or the extension of the Maine
Central railroad from East Machias
to Lubec, 81 miles.