Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-12-27
Maine Gossip
Missina Something.

Missing something every night;
Purple smoke that circles skyward.
CHEEKY welcome of light.
Shining from the window caSement'
; With a radiance, clear and bright
Missing something every morning
Missing something all day long,
Little acts of loving service
| Haunting echoes of a song,
| Floating out across the twilight
AS the Sabbath shades grow long.
Missing something every morning
! From the old house, left alone.
While the south-wind through the maple
! Softly signing, seems to moan
On bough. pathetic symbol,
Swings a nest its 1edglngs flown
Missing something every morning,
| Missing something every night.
While the autumn leaves are falling
! And the lonely stars shine bright;
Old-time joys. Oh. blessed memory,
! How they hlled US with delight.
Missing something every morning;
We shall miss ii all the years.
Till our bark is safely anchored
/ In the port that knows no fears.
THEN we'll find what we are missing
| Find lost JOY, instead of tears.
| -Rosamond Reed.
The Camden Herald says: y few
weeks ago Rev. S. f. Frohock received
a call to the Union church in Corinna
Me, and after mature consideration,
he declined the call Recently he has
received a call to the church in Tops
! ham but this also he has declined. His
many friends will be glad to know that
| he has decided to remain in Camden.
The present address of Paul Andrew
Gallagher of Bangor, says the News, is
Deer Island down the Bay, Boston,
where Paul has been sent for two
weeks on the charge of vagrancy.
Paul has been pretending that he was
deaf and dumb since his arrest several
weeks ago. but was caught at it when
he wasn't thinking. The Boston police
! communicated with the Bangor ex
emption board which returned the in
formation that Paul had good hearing
was not dumb and even had been
known to talk when not called upon to
make any remarks.
/ Lyle Henderson. the. 1-year- son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walton Henderson Of
Jackman shows some strength for a
! ltON vi HIS dSt. TIC was pa Aiie7 VII
the floor with siX-quart pail when
two of his coon kittens came along to
! take part in the fun. The baby took
F.! both of the kittens and put them into
! the pail and put the cover on. Several
i hours later when his mother came to
take care of the pail she thought it
/ was rather heavy and removing the
cover found both of her pet kittens
| Smothered in the pail.
Bar Harbor's interest in shipbuild-
ing has apparently been very great
during the past two or three weeks,
says the Bar Harbor Times. The pos
sibilities of establishing a plant here
! have been carefully gone over and
many we'll known men in town have
given their opinion that we can build
ships here at a profit. Without doubt
! these same gentlemen will be among
the first to subscribe to stock in the
company that is to be organized and
by backing their opinions with their
money encourage others to do so.
! A recruit out of the ordinary just en-
| Alvir B. Brown Of Brewer He served
Is years in the National Guard of Ne
! braska. holding a captains commits
sion when mustered out. He saw serv-
! ice on the Mexican border He came
cast and has been working on a rail-
road He told the recruiting officer that
| while he had made up his mind that ne
| had seen enough Of the army, ,ha
! couldn't resist the call to service ana
was ready to put in 10 more years if
/ needed. He joined the aviation section
: Of the signal corps.
Word comes from the Maine soldier
! boys in France that many OF them who
! had received word that a Christmas
! package had been sent, have not re-
/ ceived ii and it is said to be the fault
! largely of the manner in which The
I packages were shipped. The Securelv
wrapped and tied packages as a rule
arrived safely but many We're received
! in France torn TO tatters and without
! the slightest sign Of an address, SO thai
| il was impossible to tell for whom they
were intended. Almost anyone can
! imagine the fate Of tisuue pape:'
wrapping in the bottom mail sack in
! the hold of vessel under several thou
sand others. weighing tons upon tons.
! Heavy wrappirgs and strong tieing is
| absolutely necessary.
/ The oxford Democrats remarks that
there are certainly some pleasant
! things for us to consider this holiday
season. The day before Christmas finds
us with only six prisoners in the county
jail--a very small number-and not an
| inmate at the Paris town farm
Another honor has come to Port
land boy. says the Press. Capt