Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25


And our kindred sit in rows
We can tell them tales of winters when
Inc Atlantic ocean trUZe.
l see all tales of hlizzards
Lined up in sheer defeat,
IL we pull through this winter
With neither coal nor wheat.
Inc kennebec river is now without a
towboat, the Seguin having on Thurs
day last been sold by Capt. Wm. G..
Small of Bath to Capt. VIM. j. Murray
OF New York, where She will be taken
this week, or as soon as the new owner
can secure coal The Seguin is the last
of the once sizeable Morse fleet of tow
boats and will be used in the coal car
lEing trade. Captain Murray last
September also bought the tugs Delta
and FarnsWorth from the kennebec.
The PASSPORT Sentinel stands sponsor
for the following:
II. j. Harmon has gone to the Lake
to spend 4 few weeks until his water
pipes are thawed out. Mr.. Harmon
says he is tired of carrying water and
would go where there was plenty of it,
would be to cut through two feet of Ice
after having shoVelled off four feet of
snow.
What an highly cultivated imagine
! ton. says the Bar Harbor Times. il
! shown by the writer of the following,
; item clipped from a California news
| paper:
Call For Help"
An Atlantic Port February -
| Wireless calls for help from the Maine
! Central steamer that runs from Bar
! Harbor to Mount Desert Ferry sent
several naval patrol boats out at fun
t speed through the icebound harbor here
| today. The steamer was caught in tie
ice Hoes. According to early reports.
| everybody OF the ship was taken utt
! safely
| What an imagination to picture Wire
! less calls coming from Il steamer that
is not equipped with wireless. And the
! horrible Imagination of that message
! which could only have said, 5 q. :.
; (Send out skates. Cannot leave tne
| dock on account of ice And the Gls-
| torted vision of the naval patrol boa Is
rushing out of the harbor 10 the rescue
through ice Sc inches thick. Truly,
Edgar Allen Poe, in his widest dreams.
| never showed more ability
The February issue of the Book News
Monthly has an interesting article,
! The Famous Daughter of a Famous
Mother, and Her Work, Laura f. Rich
1IfN ;,,Ic in "a, lripf hllt at no
same time delightful manner. tells
( about this remarkable woman. who IL
one of Names own and something con-
corning her books.
Martha is young girl and she has
the unconquerable curiosity of children
Of her age One day this week her
, mother heard Martha crying from the
roof of the shed where she with her
brother John and another child were
playing, I'm glad I've got it, I've
always wanted one and won't do any
thing to get rid of it Upon inNestlga-
ton the mother found that brother
John had hit sister Martha in the eye
with snowfall and that sister Mar
tha's eye was swelling fast and was
shortly to become a black eye.
Captain Geneva Laid, a former Port
land girl, who is now with the Saliva
ton Army ranks in France, recently
wrote to Portland friends. As one
days work she writes the following:
This morning | fried AS doughnuts.
baked $50 cookies this afternoon for
our gallant boys, and now | am going
to make sandwiches for tonight. It's 4
great life if you don't weaken. To-
morrow we bake pies and cakes, p
pies in one day is the most | have made
since l have been here, but we have q
French stove and if you ever saw one,
you would understand that one must
! have patience to bake at all, especially
after being used to an American
| range.
! A former pastor in the little town Of
( Andover, Rev. George NJ. Graham. has
/ enlisted in the Y NJ. c. y. service. He
| is stationed at Fort Baldwin. Popham
! Beach in the capacity of secretary Of
! the V NJ. G. A. army hut. The whole
force there is made up Of the Old Army
| Regulars. One company (the 13th) has
a history running back to 1924. This
| same company has been the first COM
! mand of some of the most noted gencr-
| ais in our military history.
The statement that the American SOL