Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-09

Not God Himself can swing these gates
Till you are Ready to pass through,
as death the fates-
Ihey understand what YOU can do n
o man for you can swing these gates
They open not to time or tide
The magic key the lock awaits
is yours the Gates will open Wide
story going the rounds that a wal
let containing $3.50 had been found in q i
barrel of soft coal purchased from a.
local dealer at PASSPORT caused a fol-
lowing closer scrutiny of coal than is I.
being given il by the sorters at the
mines,
4 small boy on Park street, Lewiston,
took it into his notion to clean the fam
lily clock Wednesday afternoon while
his mother was out. He put it into a
wash-dish with abundance of soap and
water and finally left it to soak i'll thu /
shed. The owner Of the clock who was
telling the story in a Main street gro.
Gerry Thursday says that it was the
coolest "a hours ever known by the Old
family time piece.
The Portland Press on Friday Feb
S. 1917 dared spring the, following:
Notwithstanding the severe weather of
the present winter the pussy willows
are coming along just as they always
do at this season of every year The
florists already have them in their,
stores and they look quite the most
"SprinSy' of anything that has APP
peared thus far. Freeport is the place
from which large number of these in
teresting f0rerunners of the good old
summertime are coming at present
The North Berwick hotel has closed
its doors to the public The reason is
stated on a sign attached to the door:
CLOSED No wood. No coal. No
sugar"
Donald c. Leach of Portland has the
distinction of having the greatest num-
Der Of Revolutionary ancestors Of any
person in the United States, having put
in u sets of papers when he joined the
sons Of the American Revolution.
Rev. {. l.. Bangha1t, pastor of the
Monmouth Methodist church, has just
received a unanimous call to return to
year of service. During his stay in
Monmouth Rev. Mr.. Banghart has
preached 504 times, attended "a funerals
and ofticiated at Is marriages. In line
with this an Augusta pastor on Feb.
made the remark that since the be-
ginning of the new year he had officiatcd
at 13 funerals
Bootrbay Harbor recently sent an S.
@. S. call to Bath for help because of :,
general freeze up of its water mains.
Instructions were given over the tele-
phone, of how TO use electricity to thaW
out the service pipes.
All records were broken ut the Union
Station at Portland on Tuesday, when
for l. hours not a Boston train drew in.
A Bath business man has become
suspicious IF a certain kind of candy
he purchased few days ago. AS he
ard his Wife bit into it they both no
ticcd that the filling had a Sreenisl
til sc and the taste Was unnatural.
They decided not to eat il themselves
but fed it to a small pig who ate raw
cnously Of it. Upon going to the pen
the next morning the pig was dead.
The customer thinks that the candy
was Cf some that had grown old and
that some sort of chemical action had
set in that gave it the peculiar look ana
taste that attracted his attention and
has continued to buy more candy from
the same dealer.
The Dyer Brook correspondent of the
Houlton Times writes as follows:
An elderly woman walked from this
town to Island Falls. Saturday. a dis
lance OF seven miles, the reason she
gave was that the train is SO slow she
wished to get there the same day she
left town, perhaps this would be
good idea for the business men of this
section who wish to so to Houlton and
return the same day. "Hiper' it is
only 20 miles one way,
Mrs. Sarah II. Young of South Wind
ham. "a years old has just completed
a patchwork quilt that contains $500
squares. each an inch in size. She has
been nearly 10 years getting the pieces
together which We're donated to her by
many friends. Among the squares are
pieces Of dresses that have done duty
as wedding gowns and others that are
from friends that are
now dead This quilt is the master
piece of q masterworkman who in her
long life has made scores Of quilts.
Mrs. Young was born in Hudson, y.
H.. April S, 1884. the daughter Of
Thomas Cummings, veteran of the
war of 1872. Mr.. Cummings was
prominent architect whose only pas
time was figures, it was his theory that
figures would prove anything under
the sun. He was famous marhema,i-
clan.
Frank A. Kumery and Clinton T.
SWEET, owners of the Portland Ship
Ceiling Company, expect TO launch
Government steamer in April They
laid the first keel on the coas, after
receiving their contracts. ana have
three vessels well under way Good
progress is being made at the ward
despite severe weather for outdoor
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