Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-05
Maine GOSSIP

To the "Near Ones and Dear Ones"
I believe that those boys who lie sleep
ing,
In the country across the sea,
Would feel something akin to real hor-
To be brought back here-even to
Thee.
LET them rest there so peacefully sleep
In the land that they fought so to
save;
They have, earned it, this right to sleep
sweetly,
They have earned it by all that they
gave.
So bring them not back again. Dear
Ones.
For France holds them safe in her
She Love loves she enfold'. she protects
Oh j, Leave aye, them there. safe from
They have borne there so well. heavy
That somehow it does not seem fair,
To rouse and disturb now their dream
ing:
So leave them.-just leave them,-
Right There!
Houlton reports potatoes holding
around the IS mark, with shortage
of cars, caused by the snow block
ade. Heater cars are also scarce and
but few potatoes have been shipped
from Aroostook for the past two
weeks.
Mrs. George H. Pratt Of 60 Chest
nut street established a new record
among women for pedestrianism be-
tween Brunswick and Bath Tuesday,
when she tramped the ten miles from
the college town to her home in 100
minutes, asserts the Times. Mrs.
Pratt, finding herself in Brunswick
and no way Of getting home by troll
ley and long wait for the train de-
cided to walk. She followed the
trolley track all the way and before
l knew it was in Bath and at home"
is the way she enthusiastically des-
cribes the experience.
A Levant correspondent of the
Bangor News writes as follows:
Take warning like Noah of old and
prepare for the deluge that seems in
evitable when the backbone Of winter
is at last broken.
In the country towns there is now
more or less of a water famine and
many of us are obliged to melt
snow Of which there certainly is no
famine and we have found that after
melting a quantity of snow we have
just about one third the quantity of
water. This has led us to try to cs-
innate the volume of water now pres
oning five feet on a level which is
certainly conservative estimate.
One acre of land contains 1850
square feet, and multiplying this by
five. gives 217,s0O cubic feet of snow
on one acre. Multiplying this num-
Der by 80 gives 17424.0OO cubic feet.
or 30.10S.672.000 cubic inches. Tax
ing one-third of this number as the
approximate volume of water, TO-
03G.224, 900 cubic inches and dividing
this by 231, the number of cubic in
ches contained in one gallon gives us
| 43.446,S57 gallons of water on one
small farm.
Will some one predict the result
when this body of water begins to
move toward the Penobscoto
| Bar Harbor at its annual town
meeting Monday voted to continue
the seven selectmen plan and elected
the following: Gerard Alley. Clarence
E. Dow. Harry Copp, Eugene r. Lee
land. Bert Young. II. L. Emo and Err
nesto Fabri, with Harold Carter an
agent for school fund: Charles r. Pa
Wadleigh, clerk; Lester Carter, street
commissioner; Bloomfield Higgins,
overseer of the poor.
Our Green's Island correspondent.
says the Rockland Courier Gazette,
tells of the trying experience of An
sci Philbrook and his II children at
! Hurricane Island. Their supplies
gave out recently and they lived for
several days on a very little dry corn
meal. Capt. Phiibrook was unable to
set to Vinalhaven. but finally
reached Browns Head Light Green's
! islan6 where he was given enough
provisions to tide over the emergen-
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