Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-24
Maine GOSSIP
Greed or Greed

1 remember. / remember the world we
used to know.
The summer sunshine on the field, the
winter banks of snow.
l remember we'll the glory of the sun
set in the west,
When the air was filed with fragrance
and the world was at its best.
Emerald fields reflected sunlight.
swayed the branches on the
trees.
And the world was full of wonders and
of miracles like these.
Thus the farmer sowed and planted
and at nightfall claimed the
OF the man. who did his duty, leaving
TO the Lord the rest.
Sowed and planted. each in season.
reapt and garnered. each i'll
turn,
Swung his scythe and drove his plow-
share, striving Natures song to
learn.
And the question comes unbidden. Is
the world SO much improved?
When we hurry through its wonders.
eyes unheeding. hearts I'M
When our trips are taken flying. on
the earth and through the air,
When the sense of speed and motion
supersedes earth's beauties
What the goal that's now before us9
Is it Honor. Wealth or Power?
VIII it lift and stay our courage
when we reach life's darkest
Shall the power Of Greed control us.
as our life its cycle runs?
No. let thoughts of men be widened
hv the process of the suns.
KATE b. ELLIS, Fairfield, Maine.
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Mrs. Abigail Knowlton of Farm
ington on Wednesday. Sept. 90. OBJ
served the 9sth anniversary of her
birth and admits that she looks for
ward with much pleasure to her COM
ing Centennial anniversary She
rode five miles and return home on
election day to cast her first ballot
for the good old Republican party,
which had its birth in Franklin coun-
ty. in the town of Strong in 1854"
She was born in Vienna and as Abigail
Hodgkins married on Dec. IL, 1912,
Selden knowlton of Pennington.
Eight children were born to them,
four daughters of whom are living
paragraph in the Lewiston Jour
nal asks the question, Was the opera
ton successful? In other words, did
they entirely remove politics from
Auburn when they cut out the old
style council and gave Auburn the
city manager form of government ?"
1t then intimates that when on Nov.
a special election in Ward 5. the
people will find the candidates for
councilman as much repres enting the
two parties as in the days of old
The marriage of Miss Margaret
Glendenning, formerly superintendent
of the Androscoggin Anti-Tuberculosis
Sanitorium, to Lucas Marson of
Boothbay Harbor is announced. all
though Mrs. Marson now admits that
they were secretly married on Nav j
last and greatly enjoys the surprise Of
her many friends. Mr.. Marson is
marine engineer and is now on a trim
to Buenos Ayres. He served in the
56th Pioneers. Mrs. Marson also
served overseas with the Harvard
Surgical Unit for a year and then six
months as a first lieutenant in the
Canadian Army Nursing Corps during
which she received a citation from
Premier Lloyd George. They will re-
side in Boothbay Harbor.
Canada has issued an order that all
passengers arriving in that country
via water routes after Oct. ] must
be vaccinated and some of the steamer
people are making a howl over it.
The Press remarks that as the steam
er season has but few weeks to run
after Oct. l, the order is by no means
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