Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-06

off, Sounds like trying to sing grand
opera and eat hot hasty pudding at
the same time. Too much Of a strain
even for spooks.
Maine Gossip
To a Pressed Violet
Emma A. whittier.)
The snow lies deep around my doors.
And storm clouds blot the sunshine
from the sky
With mighty breath the north wind
And Ike an angry giant hurr,es By.
The slender white-birch saplinss bend.
And bow before his heavy onward
rush;
The e ips IS snow -. ssu s'5ss without end
bush.
Beside the cosy fire sit
A book Of olden date upon my knee,
And from the yellowed page Of 1t
A frail pressed violet looks and speaks
TO ne.
Oh fair pale ghost Of other days
So NAM thoughts came throngins at
Fair dreams Of winding woodland ways
OF laughing streams, and 'inklins
Outside the wind goes shrieking past
You speak of bluebirds singing on
the braes.
The snow goes whirling, drifting past
You tell me Of blue skies and sunlit
ways.
And mingled with the north winds roar,
Dear childish voices seem to call to
me.
Ard eager footsteps cross the floor.
To lay the first sweet vio!ets on my
knee.
A wizard thou, oh dainty flower,
inrousn long lost scenes with YOU my
So frail thou art, yet flied with power
To ope' the doors Of far of vesterdavs.
The Bangor Board of Registra-
ton added 264 names to the voting
list at the session closed Wednesday
afternoon, the largest number ever
added at a registration session, the
nearest having been 225 in 1911.
Bar Harbor at the recent Town
meeting unanimously passed a rcso-
luton of thanks to CONGRESSMAN
John A. Peters and Senator Fredk.
Hale for their interest and assistance
IN securing the creation of the La
fayette National Park. one of the
nnest OF the kind in the United
States.
A Boston paper offered prizes for
the best three essays by New Eng
land school children on George
Washington" and little 12-year-old
Carlista Mutty. second daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Mutty of Old
IoWn, has won the third prize, a sill
yer medal. She has been invited to
visit Boston. where Governor Cool.
ldge will bestow the prizes. Payson
Smith, formerly Maine State SUPER
lntendent of schools and now in the
same position in Massachusetts. was
one of the judges in the contest.
A do"n-rlver man purchased a
dozen of Western fresh eggs and
only found nine of them bad. Anoth-
er man, making a similar purchase.
found the name of a girl written on
one egg, with the date, Aug. 10. 1919.
1t was also good.
Almost the first question to be
asked when the annual recurrence
of the ice leaving the Kennebec
comes up is We'll. how thick is the
ice in Merrymeeting bay?" The
! cheerful word comes from down
river that the man who has the con.
tract to fill the ice houses at Camp
Boothbay. Thorne's island, tapped
the ice at Thwing's Point and found
five feet of tan Unprecedented
thickness. Think of it-60 inches of
ice In the river. Why, man, we'll be
lucky if we're able to take a steam.
er excursion trip down river BY july
a!
Inc marvellous case of Carleton
w. Rldeout, son Of Isaac H, Rideoi,t
VI oatn. IS attracting much atten-
ton. Young Rideout over three
years ago while at work at the
Bath Iron Works had a fall and
suffered double fracture of his
spinal column. He was placed in a
plaster cast, in which he remained
for three years. being released last
August and is now a strong, rugged
man. He purchased a farm in Bow
dom Center and has since lived
there, farming. numbering and mill
ing, with raising fancy cattle as :;
side line. He does his full. share in
all kind OF the heavy work about the
farm and is a wonderful example Of
what modern surgery and treatment
can do.
Several hundred photographs Of
famous men Of Maine, collected in
the Falmouth Hotel for the past few
years by James j. Pooler, will be-
come property of the city of Port
land, Col. Pooler, long proprietor Of
the hotel, now vacant. announced.
The pictures will be hung on the
walls Of the Centennial room in C.ity
Hall, headquarters for the Centennial
Committee in charge Of the coming
summer celebration Of Names indie
pendence.