Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-12-01
Maine Gossip



Un the spotlight of her first Cen
tenniaD
! Like strings of diamonds and pearls;
Her homes and school rooms thrOb
with live
And healthy. happy. boys, and girls.
A million merging streamlets make
Her rivers flowing to the sea;
Suggesting to aspiring youth
Their own unmeasured potency.
Her fertile fields and laden trees
Inspire fruit-bearing hope and aim:
And forests with their autumn hues
Set moral natures all afiame!
Her ocean, green as chrysoprase,
Her skies, by night ana day hope
Are studded with bright, reckoning
And every star beacon true!
And like the stars, her children shine
At home, abroad-on every shore;
She gives her best at every call.
Yet strangely Keeps her best in store.
Her mountain majesties appeal,
Her noble sbns hear and arise
Erect. broad-shouldered. clear of mind.
AMI hearts responsive to the skies.
Her affairs ring with praise and PRAYER.
Her children breathe her moral
might:
Then build highways through all the
earth
In Justice, Brotherhood. and Right,
Rev. William Wood, Madison, Me.
The oversecrs and landscape COM
mittee of the Squirrel Island Village
Corporation last summer decided to
have the alders removed from the
stretch of low land between the libra
ry and the tennis courts and farm
house. The work was begun on Oct
% and finished Nov 6, proving a
much larger contract than was ex-
pected. The place was found to be a
perfect mosquito breeding place. The
alders were also found to be badly
diseased, the oyster shell scale and
white worms having worked distruc-
tion.. A drainage system waS laid out
and will be completed before the 1921
season opens. s-..>
Observer, the Squirrel Island cor
respondent of the B0pthbay Register
sends the following: .'.r -
There was a mirage recently that
was so striking that it was startling.
The Observer was standing near the
island woodshed talking with the
workmen about the unusual clearness
of the atmosphere. We simulta ne
ousfy turned to look at Monhegan
and 10 and behold, she was in the air.
We could apparently see water under
her and look right under the island
bver the surface of the water. The
Observer has proof that he was in
his right mind and that he had not
been taking anything, although the
workmen retaining the alder swamp
did find evidence Of bootlegging.
Mr.. and Mrs. Quincy NJ. Sterling of
Peaks Island on Monday quietly cefe-
brated their Golden Wedding. with a
family party in the evening. Many
friends extended congratulations.
They were married on Peaks Island
and have always resided there. Mrs.
Sterling was Miss Deborah MacDon-
aid. Six children were born to them.
The output of starch in Aroostook
this year will be only a third of last
years. What has become Of all the
rotten potatoes that we have heard SO
much about? The fact is that there
has not been so much rot as people
have thought or talked of. not nearly
SO much as there was last year. says
the Fort Fairfield Review. A man
We'll informed upon such matters
states that probably about one third
as many potatoes are affected by rot
in Aroostook this year as last year.
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A menu. hand written and con-
tanning the list of eatables served at
an old farm in the town of sumner
on Thanksgiving Day, IS years ago
has just been discovered. 1t con-
tanned pork spare ribs with potatoes,
squash, turnip, onion and sauce;
chicken pic baked in a large milk
pan; baked Indian pudding with Lon
don raisins, warm biscuits, cranberry
and boiled cider apple sauce. loaf
cake, doughnuts, cheese, mince pie,
apple and custard pies.
On many farm tables goose and
turkey. raised ON the farm. also were
served. Coffee, tea and milk were in
order. After dinner the elderly men
lighted their old T. d. tobacco pipes
while the women passed the snuff
box and the children cracked and ate
butternuts and beechnuts. On the
prosperous farm the cash expense of
such a dinner for a dozen or more
persons was less than one dollar, for
about all that was purchased was
sugar, molasses, raisins and spice:
and these did not cost one-fourth
present prices. A most happy event