Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-03-24

ity not down in the books.
Maine Gossip
Long For You
When jewel lamps are burning
High in the vaulted blue;
Then dear heart of mine,
l long for you.
For as the star-shine maketh
Heaven bright,
Your radiant being filed
Ny soul with light.
Bereft dear one of thee,
How dark the night to me.
Your star has set on earth.
1t beams afar.
Its CLEAN shall lead me on,
Up where you are.
To dwell once more with thee,
Were Paradise for me.
-Rosamond Reed.
The Kennebec County Sunday
School Association, which will meet
some time in May, the date and
place to be announced, is assured of
fine list of speakers, the following
already having been secured: DR.. a.
o. Thomas, State Supt. of Public
Schools: Prof. Woodruff of Bowdoin
College: Col. Frank B. Cummings of
Portland; and Rev. E. H. Brewster
of Portland, the newly elected sec
rotary of the Maine Sunday School
| Association.
Lewiston Sun-Thirty storms
in the winter period Of December
! 2l-March 20, 1919 and 1920, brought
rain totalling 2:1S inches. and snow
amounting TO 10i.75 inches or S.73
| feet. Prior to the official beginning
of winter there were 1920 inches of
| rain and $50 inches of snow, max
| ing the total snowfall Since Deem
Der l more than nine feet and the
total rainfall about three and a half
inches. Frequent cold snaps have
kept much of the snow on the
| ground.
| The farmers have commenced to
haul in their pulpwood and are re-
ceiving $13 per cord, says the Calais
correspondent of the Bangor News.
Lathwood which was almost drug
on the market last year is running
a close second this winter with the
pulpwood and is being landed in
Calais for s12 per cord, where it is
being rapidly sawed up into laths,
which are being sold i'm the Boston
and New York markets at SIT and
$1S per thousand, as one mill man
says. top notch price for that COM
| modify. 1t is life saver for the box
| manufacturers who while the war
was on enjoyed remarkable prosper
ity from the enormous sale of boxes,
a demand which fiunked after Ar
mistice day. Consequently the turn
ing Of the box mills into lath mills
has been very profitable change.
Mayor Charles P. Lamaire of Lew
iston recently proposed Water Dis
trict to take the place Of the Lewis
ton Water Board and it is said that
he will soon call a meeting of prom
inent business men and Chamber of
| Commerce directors to discuss the
proposition.
Now comes report that law on
the statute books prevents any
Daylight Saving" action by a Maine
municipality. thus invalidating the
action on that line taken by Port
land and South Portland and stop
ping similar action by other places.
This may be SO. The law on the
| point is found in Section 8 Of Chap
ter I. Revised Statutes and reads:
"A1l, courts, and all State, county ana
town officers and their employees, in
the transaction Of their official BUSH
ness. and all contracts. unless it is
otherwise provided therein, and all
Proceedings In law and equity, shall
be governed by the eastern division
Of standard time" Now you may
take your choice.
A Bangor house wished to get 600
cases Of overshoes in quick time to
New York. 30 made them up into
the proper sized packages and start
ed them along by parcel post, paying
over $500 for the necessary postage.
Why they selected the Burleson
route is not told in the story.
! The largest load ever hauled by
; one loghauler was brought in to
Island Falls on Thursday. March II
by one Of the machines of the
Northern Wooden Ware Co. The
! load was hauled about seven miles
from camp Nos. and to the mill
in the village. There were sixteen
sets Of sleds attached to the ma
chine, each sled having about 20
hardwood logs. which would average
about $500 feet to a sled making a
total Of about 10000 feet in the load.
The machine was manned by the
following crew: Ben Green. engineer;
Hollis Moores, fireman; Hollis Ted
ford. sherman; Everett Scribner,
conductor.
Ex-Chief Engineer Irving Doyle Of
the Brewer Fire Department. who
was obliged to resign in 1918. when
he was drafted into war service and
who served on the Camp Devens fire
| department. was. Tuesday AGAIN