Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-04-02
Maine Gossip
A Fancy

And leave the lovely meadow with
An aspect bare and brown'd.
And asked, e.Why, spoil the beauty
or this landscapes brilliant green
And break the continuity
OF natures spring-tide sheen
Then he pointed to a hillside
Through a frame of bending trees.
Where tints of brown and green were
blent
In perfect harmonies.
And thought our doubts and sorrows
And our cares and days Of strife,
Which seem to mar the coloring
OF this terrestrial life.
When viewed in their entirety
With the lighter shade of love,
Wen find are master touches made
BY Gods own hand above.
Darrach, in Christian Herald
Reports from along the Kennebec
from Augusta to Merrymeeting bay say
that the action of the current. sun and
wind is slowly but surely wearing away
the ice. Openings can be seen in many
places and in many other places eX-
treme care has to be taken by any one
crossing or walking on the ice, SO
treacherous is its condition. Much of
the river and bay ice, however, is thick
and strong enough for safe crossing
and gives no signs of immediate break
ing. up. From April 10 to Is is being
set as the possible opening of the river
to such navigation as may wish to use
it. Incidentally. the water in the river
at Augusta was lower on Thursday than
it had been for the past week. all dan
ger of a flood seeming to have disap-
peared.
THE largest delegation from the
longest distance" was Names contribu
ton to the spring conference of the I'd
District Rotary clubs Tuesday and
Wednesday at Springfield, Mass. Port
land sent 81, Augusta 4. Lewiston a.
Bangor, Bath and Waterville each.
John 3. Stowe of Saco, 50 years of
age next November barber in that
city for 53 years, is contemplating re-
tiring He claims to be the oldest con-
tinuous tonsorial performer in Maine.
The financial statement of the county
of Aroostook for the year ending Dec.
81 last, shows receipts of 1854 ,J60.95, with
expenditures Of $'46,162.1l, leaving a
cash balance of sS3sS.Si. County taxes dre
from towns and plantations amounts
to sl4.527.ol; unpaid assessments build
ing roads and bridges, sS26.H: unpaid
road taxes, $s26i1. The liabilities are
but $l756.5S, with no temporary or out
standing loans, and the county owns
$4,000 real estate and personal prop
erty.
Our North Washington correspondent:
The bluebird is seen on the fence post,
the robin in the apple tree, the crow on
the taliest dead tree-top. the hawk in
the clear blue sky and the sparrow on
the woodpile. All are here and at last,
so is-Spring.
Here's one to make the smart old
men and women Of Maine sit up and
take notice. No one would. call Mrs.
Emily Garter of West Brooksville
'old," however. Mrs. Carter had
some business in Ellsworth last Fri
Gay. so she walked over--a little
jaunt of II miles. Anyone who
knows the condition of the roads in
this section in Fridays thaw and
rain will realize that it wasn't "A
summer stroll. Mrs. Garter got q
ride a small part of the way, be-
tween Surry and Ellsworth. She
wanted to start back in the rain
and slush Saturday but Ellis
worth friends prevailed upon her
to remain over Sunday morn
ing. about 9 o'clock, she started for
home, on foot, for she said she had
to be there in time TO get supper.
Howe Hopkins, son Of Hoyt Hop
kins of Trenton. who with his broth
cr Harold, is passing the winter in
Bar Harbor. attending school. has
been putting in every spare moment
at work in Kenneth Thompson's
garage. Mystery surrounded his
work, but he confided in the public
at last. appearing on the street with
an automobile sled that he had de-
vised and put together from such
material as he could find. He took
a pair of bob Sleds, mounted an en-
CINE from a motor cycle, hung a
propeller. made rope steering lines
and started it. His trial trip-from
Bar Harbor to Hulfs Cove-was
made at a 35-miles an hour gait.
Most men think they are doing a
pretty good job when they keep one
furnace and the kitchen fire going a
winter like this, says the Ellsworth
American. Listen to this: Edward
Haney Of Ellsworth, janitor of three
schoolhouses and one church, two of
the schoolhpuses being separated by
something like two miles, has kept
nine furnaces and five stoves going
this winter, mostly with wood, and
green wood at that, and handled it
himself, putting it in. And he has
kept his buildings comfortably
warm, kept his paths shoveled and
his buildings swept. He says he has
shoveled more snow this winter than
in all the twenty eight years he has
been at this work put together-and
no one will dispute him on that. He
is up every morning at 4 o'clock,
and has shoveled snow until near
midnight when occasion required,
and walked to the Ellsworth Falls
school and back once or twice every
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