Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-12-22
Maine GOSSIP
Get It Done


1t isn't the job we intended to do,
Or the labor We've just begun,
That puts us right on the balance
sheet; -
It's the work we have really done.
Our credit is built upon things we do,
Our debit on things we shirk
The man who totals the biggest plus
Is the man who completes his work
Good intentions do not pay bills;
It's easy enough to plan.
| To wish is the play of an office boy:
To do is the job of a man.
Richard Lord, Forbes Magazine.
Passenger traffic at the Union
Station is not heavy but plans are
being made to move large crowds the
latter part of the week, says the
Portland Express. Because of the
| three days vacation period beginning
| Saturday and continuing through
| Sunday and Monday there will be
large excursion parties. Many COL
| lege students will be travelling and
and others making visits with friends
over the Christmas days will add to
the business Of the railroad in that
! department. There are but few
| travelling men on the road as they
+, completed their years trips for the
| most part last week. The general
passenger business during December
was about an average, it is believed,
although there have been no COM
pleted tabulatiOns announced.
Several barrels of smelts are being
scooped UP by a Portland Water Dis
trict employe in front of the intake at
the foot of Sebage Lake every night.
Low water causes strong current to
carry schools of fish down against the
| iron screen and it is necessary to
haul the fish out to prevent clogging
the screen. He makes more money
by selling the fish than from his job.
DR.. Fl. Willis Hurd of Biddeford re-
Gently got possession of an albino
coon, very rare freak of nature. He
sent the animal to taXidermist and
when it returned, the beautiful deep
buff eyes We're pink and the white
nose was black. The doctor will
have an expert repair the damage.
The story reminds us of former
Augustan who had a very old and
valuable piece of furniture with a
mirror on it and ornamentations, al
most priceless for age, beauty and
rarity. 1t was sent to a painter to
be retouehed. He did it by gliding
the mirrors frame and putting in one
of his own marine views.
Rev. Harry Lutz was publicly in
stalled last Friday as pastor of the
Unitarian church of Sanford, going
there from Newton Center, Mass.
The sermon was preached by Rev.
Samuel A. Eliot, d. D., of Boston.
A reception for MIR. and Mrs. Lutz
followed.
The home of VIM. H. Velandry, 81
Center street, Biddeford, was burglar
lied recently, the articles taken in
Guiding Mrs. Velandry's gold prayer
beads. The door bell rang last Sun
day evening, but no one was at the
door, when opened, Mr.. Velandry,
however, found a small package on
the piazza, which contained the stol-
en- beads. Someone's conscience evil
IDENTIFY troubled the owner.
The Biddeford Democratic COM
mittee announces that ex-Mayor
Walter J. Harmon will be their can
didate for Mayor next March. Mr..
Harmon was elected in 1911. He is
now in Washington and plans to pass
part of the winter in the South.
Capt. Joseph L. Staples of Bidde-
ford Pool. Me-. after 80 years in the
coast guard service, has decided
that he had done his stint, and
so on the first of this month retired |
His record is remarkable. for he has
assisted in so wrecks, large and small, !
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