Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-08
Maine Gossip
Grandfather Winter


l love your silver stars, glowing,
Your moon, painting hilltop and
love YOU. Grandfather Winter,
Your face is sacred to me.
Faithful old Grandfather Winter.
remember childhood's days
The frosty nights and the riding
In the quaint rude-fashioned sleighs:
Then the dreams in my heart were
golden
The schemes in my head were great
When earth seemed place to conquer,
To build up tho thing called Fate.
Years hurry. Grandfather Winter.
Somee dreams that 1 dreamed have
1Cwn;
But other dreams steal upon me
Hinged with the dreams that are
gone.
q whisper my thought to yoU
Life comes and goes-and goes and
comes
But all Of life's dreams are true.'
. darling Grandfather Winter.
My brown hair is growing white;
3ut in my soul is the youth time
The dreams of my hearts delight.
| Wnen you come back from the north
The days Of the past draw nigh,
4, l laugh. . Grandfather Winter,
And the moon laughs in the sky.
Hunters have been baffled by d
! mysterious white doe in the New
brunswick 'wilds. near the Maine bor-
der. Many people up that way, other
than tie hunters, did not have much
faith in the story of the albno animal
But the report now comes that two
we'll known guides. Tom Estes and Dick
Paul. Well known in Aroostook county,
have captured the white doe.
From Fort Fairfield comes the re-
port that crows in big focks are
, seen daily there. One Fort Fairfield
farmer and his son recently counted
1872 crows in a fSOck near their home
The just and proper fighting that
Caribou has been making against hay
ing the sewage from the Northern
Maine Sanatorium in Pressure Isle run
into the Aroostook river, still further
to contaminate the water of the river,
which is used by the people in Carl
bou village, has apparently been won.
The Board of Trustees of Tuberculo-
sis Sanatorium has voted to change
the method of disposing of the sew
! age of that institution before the COM
| ing year is over
Section men on the track between
Bath and Brunswick on Wednesday
{ afternoon found milk adder on the
ground and killed it. The reptile meas
ured 3 1-2 feet in length and was large
girthed. 1t is rarely that a snake of
any sort is seen out of winter quarters
in January. This might he called an
other indication of an early spring ul.
at least an open winter.
The citizens of Flaggy Meadow road
in Gorham have been disturbed several
nights by the cries of wildcat, this
week. About 2 o'clock Wednesday
t morning Mrs. j. c. Thomas was arous-
, ed by shrili cries and a sound of ami
mails fighting on her porch. In the
morning the big house cat which slept
there was missing and punches of long
white fur were found. Traps have
been placed in hopes of catching the
unWelCome visitor.
A Bath man, Admiral Charles F.
Hughes was aboard the U. S. S. Kan
sas which sailed the first of the week
from Tutuila for Hilo. Hawaii, carry
ing two naval officers who were ad-
judged responsible for instilling unrest
among 'Samoans and encouraging for
nation of an organization of native
chiefs to supp!ant the rule of the late
Governor Warren J. Terhune.
A moving picture screen valued at
$500 was smashed to pieces, in Houl-
ton, when the owner Charles Seymour
was having the screen moved. The
force of the fall caused those on the
: floor below to be somewhat alarmed.
1t also caused the ceiling of store
beneath TO settle to some extent.
A recent rumor afloat about town in
regard to certain alleged transporta-
tions of numerous barrels of intoxi-
cants,, supposedly taken from freight
cars at Gould's siding and transported
last week by auto. through this town
! in broad daylight to Bangor, resulted
| in an investigation both by local and
county authorities. Despite the ru-
NOR and the publication of the same
the investigation disclosed the fol-
lowing facts: First, the nature of
the business of the alleged Bangor
bootleggers was ascertained and found
to be prefectly legitimate. Second,
, no cars containing freight of any kind
has been set off at the siding alluded
to for more than three weeks. Third,
no car has come to this station from
the upriver point alluded to for over
three months. In spite of the fact
that the thermometer registered 20 de-
grees below zero, the rumor seems to
have teen founded on hot air.-The
Eastern Gazette of Dexter.
Donald Macmillan, the Arctic eX-
plorer, now expects to have his
schooner Bowdoin read. to launch at
Hodgdon Brothers yard at East
Boothbay about the last of April and
to leave in July for the Far North.