Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-02
Maine GOSSIP
A Winter Dawn

A Winter Dawn
(Clinton Scolard. in January Forum)
A bitter dawn broke bleak above the
snow;
The president east betrayed pallid
fire;
There was sobbing in the sagging
That overhead depended like bow.
Along the street. in wavering to and
Before the wind in eddy and in eyre,
With airy tread that never seemed to
tire
Capercd the snow-elves in elusive row.
The smoke curled skyward; with a
tattoo weird
Sounded horses hoofs, the while,
forlorn,
The first tootfarer sprang to sudden
Breathing white cloud through his
frosty beard;
While sleepily across the eringing
morn
4 hoarse steam-sircn its reveille blew.
Peaks Island people are carrying
drinking water from the city to their
homes as they go back from the city
of Portland, in many instances, sup
ply from the wells on the island be-
ing unfit for domestic use, according
to the residents. Sebago water sup
ply was shut off a fortnight ago for
fear the supply pipes on the harbor
bottom would freeze. Inadequate
supply for protection from fire is
feared also,. as but two of the three
pumps at the pumping station are in
commission. There are 1000 winter
rncidonfS hn CT ho;
business men who go back and forth
between the island and mainland.
Rev. Erwin bennett. pastor of the
First Baptist church of Freeport,
Long Island, and a native of Maine,
has just observed the close of the
50th year as a member of the Ma
sonic orders. He was the first appli-
cant for admission to Webster Lodge
in Sabattus. He was made Mas
ter Mason, Dec. &c, 1871. For 10
years he was chaplain of the Cosmo-
politan Lodge in Brooklyn. When he
celebrated on Dec. OF this year, the
Golden anniversary of the beginning
of his travels through Masonry, the
lodge, in. recognition of his long ser
vice to the order, and for his faith,
full service as chaplain. presented him
with $50 in gold.
" For 81 years Mr.. bennett was pas
tor of the Tabernacle Baptist church
in Brooklyn. He went to Freeport a
year and a half ago, where his pas
torate has been remarkably success
full. While pastor of the Brooklyn
church.. his parish made it possible
for him to visit Jerusalem and stand
on the site of the old temple.
An interesting situation has arisen
concerning moose hunting in that
part of Washington county that Dor
ders on New Brunswick, writes the
Princeton Correspondent of the Com
mercial. There is a close season in
Maine for moose until 1925. But the
New Brunswick hunters can come to
the New Brunswick bank of the st.
'Croix river, which forms the divid-
ing line, and call a moose across the
river from Maine. He then is. to all
intents and purposes. a New Bruins
wick moose. although he may have
always had his citizenship in Maine.
and falls trophy to the Canadian
hunter. If, however, a New Bruins
wick moose is called across the river
to the Maine side he is at once pro-
tected by the Maine Law from the
sportsman's rifle. Our hunters feel
that some legislation should obviate
this difficulty and they are ready to
suggest law to our legal Solons.
Henry Redmond Of Scion. a trapper.
doesn't claim a State record for his
seasons trapping. but his $1,000 worth
of fur taken in three months will
bother most of us to beat-with only
mouse traps to set.
An unusual bag of big game was
recetly made by H. w. ]. Russell of
2S-point buck deer.
about ESQ pounds and with
a web horn. similar to a moose. The
spread of horns was 80 inches. /
Strange web footed birds, appar- i
entity driven inland by severe storm, !
were found at several points in Rock ;
land and suburbs last week. and were ,
Identified by local naturalist as sea ,
doves. One Of them was found at |
the base Of a mountain, about two
miles from the seashore.
Ralph p. Conant of Rockland, the |
newly elected president of the Knox
and Lincoln Farm Bureau, also has