Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-25
Maine GOSSIP
Let Us Have Thought

They fastened to the call.
Thus by their lives. and all held dear
Was our safe freedom bought,
And we, who by that price are here,
Let us have thought.
That price, that they so dearly gave
Who lie in Flanders Field.
Or sleep in many a lonely grave
Unknown, and unrevealed.
And those with blight on flesh and
soul
BY that foul warfare wrought,
And we, for whom they paid that toll.
Let US have thought,
What weight of gold think We can pay
For sacrifice like theirs?
A mighty debt unpaid, today,
A thoughtless nation .stares.
God grant the day may not return
When that same aid is sought,
And we. lest checks with shame may
burn,
Let US have thought.
GEO. A. CLEVELAND in Portland
Telegram.
124 Winter St. Portland, Me
The Interstate Manufacturing Co.
brought suit against the Maine Gen.
trail Railroad in the supreme court
, in Auburn, Monday, for $4,000. on
the ground that the fire which
burned fiat the company's mill at
Greene the Goth of last April, was
caused by sparks from locomotive.
The total loss was estimated at s21,-
600, but since the suit was brought,
the $4,000 insurance carried by the
company on its buildings has been
paid. The plaintiff company was en-
gagged in the manufacture of bowels
and crates. The burned mill was
situated near Greene depot and %fle
tracks of the Maine Central.
Before he returns to Washington,
after his trip home to Lewiston to
participate in the National Guard
Night exercises at City hall, January
80, Congressman Wallace H. White,
Jr., will announce whether he will be
a. candidate for nomination for
Congress, according to information
given the Lewiston Journal Monday
by one of his closest friends.
Congressman White is seriously
considering returning to the practice
of law" said the Lewiston Journals
lnIOII11aHl, WIN WSlll vi " SiS tits
Mr.. White will make no statement
bearing upon his candidacy until he
has returned to Lewiston and has
had a. chance to talk over matters
with his friends.
Il can positively state" the friend
continued, that MIR. White has no
intention whatever of being a candi-
date for mayor of Lewiston; has
never considered it and is only
amused at reports, apparently cir
culated for political effect, that he
will return to Lewiston to run for this
Office"
The feeling through the Second
District is that Mr.. White can have
the support of Republicans for Con-
gress as long as he wishes it, and
determined effort will be made to in
fluence him to continue in Washing
ton.
The smelt colony at or near Arrow
sic bridge now numbers over 100
camps, or 124 to be exact. This in
cludes the whole number on the big
stretch of ice from the Kennebec riv-
er on the west almost to Upper He'll
Gate on the cast. Some days one
tide for a brief time, the smelts seem
rayenous and bite like all possessed.
In a little while they disappear and
the fishing becomes very poor.
Richard NJ. Weber, or Dick as he
is known, of 675 Washington street.
one day caught ~ pounds which he
sold at 40 cents per pound. He
caught one Saturday which weighed
nearly a pound and which is now
decorating the Times window. This
particular smelt is II inches long and
probably the father of several thou
sand of the smaller ones.
These smoking stories come to US
from Center Montville:
Talking with two men about using
tobacco. First one said he remem-
bered his first cigar. smoked at store,
mile from home. Grew sick; started
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