Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-22
Maine GOSSIP
The SiuEerA


With the blare of horns and crash Of
drums
The Salvation Army brass band comes,
Iramping the streets in the bitter cold,
Telling the story so often told
OF Jesus love for men.
A dozen in sober cap and cloak.
Women in modest cape and poke,
\ boy of ten with a new cornet.
A girl in her teens who can't forget
Her SaViorS love for men.
Rough voices singing the old. old song,
Homely hearts lifted away from wrong.
Valiant souls. their faith confessing,
Pleading with all to share the blessing
Of Jesus love for men.
Christmas Eve in a dingy town.
The wind is cold and the snow Sits
Yet Christ is remembered by all who
hear.
The ,Army's singing has brought
Their Saviors love for men.
margaret w. Jackson In Farm Life.
Presque Isle now has one of the
best high school buildings in the
state. 1t was built at an actual cost
of s14O.S9945.
George B. Remission Of Boothbay
Harbor. Me, has presented his State
with a flag made from the flannel
shirts worn by Union soldiers con-
fined in the Confederate prison at
Salisbury, \. c..
Alice Goodrich of East Skowhegan
went into the shed of her home the
other day and found herself face to
face with large fox. Quickly shut
ting the door, she hurried for help
and the fox was soon a dead one.
The pelt was worth S12.
The nine months old child of Mr..
and Mrs. Kenneth Hawks, Dixfield,
who swallowed a small crystal of a
wrist watch about six months ago
"coughed it up" while nauseated,
much to the relief of the parents.
The crystal was about the size Of a
stomach that length Of time. with no
apparent discomfort.
One of the largest and most valu-
able horses owned by the Lake Au-
burn Crystal Ice Co., broke through
the ice on the river Tuesday morn
ing as he was about to haul off a
large snow pillow from the ice cutting
field. For ) minutes the horse was
, i'll the water. Not until one of the
ice company's trucks had been hitch
cd to him was he dragged from his
cold bath. The driver. Frank Lang
ley. escaped with a slight ducking.
Langley is getting used to these
baths and is becoming quite
Brownie for this is his second plunge
III the river in the last two weeks.
The coal barge. Cohansey, which
locked at the coal pockets of the
Conner Coal & Wood Co., Brewer,
Tuesday with load of coal. has been
the most active place in Brewer, for
the work of discharging has been
rushed. both night and day, to enable
the consignees to get out as much of
the cargo as possible before the tow
boats should have to take the barge
in the last tow OF the season for open
water. 1t was expected that all but
about 200 tons would be taken out
before the barge would have to be
cast off and join her sister barges in
the dash for the freedom of the seas.
Richmond was the coolest place in
Sagadahoe county, Wednesday, ac-
cording to William F. Durham, regis
ter of probate. who froze his nose
while on his way from his office to
the Maine Central station to 60 to
Bath. He didn't know of what had
happened untn his attention was call
ed to it by man at the station. For
five minutes he held snow over his
nose and when it commenced to thaw
it caused such pain that tears rolled
down the popular registers cheeks
Mr.. Durham said that % below was
the warmest he heard and that ther-
mometers ranged from that mark to
80 degrees below zero.