Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-04
Maine: Gossip
Tho Beauty Of Winter

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Tho Beauty Of Winter
The beauty of the Summer is the
beauty Of a queen,
Who decks with bloom and yellow
gems her shimmering gown of
green;
She Wells herself in loneliness and
gives us but look
From a tangle of the sweetbrier, from
the mirror of a brook.
We love her FOR the mystery we seek
But the beauty of the Winter is the
beauty of a man.
He stands in stalwart majesty that
Calm in the strength of manlinesS to
face the reckless wind.
He wears no useless frpperies, he
seeks no hidden lair;
He has no time for dalliance among
the sweet and fair.
No song birds in his forest dwell. no
murmuring brooklets sound
No flowers adorn the cloak he throws
across the frozen ground.
The Summer has a million friends. A
darling and queen,
She goes ia rose and amethyst or
trailing robes of green.
He stands alone beneath the stars-the
sternest of his clan
But crowned with rugged comeliness-
the beauty of a man.
BY Claribel Weeks Avery in Con-
temporary Verse. 3g
WiIfrid Bergeron of "a Brook
street, Auburn, suffered a serious
shock early Monday evening. Mr..
Bergeron is we'll known amongst the
Franco-Americans as the local rep
resentative of the La Prosse of Mon
treal. He was making plans when
stricken to attend the Musical and
Literary Club hall, The announce
ment later in the evening at the club
of Mr.. Bergeron's sudden illness, was
received with grave concern on the
part Of his many friends.
The water shortage situation which
for the past six months has present.
ed the local mill officials with an ever
increasing problem for grave con-
Germ, still remains about the same,
says the Lewiston Sun. 1t was feared
by many during the middle of the
fall that premature Geld weather
would curtail the water supply. That
this has been true to a large degree
il indicated by the supply held back
in the lakes this year as compared
with last year. Where the grave
danger lies now it is said. is in the
freezing of the lakes and streams
which will naturally cut the supply
in proportion to the thickness of the
ice.
Last weeks report from the Union
Water Power Co. points to an ap-
proximate supply of 49l days which
is about 80 days less of water sup
ply, this year, than at the same time
last year. The supply has been much
lower this year on many occasions.
But while the supply has been much
lower it has been little less drastic
at other times than it is now.
Among the local manufacturing
men opinion seems to be pretty much
divided on the water question. Some
are apt to be more optimistic than
others but all do agree that there
is none too much water on hand.
During the year 1921, 81 divorces
were granted in Franklin county for
the following causes: Cruel and abu-
sive treatment and extreme cruelty,
%: extreme cruelty, two; desertion, 10;
adultery, II; intoxication, two; non
support. three. Thirty-sevcn were
granted to women and IA to men.
The date of the oldest marriage was
April 20, 1881 and the latest Nov. 10,
1920.
The Bath city government will at
its Wednesday evening meeting con-
slider the question of ordering certain
city work for the purpose of giving
employment to the city's idle men.
The expenditure Of about $4,000 Is
talked of.
The two daughters and a son of Mr..
and Mrs. Allie Sawyer Of Old Town,
who are between the ages Of 10 and IS.
lad a very narrow escape from frcez-
ing to death in the recent violent
snowstorm. in which the children
were caught while coming home from
a fishing trip to Pea Cove. A posse Of
several local residents discovered
them. wandering about. finding them in
time to save them from dying from
exposure. No serious effects, it Is be- |
lieved, will result from their harrow
ing experience.
Smelt fishermen on the Kcnnebec |
river are beginning to reap their har- |
vest that was delayed during the fall
Of 1921, says the Bath Times. The
fish have arrived in goodly quantities