Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-20

Look to this day!
For it is life. the very life of life.
In it's brief course lie all the
Varieties and realities of your exist
ence.
The bliss of growth,A
The glory of action,
The Splendor of beauty:
For yesterday is but dream,
And tomorrow is only vision:
But today, well lived, makes
Every yesterday dream of happiness.
Look well therefore to this day
Such is the salutation of the dawn.
-VerSed motto from the SanSkrit.
The agitation to bring about the
closing of the suburban grocery
shops at Lewiston on Sunday has
failed to bring results. At meeting
of the police commissioners late
Tuesday afternoon it was finally de-
cided that nothing should be done by
the police authorities. 1t was eX-
planned that the stores seem to fill a
need on the part of people who de-
sire to make small Sunday purchases,
and the commissioners also stated
that they felt that the motive in
spring the complaint was not re-
ligious one but purely financial.
There is some talk that some of the
regular grocery stores in the business
district may retaliate by opening
Sunday.
It was SO years ago Wednesday,
! Jan. is, that the towboat Adelia,
Capt. Eugene Call. left Richmond for
| a trip to Lovejoy's Narrows, east side
of Swan island, to break an ice JAM
| so that when the kennebec finally did
close for the winter a good freeze OF
| ice might be secured. The jam hav-
| ing been broken and started down
the river, Capt. Call told the passen.
gers that he would go around the is
land on the return, that they might
enjoy the sail, the weather being like
April. The Adelia grounded in the
; dredged channel near Hatch's Rocks
and the party sat around in their
shirtsleeves, awaiting the tide. The
weather of Jan. Is. 1889 differed some
from that of Jan. is, 1922.
| Names number of wireless tele-
phones is growing and the stories OF
wonderful things heard through the
air daily increase. One of the most
marvellous has just been experienced
by Mr. and Mrs. Prebble and D. X
Hatch of Pressure Isle. who last Sun
day evening heard an entire church
service from New York. The night
{ ly band concerts are a source of de-
light, each selection, the applause
and remarks of the audience all be-
ing distinct.
"Signs" of an early spring are bob
ing up all over Maine and other New
England states-but we seem in a
fair way to get the 4O-odd snow
storms figured out when the first
snow fell last fall. AS we remember
it.. the figuring was something like
the day of the week, plus the age OF
the moon, multiplied by the day OF
the month and divided by half past
. 6 G. NJ. 1t is proving itself.
: Mrs. Harriet &C. Norton or Lorlng
avenue, Auburn. observed her 9th
birthday on Sunday. Mrs. Norton has
lived in Auburn since 1906. though
she was native of Matinicus, where
she not only spent her childhood but
where her children were born. She
was the great granddaughter of
Isaac Tolman. a pioneer settler of the
island, and during her girlhood, the
| entire population of the island did
not number more than 90 people.
She often recalled the shipwrecks
which occurred along that section Of
the coast, and which were among the
most exciting events in the lives Of
the residents. At present Mrs. Nor
ton is confined to her bed with pneu-
monia.
The hunting season like the fishing
! season supplies abundant hsh stories.
The best one l. far this season has