Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-23

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And two fond hearts estranged.
And now the Earth has lost it's bloom,
Its sunshine and its song.
The days, alas. are full Of gloom,
That once We're ne'er too long.
And dark is all the universe,
And full of signs and pain
And yet single smile of hers
Would change it all again.
Sir George Douglas Bart. London
Graphic.
Skidompha Library has received
a check Of $500 from Larry. Chit
tenden, founder of the South Bristol
Library.
Work is progressing nicely on the
new State road at Canton. Several
large trucks and ten or a dozen two
horse teams have been hauling gravel
.. from the knoll back of the residence
of Marco Lavorgna.
Miss Nellie Mahaney of Lewiston
is the first Lewiston woman to get
a large bag Of game this season,
Miss Mahaner returned to Lewiston
Tuesday evening with one gray fox,
two ducks and a partridge.
Miss Irene Macdonald of Portland,
a Bates graduate, has recently been
appointed professional librarian of
the Brockton, Mass. High school, a
position newly created there. Miss
Macdonald is to have entire charge
and plans several innovations in1lud-
ing extension of book shelves and a
card catalogue. She will also assist
the students in their reference Work.
Miss Macdonald won the Brown
medal for scholarship while in Port
land High school. She had hono"s in
philosophy at Bates and since then
| has taken 4 special course in library
work at Simmons. She taught bis
tory and algebra at t'oXcroft aead-
! envy from 1917 to 1919 and since That
time has been librarian at Water
town, Mass.
Mayor Brann and DR.. Dunont Of
the Lewiston health department feel
that the rat problem in that city
may be solved BY the coming of Fl. T.
! Pitts. Widel.- known as Il modern
Pied Piper who by use of certain
minerals claims to be able to effect
a permanent eradication of rats.
Lewiston like all other cities has its
share of this dreaded pest. Only a
short time ago a whole section q
Sidewalk collapsed because of rat
tunnels. Last spring the steam roller
of the street department. crashed
throush street in Il rat-infestcd
area. HIr. Pitt who for many years
! has made a business of hunting down
and killing rats goes to Lewiston so
! we'll recommended that Mayor Brann
! and DR.. Dumont have each given him
letters of Introduction and have ex-
tended the use of the health Office to
him while he is in town. He has Just
/ come from Concord. n. H, where he
had spent a week killing rats.
Cream is what makes for perfec-
ton in cheese making. If my chooses
are good, ard lots of folks say they
are, it is because | leave all the cream
in the milk. No one can skim off
the cream and expect the cheese to
be just as good" said Mrs. Emma
Durham, of Norway. champion wonl-
! an cheesemakcr of New England,
! with a lien on the New York wofn-
ans championship, caught making
I one Of her famous cheeses yesterday
! morning in her own kitchen. Mrs.
| Durham is spry little woman Of
! about so and she says she has tecn
. making cheese for more than 20 wears
! She mas % first prize certificates for
! cheese making in the State OF Maine
| alone and is holder of sweeps lake
! honors in the State of Vermont also,
! besides various first. second and third
( prizes from the other New England
( states and New York. Whole milk
! is what | use in cheese making 1t
! is pure Jersey milk" said Mrs. Dun
! ham. who lives high on the top of
| Crockett's Ridge. few miles from
! town. overlooking the beautiful Lake
Pennessewassee