Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-18
Maine Gossip

There is, oh, so little of love. lad.
And. oh, so great is the need
For the courage to love the right, lad,
And strength for the kindly deed.
For tits love that liShtenS the load.
son,
And builds new hope in a man
(When despair has engulfcd and
wrecked. SOM,
And tells TIE soul that it can
Bring new and a finer structure
To stand where the old has stood
And to us is given the chance. lad.
To nurture love as We should
SO abide in the paths of love, lad
And leap when YOU hear it call.
For it brings to the soul that peace,
That soothrs when the shadows fall.
And remember life is too short, son.
TO give of our day to hate.
When the hearts OF us all want love.
And welcome its touch though late.
SO again l adjure and pray You
To give to the child its love.
And forget not the lonely neishbor,
Nor Him who watches above.
Charles Iden.
Samuel Arthur Matthews of Grand
Lake Stream is one of the Is men,
bers of the class of 1923 to be elected
to Phi Beta Kappa at Boston Uni
versity College of Liberal Arts.
First frog concerts Of the season
We're reported on Friday night even
though the temporal re was below
the freezing point, says the Bath
Daily Times. They had a cheerful
sound and gave one a feeling that
there are better days ahead.
Lewiston is hoping that it may be
added to the circuit of the Maine
! Music Festival this year. Director
William r. Chapman having agreed
! to produce the opera Faust in the
new armory there providing a sub
scription of $4,000 he raised before
May !. He says that it would be
the same production as will be given
| in Portland and Bangor.
i The citizens of Bath and vicinity
desiring to show their appreciation
of the staunch and untiring efforts of
Senator Frank w. Carlton of Saga
! dahoc in the interests OF his con-
! stituents. particularly in support OF
! the kennebec Bridge bill will tender
| him testimonial dinner Wednesday
evening, April 25. at Bath. A pro-
| gram of music and speaking will
| take place following the dinner.
| Reports Just issued by the Boston &
| Maine show that the gross revenues
of the road for tie month OF March
was s7,259,000. an increase of six per
! cent over that of March 1922. This
! large busiress shows an unQuestioned
! business expansion in all sections of
| New England. Not only has the
| freight business shown remarkable
| strides but there has also been a
| pleasing advance in the passenger
! revenues.
One Of the most interesting events
of the present month will be the re-
| ception and dinner given by the
| Portland Bowdon Club in honor of
| President and Mrs. Kenneth C. NJ.
Stills, Saturday evening, April %, at
| the Congress Square Hotel, the
guests going on to the Masque and
Gown production of Her Husbands
| Wife at Frye Hall afterwards. This
will he the first time that the Port
| land Bowdoin Club has held a rccep-
ton to President and Mrs. Stills, and
it is also the first dinner of the club
to which ladies have been invited.
Eugene Grant Of patten is known
all over northern Maine as an
authority on bird life. He reports
many unusual things this winter
among the birds. He states that he
has seen robins every month for
the past year. AS rule crows do
not remain inland SO far north as
Patten. but this winter. one Of the