Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-06
Maine GOSSIP
An Old Maid

An Old Maid
Year after. year. she waited for the
Who never came; with tender. visit
full art
She builded him a temple in her
heart,
Heavy with the dreams that were her
loveliest,
And all the sweet, frail fancies she
possessed;
Then guarded fast it's door. that
none lmpart
The mockery that SwayS the worlds
gay mart
Unto the shrine her dearest gifts had
blest
Yet, though she tended but an empty
So fair her life was ordered. so i'm
mune
For unknown Loves sake. from fears
harbingers,
That those who looked upon her glow
Felt its contentment, like some hap
py tune
Brighten the way of lives more dow
cred than hers.
Charlotte Becker, in Town Topics.
An evidence of the remarkably
warm fall is found in the fact that
the dandelion is still in blossom, w.
P. Leonard gathering come on
Thanksgiving day.-Albion cores
pondence kennebec Journal.
The Maine intercollegiate Winter
Sports association has set these
dates for the Winter carnivals:
Waterville, Jan. II, Is, 10; University
of Maine. Feb. 7, 8, 8; Auburn, Feb.
IA, Is, 16; Augusta, Feb. 81, %, %.
Other dates will no doubt be an
nounced by other Maine cities and
towns in the near future.
More than a thousand rabbits are
estimated to have been killed in the
Lubec section last week, by parties
who are killing and buying for the
western markets. The territory
yielding the largest receipts is on the
road to Cutler, and about Haycock's
l1arbor, where one party of three
bagged hundred on Tuesday.
Bangor coal dealers are becoming
worried about the balance of the local
supply of anthracite. being unable,
they say, to get shipments with the
closing of the river but a. few weeks
off. They have been assured the
use of an icebreaker to keep the river
open, but claim that this will be
needless expense If tonnage can be
secured. Dealers say that they are
offered anthracite by rail by Massa-
chusetts dealers. who appear to be
overstocked. They claim that open
ports like Boston and Portland are
getting unlimited shipments. No
anthracite of any amount has been
received for several weeks.
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The heavy rains of the past few
days have been ample to fill Names
lakes and streams for the Winter,
according to reports from steam
gauges which have been received by
William NJ. Black. State inspector of
dams and reservoirs. From these re-
ports, figures have been complied
under Mr.. Blacks direction which
show that during the last week of
November the combined mean run
off on four designated streams was
more than six times as much as it
was on the same streams during the
last week of November 1922. AL
though dry weather prevailed for the
first three weeks of the month just
passed, the heavy rainfall of the clos
ing week brought the mean flow for
the month on these four streams up
+, to more than four times the flow for
! the whole month of November 1922.
The farmers as a rule are not en-
thusiastic over the movement to keep
some of the states main thorough
fares open to motor traffic through
A 10 20
! pie in Maine have depended upon the
coming of snow to do work like the
| hauling of wood, etc, that cannot
very well be done on wheels. To keen
the main highways open and allow
usual winter conditions to prevail on
the cross roads would be to impose
an unfair handicap: to keep all the
| roads In condition for automobile
traffic would bankrupt the state two
or three times every winter. With
certain highways out of the cities
thus kept open the farmers coming
to market would he compelled to
change from runners to wheels,
which would not be conducive to a
sharp reduction in the cost of living.
-Biddeford Journal.
A short time ago the Times printed
an item to the effect that it cost u.s.
100000 German marks to bring a'let-
ter to attorney William T. Hall of
Bath. That seemed q considerable
| amount, considering the value the
mark once held but this week the
editor of the Times has received a
| letter from Germany. 1t was from a
former Bath boy. Arthur E. Dunning,
who Is secretary of the American
Chamber of Commerce In Berlin, The
postage on the letter, which could be
sent anywhere in this country for
two cents, amounted to 10000, 000, 900