Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-20
Maine GOSSIP
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and 10
If should mcct with ma.
Upon life's broad highw2y.
Should meet as strangers meet,
l wonder what I'd say:
Would all the faults in Me
Loom large to Stranger I.
Which | in others sec.
And trcnchantly decry?
And would the eyes of Me.
BE swift to see the truth,
The flaws in Stranger l.
Discerned by all. forsCoth,
And would the tongue of Nc
That often villities-
The acts of Stranger |
Be sharp to criticize"
GGd grant that stranger 7.
And Stranger Me be keen.
To see in every ore
What in ourselves is SEGA
Ely each-the good alone
And may sweet Charity.
Walk close on life's highway
With Stranger | and Me.
Margaret Wheeler Ross in Farm Life.
There are many moths of one kind
and another this year and a new
variety seems to have made its ap-
pearance. It's wings are marked
much after Egyptian styles which
are so popular with the women this
year and might well be called the
King Tut moth, says the Bath In
dependent.
Many Maine people bought German
marks after the close Of the war be-
lieving that in them they had a good
investment. One purchaser recently
received a circular from New York
financial house but did not get much
satisfaction from one paragraph
which read: During the past week
German marks went as low as six
million for dollar. The mark in
fact has absolutely disappeared as
q currency having an international
worth; indeed. based on merit, they
possess about as much value as a
cancelled postage stamp-perhaps
less. as the stamp may have a COL
lector's value in years to come
Shipments of Aroostook county
potatoes of the crop of 1922, accord
ing to figures recently complied,
amounted to 12,497,422 bushels.
transported in 1883 cars. The crop
of 1921, which was abnormally large.
yielded for shipment, 20,169.837
bushels. or 2S,422 carloads while that
of 1920 yielded for shipment, 1885,
30S bushels, equal to 1929 carloads.
A normal years shipment amounts
to about 14,500,000 bushels. Prices
for the 1922 crop ranged from s1.15
per bushel in August to SO, in April.
and final shipments brought only
81. A normal crop is promised this
year.
"a xr-hn
preached at Washington Sunday and
had President and Mrs Coolidge in
his congregation. told the Bath
Rotary club year or two ago that
ne considered the best example of an
optimist to be the man who still
carries corkscrew on his key-ring.
The Times has found an even better
example 1t Is a Bath man who on
Wednesday purchased a large
amount of German marks and placed
them with the collection which he
bought soon after the war. believing
that some day he will see them back
at their value of pre-war days.
Bath Times.
Motorists who have visited Twin
Lights, Cape Elizabeth, have been
much interested in the composition
of the rock which prevails there.
Much of it resembles petrified wood
and splits easily. In many places
where there are stone chips and huge
pieces of this rock it has the appear
ance of being part of an old ship
yard with weather beaten chips and
timber lying about. One of the light
keepers there stated that mineral
ogist who had made a study of the
rocks in that locality had commented
on their appearance and declared that
they seemed to be much like wood
which had petrified and was par
ticularly attracted by the manner in
which they could be split.
Drive all over the road" that IS
the inscription on many signs posted
at various points on dne gravel