Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-18
Maine Gossip
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! That teaches you the when ana
| where and why!
I For the man today with famous name
] Was once a novice the same as you;
/ And when he started his climb to fame
| He did whatever he had to DO!
It's better the little hills first to climb
Before you tackle the mountain
It's better to plod and learn for time
/ Before you spread your wings Tor
! fight!
For there's never a man has won sue
without a sure foundation laid;
| And brains and labor won't count UNI
You learn, from the bottom up. your
| trade!
! It's better the easier problems first
! To solve. before you startle the
world;
| For many a bubble Of fame has burst,
And into the dust it's maker hurled!
Without the patience to first learn
, how;
And the future great ones are those
Their way to the top by plodding
Clarence Mansfield Lindsay. in
Forbes Magazine On. ".
It is said that there are only $50
colored people in the State Of Maine,
and of this number $50 live in Port
J land.
Bowdoinham grangers will have
their annual fair Dec. 20, when they
present play and dance as well as
have a sale OF many articles.
! The sale is announced of the four
| master schooned Alice May Daven-
port, built at Bath in 1905, now at
Boston. Acting for David Cohen &
Co, of New York, who purchased
her a short time ago, she was trans
ferred last week by John S. Hall d
Co., of Boston, her agents. to Harold
G. Foss Of Boston, the price not be-
ing made public. Capt. q. w. Curtis
will continue as master.
The, troubles of Charles w.
Morse, formerly Of Bath, appear to
have no end says The Bangor Com
mercial. The government has now
brought suit against him for about
three quarters of million dollars,
alleged to be due the government
as Mr.. Morse's individual income
tax. The size of the suit seems to
indicate that Mr.. Morse has prosper
ed financially since his pardon in the
Taft administration.
Herbert Beck of Calais who has
been shoeing horses, observing
the weather and keeping general run
of things for half century OF so
says that this is the first Winter in
the 38 years he has been mailing
the iron under 'em" that he has not
had a horse in his shop to have its
shoes sharpened on account of ice
up to the 10th day of December. 1t
beats all records for mild Fall and
early Winter, he says.
The new Catholic Church at
Pleasant and Union Streets, Bruins
wick, is now practically completed as
to the exterior, but it will be many
months before the interior is finished,
and in the meantime services will
be held in the basement, where they
have been held for the past ten
years, the basement having been
constructed soon after the fire which
DESTROYED the old church in 1912.
The exterior of the new church has
been erected at cost of about S175.-
900 and is considered one of the
handsomest religious buildings in the
State.
Just because two Maine schooners
could not compete with steamers in
carrying coal they have been tied
I'D for the season some people arc
saying that the days of schooners
have passed out of existence. 1t
should be remembered, however, that
there have been times before when
schooners have been tied up for this
and other reasons, and then came
back into use again. Just at present
q large part of the coal, which is
being transported, is taken over the
railroads and this has caused less in
tho way of cargoes for water ship
ments. AS a result the steamers
have been able to carry the cargoes
at rate lower than the schooners.
When the coal carrying trade gets
back to water shipments again, as
is likely to do, then schooners will
come into use again. The tie up of
vessels during the Winter has hap
pened before and will happen again
but there will still be sailing vessels
built and sailed for many years to
C0mG.-Batn Times.
The Boston Elevated Railroad will
have new and formidable snow
fighting machine to battle the drifts
on it's surface lines, if there are any
this winter. Just at present there's
no use for anything of the kind, but
there's no knowing what may hap
pen. The new machine is a made
in-Bangor product, built by Bangor
machinists at the Union Iron Works,
| where all of the materials We're
| turned out. except a few cast-steel
| forgings. 1t is a Stadig rotary snow
pillow and loader, the invention of
| Maine man, w. L. Stadig of Soldier
Pond, a saw-mill engineer who has
superintended the construction for
| The Eastern Tractors Co, which
| handles the invention. 1t was ship
| ped to Cambridge and was driven
| from the Iron Works to the freight
| yard on its own power. attracting
much attention. The Stadig ma
| chimes have been in use for five years
| but this is the first one ever built
in Bangor. The machine is a COM
bination of caterpillar tractor and
a rotary device with blades. which
| picks up snow, ice, Slush and throws
it through chute on either side,
near or to some distance or loads it
into trucks. This part is operated
! by an Independent motor of 60 h. %.
The tractor furnishes the traction
and the rapidly moving steel blades
pick up the snow and put it in to the
best place. It. can be used to remove
surplus snow or to dig out the right
of way and is said to be the most
economical and efficient type of snow
| nghter in use. Work has started at
the Union Iron Works on a duplicate