Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-05
Maine Gossip
Now IN the time

Your muscles are steady, your eyes
To carry you bravely through Life's
own fight.
The struggle and striving for wealth
and fame.
And power, and love, and an honored
name.
You're young. and you're strong. and
your head is clear,
Your health is good, and You have no
But that s. always you'll be as you are
Acquired and ready to plunge in the
fray.
All ready to spring when the whistle
To capture the prize and to dodge the
To scramble aloft on ambitious feet
Above the dread valleys of gaunt de-
Being SO. you are careless: "Oh,
Youths for laughter.
For fun" You say, I'VE will work hard
after.
But. now. we must have our enjoy
The work can wait for another day."
Another day. most foolish Wise!
To those that wait seldom comes the
For Time is remorseless. and Time
And Youth shall wither' and Youth
You! Now is the timel Hasten. nor
The work orlaS waits not! Leave your
senseless play,
Or ever you find. at the starters gate.
You're broken, and old, ana one more
Edward Leamy. in Forbes Magazine
IN. "
All the teachers in the Saco public
school were given raise of SIS in
salary at the last meeting of the
board of education, the raise being
general to cover the teachers from
the lowest to the highest grades.
Senator Fernald of Maine has been
asked to appoint seven Maine boys
to Annapolis. The candidates must be
from 16 to 20 years old. and may en-
ter on certificate of fitness from the
principal of the Academy. high school
or college from which they are gradu-
ated. Only such graduates are
eligible.
Thirty years of honorable service in
the United States Army, in the course
Of which period an act Of conspicuous
gallantry on the field of battle merit
&c. for him the highest military honor
within the power of the United States
to bestow, came to its conclusion
Saturday noon and Master Sergt.
George F. Berg Of the oath Co. c. A.
c., found himself on the retired list.
Census takers in Lewiston, who will
not complete their work until next
week, have already listed 32,770
names, and Senator Albert D. Morn
eau, who has charge of the work, esti-
mates that the total population of
Lewiston will exceed $4,000 and may
reach close to 10000. Three years ago
federal census takers found only
81, 791 inhabitants in Lewiston.
Highest honor within the gift of
on Of the country's greatest indus
trial organizations came to Maine
and to Westbrook-Sunday when
Nelson r. Davis, superintendent of
the S. D. Warren Company paper
mills at Westbrook. was elected
unanimously, president of the Amer
lean Pulp & Paper Mill Superintend-
ents Associations at the international
convention of the organization at
Springfield. Mass.
Hale and hearty, Joseph Crab
tree. Hancock's oldest citizen, has
just celebrated his 93d birthday an
niversary. He has just completed
the task of looking after his farm
fences and soon will be looking after
the crops. In early life Mr.. Crab
tree followed the sea when $12
| month was considered a good wage.
After serving as captain of several
vessels he retired to his farm which
is one of the numerous good ones in
this vicinity.
For the first time in 116 years,
the famous observatory on Munjoy
Hill. in Portland, Me-, is closed to
visitors. The weather-beaten old
red tower, one of the city's most con-
spicuous objects from land and sea,
resounds no more to the clatter of
human footsteps. climbing it's wood
en- stairways. No signal flags, in
forming the watchers along the
waterfront that ship, or a bark,
or brig, or maybe IN English
steamer" had been sighted off the
harbor. fly from its f1agstaffs. The
key has been turned in the door, and
whether 1t will ever again be opened
to the public Is a matter of con-
lecture.
At the recent session of the Maine
Conference in Bangor there was a
beautiful floral piece of Easter lilies
on the platform, attached to which
was a card bearing the following in