Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-15
Maine GOSSIP
/ Like MY Job

- Like My Job
I like my job and never rue
The chore that falls my lot to do;
However hard my task or mean,
II it be honest it is clean.
l only crave for worldly pelf
Which l have toiled to earn myself:
I'd scorn to beg or cheat or rob
To make my way-I like my job.
To whatever task assigned.
Some source of JOY 1 always find,
Some hidden beauty lies in wait
Which unto being l create;
Some treasured thing of wood or
stone
Which I may build and call my
own;
A JOY that bids my pulses throb
Because of it like my job.
Though it shall be my lot to pillow,
Or delve in mine. or humbly bow
Beneath great loads. or boldly dare
To rear huge structures in the air,
Or yet race forth on steed of steel,
Or at forge its hot breath feel;
Whatever task be mine, no sob
Nor plant l make-I like my lob.
/ like my job and thrill with JOY
That l each day may well employ;
Pursuing right, eschewing wrong,
| walk with duty each day long,
Content to do what I can do
And faithfully my course pursue;
Just one among the toiling mob,
l also serve-and like my job.
Sidney Warren Mase, in Forbes
Magazine On. ".
A Bath citizen found a cucumber
growing in a ginger ale bottle, the
neck Of the bottle having been
broken. The cucumber is so large
that it has nearly filled the bottle
and he says he will watch it grow
from now on to see if it eXerts pres
sure enough on the glass to break it.
Norway Advertiser: One of Harry
Millett's fancy dogs had her two
hind legs moved nearly off during
haying. Mr.. Millett corded them and
took the dog to Lewiston to a vet
Urinary specialist. When they ar
rived, Harry looked as If he'd been
butchering and the poor dog was
nearly gone. The doctor splinted her
legs and they drove home again, but
the dog gnawed off the splints and
took care of the wounds herself, and
today she is as sprightly as ever with
only two scars to show. The special
list al the time told Harry he wouldn't
give two cents for her life.
Bangor is saying considerable about
a smart old man, Bishop Dearie, who
at the age of 70 attends dances and
recently took a prize at one of these
parties. Bath has one man several
years over 70 who occasionally at
tends dances and who enjoys them as
much as younger person. He is
Joseph B McCutcheon, the oldest
member Of the Winnegance Com
nunity club and one of the most ac-
tive members of the organization and
is always among those present when
the club has its parties and occa-
sionally enjoys a dance or two with
the younger people with whom he is
popular and who hope he will never
grow too old to be one of them.
This week marks the goth anniver-
sary of the rural free delivery route
in Yarmouth, which has for the entire
time been under the charge Of Joshua
A. G. Drinkwater. This is the first
and only rural route going out from
the Yarmouth postoffice and covers a
distance of % miles and from which
mail is delivered to the towns of Var
mouth, Cumberland. a portion of
Pownal. North Yarmouth, and during
the summer months extending to the
Princes Point colony. Mr.. Drink
water has kept steadily and faithfully
on with his route day after day, year
in and year out. with only the short
Is days vacation. Whether in the
icy days of winter, or the intense
heat and increase of mail due to the
summer months, Mr.. Drinkwater is
always pleasant and CHEEKY, and al
ways willing to do any favor within
his prescribed limit which will ac-
commodate his patrons. Day after
day during the past winter when
other carriers in the surrounding
towns found the delivery of mail an
impossibility, Mr.. prinkwater, with
one of his three faithful horses. was
seen making his way through drifts
of snow and severe cold.
Approved of the United States
government upon the merits or
Whiteolene, the new automobile fuel
invented by Portland blind man,
Daily o. White of Horton Place, is
given in the recent granting of patent
rights covering the exclusive claims
made by the inventor for his product
and practically insures the coming to
this city of a new and great industry,
says the Portland Express. Imme-
date formation of a corporation of
Portland business men for the pur-
pose of advertising the fuel and es-
tablishing a mandatory in Portland
for its production are steps now I'M
der consideration by Mr.. White
This plan was suggested by several
local automobile men some time ago