Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-28
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Sweet isle!t enclosed and hid in night.
What i'll dark waters lie thy plight?
Black shodows dip.
A little ship
Leaves in its wake phosphoric light.
Eva Hammond Churchill.
Santa Claus and the stork collabo-
rated in bringing Christmas presents
to the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Miles
Smith of Houlton. The holiday Sits
were twins, a boy and girl. Merry
and Christmas have been suggested
as names for the little visitors.
National Tours Association is now
booking passengers for trips into
Maine and New England next season.
The trips are to be made in big auto
mobiles like the sightseeing cars IN
the cities, but designed especially for
this purpose. There were several
tours from Ohio up through the
White Mountains last season.
Gypsy moth infestations are not so
bad in some sections Of Maine as last
year. in the opinion of II. II. McIntire
OF York, supervisor of gypsy moth
control work under the state depart
ment of agriculture. Mr.. McIntire
believes that progress is being made
toward the reduction of the damage
done by this insect The town of
Porter in Oxford county is now con-
sidered one of the worst sections of
infestation.
Edwin III. Lemare, municipal or
ganist at Portland will be the special
guest of honor and speaker at the an
nual dinner of the American Guild
of Organists in Boston in January.
Mr.. Lemare, who was invited by
Dean Loud to be present on this oc-
casion and to serve in the capacity of
principal speaker, has accepted the
invitation and consented to give a
lengthy address. Members and guests
from every part of the country will
be in attendance.
Aroostook farms do not depreciate
III value, judging by the report of the
sale to Archie Is. Harmon and the J.
G. Harvey home farm some two miles
west of Fort Fairfield, the price be-
ing $4,000. For its neighborhood and
its convenience of location, for quail
fields and for it's commanding situa-
ton this farm is admittedly one of
the finest in Aroostook. 1t contains
many acres of forest. 5ome of it good
hard wood and spruce. Mr. Harmon
is already cutting lumber.
A man living in the suburbs of
Eath had a novel idea for sending
relatives in another state a Christ
mas tree cut from off the old home
place. He cut small fir. then sawed
the top off on a slant and packing
the two peices closely together en-
closed them in a heavy burlap wrap
per. which he covered with a paper,
and sent the tree by parcel post,
When it reached its destination the
top of the tree was fastened back in
place with brads and the recipients
had the satisfaction of having a
Christmas tree from home"
There were three items of interest
to Bath and Maine people in the roto-
gravure section of the New York
times Sunday. according to the Bath
Times. A photograph of Phoebe
Crosby. who is the leading prima
donna with Mitzi Hojos in The Magic
Ring now running in New York: a
photograph of Miss Elizabeth Hanna,
who was one of the bridesmaids at
the wedding of Senator and Mrs.
Walter e. Edge, taken in the cos
tune worn at recent production of
the Dramatic club of Washington, D.
c., and picture of the high alter of
the cathedral of ST. John the Divine
of New York showing the sentinel
pillars of Maine granite.
Six perfectly formed ransies in full
blossom were picked IN their garden
Christmas day by Mr.. and Mrs. WAL
ton Lynch of Falmouth. The BIOS
SONS, although covered with snow,
had not been touched with the frost.
and were cut from plants four or five
years old. Mrs. Lynch is most sue
cessful in raising flowers and her
gardens in the summer are among.
the most beautiful in that vicinity,
Two years ago she was presented
with Jerusalem cherry and each
year she has transptanted it out of
doors and this year this large plant,
niled with scarlet cherries, formed a
prominent part of the Christmas dec
orations. Mr.. and Mrs. Moves have
frequently had pansies grown in their