Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-29
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Challenge

thrust,
Than a weapon cobwebbed over and
And pittcd deep with rust.
Better the tall tree. burnt and riven
BY the lightning's stroke on the
high hills crown.
Than the dead limbs stark on a scorn-
full heaven.
AS the slow rot gnaws them down.
Better to fail in a last mad rally
And jail fa,l with the goal almost in
Than browse at peace in a tight-walled
With never the grit to fight!
Play to the .end-and a fig for the
guerdon,
Grin at defeat-and shrug for
shame!
But pity the shirker who lodges the
And shrink from the heat of the
game.
Ted Olson. in Forbes Magazine
On. V
Announcement was made Friday
by the Boston and Maine Railroad
of the opening of an Office in the
Fidelity Building in Portland Nov.
l. and of the appointment of Wal
ton Q. Wright in charge, with the
title of assistant general freight and
passenger agent.
The wisdom of launching beef rails
ing on extensive scale in Maine ap-
pears to have been amply justified
this fall by experience in the Port
land markets. where the demand for
Maine is beef is so great that the
dealers will buy nothing else when
it is available.
Mrs. Blackie. an Angoria cat, be-
longing TO A. A. Puellette of San
ford, is taking care of two promising
Pekinese pups, son of Wee Woo, San
and Tan-Kivel of TotterdoWn, the
mother having deserted them. Mrs.
Blackie has joyfully taken the tiny
aristrocratic pups to her heart and
nurses them as her own.
George Ferguson of the Mouse Lane
District, Alfred, overseer of the farm
of Miss Louise r. Trip. is a strong
contender for the potato raising
championship. From two bushels of
seed he raised this year 81 bushels
Of No. l potatoes, not counting sew
eral bushels of small ones. This crop
is Of excellent size and quality.
Danville Junction is famous for its
blue clay, which promises to make
it one of the leading brick manufac-
turing centers in Maine. For where
it has boasted one large yard which
has, been worked for three decades,
the capacity has been doubled Of
here last spring. another is to be
started next season. and a fourth is
very likely to materialize in 1924.
William G. Hill shot and killed a
wild heifer in Payson park Portland
Friday afternoon after Carl w
Burns had wounded her three times.
She escaped from John Lewis. who
was leading it and other animals to
the Portland abattoir. and was ter
rorizing the neighborhood when it
was deemed wise to shoot her Frank
c. Goodrich got in the heifer's path
way and was bowled over but was
only slightly hurt
An investigation of the auto acct
dent on the Portland road near the
Conforth farm, in which Arthur G
Davis and Miss Doris Folsom, two
Sanford High School teachers were
killed, has been ordered by the Pub
lie Utilities Commission. The hill
near the Conforth farm has been the
scene of 10 accidents during the
summer months. 1t is probable that
study of the situation will be made
and means devised to make the road
safe.
A few days ago as Ardie McKin-
ney. of 'Danforth who sells FLYERS,
was nearing Vanceboro village he
espied ahead of him an animal about
six feet long and a body about the
size of a 75-pound hog. AS he
neared the creature it stood looking
at him. Ardie. sheered out and
stepped on his "Lizzie:" the animal
made jump at him. but by Won
derful burst of speed which a Liz
zie'' is capable of he escaped an en-
counter with the "Injun Devil OIL
whatever the animal was.
A new modern hotel is to be built
III "iStoh dNNoI ulAS " all OH
nouncemcnt Friday by Mayor Brann
in which he said that he would
name a personal committee within
the next few days to supervise the
construction. The announcement
was made by the Mayor while
speaking at the exercises in Gray
Friday morning commemorating the
opening of the new State Highway
between Portland and Lewiston. and
was greeted with thunderous ap-
plause.
Registrations from Baptist chur-
ches in Waterville. Lewiston. Au-
burn, Augusta. Damariscotta, Noble
boro, Paris, Mechanic Falls, Rum
ford, Brunswick Kennebunkport and
other places in western Maine. sup
plement the already large registra-
ton from the churches in Portland.
and indicate a record attendance at
the sessions of the Bible and mis-
sionary conference to be held in the
First Baptist church, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of nxet week
under the auspices Of the Northern
Baptist convention. Leading clergy
men and laymen of the denomination
will address the sessions.
There is no indication that the DIR.
]. f. L. Kimball Hospital will be