Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-02
Maine GOSSIP
By Albert T. Reid
N.ghtfallen Snow

N.ghtfallen Snow
These nights of snow are loving to
the air
AS the still mother of a grieving boy;
For SO they I'LL the air with soft con-
Imponderable. Irresistible.
And draw the numbing hardness slow
ly out,
And Slowly weave a gradual sweetness
So freely on its harsh and hungry
gloom.
They spend the last calm silver
penny of love.
perfect strength of soft unstrenu-
Gus snoWi
mouth of beauty whispering in the
night.
.1Iolian snow, that thrills against the
wind,
That drifts on hidden grace. and
lights it up
With shreds of many rainbows blend
ed white.
@ Wild and revolutionary snow
That losses utter newness round the
And lays it or the nations in their
sleep!
Sarah n. Cleghorn, in the Atlantic
Monthly.
More than 125 yoke of oxen were
owned in Bath, West Bath and
Phippsburg some so years ago ac-
cording to teamster of the oldcn
days who worked his own cattle in
the shipy2rdS. He says that there
were more than % yoke of Shipyard
oxen owned and kept in Bath where
not single yoke can be found today.
+ At meeting of the Western Maine
Poultry Association Friday evening,
it was definitely decided that no show
will be held this year. The show
had been scheduled to be held il
South Paris in January. The Office, s
Tor some time have been convinced
that it would be economically I'M
practicable to hold the show under
present conditions. and the decision
OF the association puts the official
seal on the matter.
1t has been practically determined
that George c. Weber. who was
elected a member of the Auburn
school board at the election two
weeks ago, is ineligible to serve
Major Weber moved out of Ward
Three into Ward One. a few days be-
fore the election. When he accepted
the nomination he forgot all about
that he vas about to move from the
ward and accepted it rather against
his desire because of willingness
to be of service.
Probably in no town of its size
can there be found more radio out
fits than Caribou. And at one of the
were being received from the large
cities sunday evening, the voices
were so plain and natural that when
the minister announced that the
evening collection would be taken up.
several gentlemen in the gathering
involurtarily placed their hands in
their pockets to get the usual half
dollar.-The Aroostook Republican.
a reduction of $4,000 in the indebt-
edness of Knox County is noted in
the annual report of the county COM
ElisSioners. This was ACCOMPLISHED
IN spite of n payment of S10,770 on
bridge loans and the expense OF in
stating new heating system in the
court house. The present indebted
ness is S29059. William s. Healey
and Edward K. Neazie, who served
half A year each as county treasurer.
reported the tota, receipts as S90.727
and the total expenditures as s73.1l6.
Bills allowed by the county commits
slonerS amounted to S27,639
The resignation of Sir Auckland
Geddes as British ambassador to
America will remove from Penob-
scot bay one of its most distinguish
ed summer residents. for he has for
three seasons passed the summer at
Dark Harbcr. making that resort the
Headquarters of the British embas-
sy. With Lady Geddes and their
children. they have passed long sea
sons there. where they entered into
the social life of the place and made
many friends. Possibly the new am
bassador will come tc Maine for his
summer home for Sir Auckland was
most enthusiastic over Dark Har-
Dor and Penobscot bay.
Il has not been recorded in history
bu, it is nevertheless, a fact that the
old shipbuilders in that part of
Phippsburg known as Winnegance.
lent assistance in building the origi-
nal dam across the kennebec river
a { Augusta, says The Bath Times.
1t seems that the builders OF the dam
had constructed the wings of the
structure on each side of the channel
and had ready the cribwork which
was TO be dropped into place to close
the opening in the middle of the dam.
They wanted TO case this cribwork
into place and borrowed chains from
a shipyard operated by Richard
Morse at Winnegance. The chains
had been made for ship which was
soon to go to sea but were loaned
the Augusta people by the old time
shipbuilder and were carried I'D the