Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-24
Maine Gossip
Lyrical Balance Sheet

II / had never met you
Perhaps l had not known
The amber of spreading dawn
With roses overblown.
l might have missed the soft turquoise
OF deW-washed larkspur-eyeS,
The crimson flung from lichened walls
Where autumn ivy dies.
The crystal color of the wind.
The opal in the rain
The stabbing CLINT of yellow stars,
And the white moonlight stain.
l might have missed all these, it's true
But then | had not known
This present unillumined gray
OF travelling alone.
Earl Daniels. in Contemporary
Verse.
A meeting of the New England
Association of Veteran Railroad Men
will be held at the Bangor City Hall,
Sunday afternoon at two o'clock.
and one of the speakers will be
Percy r. Todd, president of the
Bangor IL Aroostook System. All
the other railroad companies In
New England will be represented
among the speakers. The meeting Is
open only to men who have been in
the service of railroad for a period
of 20 years or more. g 80
Six societies of Bath have formed
an inter-club league for the purpose
of making n friendly interest and
better acquaintance among the
members of the clubs. Beginning in
November a game will be played
each week by two clubs, continuing
through the Winter until each club
had played each other club one
game at home and one away. The
games will consist of whist, pitch,
and Cribbage. Each PLAYER will pay
the sum of 10 cents each night he
plays, to be turned over to the treas
urer, the funds to he used to buy
the three leader prizes at the end
Of the tournament.
Joseph Jodoine, Woonsocket. +. l.,
Is years old, and Arthur Melanson
of Rumford, indicted on a charge of
conspiracy. were found guilty by the
jury at the oxford County Supreme
Court at South Paris on Wednesday.
The case was tried Tuesday and in
volved the transportation. of 70 gal
Ions of alcohol from Woonsocket. r.
l., to Rumford. The respondents
stated during the five-hour trial that
they were ignorant of the fact that
alcohol was contained in the ma
chine. which was driven by Albert
Beaudry of Woonsocket. who did not
appear in court defaulting $1,000
bonds.
G. ]. Fourier. trainman at
Rumford. writes the following inter-
esting letter to the editor of the
Maine Central Railroad Magazine: =
Referring to railroad families, I
wonder how many have the distinc-
ton OF being one of nine in one
family working for the same road
ut the same time? In the winter of
19o7-0S, my father and brothers,
Chisholm yard shoveling snow while
was yardman there. Arthur was
trainman on the Pennington and
Leeds junction extra with G. II.
Walker and Peter. Eddie and Paul
were trainmen out of Rumford.
doing spare work. Can anybody
beat this? At present only five of
us are lailroading. Paul and Eddie
are sectionmen at Chisholm yard.
Arthur is yardman on the s. p. in
Portland. Ore; Peter Is yardman in
Rumford yard. and the writer is
tlagman on the Rumford and Port
land paper extra, so called. My
father was killed in Chisholm yard
in February, 1921. in a collision of a
freight and the snow train he was
working on at the time
An air route is soon to he opened
between Leopoldville and Elizabeth
willie in the Belgian Congo. A spe-
cial airplane designed for use on the
Congo has been built and 1t will car
ry passengers. mails and goods from
remote tropical stations. At present
]. takes forty-five days to cover the
1900 miles between Leopoldville and
Elizabethville. but by the proposed
air service the journey will be Gov
cred in two days. The plane while
flying will be in communication with
the aerodrome by means Of wireless
telephony.