Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-12-30
MAINE GOSSIP
Casting stones

lac y" do al oAiibCip as GIL IiCIb
So they gathered up stones to strike
him dead.
He deserved to die for his sins. they
said.
In their virtuous wrath. But. ere they
threw,
Came a sinless Man. the only one
Who has trod this earth since the
world began.
He snatched for no stone, that sim
less Man
OF them all He was the forgivirg One.
He knew that the first to cast a stone
Would be one whose sins were as
great as those
OF the man against whom his anger
Yea. greater in heart, if all were
For murder would be in that heart OF
The will for n cruel and craven act
In the name of justice; He knew the
fact
That there cannot be good save where
mercy is.
So He bade the slnless to cast the first.
And, sudden abashed. they skunk
away,
Not because more honest than men
Eut they felt lie could read their
thoughts accursed.
All know the tale, yet it seems forgot
That the nopler nature is never
Ry being eager to cast a stone.
But-by being worthy and casting not.
Lee Shippey in Los Angeles Times.
The musk rat, like the proverbiai
worm, will turn. The other day
the eight-year- old son Of Guy May,
who lives on the kimball Corner
sroad at Naples, saw Il small animal
going along the middle of tho high
way. He ran out and found. 1t to be
n muSkrat. The boy kicked the
animal. which turned on him and bit
him. tearing the end Of the middle
finger of the left hand so badly that
the services of u physician were re-
quired.
The town of Fryeburg is planning
to celebrate next year the 20oth an
riversary Of the famous battle OF
Lovewell's Pond, which was fought
on May IL, 1925, the selectmen hav-
ing named the following committee
to have charge of the arrangements:
T.. w. Jones, Edith i. Charles. Har-
riet Abbott. Charles A.. Snow and
Ezra W. Bosworth. Recommends
items made by the committee will be
submitted to the next annual town
meeting for action. The battle of
Lovewell's Pond was one of the not
able conflicts between the whites
and Indians in Maine, and 1t ended
disastrously for the red men when
their chief, Paugus, was shot.
The annual meeting of the State
Nurses Association will be held in
Portland January and with head
quarters at the Falmouth hotel. The
State Nurses Association has n
membership of more than 400, and
1t is expected that between 200 and
900 will be present at the meeting.
One of the most interesting lectures
will be that given by Miss Mary
Roberts. co-editor of the American
January S. The program for the
meeting will include n business ses-
sion of the State Association Thurs
day morning. the lecture by Miss
Roberts in the afternoon. and an en-
tertainment and dinner in the even
Ing at the hotel. DR.. George Cum
Iairgs will give an illustrated
lecture preceding the entertainment.
Friday the meetings of the Public
Health Nurses will be held. as will
the meetings of the private duty
nurses.
City Marshal Fred F. Hall of
Bath, has a little mystery in his
own office. Sheriff Oliver informed
the Marshal he had something to ac-
count for. The Sheriff went there
with Deputy Sheriff Aderton to col.
!ect about four gallons of alcohol
which had been seized by the mar
shall and had been ordered turned
over to the sheriff The marshal
could produce but n gallon of the lot
the order called for and says that
ina smuch as he has the only key to
the closet which leads off his Office
he Is mystified TO know where the
other three gallons went. The
Sheriff Immediately reported the
strange circumstances to County At
torney Arthur j. Dunton who told
the sheriff to receipt for what he did
receive and this is exactly what the
sheriff did. The other three gallons
are still missing and there Is some
doubt as to their return. The con-
trahand missing had been taken
from various containers In the pos
session of the Marshal Marshal
appended to the order, that he Is
unable to comply with the order to
return the liquors named therein as
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