Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-24
MAINE GOSSIP

The Grass
, How is the grass set free?
What liberates the green?
Is there some urging need.
Some inkling of that upper, far-spread
| WedEed in the seed,
| That wills; Go forth and be?
| How can the tiny grains.
| Held under heavy earth,
| In that moist, smothering brown,
| Foresee the sunlights worth,
| or dare, when that hard surface holds
! them down,
! To suffer thruSting pains?
Is it from earths deep heart,
That etict: Unhusk; go!
| You shall behold a sky.
! Undoubtedly, blades know
| A motion to leap high.
| Something that makes them start.
Or, from an ambient sun,
Perhaps, through miles of air
| There falls foreign word
! Descriptive of how fair
To see the thunderous rain-the sing
ing bird
! The white snow lightly spun!
Now the brave answer spreads
! Even the rock is glad;
The green-the green is here! ;,
| The naked suffering OF the earth Is
! clad:
velvet folds the sphere:
| The cattle bend their heads.
May Lewis from Voices.
Judge Norman J.. Bassett. the
| newly appointed justice of the Maine
supreme judicial court. is presiding
over the April term of the court for
| Aroostook county in Houlton.
| Brunswick's golf tournament
! which was to have taken place on
Monday and was postponed on &C
! count of the snow storm. will be held
! on Saturday of this week.
Many beautiful paintings and
! drawings as we'll as some beautiful
statues are to be found in the Sweat
Memorial Building and Art Museum
! on High street in Portland. 1t is one
| of the most interesting buildings in
| Names largest city.
| President c. c. Little of the Uni
versity of Maine will be the Lure of
Maine" speaker from WIN, New
York at 9 o'clock Friday night of
this week under the auspices of the
| Charles a. Mann Corporation of New
| York and Sorrento.
The members of the Biddeford fire
department were content to sit and
watch the Sunday snow storm and
they did not care If it lasted for a
| week, as it brought them relief
from the grass and forest fires which
had kept them on the jump for the
two weeks previous. These fires
were source of worry to the fire
men the day before the storm.
/ Bangor has discovered that the
storm which started there Sunday
and during which six inches of snow
fell. was just one year from the date
OF the April snow storm of last
spring. Records at the city engi-
neer's Office there show that about
three inches fell last year on April
10 and about six inches this year on
that date.
Rev. John W. Brush, retiring pas
tor of Stroudwater and Glenwood
Square Baptist churches, was given
farewell reception by the members
Of the Stroudwater church early this
week. which was preceded by SIM
liar affair given in his honor at Glen
| wood Square Chapel. Mr.. Brush will
leave Portland next Monday for New
! Haven. Conn.,. where he has been
called to a large pastorate.
Probably the oldest tug in commits
sion in Maine today Is the ,Seguin,
owned by the Kennebec towage COM
Ing on the kennebec river between
Popham and Augusta. The Seguin
was built and launched in 1884 by
the Morses in the old yard on the
site now occupied by the Hyde
Windlass Company in Bath. The
tug is SIS feet long and 96 gross tons.
The Seguin has done considerable
work outside of the kennebec-ocean
towing. taking barges along the
coast and schooners from Maine
points to New York and Boston,
making several trips as far south as
Norfolk.
The crew of the present Seguin
are: Thomas x. Haley, captain: Ern-
, NS' L. 1iCoi' Gig iHeeT, a. II. Hogan,
mate; Edward Robinson, fireman.
When the busy summer season COM
mences others will be added. The
officers of the company which own
and operate the Seguin are spread
through the kennebec valley. Fred
n. Boston. Gardiner, is president:
Rupert N. Baxter, Bath. vice presi :
dent; Thomas S. Gibbons, Bath.
treasurer and general manager. The
Following are directors, in addition
TO the offices named: Lawrence Pur-
inton, l.. l.. Cooper, Augusta: Rodney
r. Ross. William S. Newell Harry
q. Deering. Bath; Levi T. Williams.
Haliowell; Edward L. Russell, Gard
liner. >''''
The boat was bought in 1920 of the
capt: w. G. Small estate by Thomas
>. Gibbons after the Shipping Board
mad abandoned the river and the cor
poration formed and it is for tho
mutual benefit Of the coal dealers m
the river and others who have tow
Ing to do. The boat was practicable
rebuilt, thousands of dollars beinp
laid out and she is now in first cIa sc
condition. 0'o''
| READFIELD
DEPOT-Mrs. Julia Adams is Vic.
Jung at the home of her sister. Mrs.
Bianche Barrows, Augusta. - M.