Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-04-14
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-spreao
Wedged 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 sunlight's worth,
Or dare, when that hard surface holds
them down,
To suffer thrusting pains?
Is it from earths deep heart,
That edict: 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-tne sing
ing bird
The white snow lightly spun!
Now the brave answer spreads
Even the rock is glad:
The green-the green Is here! J.,
The naked suffering of the earth Is
clad:
A velvet folds the sphere:
The cattle bend their heads.
May Lewis from voices
The first voter in the town OF
Rumford to deposit his poll tax
money for 1925 Is Clarence Smith.
Charles 3. Pearson. who died
suddenly Friday at Portland, at the
age of IS, was janitor at the Smaller
school for over 25 years.
A special town meeting warrant
was posted In the town of Bruins
wick, Friday. by Mrs. Sarah o. Cook,
constable, the first time this task
has been performed by Il woman IN
the history OF the town.
The steamer, Belfast, went on the
Boston Bangor route Friday night
after being thoroughly overhauled
and painted. She takes the place or
the Camden which has maintained
the service most Of the winter.
Robert Campbell of Pennington
has been in the painting trade in
that town for So years where he be-
gan to learn the trade of George
Dodge of Fairbanks Mills. He SER
we'd as an apprentice for two years
and then went into business for
himself.
Edgar Millay of Waterville, who
! celebrated his SSth birthday last
Wednesday was a teacher in the
schools of Somerset County for more
than 40 years, BEGINNING when he
was p and teaching continuously
until he was 50. He taught a few
terms in Embden after he had reach
ed 70 years of age.
Miss Ruth NJ. Graves Of South
Paris has written a song for the
Boys and Girls Club of Oxford
! County which will serve as an in
centive to greater activity in club
work. Copies are being sent to the
| different clubs and Miss Graves Will
| attend the club meetings and teach
| the song to the members.
Skowhegan claims to have the
only .'hobble stairway" in the world.
. The advent of hobble skirts caused a
dentist to build this stairway SO the
ladies would have no difficulty in
reaching his office. 1t has many
| short steps and has the appearance
! of being made for small children.
Hobble skirts have long passed out
| of fashion but the stairs still remain
| in the town of SkOwhegan
We will all be able to eat Holsters
soon as the price Of this shellfish
has taken a decided drop in the
wholesale market and are expected
| to go still lower. The Boston mar
ket is glutted with Holsters coming
from Nova Scotia where a big catch
! is being made this spring and every
, steamer arriving brings hundreds of
! crates. 1t is reported that Maine
fishermen will be allowed only zoe a
pound live weight for their catch.
Esther Ralston, a native Of Bar
Harbor, who has risen to stellar
honors in moving pictures, has been
signed on a long term contract by
Paramount and will appear in
| California or Bust" with Richard
Dix. She was discovered" when a
company of film actors were at Bar
Harbor shooting scenes and the
director induced the young woman's
mother to permit her to enter the
| silent drama.
Word has been received by J.
Frank Carter, the principal of
Stephens High School in Rumford,
from the University of Illinois, thu t
his school is the first in the State of
Maine to be invited to join the Ma
tional Athletic Honor Society. This
Society is to insure better scholar
ship among athletes and to bind
more closely athletics and school
work. A note of acceptance to the
invitation was returned by Mr..
Carter.
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