Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-03
MAINE GOSSIP
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The canary bird sat in it's cage one
And watched the winds with the
grasses play.
1t beheld the flowers in their colors
And bathed in the warmth of the June
sunlight.
And it thought as it sat in it's prison
When ali about was so bright and fair.
"Oh would 1 could spread my wings
"And soar far up to the cloud fecked
sky
And fit about from tree to tree
las the wild birds there are doing l
see.
Mines 2 tough old life now don't you
with nothing to do but eat and
drink"
But the days passed by and the weeks
And the seasons changed as seasons
do,
When the green and the blue were
changed to gray
Till the earth was mantled In snow
Then this bird as 1t looked about,
And viewed the wintry scene without.
With the flowers and birds no longer
And everything cold and drear and
bare.
Said to itself. 81 guess. by jing,.
THAT this old cage is a blamed good
thing"
Small Packages" column edited by
Fred owen in Portland Evening Elk
press
Boys from all parts of the State
will be Portland's guests for three
days beginning tomorrow, the occasion
Tot
Conference and meeting Of Church
Boys Clubs.
The st. Croix cotton mill at Calais
is erecting two large smokestacks
which will be nearly 40 feet tall.
| Thirty thousand feet of lumber was
| used to build the staging in order to
put the sections of pipe together.
These stacks are for a large addition
to the power plant to supply electrici-
ty for the neighboring towns.
One of the questions which is inter-
esting Bath people just now is the To-
cation of the Kennebec bridge and its
approaches. 1t is hoped that the
bridge Commission will be able to ar
rive at a decision in the matter in the
near future although the ice In the
river on Monday tended to delay oper-
atoms to some extent.-Bath Times.
At the regular meeting at Bangor
on Tuesday of the directors Of the
Bangor & Aroostook r. r., the usual
dividend Of So per share on the COM
mon stock (fifty-dollar shares) was
declared. Asked concerning prospects
of an advance in the dividend rate,
President Todd said this: This SO
is the usual dividend. There was no
change, nor any discussion Of a
change"
Addressing a monthly session Of the
Auburn Chamber Of Commerce, L. A.
Jack, Lisbon Falls, attorney deplored
the three narrow strips of road lead
ing out Of Lewiston and Auburn" and
called attention to the we'll known
death traps" on the Danville road.
He said, "A few foolish laws and a
few unreasonable road cops can drive
out of the State more than $4,000
| spent In advertising can bring into 1t.
Joseph Jacques of Lewiston was
decreed perfect specimen of young
manhood and awarded a medal at the
dance held at Lewiston Tuesday eve
ming. Winford Turner, advertised as
the most physically perfect man in
America, who went to Lewiston from
Boston with his manager to attend
the dance and select the most perfect
| man in attendance. crowned jacques
as that man.
The largest amount Of ice that Capt.
Perry Colby Of the ferry boats at
Bath ever saw make in the Kennebec
river for given period was from
Sunday afternoon at 230 to IL o'clock
Monday night. The river is high and
full of fresh water because of the fire.
quency Of the fall rains with the re-
suit that ice forms speedily. Much of
it went out on the ebb tide Tuesday
but enough was left to get in the way
of river boats.
A cigar-store Indian. nearly 100
years old. stands in the entrance to
Coffee's cigar store at Lewiston. This
Indian came originally from Worces-
ter. Mass, and has been somewhat
battered in the past, but Is now en-
tirely repaired and brilliant with
fresh paint. Mr.. Coffee has refused a
substantial price for the relic. An
other specimen Of the vanishing race
of cigar-store Indians Is we'll
preserved statue of a chief, which
stands on a small pedestal at the Riv-
erside cigar store in Auburn.
The smoked and homeless herring
industry in Eastport is furnishing
most of the work In that city for the
winter and many men and women are
employed each day at fair wages dur
ing a time when all sardine factories
are dark and idle and very little en-
ployment to be had SO that general
laborers are not difficult to locate
daily. The population has dropped
somewhat since late October when all
PASSPORT canneries were closed until
after April 18th and numbers of for
mer factory workers have gone to New
England cities for winters employ
ment.
Moose meat. expensive in Waldo
noro,' says the headline of a news
dispatch in Portland paper which
covers the payment of fines and
costs amounting TO $T39.e3 by three