Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-04-09

AS we sit beneath tne ldlllp-
| You with your paper l with my
Reading side by side by the fire.
A distance so great
That it cannot be measured:
Never, never to be crossed
All the black weary miles or its desc
Is heard in your voice,
AS you say, folding your paper care
There IS very little in the news to-
BY Anne Hawley Wood, New York
Times.
The ice in Beechhill Lake began
breaking up Saturday afternoon and
was all out Sunday night. leaving
three weeks earlier than last spring.
The first four leaf clover OF the
season has been picked by Doris
Spring of Kezar Falls. 1t was found
! in the same bunch of clover where
last year more than 500 four and
| five-leaf sprigs were gathered.
In memory of their parents, Sarah
and William Page of Kenduskeag
have placed a trust fund Of $500 in
! a Bangor Bank, the interest Of which
will be used for the purchase of
| books for the Case Memorial Library.
A large porpoise. sometimes known
! as a putting pig was recently
brought in BY a fisherman at South
| in the window of Bangor store
| n a l{pc In fopda The nornoiSe
| weighed $50 pounds.
AS a result of the story published
regarding the growing of while blue
berries in the, town Of Whitneyville,
=, the first batch of bushes has been
| sent to Florida for tranSplanting in
that state, where 1t is hoped to es-
tablish the blueberry industry.
Work was started Monday on the
! gymnasium at Lincoln Academy in
Newcastle, the boys appearing with
pickaxes and shovels while the girls
! spread tables out of doors and serV-
| ed refreshments to the toilers at in
| tervals. Cooperation seems to be the
watchword among the students.
| The lucky angler to land the first
salmon of the season at Big Chief
| Camps, Tunk Pond Is little nine-year
old Emile knight of Bangor who
accompanied her father on his first
trip of the year: this was her first
attempt at the noble sport and she
was much elated at her success.
| The report of the librarian at Lin
coin shows that although the library
has been open to the public but three
weeks, the people Of the town ap-
preciate its service. During these
three weeks 693 books have been
! loaned. los in one day being the
largest days record. Two hundred
| and forty cards have been issued.
| According to the local weather
Bureau of Eastport the month of
March averaged daily 1890 warmer
than the normal which, February's
excess warmth, gave at the close of
the month. a daily excess of 2.S de-
grees from Jan. !. There have been
but six warmer Marches in the 50
years record of the Bureau.
JOHN a. SpeIlCeT Ol iheNeIe, MASS,
a former Maine boy, has recently
sold the rights to new type OF heat
control device which he has invented.
for a consideration valued at more
than a million dollars. The device
| known as the Spencer Thermostat,
will be used to regulate automatical-
ly the temperature of electrical ap-
paratus and its first application will
be in a new automatic fat-iron.
Parties in Machias are negotiating
with dealers in Iowa for the ship
ment of several carloads Of Hereford
beef cattle and steps are being TAX
en- to turn the great meadows up
river from Machias into a cattle
! range where cattle will be raised for
beef purposes. The meadow grass
has been left standing for many
years and it is believed cattle could
be proftably turned loose here on
the stretches to feed through the
spring, summer and fall months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Masterman of Dix
field have a novel pet which they
have become much attached to. Last
year. while feeding her chickens,
Mrs. Masterman found a tiny wood
chuck, apparently but a few weeks
old. in the yard, she took him into
the house. fed him and gave him the
care necessary until he became the
pet of the household. In September
, he disappeared after digging a win
ter home for himself under the wood
shed where he stayed until March 26
when he came out in his spring coat,
as friendly and contented as ever.