Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-14

You're Just a rugged homespun state
Perched on the. nations edge
A stretch of woods, of fields ana lakes
OF ocean-pounded ledge.
But rugged deeds and rugged men
You've nurtured for your own;
Much good the world has harvested
From broadcast seeds you've sown.
And so we love you, rugged State
We love your smiling skies.
We love you for your deep piled SHOWS
Your jagged coast we prize.
We love you for the lofty seat
You've reared meath Heavens dome,
But best of all we love you Maine
Because you're Maine-and HOME.
-Lcster Melcher Hart.
Old Orchard has shown it's Amer
icanism by being one of the first
towns in Maine to start agitation for
q big Fourth Of July celebration.
A Rockland young lady claims
record with AS cross word puzzles
solved to date. Has anyone else
record that can beat 1t?
A membership drive for the Lewis
ton Home for Aged Women started
last Monday and will continue
through the week.
f. X. Narcotic has resigned from
the Lewiston police commission after
serving since 1917, making him the
oldest member in years Of service.
Thunder and lightning accompanied
the fog in Bangor Wednesday, there
being a few claps in the afternoon
and in the evening thunder and light
ming with a general doWnpour of rain.
The program of events for the
Lincoln Winter carnival have been
arranged and copies are being dis
tributed. It promises to be a very
successful affair.
Following the example set by eX-
Governor Baxter, Of giving dogs to
the inmates of prisons. seven dogs
have been sentenced for life in
prisons in Massachusetts.
French Hall in KiEgfleld is being
renovated and under new manage
ment> will be known as Kingfield
Theatre. 1t will be painted and other
improvements made as soon as the
travelling is more settled.
AS a preventative against delay in
case of fire the hydrants of Rangeley
were all shoveled out last Wednesday
and barrels placed over them so they
could be easily gotten into service 1t
occasion demanded.
This Is the first February since
Rockland became CITY that the Re-
publican and Democratic parties have
not issued calls for caucuses. The
city election this year will not take
place until December.
Harold Chadwick of IIoulton has
just returned from Florida and re-
ports that the start Maine has made
on the boosting campaign has reached
many people there, and he believes 1t
Will bring Il number to Maine during
the coming season.
1t begins to look as though Aroos
after all. by Spring. Potatoes may
be hard to obtain as there has been
| considerable damage in warehouses
and private cellars because of the
cold waves. and it is asserted that
, buyers who were counting on Il big
slump are due to disappointment.
A romance which began 65 years
ago culminated in a happy marriage
Monday evening, on Chebcague Island,
when "Uncle Ambrose" Hamilton and
Aunt Fannie" became husband and
wife. Both have been previously
| married. Mrs. Hamilton is in her
early sos, and Mrs. Hamilton is 81
years of age.
One of the policemen of Portland
whose regular job" is that of traffic
| cop, officiated as official ferry boat for
the school children who were not
equipped with rubber boots, last We'd
| nesday, when on several occasions he
took load of children under each
, arm and carried them across the
street to dryer land.
One Of the latest gifts of Sanford
| Richie to the Pleasant street school
| at Dover-Foxcroft is mourning dove
! for their already fine collection of
birds. The bird was picked up by
| Fred +. Gilman last fall who brought
| it to Mr.. Richie for Identification. The
bird is rarely found in this state and
so far as known is the first ever found
in Oxford County.
Morrill, H. Ames believes that
| violin of ancient make which was
| brought to Portland last week by
another collector Of vioi;ns, may prove
| to be an instrument of value. The
violin carries a tag OF Stradivarius,
the world famed violin maker, al
though Ames, who is an authority on
such questions, is of the opinion that
it may be the work of Il contemporary
of the great master. One distinctive
longer tried by violin makers.
Our Maine Gossip poem today is
printed at the request of Mrs. Isaiah
! Crowel, r. L. D. ., Skowhegan, who
writes the following: I am sending
you this poem for the Maine Gossip"
column, which 1 found laid away in
an old book. 1t sounds familiar, but
! cannot tell if it has ever been
printed. At any rate it seems good
enough to appear again, If it has. We
have taken the Kennebec journal for
1 many years and often find little gems
in the Maine Gossip" column" We
are pleased to tell Mrs. CroweH that
! the author of this little poetic gem
belongs to the Kennebec Journal
Family. These little lines have at
tracted attention all over the coun-
try and are justly worthy of recog-
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