Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-04

EchOing the gladnesS
OF fairy tune.
I would have a child's heart,
Heart of rosy bloom,
Where there is no sorrowing
And no thought of doom,
Going in the glad ways
Where the white stars CLEAN,
Fragrant blossoms breathing
In q land of dream.
Edgar Daniel Kramer In Nautilus"
Magazine.
Subjects of practical interest and
value are to be discussed at the
Missionary Education Conference
which the Baptists of Cumberland
and York counties are to hold in the
Emmanuel Baptist church at Portland,
Monday, Feb. 5.
Among the cases filed at the OPEN
ing of the February term of the
superior court at Auburn is a $4,000
false arrest suit in which Walter 8.
Wyman is named defendant. Jacob
Rappaport of Auburn is the plaintiff
and charges that he was falsely ar
rested and imprisoned on a charge
of breaking. entering and larceny.
The Chisholm Ski Club Of Rum
ford is planning to make Monday and
Tuesday, Feb. Is and 16. red letter
days with a program that will hold
the attention of winter carnival en-
thusiasts. Among the features will
be an exhibition of ski jumping on
the evening of Feb. Is by skiers from
the Nansen Ski club of Berlin, N. Fl.
Arthur G. Robinson of Gardiner
tells the Portland Press Herald that
he considers the woodchuck. the pest
of the farmer, fur resource of
Maine. He has been buying furs for
many years and has now come to
the conclusion that woodchuck's
pelt has some value. He plans to
buy 500 Of these pelts this spring,
but doesn't explain how he expects to
secure the endorsement of makers of
fur fashions. Perhaps the ground
hog has more to be apprehensive of
than his shadow. which he cast last
Tuesday.
Expenditure of approximately s40,-
600 for alterations to the Portland
Country Club building at Falmouth
Foreside were voted at a special
meeting of the membership at the La
fayette hotel in Portland on Monday
evening. Improvements include a
music room to be erected on the east
side of the porch, giving twice the
space now provided for social activi-
ties and to be used as a dance hall:
increase in the number of chambers;
a new grill in the basement; and adj
ditional lockers, lavatories and show
er baths for both men and women.
An addition to the clubhouse will
place under the same roof the caddy
house and quarters for professionals.
now in a separate building. 1t is
planned to have the alterations COM
pleted by June /.
The former Portland three masted
schooner Matte j. Allies, now owned at
Milbridge and which has been in win
ter quarters at Machias, will shortly
be placed in commission, Built at Var
mouth in 1883, and said to be the last
in active service of the 200 sailing
vessels that were built at that port,
the little coaster is still in excellent
condition and apparently good for
many more years of service. For 25
years or more she was in command
of Capt. George H. Crockett of Port
land, and during that time gave an
excellent account of herself, having
never been in trouble but once, when
she went ashore on the Handkerchief,
being soon foated with little damage.
About Is years ago, she was sold by
her owner. Charles F.. Guptil of Port
land, to parties at Milbridge and since
that time has run mostly between
Machias and New York.
The following incident in Maine
history--s4 years ago--was referred
to by the Portland Evening Express
last Tuesday: On February 2, 1892,
Judge William Pitt Preble, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
Tertiary Of the United States to the
government of the Netherlands,
reached Washington in the interest Of
the settlement of the boundary line In
the Northeastern Boundary Contro-
versy. and on the following day called
on President Jackson delivering to
him the report and resolutions adopt
ed by the Legislature of Maine. He
learned from the Maine senators and
representatives in Congress that
among papers concerning boundary
matters laid before the Senate was
one claiming that the award Of the
King of the Netherlands was bindin,
on the United States, and called upon
its government to carry the arbitra-
tors decision into effect.
d. L. Stewart of New Vineyard.
noted for his fine cabinet work, al
though confined to his house, delights
in carrying on his work at odd times
and In presenting to his friends the
unique patterns turned out, says The
Franklin Journal. Among recent
products was one sent to Fred o. |
Smith as a Christmas gift and for
this MIR. Smith sent the following
letter of thanks and appreciation:
THE table and desk you made and |
sent me for Christmas was certainly |
a wonderful present and will be !
placed In a prominent place in our ,
home. When we take into considera- |
ton your age (SD they are still |
more wonderful, for we know Of no !
young man who could have made
them as nice as YOU did. It has
been my pleasure to have been ac-
quainted with YOU for over FORTY /
years. as it was in 1881 that I came |
to New Vineyard to clerk in the
store of the late Frank Luce. and /
during all these years | have count
ed you as friend. and / do not
recoilect of ever having an un-
pleasant word with you during all !
those years.
Il take this opportunity to thank |
you for the wonderful gifts, and trust |
you may see many more Christmas
days"
The town of Alfred has the dis
tinction of being the only town or
city in New England to boast of a