Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-18
MAINE GOSSIP


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Then we hear the cav of q crow.
Our hearts beat a little bit faster.
We unknowingly whistle or sing;
What sound is there then that's much
Than the first "caw cav" in the
spring.
Some chant Of robins on snowdrifts--
Some of soft balmy zephyrs that
But there's naught to our ear quite so
cheering
As the first cav cav" of the crow.
Some would control him by strong
And would clip his raven black
But after the billiards and snowdrifts
Let us champion his caws as he
Jennie D. Hodges.
Augusta, Me.
The Bangor board of public works
at a melting on Monday night re-
elected S. S. Bunker as city engineer
and increased his salary by $500,
making it now $4,000. Mr.. Bunker
had rendered his resignation to take
effect March 1st, but reconsidered the
matter.
Miss Margaret Hines Of Lewiston
is planning to enter, in few weeks,
an art school in San Antonio. Tex.
end at the end of the spring semester
will leave for Ledo. Italy, where she
will continue her study of art. Mis-
Hines is a graduate of Jordan High
school at Lewiston, class OF 1924.
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Louis Brainerd Hardy, Oakland.
has been appointed principal. Theo-
eore Falkenstrom of Bar Harbor.
first alternate and Waldo Eaton
Sherman of Island Falls and Robert
Patrick Sawyer of Augusta. second
alternates to take the West Point
examinations beginning March 2,
with a view to admission to the Aca-
denny July /, the War Department
announces.
Bowdoin men of the Penobscot
valley are particularly interested in
the announcement that President
Stills will be the guest of honor at
the annual dinner at the Penobscot
Valley Country Club at Bangor next
Wednesday night. 1t has been
several years SluCC iCSAuSAS NAAAS
has attended meeting of the Bangor
club, and a large group of alumni
are planning to be present. Spike"
| Mccormack also will be present and
| will bring along the Bowdoin movies,
| enlarged and enriched by new ma
| terial.
| Here is how the recent snowstorm
nearly buried Stockton Springs as
described by the Bangor News cor
respondent in that town:
| The entirely superfluous snow fall
| on Monday and Tuesday was a
GROWING indignity upon a helpless
humanity by that arch rogue. Old
Boreas. Highway traffic is practic-
ally at a standstill. entirely so far
| as gas buggies are concerned. and
for the second day this winter there
was no session of school on Monday.
Conditions contrasted with Those of
| a few weeks ago inspire feeling of
Arctic isolation, lacking only diet
of conventional pemmican. The
| absence of travel over the Marsh hill
is reminiscent of the days before
| motor cars brought. Bangor only an
hour away. The faithful old horse at
the Stone House Farm awaits his
ration of "B. L." while the Holsteins
listen in vain for theirN master s
voice, which tells the story of bad
travelling.
Snow in June" was the title of an
article from an old newspaper re-
Gently handed to the Biddeford
Journal by George Belts of Saco
who is veteran elevator operator in
the Saco-Lowell machine shops. The
substance of the story was no fabri-
cation or prediction, but referred tc
the frigid summer of 1915 during
which agriculture in Maine sus-
tanned serious setback. The
article read as follows:
"This is the time that reminds Gen.
tenarians of the year 1916, which
was chock full of winter from end tc
end. In that year no corn was rails
ed. On June s, the ground was
covered with snow. In 1917. the
farmers got discouraged and sold
their property and moved west. most
ly to Ohio. General William King
of Bath, Names first governor, had
a cargo of corn come to Bath aad he
would not sell over two bushels to
one person. He trusted it out al
through the country. Gen. King, by
his perseverance, got the betterment
act through, which relieved the
farmers very much. Corn at this
time was $3.50 per bushel. From
1917 to 1920 people were moving
west in order to raise something tc
eat. No money was in circulation
The University representatives te
the conference of Christian workers
at Mortified, Mass, the latter part OF
last week returned to the campus al
Orono on Tuesday. Those making
the trip were Paul D. Lamoreau '27
of Pressure Isle. Maine. football cap
tain, Robert F. Scott. '23. of Old
Town, Cyril G. Cogswell. '27. of Old
Town, Harold L. Ballou. '26, OF
Greenfield, Mass. and Secretary L. G
Christian Associations; and Lorinda
Orne, '27, of Thomaston and Serena
Wood, '27, of Bangor. representing
the University Y. w. G. A. The
Maine delegation was one of the
largest present at the conference
which included delegates from all the
New England colleges.
The principal speaker at the con
ference was the Rev. DR.. Niebuhr
editor of the Christian Century Mag
azine and a well-known clergyman
He took UP the questions. What Is a
Christian, Why Be a Christian To-
day, and How We Should go About
the Production of National Christi
anity. Discussion groups led by
some of the best known secretaries
in the Y. M. C. A. and Y. w. c. A.
field, played an important part in