Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-26
MAINE GOSSIP
WORK Ere the Might cometh

% our lives loo, may rdoihte priSHI-
AS we travel along day by day.
Although 1t may be only q. handshake
Or smile as some friend we may
meet,
Yet perhaps it will help cheer their
And help make their life more COM
plete.
If perchance; you should seesso one
Do not leave them, nor push them
away,
But most gently take hold and help
And then start them again on their
We may scatter fair flowers DER the
casket
OF our IF, friends whom to us were most
Yet how much pleasure 'twould given
them
To have had them while living down
here.
So let us notwait till night cometh
Ere our task we're to do is begun
For our work time would then all be
over
And our duty would remain still I'M
done.
--Eugenia r. Titus.
Frederick w. Ford, Jr., Of Methuen,
Mass, who has been selected for city
manager Of Auburn. will assume his
new duties as soon as he can complete
his work at Methuen where he is sup
erintendent of public works.
Bath is pleased with its new opera
house. The project which included the
reconstruction, redecoration and return
fishing Of the Bath Opera House, has
been completed and the theater was
reopened to the public on Monday ev-
ening after having been closed since
the fire on March 81.
A former Bath man. Edgar F. Dun
bar, will broadcast with Berry's Or
chestra from radio station WCSH at
Portland again this Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Dunbar was for a number Of years
one of the soloists of the First Bap-
fist Church at Bath. He Is now singing
at st. Paul's Episcopal Church, Bruins
wick.
An appeal for waste fabric or gar
ments is being made by the Maine
Seacoast Mission which has established
| a rug industry to give employment to
the coast women as medium OF self
| expression and financial aid. This fea-
| ture of the mission work Is in charge
of Mrs Alice NJ. Peasley of South
| Gouldsboro.
Roy Dudley, of Patten, fire warden,
stationed at Chimney Pond on Mount
Katahdin through the summer, has
! been engaged to guide a party Of New
| Workers. UP to Katahdin during the
| latter part Of February. These people
will use skis and snow shoes Tor nix
| ing. Camp owners around Mount
| Chase and Shin Pond aver that they
/ have missed out on different occasions
| by not catering to winter trade.
The famous Halfway House, an
inn buff on the Lafayette highway
between Bangor and Bar Harbor,
Immediately after the War of 1872,
will not be destroyed though it re-
Gently changed ownership. The pic
turesque many gabled structure will
! be preserved and converted into a
| country club for the use of vacation
| lists at the new resort. Lucerne-in-
| Maine.
The five-masted schooner Edward B.
Winslow, owned by group Of Port
| land business men, has just been
| chartered for another lumber trip to
I Miami at very satisfactory rate. At
| the present time the vessel, which is
| the last of the Winslow line bearing
! the name, is discharging a cargo of
| lumber at the Florida port after load
| ing at Mobile. All last year she was
| engaged in the Venezuela trade, oper-
! ating very successfully. The Edward
! B. Winslow, which is incidentally one
! of the best known of the Portland
| sailing vessels still in operation has
| never lain idle for an appreciable
| length of time. She is one of the le-
| gion of successful vessels which have
been launched from the yards Of Percy
| and Small at Bath
II am just writing this to your
| paper to let you know that the lady
down in Gorham who recently heard
robin singing, hasn't an entire mon
| opoly of the signs of spring." says
| Charles Leaird of Winthrop in a let
| ter to the editor of the Kennebec Jour-
nal Last Thursday on High street
in Winthrop picked up large brown
caterpillar which appeared perfectly
, we'll and in good spirits. / have work
ed outdoors practically all my life and
never saw a caterpillar that appeared
so perfectly healthy and happy wand
! ering around at large on the 21st of
January before. / have also noticed
several tines this winter that the
chipmunks have not turned in as is
usual with them, which take as an
other favorable sign of a light winter.
have my caterpillar friend at home
! If anyone desires to meet him."
Developing the subject, maine
Products" at the recent meeting of
the Biddeford and Saco Rotary Club,
State Auditor Ebert D. Hayford de-
clared that in the valuable directory
of Maine products recently published
by the State Chamber of Commerce,
he finds that there are listed more
than 700 manufacturers of lumber,
laths and shingles; $50 manufacturers
Of hardwood products such as spool
bars, veneer, clothespins and wooden
ware; 120 manufacturers of boats and
canoes: over 80 cotton and wooden
mills, IS pulp and paper mills, so shoe
factories, 20 manufacturers Of fertili-
zers, 20 manufacturers Of handles, and
eight manufacturers of axes. Let us
determine to stimulate these factories
and the many other Industries there