Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-08
MAINE GOSSIP
The Coming Of the Snow


At yestere'en the world was dull and
bare.
Across the brown fields looking out
to sea,
The lettering grass-staiks. wavins
Reminders were Of serried ranks OF
care.
The very noises of the highway Jared
With seeming consciousness. the ach-
ing heart
And souls twin-born, instinctively
apart,
Did move and deemed the passing hour
ill-starred.
Today silent peacemaker is here
Whose sovereign touch the world
has garmented;
And brambles from their lonely,
walside bed
Are risen and in outlines new appear.
And sounds are hushed that vexed so
sadly then;
Half softened-half subdued-half
lost.
It may be had we known the cost
We had not been such fretful, restless
MARION L. BERTRAND.
Augusta, Me-, Dec. 5, 1926.
A truck load Of 200 deer skins
passed through Fort Fairfield on
Friday.
+ Loss and bereavement came to the
family Of Maxine Marquis last We'd
nesday when their home which Is sit
uated in Ouelette, about 10 miles
from Fort Kent, was completely de-
from Fort Kent, was completely
destroyed by fire and when Mrs
Marquis, who while helping hel
husband carry a very heavy
chest of linen down the stairs of the
burning house was accidentally
caught between the chest and the
wall and struck on the temple in such
way as to cause instant death.
An Ice boom was put around the
state ferry boat Gov. King, at Bath.
last Friday. just before the ice COM
menced to run in the river, and thus
her hull Is perfectly protected from
danger from this source. The King
Is in Winter quarters at the Hyde
Windlass Co., where a new shaft Is
to be installed to replace the one
broke last month. Manager Briggs
found that some Of the logs that
have been used to form the boom
about her had become water soaked,
SO he obtained a new supply of
about IL inches in diameter to re-
place them and they were delivered
and put into position Friday.
Jordan highs cafeteria Is to be in
vestigated by special committee
from the Lewiston School Board.
Complaints from several parents
about the variety of food served
leads to the investigation. DR..
O'Connell brought up the matter at
meeting OF the committee on
teachers and instruction, so Chair
man Kealy, Monday evening, named
a sub committee including DIR. O'Con-
nell, Miss Saucier and Prof. Gould,
to investigate. The high school
menu is said to contain some articles
which certain parents do not ap-
prove as part Of the students daily
diet And among these Is the famous
frankfurter. alias hot dog.
Despite the fact that tho catch of
Holsters has been very small thus
far in the Eastport section, due
mostly to the boisterous weather on
account or which the fishermen have
lost a great deal Of gear, the price
Of the crustaceans has not ad-
vanced much over that paid at the
opening Of the season in the neigh
boring New Brunswick waters.
Forty cents a pound Is the prevail
ing price paid by PASSPORT dealers
at the cars. but a substantial adj
vance Is looked for soon and il De-
cember's weather proves as stormy
as November's was the price of a
broiled live by Christmas will make
turkey prices look ridiculously chean.
Shirley L. Povich, son Of Nathan
Povich. Center street. Bath, is now
sports editor Of the Washington
Post. one Of the leading papers IN
the country and owned BY Edward
McLt y. Shirley Is only 20 years of
age and probably the younges,
sporting editor Of q Metropolitan
daily newspaper in the tinted
States. He has been Connected Win
the Post for three years and has
been an assistant In the sportinc
department for the past two vasrs
He has big staff under him. IN :,
the Post of Nov.2s the feature .torr