Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-30
Progress.

Line by line and thought by thought,
He fashions the golden tissue of
And thus are immortal anthems
wrought.
Every wise observer knows,
Every watchful gazer sees,
Nothing grand or beautiful grows
Save by gradual degrees.
Ye who toll with purpose high
And fondly proud result await
Murmur not, as the hours go by,
That the season is long, the harvest
late.
Remember that brotherhood strong
and true,
Builders and artists and bards sub
lime.
Who lived in the past and worked
Worked and waited a wearisome time.
Dark and cherries and long their
night,
Yet they patiently toiled at the task
begun,
Till 10, through the clouds broke that
morning light
That shines on the soul where success
is won.
Author unknown.
Collection of annual license
fee of SO from { nv Zine pump
owner whose pump is located on city
property in Auburn. was commenced
by Auburn officials on Tuesda
The City of Auburn plans to send
its newly appointed chief of the fire
department, V. E. Cargion, to the
Boston Chiefs school probably IN
February. There he is expected to
learn some very important fire
fighting knowledge that could not be
learned by experience alone, it is
claimed.
Miss Helen D. Pidgeon of WASH
ington, D. c., associate secretary OF
the Policewomen's International
Association, was the speaker Tues
day before the members of the Ban
gor Rotary Club. She described the
work at some length, saying that it
! is conducted along the line of social
workers. Miss Pigeon also spoke
before the members of Bangor
kiwanis Club, Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar NJ Berry Of
Lewiston, will sail today from New
York for Africa, their four months
Journey taking them around the
West coast. around the Cape of Good
Hope, across the Pacific and back
! to the Atlantic via the Suez Canal
! They will make a more or less ex
! tended stop at d '~, Natal, South
Africa. to visit Mr.. Berry's brother.
George Berry.
( Sheriff Roger F. Bragdon OF Wells
on Tuesday announced the appoint
ment of deputy sheriffs for his
second term which opens on Satur-
! day, Jan. l. the selections being
principally appointments. The
county staff is 10 less than that APP
! pointed two years ago by sheriff
/ Bragdon. This reduction is under
/ stood to be in the interests of
economy. The reduction comes about,
it is understood in the fact that
no per diem men are named.
! Here is a good one clipped from
the Harrington news in the Frank
. lin Journal: Many folks in the
+ village enjoyed a troubled sleep be-
! fore midnight, Friday. as it had
been widely rumored that the pow
/ ers that be of Pennington Rotary
had delegated Gene Flood. Arbo
Norton. Sumner Mills, ct ais. to go
about the village at IL o'clock to
sing Christmas carols. The people
! on hearing of this approaching
/ cataclysm extinguished the candles
! in their windows and fed to bed,
[ but midnight came without raucous
| sounds and the remainder of the
/ night was passed in peaceful
, dreams.
| Gymnasiums and attention to
! proper recreo NAL advantages for
boys and girls would have a ten
dency to reduce commitments to the
State school for boys in South
| Portland and the State school for
| girls at Hallowell. ro-7' ~ Sec
rotary CRUDE B. Cornish of the State
| Board of Charities and Corrections,
| speaker at a meeting of the Portland
| Club, Monday evening. Mr.. Cornish
explained the policy of mothers aid,
! effective the past 10 years, winery
| it has been possible to keep mothers
and children together instead of
breaking UP families, needing finan-
| cial aid. Sick children are given
medical attention, the hungry are
| fed and the backward children are
encouraged toward development
while Maynard children are taught
| to avoid evil.
The Portland Auburn road is open.
| A contract was signed Tuesday
with Ford & Smiley Co. Of SHOW
| hogan, for $4,000. to keep the road
! open all winter A ten ton tractor,
/ viii,
/ arrived at it's station at Gray, Mon
| day and worked Tuesday and that
| night clearing the road. Portland
pays two thirds of the 1000, Auburn
| and Lewiston the remaining third
The tractor will work from Danville
Power house to and from the Cum
berland Falmouth line, a distance of
81 miles. A heated garage has been
provided for the tractor at GRAY
Letters have been received from
the Selectmen Of Gray and New
| Gloucester agreeing to have the
blowing done bu4 eckine tho nat
| be left for vehicles on runners IT
| is pointed out that mat would have
been left whether this request was
made or not because the tractor can
| operate more efficiently and faster
when 1T has matsof snow for its
treadS to get nv on.
In our boyhood guava jelly used
to be found in Rockland homes.
where it figured in the character of
a great delicacy, to be served when
there was company. If when
the family were alone it appeared
upon the table in the presence of
children, studied discrimination ap-
peared to be observed in its dis
tripution. The only way a boy of