Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-29
MAINE GOSSIP



The icy down that folds the world
Within its tufted drifts
On every bleak and barren shrub
Its dust, of silver Sits.
Betimes the wind upon the hills
Mid crag and leafiess tree
Awakes In wordless loneliness
An ancient symphony.
But now. as though its mood had
| paused
In retrospection soft,
No rugged harmonies intone
Within its organ loft.
The hills, the lifting hills are mute,
In solemn state they stand
And gaze in wide reflection on
The hushed and waiting land.
l--Maude DeVerse Newton in Christian
Science Monitor.
Joseph N. Day of Winnegance while
| looking over an old account book of
| his father which contained many en-
tries as far back as 1910, found that
| the rate of wages at that time seemed
| to be about 67 1-2 cents day, says the
| Bath Times.
Charles Marshall, christened Earl
! Marshall, now tenor with the Chicago
Opera company which is filling a
Boston engagement, admits his home
town as Auburn, where, when time
permits he enjoys coming on fishing
trips and the renewal Of old ac-
quaintences.
| Plans are being completed for the
erection of fine new Catholic
church at this place the coming
summer. Col. Roy L. Marston of
Skowhegan has presented a building
lot to FIR. Forrest, the priest in
charge of this parish. The new
church is to be made of stone and
will be substantial and attractive.
| Those who are saying: well, VIC
can't get much winter now" should
look back six years to the winter OF
1890, Had no snow until Feb. Z,
that season, but from that date until
the first of April there was enough
snow to provide for several average
winters. 1t was the last of March
that year that the favorite pas
time of the many Maine people was
digging the street railroad out.
Bonnie Watts, 2.o6 IA. which
brought top price in the recent Chi
cago horse sale when Walter r. Cox
Grand Circuit driver, paid $4,000 for
him on the strength of his showing
on the big line last season when he
beat the bearcat, Noman Grattan, is
to head the new racing stable which
Walter Christie of Pressure Isle, ono
of the leading figures in Aroostook s
potato belt, is assembling for the
1926 campaign on the Maine and New
Brunswick circuit.
Mrs. William r. Freeman of Bath
has returned from a four and half
months voyage covering 10000 miles
in the Isthmian Line freighter Steel
Exporter, commanded by her husband
Laden with 3400 tons of steel rails
| pipes and fixing the ship cleared from
| Charleston, S. c., for Japan. Through
three oceans and five seas, the Steel
Exporter plowed with Mrs. Freeman
| a delighted and greatly interested pas
| senger. The trip from Wilmington tc
| Yokohama, Hondo, was made in q
days.
| VMSilAc buhil1il IihS AObhih6 va lam
for having an old time fiddler among
it's other citizens. Benjamin F. Saw.
| age of S41 High street. one of Baths
| former merchants, possesses a rare old
| Stradivarious violin. bearing the date
| Of 1880. This instrument has been in
the Savage family for over 80 years
and has wonderfully mellow tone
Needless to say it Is a priceless pos
session Of the owner. Mr.. Savage
who also plays entirely by ear, can fol-
| low out Mellie's program, and is one
Of Baths old time musicians. He is
older by several years than Mr.. Ford s
protege, too, having passed his 18th
| anniversary.
Edith MacGregor, who plays the
part of the Cotter's wife, in ''The
Cotters Saturday night" was form
erly resident of SHOWN gan,
She lived there in her youth
with her uncle, Daniel Foss, pro-
! prietor of livery stable, the
| family home at one time being on
Pine street. Then Miss MacGregor
was sometimes called Edith Foss.
Her first appearance on the stage,
| probably was when she played the
part of "Red Riding Hood" in a local
play in old Coburn hall. Some may
recall the shout that went up from
one of her young relatives when he
begged them mot to let the bear eat
his Aunt Edith" Miss MacGregor is
possessed Of q wonderfully sweet
voice and Is an accomplished actress.
| If the snow piles deep in the country
| thoroughfares again this winter.
| Charles Smith, who lives three miles
| out of Farmingdale on q branch road
| from Northern Avenue, will be pre-
| pared. Mr.. Smith Is provided with
| both an automobile and steers, but
| neither proved satisfactory in hauling
provisions to his farm before the roads
| were broken out after the recent
| snowfall. He has fitted two runners
| to the bottom of a toboggan, to help
| in keeping 1t in the road, and has
| bought two dogs to team up with the
one that he already owned in hauling
| the vehicle. His old dog is big black
and white animal with more or less
| Newfoundland blood in it's veins and
the two new ones are enough like 1t in
size and color to answer the require
ments of appearances, He is training
the canine trio~and says they can east
| ly haul load of between 400 and 500
pounds.